ANAMED LIBRARY COMMUNITY LECTURES
Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations - ANAMED)
Tarih : 14-09-2023 18:30 - 14-09-2023 19:30
Spelling a Nation: Linguistics, Language, and Alphabet Reform between Turkey & Soviet Azerbaijan, 1918-1940
Speaker: Abigail Schoenfeld, Princeton University
Moderator: Çiğdem Yıldırım, Head of ANAMED Library
Date & Time: 14 September, 6.30-7.30 p.m
Location: ANAMED Library
Abigail Schoenfeld
studies the intellectual and political history of Eurasia in the 20th century.
Her dissertation examines the deployment of social sciences like linguistics,
physical anthropology, and ethnography in nation-building projects in and
between Turkey and the Soviet Union’s Turkic-speaking peoples during the
interwar period. In doing so, it will speak to the role of transnational
intellectual currents in territorially bounded national movements and
state-building projects. Her research languages include Turkish (modern and
Ottoman), Azerbaijani, Russian, French, and limited Persian.
Abigail holds an M.A.
from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (with
distinction) in history. She also holds a B.A. in political science from
Barnard College.