Conferences
The Clash of Empires: World War I and the Middle East
Conference organized by the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA), the University of Utah and the Turkish Historical Society
June 13-14, 2014, Cambridge, UK
The Collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies
Organized by the Turkish Studies Project at the University of Utah, the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History and the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna
- 16-17 January, 2014, Vienna
- Location: Institute for East European History (University of Vienna), Spitalgasse 2/Hof 3 (Campus), 1090 Vienna
The 4th Turkish Studies Project of the University of Utah Conference
THE CAUCASUS AT IMPERIAL TWILIGHT: NATIONALISM, ETHNICITY & NATION-BUILDING (1870s-1920s)
June 5-8, 2013
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Turkish Studies Project Conference III
The Ottoman Empire and World War I
16-19 may 2012
"Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan Wars"
Wednesday, May 4 - Saturday, May 7, 2010
"The Political and Social Implications for the Ottoman Empire and Its Successor States
of the Treaty of Berlin, 1878"
Thursday, April 1 - Saturday, April 3, 2010
"The Political & Social Origins of Ethnic and Territorial Conflicts"
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Hickley Institute Institute of Politics - OSH 255
Sponsored: The Turkish Studies Project, Department of Political Science, and Hickley
Institute of Politics
Panel 1 (10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Chair, Ed Epstein, University of Utah
Reflections on Turkism in Russian Azerbaijan at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Holly Shyster, University of Chicago
The Fundamentals of Azerbaijani Foreign Policy
Elin Suleymanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan, Los Angeles
The Politics of Genocide: The Armenian Case
Michael Gunter, Tennessee Technological University
Discussant: William Pingree, University of Utah
Panel 2 (2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Chair, Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Caucasus: Theory & Practice
Shale A. Horowitx, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Turkey's Policy Toward the Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Armenia, & Georgia
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Big Powers & Politics of Conflict Resolution in Georgia Before and After 2008 War
Dato Soumbadze, Central Asia- Caucasus Institute; former Georgian Diplomat, UN
Discussant: Steven Lobell, University of Utah
"Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Applying the Concepts to the Past"
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Lecture by Prof. William A. Schabas
OC MRIA
Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights National
University of Ireland, Galway
Galway, Ireland
Hickley Institute Institute of Politics - OSH 255
9:40 am
Sponsored: The Turkish Studies Project, Department of Political Science, the S.J.
Quinney College of Law, and Hickley Institute of Politics
"The Patterns of Secularism" conference
FRIDAY JUNE 12, 2009
Organized by Dr. Hakan Yavuz.