Lea Vandervelde, Josephine Witte Professor Of Law,
University Of Iowa College Of Law

Speaker: Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti, Cardoso Visiting Professor; Columbia University

a discussion with Roger Owen
AJ Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Department of History

Professor Owen will lead a discussion on the chaos in the MENA region with a focus on the process of events since the Arab Uprisings of 2011.

This event is open to the public, no registration is required.

Sponsors: Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Harvard Philosophy Department
Contacts: Richard Moran; Peter Gordon, pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Abstract:  "How did the newly established Republic of Turkey legislate its minorities in its formative years? How did minorities (defined legally as non-Muslim citizens of the Republic) respond to the new regime? Looking at state-minority relationships in the context of interwar Europe’s League of Nations-initiated “minority protection regime” and taking a longue durée approach to the question by incorporating a discussion of the legacy of the Ottoman millet system as well as the 19th century Great Power “interventions” into what Ottomans viewed as their “...

Speaker(s): Michael Miller , Professor of History, University of Miami

Sponsor(s):  New Directions in European History

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Martin Ruehl (Trinity Hall, Cambridge University)