October 30, 2008

I'll be giving a few talks over the next month:

* On Monday, November 3rd, I'll be giving a lecture at the American Research Institute in Turkey. The talk starts at 6:30 pm and is called "Marketing Modern Identity in the Late Imperial Era: Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu in Russia and the Ottoman Empire."

* On Friday, November 21, I'll give a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The meeting is going to be in Philadelphia this year. The name of my talk is "The Pan-Turkist Specter: Russia and the Threatening Nature of Muslim Mobility."

* On Tuesday, November 25, I'll be giving another presentation at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, which this year is taking place in Washington, DC. The name of my presentation is "Rethinking the Intellectuals: Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu in Russia and the Ottoman Empire."