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Mustafa Ozgur Tuna

Mustafa Ozgur Tuna

Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
mustafa.tuna@duke.edu
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
316 Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By email appointment.  

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Crisis as a Step toward Liberal Democracy · January 17, 2014 Lecture Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Kazan: A Cosmopolitan City and Russian Muslim Intellectuals between East and West · November 1, 2013 Lecture Global Asia, New Asia? Urbanization, Environment, and Other Tectonic Shifts
The Opportunity Costs of Islamophobia: The Missionary-State Alliance against Volga-Ural Muslim Activism in the Late Russian Empire · November 1, 2013 Lecture Eurasian Paradigms for Confessional Diasporas. November 2013, Duke University, Durham, NC
Respondent for Doug Leonard. “Jacques Soustelle and Ethnological Governance in Algeria” · December 5, 2012 Lecture Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies Colloquium, Duke University
Turkey: Democracy, Islam, and the Kurds · December 5, 2012 Lecture Rollins College, FL
Contemporary Turkey · December 5, 2012 Lecture Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Kazan Tatar Teachers' School: The Successful Failure of Russification in Late Imperial Russia · April 1, 2012 Lecture Duke University, History Colloquium
Reconciling Observation with Revelation: Reading of the "Book of the Universe" and a Paradigmatic Shift in the Islamic Tradition · October 1, 2011 Lecture Challenges to Contemporary Islam: The Muslim World 100 Years after Nursi’s Damascus Sermon, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH
Kazan Tatar Teachers’ School: Russification as Social Engineering in Late Imperial Russia and the Global Predicament · January 1, 2011 Lecture Russia and Its Empires Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Contemporary Turkey · January 1, 2011 Lecture Fuqua School of Business
Muslim Scholarly Networks and the Formation of a Muslim Domain in the Russian Empire · January 1, 2011 Lecture Scholars @ Divan Center Series, Divan Cultural Center, Cary, NC
A Muslim Domain and Its Center: Situating Reformist Muslim Intellectuals among Late Imperial Russia’s Muslims · November 1, 2010 Lecture Duke Islamic Studies Center Faculty-Board Meeting, Duke University, Durham, NC
From Mulla Abbas to a Muslim Intelligentsia: Finding a Place for Reformist Muslim Intellectuals in Late Imperial Russia · October 31, 2010 Lecture Central Eurasian Studies Society Eleventh Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI
‘Some Members of the Youth’: the Alienation of Muslim Reformists from the Broader Muslim Population in the Late Russian Empire · July 29, 2010 Lecture Second Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference, Ankara, Turkey
Turkey in the 20th Century · February 1, 2010 Lecture Fuqua School of Business
Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: a View from the Russian Empire · January 24, 2010 Lecture Islamic Institutions and Imperial Reach: The Complex Articulation of Ideas, Education and Mobility, Osaka, Japan
Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: a View from the Russian Empire · January 1, 2010 Lecture Islamic Institutions and Imperial Reach: The Complex Articulation of Ideas, Education and Mobility, Osaka, Japan
Rusya Müslümanları'nın Modernleşmeye Tepkileri · June 1, 2009 Lecture Foundation for Science and Arts, Turkey
A Muslim Intelligentsia in Imperial Russia? · March 1, 2009 Lecture International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey
Fifth Column or Imperial Paranoia: Confrontation between Russian Muslim Intellectuals and Russian Imperial Administration in the Late Russian Empire · April 1, 2008 Lecture Russia and the Ottoman Empire Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY
Learning from Confrontation: the Struggle of Muslim Peasants and Russian Bureaucrats over Muslim Education in the Late Russian Empire · April 1, 2008 Lecture Religion and Conquest: Orthodoxy, Islam and Imperial Policy towards Religious Institutions, 1650-1920, Columbia University, New York, NY
Another Turkish Modernization: Response of the Grassroots · January 1, 2008 Lecture University of South Carolina

Service to the Profession

referee : Paper review for Russian Review · December 2013 Editorial Activities
referee : Paper Review for Comparative Studies in Society and History · September 2013 Editorial Activities
referee : Paper Review for Ab Imperio · December 5, 2012 Editorial Activities
referee : Paper Review for Nationalities Papers · November 2011 Editorial Activities
referee : Paper Review for Carl Beck Papers · October 2011 Editorial Activities
referee : Paper review for Kritika · November 2009 - January 2011 Editorial Activities