Talk:
\n\u201cNostalgia, Memory, and the 2023 Turkish Centennial\u201d<\/p>\n
by
\nDr. Nathan Young
\nLecturer at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.;
\nVisiting researcher at Middle East Technical University
\nnathanabi@gmail.com<\/p>\n
Date and Room Info:
\nThursday, November 9, 2023, 12:30 p.m.; A-130<\/p>\n
Abstract:
\n\u201cNostalgia, Memory, and the 2023 Turkish Centennial\u201d is an early investigation into how the anniversary prompted various stakeholders to access historical pasts and articulate preferred futures. The weeks, months, and years preceding this milestone were filled with a range of discourses promoted through events as well as both digital and print media. Nostalgia is an emotion of longing towards a past, accessed in the present, to enact visions of the future. From similar points of origin, diverse entities chart trajectories that lead to vastly different destinations. Nostalgia thus has the potential to link temporalities. My research asks: What do political parties, local municipalities, and other associations hope to achieve by invoking nostalgia? What are individuals nostalgic for and why? Through ethnographic fieldwork and semi-situated interviews, I seek answers by examining the expressions of nostalgia elicited by Turkey\u2019s centennial. Assessed through a theoretical lens, the cultivation of nostalgic memories may be understood as a strategy for generating possibilities regarding the nation\u2019s next century.<\/p>\n
Bio:
\nNathan Young completed his master\u2019s degree in Turkish Folklore at Ege University (2014) and his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University (2020). He conducted dissertation fieldwork in Izmir and Ankara, gathering qualitative material related to villages and villagers including over one hundred semi-situated interviews. Research findings demonstrated how nostalgia for small-scale, rural ways lifeways is cultivated through familial narratives, reiterated by media, and reinforced by state efforts. Nostalgic sentiments for the village are also rooted in hometown loyalty (memleket affiliation) and are regarded as natural in two senses: close to the natural world and authentic. His current project considers how nostalgia expressed during Turkey\u2019s centennial celebrations are used to support agendas of the present and visions of the future. He serves as lecturer at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. and is a visiting researcher at Middle East Technical University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talk: \u201cNostalgia, Memory, and the 2023 Turkish Centennial\u201d by Dr. Nathan Young Lecturer at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.; Visiting researcher at Middle East Technical University nathanabi@gmail.com Date and Room Info: Thursday, November 9, 2023, 12:30 p.m.; A-130 Abstract: \u201cNostalgia, Memory, and the 2023 Turkish Centennial\u201d is [\u2026] <\/p>\n