6 Part Yale Webinar Series – Turkish Islam and its Transnational Reverberations

This seminar series examines the political theology and religious policy of Turkish Islam beyond its borders. The speakers will provide comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s religious activities among transnational Muslim communities and its local reception in Europe, the Balkans, the USA and Africa south of the Sahara. The ethnographic study of transnational Muslim communities featured in this series evaluates the modalities and limits of Turkish political theology by concentrating on the lived experience and diversity of transnational Muslim populations.

Spreading Whose Words? The Political Theology of Turkish-Kurdish Conflict

March 15, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Mehmet Kurt, Lecturer, Yale University & amp; Marie Curie Global Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

From the Global to the Local: Turkish Mosques in the National Imaginary

March 29, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Elisabeth Becker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin

Turkish Neo-Ottomanist Dreams in the Balkans and the Muslim Minorities

April 12, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Serac Sehlikoglu, Senior Research Associate, University College London

The Politics of Believing and Belonging: Internal Diversity among Muslims in Turkey and Muslim Immigrants in Germany

April 26, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Gulay Turkmen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Graz

Teaching the “Turkish Islam” in Africa South of the Sahara: Educational Policies and Sufi Pedagogies

May 10, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Ezgi Guner, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Turkey’s (Trans)national Religio-Political Infrastructures: the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the Bureaucratization of Islamic Authority

May 24, 2021 – 12:00pm

Speaker/Performer: Hikmet Kocamaner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Wilmington