Kerem Öktem
Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Kerem Oktem is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and teaches the Politics of the Middle East at the Oriental Institute. He read Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, where he also completed his D. Phil. thesis at the School of Geography in 2006. In the thesis, he explored the destruction of imperial space in the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent construction of an exclusively Turkish national territory. His research interests range from the history of nationalism, ethno-politics and minority rights in Turkey to debates on history, memory and trauma, and to Turkey’s conflicted relations with Armenia and Greece. More recently, he has started a research project on the emergence of Islam as a central d iscursive category in European public debates.
Events
Angry Nation - Turkey since 1989
Kerem Oktem
Latest News
A Tide of Humanity: Discussing the Migrant Crisis
On 27 November 2015, LCSS has successfully organised a roundtable at SOAS to discuss the recent Migrant Crisis
LCSS Training Programme on Ottoman and Archival Studies, London, 3rd-7th August 2015
In August 2015, LCSS has successfully conducted the Training Programme on Ottoman and Archival Studies, which took place in London and Oxford.
LCSS Summer School 2015
We are excited to conduct LCSS's first summer school and to host a lovely group of students from Azerbaijan. 20 July - 14 August
International Conference on Gender and Education: Critical Issues, Policy and Practice: Re-Gendering Education
LCSS’s growing gender platform continued its international conference series in Bloomington, IN, United States on International Conference on Gender and Education
Blog
“Insider” and/or “outsider: Anthropologists’ constant status negotiation”
Feray J. Baskin - PhD Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
In the Name of the Nation: the burqa ban, French values and Islam
Daniela Alaattinoğlu - PhD Candidate, European University Institute - Florence, Italy
On Welfare Reform with Baroness Molly Meacher
Interview by Ozdemir Ahmet - On Thursday 4 April 2013 An interview was conducted with Baroness Molly Meacher at the House of Lords where questions were put out to her with regards to the welfare reforms introduced by the coalition.