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Erdag Göknar

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
2204 Erwin Road, Rm. 234, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Fridays, 1-3 PM  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Reading Occupied Istanbul From Trauma to Trope · December 6, 2013 Lecture Aethetics & Politics in Turkey Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul's Cultural History · November 21, 2013 Lecture SES From Prague to Kabul Seminar
My Name is Red: Intersections of Image and Text · November 17, 2013 Lecture Nasher Museum of Art
Literary Modernism, Pamuk and Tanpinar · May 2, 2013 Lecture Jackson McNally Book Store, NYC
New Translations of Hikmet · April 14, 2013 Lecture Nazım Hikmet Poetry Festival, Page Walker Arts Center, Cary, NC
Reading Occupied Istanbul From Trauma to Trope · December 6, 2013 Lecture Aethetics & Politics in Turkey Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul's Cultural History · November 21, 2013 Lecture SES From Prague to Kabul Seminar
My Name is Red: Intersections of Image and Text · November 17, 2013 Lecture Nasher Museum of Art
Literary Modernism, Pamuk and Tanpinar · May 2, 2013 Lecture Jackson McNally Book Store, NYC
New Translations of Hikmet · April 14, 2013 Lecture Nazım Hikmet Poetry Festival, Page Walker Arts Center, Cary, NC
Book Talk: Orhan Pamuk, Secularism, and Blasphemy · April 10, 2013 Lecture Duke University
Muslim Cosmopolitanism and the Secular Nation: The Case of Orhan Pamuk · December 15, 2012 Lecture Duke University
Secular Blasphemies: Orhan Pamuk and Turkish Moderntiy · December 15, 2012 Lecture Northwestern University, Chicago
Orders of Time: Comparison, Modernism, and Istanbul · February 17, 2012 Lecture Northwestern University, Chicago
Turkey and the EU: History and Prospects · October 31, 2011 Lecture Duke University
'Secularism and Islam in Turkey' · September 27, 2010 Lecture Duke University, BEA FOCUS IDC
Reimagining the Ottoman Legacy · May 18, 2010 Lecture Stanford University
Orhan Pamuk's Revision of Secular Modernity · April 27, 2010 Lecture Stanford University
Translated Turks · April 2, 2010 Lecture New Orleans ACLA Conference
Transcultures of Literature in Turkey · September 17, 2009 Lecture Bilgi University, Istanbul
Transcultures of Literature · September 17, 2009 Lecture Bilgi University, Istanbul
Nazim Hikmet & the Poetics of Confinement · April 19, 2009 Lecture NC State Univ.
Turkish Literary Modernity & Modernization HIstory · March 20, 2009 Lecture Princeton University
Is Turkey European? Turks & Europe Today · February 6, 2009 Lecture University of Texas, Austin
Turning Turk & Other Betrayals of the Turkish Novel · February 5, 2009 Lecture University of Texas, Austin
Literary Translation: Tanpinar & Pamuk · November 23, 2008 Lecture 2008 MESA Conference, Washington DC
A Reading from Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace · May 13, 2008 Lecture Ctr. for the Art of Translation, San Francisco
Translating Turkish: Word, Text, & Intertext · February 2, 2008 Lecture University of Washington, Seattle

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Success Program · 2018 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD),
Religion & Literature · December 16, 2013 Editorial Activities
Journal of Turkish Literature · December 16, 2013 Editorial Activities
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction · December 16, 2012 Editorial Activities
Comparative Literature · December 16, 2012 Editorial Activities