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Turkish-American Encounters: Exchanges in Culture and Politics – A Panel with Distinguished Guests
April 15, 2016 @ 12:50 pm - 2:20 pm
Please join us for a public panel “Turkish-American Encounters: Exchanges in Culture and Politics” at Marston Library (L136), 12.50pm on Friday, April 15th.
Speakers
Justin McCarthy, Distinguished University Scholar and History Professor at Louisville, is a prominent scholar in the field of Ottoman demographics and Turkish studies. He published more than ten monographs and contributed widely to the field. Citing his recent book, The Turk in America, McCarthy will discuss the origins of the image of “the Turk” in the United States.
Ross Wilson, former ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan, leads the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and teaches at George Washington University. Based on his extensive U.S. foreign service in the region, Wilson will present America’s history and relations with Turkey.
Emrah Sahin, the University of Florida’s Turkish Studies Director, teaches Turkish relations with the wider world. Sahin’s coming monograph, Faithful Encounters, explains American missionary interactions in the late Ottoman Empire. Its research received the 2016 Sabanci International Research Award.