The Launch of Turkish Studies Network in Australia/New Zealand

The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies

(CAIS) at the Australian National

University in Canberra is delighted to

announce the launch of its Turkish

Studies Network in Australia/New

Zealand. The network marks the rising

prominence of Australia/NZ as a locus for

scholars and research on Turkey

understood in its most broad, plural and

transregional sense. The network is an

academic venue connecting scholars

from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

Eschewing narrow and exclusivist

national, statist and geographic framings,

the network will span eras and

transnational geographies including the

modern Turkish state, the Ottoman

Empire, the Turkic World and a breadth of

research fields, from intellectual history,

anthropology, literature, international

relations and political science to Islamic

Studies, Kurdish Studies, minorities,

diaspora and migration.

Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS) Event

The launch features two panels with

speakers from Australia, Turkey and the

United States, along with an HDR

discussion and a planning session. See the

full program overleaf.

Come and join the network, and take part in

the closing planning session (3–4pm) to

help shape its goals and thematic clusters.

HDR students and early career researchers

are especially welcome. Membership is

free: Please join https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGriGNjPzA6PxLyriqsgOdHqjpmu4sxn4As1EMwNKzuXqHwA/viewform.