Erik-Jan Zürcher

Ph.D. at Leiden University (1984) ; assistant and associate professor at Catholic University Nijmegen (1977-1997) ; professor at University of Amsterdam (1993-1997) ; senior researcher (1990-1999) and general director (2008-2012) at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam ; professor at Leiden University (since 1997) ; member of Royal Netherlands  Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2008). Affiliate professor Stockholm University (2012-16). Published fourteen books on Ottoman and Turkish history.

Conférences

The Legacy of War

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Les sociétés sud-est européennes des XIXe-XXIe siècles au prisme des trajectoires individuelles »

In this seminar we will look at the ways in which the decade of war that preceded the establishment of the republic, and particularly World War I, has created the conditions in which the centralized and militarized nation state could emerge. Apart from the changing demographics, the ‘nationalization’ of the economy and the increased role of the state and the army will be discussed, as will the brutalizing effect of war itself.

• Lundi 15 mai 2017, de 17h à 19h - EHESS (AS1_08), 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris

The Kemalist Worldview

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Pour une histoire des mouvements sociaux dans le Sud-Est européen aux XIXe et XXe siècles »

Traditionally a lot of attention is devoted to the image the Kemalists tried to project, as well as to the way Kemalist Turkey was seen from outside. In this seminar we will turn this around and ask the question: How did the Kemalists see the world around them and how did they interpret the place of the new Turkey in the Europe and Middle East of the interbellum?

• Lundi 22 mai 2017, de 17h à 19h - EHESS (AS1_06), 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris

The Quest for Civilisation

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Genre, corps et sexualité dans l’espace (post-)ottoman »

This seminar will focus on the way the Kemalist programme of spreading modernity and civilization was actually implemented in everyday life. The appearance and public role of women is an important part of the quest for modernity, and a bitterly contested one.

• Mardi 23 mai 2017, de 16h à 19h - EHESS (AS1_23), 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris

The Nuts and Bolts of Progress

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Séminaire d’itinéraires et de débats en études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques »

Traditionally the ideological and programmatic side of the Kemalist reforms has received a great deal of attention. In this seminar we will look at the realities of reform: health, life expectancy, food, electricity and transport.

• Mercredi 31 mai 2017, de 10h à 13h - EHESS (AS1_08), 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris