• 2026 Turkish Lecture and Luncheon

    Silverbell Pavilion, Emory Conference Center Hotel 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

    The Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning, in partnership with the American Turkish Friendship Council, is excited to invite you to the 2026 Turkish Lecture and seated luncheon. The title of this lecture is "Obscene Wit in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Literature: Enderûnlu Fâzil on Beloveds and Women of the World".

  • Turkish Lecture Series 2024

    Silverbell Pavilion, Emory Conference Center Hotel 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

    The Halle Institute for Global Research invites you to attend a lecture on "An Old Story: Turkey's Relationship to the Ottoman Past" by Dr. Christine Philliou, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution.

  • Halle Institute’s Turkish Lecture Series With History Professor Baki Tezcan

    Silverbell Pavilion, Emory Conference Center Hotel 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

    The Halle Institute for Global Research invites you to attend a lecture on "Halide Edib, Ottoman Armenians, and the Wilsonian Principles: The Alternative Post-World War I History that Never Happened" by Dr. Baki Tezcan, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and current President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. This event […]

  • Emory University: Annual Turkish Lecture Series With Author Elif Batuman

    Silverbell Pavilion, Emory Conference Center Hotel 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

    The Halle Institute for Global Research invites you to attend a lecture by Elif Batuman, author of critically acclaimed books such as The Idiot and The Possessed which explore her identity as a Turkish-American woman, intentionality about the precision of language, and befuddlement in the early age of email. In her first book, The Possessed, Elif Batuman wrote about her […]

  • Turbulent Times: Turkey’s Tenuous Relationship with the West

    Silverbell Pavilion, Emory Conference Center Hotel 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

    A lecture by Kemal Kirisci, TÜSİAD senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project at the Brookings Institution and author of Turkey and the West: Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance. Lecture summary from the speaker:  "Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently been back in the news with the exposure of […]