Kruzhok: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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Turkey’s Identity Struggles
21 April 2022 – The Center for Russian Studies hosted Lisel Hintz (Johns Hopkins) for a talk on Turkey’s identity struggles as seen through popular culture. Jenny White (Stockholm University) served as discussant.
Will Iran Build the Bomb?
17 March 2022 – the Center for Russian Studies hosted John Mearsheimer, who deliver a talk on Iran’s nuclear program. For the discussion, he was joined by Mahsa Rouhi and Tytti Erästö. A video recording of the event can be found here.
Documenting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
17 February 2022 – we hosted Annie Tracy Samuel, who was joined by Eric Lob. In her recent book, The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge, 2021), Annie Tracy Samuel presents an innovative and compelling history of this organization and, by using the Iran-Iraq War as a focal point, analyzes the links…
The American Passport in Turkey
16 November 2021 – In the third Global Middle East Seminar this fall, we will host Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta for a discussion of their new book, The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Their work “explores the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the United…
Reviving the Passports of a Dead State
11 November 2021 – We are pleased to host Görkem Aydemir and Claire Kaiser for a Zoom webinar. Görkem will draw on her current research for a talk titled “Reviving the Passports of a Dead State: Il/legalities in the de facto Georgia-Abkhazia Borderland” and Claire will serve as discussant. To register, please click here. Görkem Aydemir…
Rogues and Revolutionaries: Young Turks and the Global Order after WWI
18 October 2021 – In the second GMES seminar this year, we will host Michael Reynolds and Alp Yenen, who will each present new research on the formation of the modern Middle East during the Ottoman Empire’s collapse and the establishment of post-Ottoman states. Both scholars are currently working on the Young Turks: Reynolds is…
Worlds Apart: A Documentary History of US-Iranian Relations, 1978-2018
21 September 2021 – In the first panel of the Global Middle East Seminar Series for the Fall 2021 semester, authors Malcolm Byrne and Kian Byrne discussed their new book, Worlds Apart: A Documentary History of U.S.-Iranian Relations, 1978-2018 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). In this unique history, Byrne and Byrne put the records first to…
Challenging the Norms of Warfare: Historical Perspectives from Yemen and Iraq
3 June 2021 – In the fifth iteration of the Global Middle East Seminar series, founded by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program and Bilkent University’s Center for Russian Studies, renowned historian Joseph Sassoon and Wilson Center Fellow Asher Orkaby sat down with Michael Brill, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern…
The Post-Cold War Middle East: Iran, Iraq, and International Politics in the 1980s
6 May 2021 – the fourth event of our Global Middle East Seminar Series, organized together with the Wilson Center, featured Timothy Nunan and Katelyn Tietzen. They were be joined by Barın Kayaoğlu, who acted as discussant. The panelists discussed Iranian and Iraqi foreign policies in the 1980s, and they looked beyond the Iran-Iraq War…