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Turkish Area Study Group Symposium  Programme
TASG Eighteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 21 April 2007
Speakers  
Osman Ertekün THE GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS: FACT OR FICTION?
Maureen Freely ORHAN’S İSTANBUL: A TRANSLATOR’S REFLECTIONS
   
Nanor Kenderian REPRESENTING THE TURK IN ARMENIAN LITERATURE: HAGOP OSHAGAN (1883 – 1948)
Dr Kerem Öktem THE KURDS: ‘TRAPPED MINORITY’ OR ‘AGENTS OF CHANGE’ IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY?
 
Turkish Area Study Group Symposium  Programme
TASG First Symposium at St. Antony’s College , Oxford, 12 May 1990
Speakers  
Professor Geoffrey Lewis Miscellanea Turcica
Metin Kunt Studying Ottomans and Turks
Sir Mark Russell Eastern Europe and Turkey’s aspirations
   
John Norton Path to paradise:  Turkish Sufi movements
Jennifer Scarce The domestic hearth:  A look at Turkish rugs
TASG Second Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge. 4 May 1991
Speakers  
Professor Michael Rogers   Iznik blue and white
Professor Polymnia Athanassiadi
   
İsmail Emre A Dervish without an order
Professor Gül Durmuşoğlu Turkish female talk
   
Dr D Barchard  Turkey in the British press
Sir Horace Phillips Teaching at a Turkish university
TASG Third Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 9 May 1992
Speakers  
Dr William Hale Turkish politics after the elections
Peter Liddle In search of Gallipoli
Dr Ayse Kırtunç  Ottoman costumes
   
Dr Arın Bayraktaroğlu Telling of troubles in Turkish
Rosalie Lamburn  Improvisation in Turkish music
TASG Fourth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 8 May 1993
Speakers  
Dr John Baldwin Some aspects of the interaction of Turks and Slavs in the Balkans
Prof Chris Hann
Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann Markets and morality in the east Black Sea border country
   
Dr Uygur Kocabaşoğlu The 19th Century British consular establishment in the Ottoman Empire
Professor Cem Behar  Traditional Turkish music: Sound and sense 
TASG Fifth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall , Cambridge, 14 May 1994
Speakers  
Lady Rosamond Hanworth  The Heritage of North Cyprus
Behrooz Morvaridi Social structure in North Cyprus
Oktay Ekşi  Recent developments in the Turkish media
Emre Aracı  The traditions and influences of Turkish janissary music
TASG Sixth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 13 May 1995
Speakers  
Professor Malcolm Wagstaff Mountain life in south-west Turkey
Tim Stanley The Library of Umur Bey in Bursa
   
Professor Paul Sterling  Turkish Village: Forty years of revolutions
Professor David Kushner Questions of identity in contemporary Turkey
TASG Seventh Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 11 May 1996
Speakers  
Dr Andrew Mango Perceptions of Turkey
Professor Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu  Trends and styles in modern Turkish painting
   
Dr Butrus Abu-Manneh Rethinking the early Ottoman reforms
Dr Hugh Poulton The top hat, the Grey Wolf and the Crescent: nationalism in the Turkish Republic
TASG Eighth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 10 May 1997
Speakers  
Rev Robin Denniston The Second World War: Eavesdropping on Turkey
Dr Philip Mansel   Ambassadors and artists in Istanbul
   
Dr F.A.K. Yasamee Ottoman diplomacy
Dr Sinan Bayraktaroğlu  Foreign language education, sociocultural change and modernisation: The Turkish case
TASG Ninth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge 2 May 1998
Speakers  
Rev John Kemp Icongraphy in Byzantium during the Palaiologan period (1258-1453)
Peter Coggins The Turkish diaspora in Britain
   
Eva Ostergaard –Nielsen With the feet in Germany and the head in Turkey:
Political mobilisation of the diasporas from Turkey in Germany
Professor Osman Okyar Politics in Ataturk’s modernisation
TASG Tenth Spring  Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 8 May 1999
Speakers  
Dr Colin Imber  The Ottoman Empire:  A lost world?
Dr George Dedes Mehmet the Conqueror and the Church of `Ayasofya`
   
Mark Hutchings Turks in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
John Drake The Sultan’s garden at Aynalı Kavak Kasrı
TASG Eleventh Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 6 May 2000
Speakers  
Charles Newton   The Ottomans observed: Pictures of Ottoman Turkey in the Searight Collection at the V&A
Dr David Morray The dragoboys of Ortakoy: the Levant Consular Service 1877-1914
   
Mithat Rende The Turkish straits:  A challenging future?
Dr William Hale Turkey’s politics: Before and after the Earthquake
TASG Twelfth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 12 May 2001
Speakers  
Professor Belma Ötüş Baskett Keeping step with Atatürk: The precarious career of Hakkı Behiç
Dr Tunç Aybak The Black Sea world, emergent or imagined
   
David Barchard The end of Ottoman Crete
Osman Streater The ‘Turkish Ambassador’ who became Pope:
The wartime friendship between the future Pope John XXIII and Numan Menemencioglu
TASG Thirteenth Spring Symposium at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, 11 May 2002
Speakers  
Professor Richard Clogg  Greeks bearing gifts: Arnold Toynbee and the Koraes Chair
Dr Arın Bayraktaroğlu in collaboration with Dr Maria Sifianou (in absentia)  An introduction to linguistic politeness across boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish
   
Michael Stephen Some legal issues affecting Turkish-Greek relations
Professor Clement Dodd The Cyprus negotiations : Reconciling the irreconcilable
TASG Fourteenth Spring Symposium at  Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 10 May 2003
Speakers  
Joyce Reynolds Hunting for inscriptions at Aphrodisias
Dr Renee Hirschon The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange in retrospect
   
Dr Catherine Alexander Images of the ‘state’ in contemporary Turkey
Dr Nuri Yurdasev How European is Turkey ?
TASG Fifteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,24 April 2004
Speakers  
Osman  Streater Can Turkey join the EU while the Greek Orthodox Seminary on Heybeli Island remains closed ?
Dr Vally Lytra Greek and Turkish contact: A sociolinguistic account of two languages and cultures in an Athens primary school
   
Dimitris Antoniou Western Thracian Muslims in the Greek capital: From migration to religious organisation
John Muir The construction of a dam in Turkey: An engineer’s reflections on his experiences
TASG Sixteenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 April 2005
Speakers  
John Martin Turco-British encounters 1920: A view from the Royal Navy
Dr Halim Kara Self and nation in the autobiographical writings of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889-1974)
   
David Barchard A concise history of turcophobia in the 19th and 20th centuries
Dr Aslı Niyazioğlu   Imperial visions: Mehmed II and his Topkapı Palace
TASG Seventeenth Spring Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 22 April 2006
Speakers  
John Martin Espionage in Ankara:  Operation Cicero
Professor Clement Dodd Cyprus:  Turkey’s nemesis?
   
Dan van der Wat SMS Goeben:  The ship that changed the world
Andrew Finkel The anatomy of an ‘asparagas’ - or why Turkish newspapers sometimes lie