Previous Events from Spring 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Dr. Kathy Ewing, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, presented, "Stigmatized Masculinity: Muslim Gender Relations and Cultural Citizenship in Germany." This lecture was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

Monday, April 14, 2008
Dr. Fatma Muge Göcek, Associate Professor of Sociology and the Program of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, gave a lecture on, "Nationalism, Minority Rights, and the EU." This lecture was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Dr. Banu Gökariksel, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presented, "Neoliberalism, Islam and Gender: Neoliberal Muslim Subjects and Veiling Fashions in Instanbul." This lecture was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Dr. Christine Philliou, Department of History, Columbia University, presented, "The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past Through the National Present." This was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

Previous Events from Fall 2007

December 6, 2007
Dr. Roberto M. Dainotto, from Duke University presented a lecture discussing Italy’s entry into the Euro-zone titled, “Europe in Theory: Italy and the Euro-zone”. His new book, Europe (in Theory), came out this year from Duke University Press and covers, among other things, the north / south divide in Europe.


December 7,2007
Dr. Roberto M. Dainotto presented "Rhymes of Discord: Notes on the Question of the Arab Origin of Rhyme." For more information on Professor Dainotto, please visit: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/dainotto

November 26, 2007
Esra Ozyurek, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California-San Diego, gave a lecture on “New Religious Minorities of the New Europe: Turkish Christians and German Muslims.” This was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

October 26, 2007
Dr. Resat Kasaba, professor at Jackson School of International Relations, University of Washington, lectured on, “Modern Turkey in Historical Context: National Identity and the Transition from Empire to Nation-State.” This was part of the Lecture Series, “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey.”

October 9, 2007
Sociologist Dr. Laurent Mucchielli presented, "Fall 2005 : A Review of the Most Important Riots in Contemporary French History".

September 28, 2007
Dr. Jacques Semelin, from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris presented a talk on European genocide titled “Understanding Massacre? Exploring the Genocidal Process: Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia.”

September 10, 2007
“Challenges of European Integration” with Dr. Desmond Dinan of George Mason University.

Previous Events from Spring 2007

March 23, 2007
Alice Kaplan of Duke University lectured "On Violent Judgement: Louis Guilloux’s Novel about Race, Justice, and the Segregated Army that Liberated France."

Previous Events from Fall 2006

September 25, 2006
The Walker Institute hosted a colloquium with Mr. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, titled "International Security: The Polish Perspective." 


September 26, 2006
Public lecture by Mr. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, titled "Poland's Role in the New Europe".