- Turkish Linguistics, Turkish Nationalism, Oriental Studies, Turkish Language, History of Turkish Republic, Turcology, and 22 moreRelations between France and the Ottoman Empire / Turkey (1860-1960), Race and Ethnicity, Race and Racism, Modern Turkey, Kemalism, Irkçılık, Nationalism, Ottoman Studies, Turkey, Near Eastern Studies, Education in Turkey, Political History of Turkey, History of Modern Turkey, History of Turkey and Middle east, Intellectual History of Turkey, Langue Et Idéologie, Critical Race Theory, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Identity politics, Orientalism, Postcolonial Studies, and Linguistic landscapesedit
- François Georgeonedit
Research Interests: Languages and Linguistics, Middle East Studies, Race and Racism, History of Science, Turkish Nationalism, and 12 moreTurkish and Middle East Studies, Turkey, Racism, Middle East Politics, Modern Turkey, History of Turkish Republic, Turkish Linguistics, Kemalism, History of Modern Turkey, Turkish Language, Turkish politics, and Turkish Language and Literature
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Workshop held on 18-19 February 2015 at the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (Istanbul) Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2016 Convenors: Marie Bossaert (EPHE, Paris) and Emmanuel Szurek (Princeton University) Turkish studies,... more
Workshop held on 18-19 February 2015 at the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (Istanbul)
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2016
Convenors: Marie Bossaert (EPHE, Paris) and Emmanuel Szurek (Princeton University)
Turkish studies, as a seemingly autonomous field of knowledge, has not been critically examined. With few exceptions, the existing literature generally provide a linear, internalist, if not hagiographic narrative centered on the “life-and-work” of a series of outstanding individuals. Moreover, conducted country by country, these surveys tend to neglect the international circulation of ideas, men and artifacts. We wish to take into account the different inheritances (European, Russian, Ottoman, Turkish, Arab, Japanese, American etc.) that have contributed to the intellectual and institutional autonomization of the field.
We propose to follow these leads through three sets of questions focusing on the definition, the actors, and the uses of Turkology.
1. What is Turkology? What is its object? Is it different than "Turkish studies"? Who are the "Turks" under consideration? When did Turkish Studies appear in the different countries, and how did they fit in the broader fields of orientalist scholarship, the humanities, and the social sciences at large?
2. Who is a Turkologist? How does one become a student in Turkish studies? Who are the non-academic and/or subaltern contributors to the field? What are the local, national and international networks enacted by these different actors?
3. What use is Turkology? What is the social and political role of the Turkologist (intelligence, military, diplomacy, translation etc.)? How were Turkish studies connected to Turkish nationalism(s)? To colonial empires? To international migrations? Is there such a thing as "War-Turkology"?
The detailed call for papers and submission guidelines are available at ejts.revues.org/5109 (English) and ejts.revues.org/5108 (French).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2016
Convenors: Marie Bossaert (EPHE, Paris) and Emmanuel Szurek (Princeton University)
Turkish studies, as a seemingly autonomous field of knowledge, has not been critically examined. With few exceptions, the existing literature generally provide a linear, internalist, if not hagiographic narrative centered on the “life-and-work” of a series of outstanding individuals. Moreover, conducted country by country, these surveys tend to neglect the international circulation of ideas, men and artifacts. We wish to take into account the different inheritances (European, Russian, Ottoman, Turkish, Arab, Japanese, American etc.) that have contributed to the intellectual and institutional autonomization of the field.
We propose to follow these leads through three sets of questions focusing on the definition, the actors, and the uses of Turkology.
1. What is Turkology? What is its object? Is it different than "Turkish studies"? Who are the "Turks" under consideration? When did Turkish Studies appear in the different countries, and how did they fit in the broader fields of orientalist scholarship, the humanities, and the social sciences at large?
2. Who is a Turkologist? How does one become a student in Turkish studies? Who are the non-academic and/or subaltern contributors to the field? What are the local, national and international networks enacted by these different actors?
3. What use is Turkology? What is the social and political role of the Turkologist (intelligence, military, diplomacy, translation etc.)? How were Turkish studies connected to Turkish nationalism(s)? To colonial empires? To international migrations? Is there such a thing as "War-Turkology"?
The detailed call for papers and submission guidelines are available at ejts.revues.org/5109 (English) and ejts.revues.org/5108 (French).
