Humanities & Social Sciences

About the Event:   This panel, featuring work primarily in the visual arts, explores the possibilities afforded by visual representations of subjects that otherwise hide, slip away, or fall off into forgetfulness or into the void—into folds, interstices, voicelessness, or effacement. The forgotten, the overlooked, the antiquated, or unpreserved that might otherwise meet with erasure […]

About the Event:   This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To address these questions, the book looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational […]

About the Event:  In the early hours of the morning of April 30, 1748, at the height of the War of the Austrian Succession, a British naval squadron intercepted a merchant vessel called the Santa Catharina in the Indian Ocean on its return voyage from the port of Basra in the Persian Gulf to the […]