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Turkish Christians and German Muslims: Religious Conversion and National Security in the New Europe

A public lecture by ESRA ÖZYÜREK, UC San Diego, Anthropology. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.

Thursday, November 01, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA United States

Esra Özyürek is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC San Diego. Her academic interests include secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, public and private, alternative modernities, and social and cultural memory. Her regional areas are Turkey and Europe. She is author of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. 2006. Durham: Duke University Press, and editor of The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey. 2006. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Cost: Free

For more information please contact

Jim Robbins
Tel: 310-825-4060
jrobbins@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures