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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span
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Freedom: Nation State Formation in Turkey
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recent brutal attacks on academics in India and
Turkey highlight the connections between
nationalism and</span><span class=""
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role of academia. These events show that the
so-called privileged spaces of academia, when
they confront the myths of nation states, can
become targets of oppressive political regimes.
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explore the questions of ethnicity, caste and
nationality in Turkey and India. This event
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
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Department of Politics & Public
Administration, Ryerson University</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:small">Secil Dagtas:
Anthropology, University of Waterloo.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
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Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici
University</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
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Department of Historical Studies, University
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
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Visiting Faculty, School of Development, Azim
Premji University</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:small">Respondent: Jens
Hanssen, Department of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, University of Toronto</span></font></div>
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style="font-size:small"> <b> 7pm
Thursday April 28 at the Tranzac Club, 292
Brunswick Avenue, Toronto<br>
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