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Managing Scholarship at Risk - Graduate Lunch/Talk

Meyda Y. Talk Flyer DCal.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Meyda Yegenoglu

This conversation with Medya Yegenoglu will address the current difficult political conditions academics in Turkey are facing and she will talk about the difficulties she must negotiate in her current research.

Meyda Yegenoglu currently is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Sciences, at University of Tampere, Finland (since February 2016). Before joining Tampere, she was a professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology Institute at Bilgi University, Istanbul-Turkey. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Rutgers University, New York University, University of Vienna and Oxford University. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies; Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge University Press,1998) and Islam, Migrancy and Hospitality in Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan 2012).

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