Chaire sécable de l’IISMM-EHESS | Professeure invitée : Sevgi Adak (Aga Khan University)
Sevgi Adak is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London. She completed her PhD at the School of Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in 2016, she taught at Sabancı University and Istanbul Bahçeşehir University and was a research fellow at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. Specializing in women’s history, social history of modern Turkey, and Turkish politics, Adak published numerous articles and book chapters on the history of women’s activism in Turkey, aspects of secularism and Islamisation in contemporary Turkey, and the dynamics of state-society relations in the early Turkish republic. She is the author of Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2022), and co-editor of Tek Parti Dönemini Yeniden Düşünmek: Devlet, Toplum, Siyaset (Tarih Vakfı, 2022). She is co-editing In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts book series of the Edinburgh University Press and is on the editorial board of Contemporary Turkey joint book series of the British Institute at Ankara and I.B. Tauris. Her co-edited volume entitled The Enduring Legacy of Habsburg Islam Policy: Muslim Communities in Central and Southeast Europe will be published by Edinburgh University Press in June 2025.
Sevgi Adak will take part of the Visiting Professors Program designed by EHESS, on proposal of Emmanuel Szurek (CETOBaC) at IISMM
Lectures
Historiography of the Single Party Period in Turkey and the (Post-)Post-Kemalism Debate
Dans le cadre du séminaire “Histoire sociale et linguistique de la Turquie nationaliste” animé par Emmanuel Szurek
- Mardi 6 mai 2025 de 12h30 à 14h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
A Transnational History of Turkish Secularism? The Case of the Dress Law of 1934
The literature on secularism in Turkey overwhelmingly focuses on the regulation of Muslim practices and symbols. This talk will discuss, through the case of the Dress Law of 1934 on the clothing of the religious clergy in Turkey, how secularism was not just about regulating the sarık of the imam, but also the vestment of the Christian priests and the cornette of the nuns, with significant international implications and dimensions. It will argue that the history of secularism as a “national” policy should be rewritten by considering the transnational context that shaped its parameters.
Dans le cadre du séminaire “Histoire sociale et linguistique de la Turquie nationaliste” animé par Emmanuel Szurek
- Mardi 13 mai 2025 de 12h30 à 14h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
Feminist Historiography and the “Wavy” History of Women’s Activism in Turkey
It is common in feminist historiography to think of the history of women’s movements as composed of “waves”. The waves analysis has gone beyond being a tool of periodization; it also came to define what feminism is. This talk revisits the feminist historiography on women’s activism in Turkey and explores the formation of a grand narrative that tells the story of women’s movement as composed of two main waves. It will discuss the scholarly and political implications of this grand narrative and will particularly focus on the exclusion of socialist women’s movement of the 1970s from the “wavy” history of women’s activism in Turkey.
Dans le cadre du séminaire “Genre et politique en Turquie contemporaine” animé par Lucie Drechselová
- Jeudi 15 mai de 14h30 à 16h30 – Salle A602, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
A (Her)Story Untold: Women’s Health and the Struggle for Right to Abortion in 1970s Turkey
The legalization of abortion in Turkey in 1983 is analysed as a move primarily originating in state policies regarding population control. It is a history very much told focusing on the state, largely ignoring non-state efforts to bring the issue onto the political agenda. This talk will map the debates around abortion in 1970s Turkey and the efforts to characterize abortion as a women’s health concern. The focus will be especially on the women’s movement, and how their framing of safe abortion as an issue of women’s health, helped building the momentum for its legalization.
Dans le cadre du séminaire mensuel du CETOBAC
- Jeudi 22 mai de 10h30 à 12h30 – Salle 25-A, EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (8 avril 2025). Chaire sécable de l’IISMM-EHESS | Professeure invitée : Sevgi Adak (Aga Khan University). IISMM. Consulté le 14 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13pe8