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Online Turkish Program

 

Are you looking for options to fulfill your language requirements?

Do you want to learn a new language while travelling this summer?

You are invited to Join our Online Summer Turkish Program!

Why Turkish?

  • There are large communities of Turkish-speakers in Europe, especially Germany, the Netherlands and the Balkans
  • Learning Turkish makes for an important comparative research in fields from from linguistics to geopolitics
  • Turkey is an influential state between Europe and the Middle East and is the heir to the Ottoman legacy

For details, contact Dr. Didem Havlioglu at didem.havli@duke.edu

Turkish Circle Seminars – The Intimate State of the Turkish-Sunni Diaspora in Germany

Our Turkish Circle seminar series continues on March 5, 2019 (6pm) with UNC-CH PhD Candidate Devran Koray Ocal. Ocal will be giving a talk titled “Like the Father’s Home”: The Intimate State of the Turkish-Sunni Diaspora in Germany. Ocal’s talk is based on his dissertation field research in Germany. For further information, please see the abstract below.

Focusing on a faith-based civil society organization, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), this research engages with the Turkish-Sunni diaspora’s complex construction of intimate state in Germany. DITIB is a Sunni-Islam based umbrella civil society organization. However, the Turkish-Sunni diaspora does not consider DITIB as simply a civil society organization, but instead attribute a highly complex role of statehood to it. For them, DITIB reflects a ‘paternalist’ and ‘familial’ version of the Turkish state in Germany. Arguing that this perceived statehood is located in the Turkish-Sunni community’s feelings and emotions that emerge from their everyday intimate relations and encounter within DITIB associations, this research locates spaces of states in intimate processes, relations and feelings. Despite the recent steps within geographies of states literature for understanding states from everyday and intimate perspectives, the role of feelings and emotions in the process of state-making have been ignored. Employing approaches and concepts of feminist geographers, who examine territories, nationalisms and international politics through bodies, intimate relations, emotions and affects, this study brings emotions and feelings to geographies of state literature and explains how spaces of states are not only constructed by geopolitically defined territories, military bases and government buildings, but through intimate relations, encounters and feelings.

  • Date: March 5, 2009
  • Time: 6pm
  • Location: New West 219 UNC-CH

Refreshments will be provided.