Research Interests: Turkish Nationalism, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish History, Turkey, Education in Turkey, and 27 moreTurkey And Europe, Islam in Turkey, Kurdish Question in Turkey, Turkish Foreign Policy, Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language, Modern Turkey, History of Turkish Republic, Turkish Linguistics, Turkish Literature, Old Turkic, Minorities in Turkey, History of Modern Turkey, Turkey in World Politics, Turkish Language, Turkology, Turkish politics, Modern Turkish Literature, Osmanlı/Türk siyasi düşünce tarihi, Türkiye, Türkçe Eğitimi, Turkish Language and Literature, Eski Türk Edebiyatı, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Yeni Türk Edebiyatı, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Türk Dili Ve Edebiyatı, and Turkic & Altaic Studies
The term Turcology refers to practices that are so diversified that it is doubtful whether they can be referred to via a single epistemological architecture. Conversely, a variety of scholarly designations (‘Turkology’, ‘Turkic studies’,... more
The term Turcology refers to practices that are so diversified that it is doubtful whether they can be referred to via a single epistemological architecture. Conversely, a variety of scholarly designations (‘Turkology’, ‘Turkic studies’, ‘Turkish studies’, ‘science of Turkishness’, ‘study of Turkey’) are available on the international linguistic marketplace to denote this body of studies. In this essay, we intend to explore the question of tension between Turkey, understood as a national construction and a state formation, and Turcology, conceived as a theoretical and practical modality of scholarly investigation. The article will shed light on two matters: the first, philological, will consist in dissecting a few core concepts and names of Turcology in their temporal and spatial variability; the second, historiographical, will outline how the history of the field is written and why the different patterns that shape its narrative (nativism, Eurocentrism, millennialism) tell more about the so-called Turcologists than about Turcology itself.
Research Interests: Philology, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Turkey, Racism, and 15 moreEducation in Turkey, Turkey And Europe, Classical philology, Political History of Turkey, History of Turkey and Middle east, Modern Turkey, History of philology, History of Modern Turkey, Turkey in World Politics, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Greek Philology, linguistics,turcology,Turkish education, Turcology, and Russian/Soviet Turcology
Research Interests: International Relations, Jewish Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Armenian Studies, Middle East Studies, and 15 moreOnomastics, Genocide Studies, Nationalism, Turkish Nationalism, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish Greek Relations, Middle East Politics, Modern Turkey, Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey, Minorities in Turkey, Modern Jewish History, Turkish Language, Turkology, Middle East, and Personal Names
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Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey From the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century,
in Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, and Élise Massicard (eds.), Leiden, Brill, 2015.
in Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, and Élise Massicard (eds.), Leiden, Brill, 2015.
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By their denotative and even more their connotative charge, large numbers of Turkish patronyms are repositories loaded with symbolism. To understand this, one must examine the discursive context in which the “Surname Law” of June 1934 was... more
By their denotative and even more their connotative charge, large numbers of Turkish patronyms are repositories loaded with symbolism. To understand this, one must examine the discursive context in which the “Surname Law” of June 1934 was adopted. The Kemalist leaders imported into Turkey the European anthroponymic system and had the Anatolian population choose surnames from an onomastic stock selected according to etymological and semantic criteria. In its actual linguistic dimension, the alteration of anthroponyms in Turkey displays a particularly strong case of nationalization of cognition.
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Par leur charge dénotative et surtout connotative, un grand nombre de patronymes turcs charrient un pesant référentiel symbolique. Pour le comprendre, il faut examiner le contexte discursif dans lequel fut adoptée la « loi sur les noms de... more
Par leur charge dénotative et surtout connotative, un grand nombre de patronymes turcs charrient un pesant référentiel symbolique. Pour le comprendre, il faut examiner le contexte discursif dans lequel fut adoptée la « loi sur les noms de famille » (juin 1934), lorsque les dirigeants kémalistes entreprirent d’importer le système anthroponymique européen en Turquie et d’amener la population anatolienne à se choisir un nom parmi un stock onomastique sélectionné selon des critères étymologiques et sémantiques. Dans sa dimension proprement linguistique, l’altération des anthroponymes en Turquie offre un cas particulièrement poussé de nationalisation de la cognition.
After Orientalism, Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-appropriations, in François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin (eds.), Leiden, Brill, 2015, pp.103-120.
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Near Eastern Studies, Middle East Studies, Middle East & North Africa, Middle East History, and 25 moreOttoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish History, Modernity, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Modern Middle East History, Middle Eastern Studies, Turkey And Europe, Political History of Turkey, Middle East Politics, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Modern Turkey, Orientalism in art, Turkish Literature, History of Modern Turkey, Middle East, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Turkish Language and Literature, Edward Said; orientalism; Anti-Westernism, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, and Orientalismo
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Middle East Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish History, Ottoman Empire, and 11 moreMiddle Eastern Studies, Ottoman Literature, Middle East Politics, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, Modern Turkey, Proper Names, Ottoman Military History, Turkish Language, Naming, Personal Names, and Turkish Language and Literature
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1928 is a crucial date in Turkey’s contemporary history. As part of the Kemalist reforms, which sought to modernize Turkey and break with the Ottoman past, Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Turkish Republic in 1923, decided to replace the... more
1928 is a crucial date in Turkey’s contemporary history. As part of the Kemalist reforms, which sought to modernize Turkey and break with the Ottoman past, Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Turkish Republic in 1923, decided to replace the Arabic alphabet with its Latin equivalent. In Turkey, this reform is still hailed as one of the Republic’s great early successes, for contributing to the improvement of literacy rates. At least, that is the official line.
