The Place of Alcohol in Modern Turkey

Date: Thurs., Sept. 17, 3:30pm

Description:

Please join us in welcoming guest lecturers from Michigan State University, Dr. Emine Ö. Evered, Associate Professor of History and Dr. Kyle T. Evered, Associate Professor of Geography. They will be giving a talk entitled "The Place of Alcohol in Modern Turkey: Prohibition, Public Health, and Political Islam" on Thursday, September 17^th at 3:30pm in Savitz 245 (Admissions presentation room). Details of the talk are as follows:

Despite religious proscriptions and practices, currents of alcohol never wholly ceased in Ottoman or republican Turkey. Rather, Anatolian history overflows with examples of regulated consumption - and futile schemes for prohibition. Recently, prohibition­ist discourse returned amid regulatory initiatives and in ways that take advantage of international currents in public health and that reify secular-Islamist divides. Integral to permutations in policy implementation, even schemes of socio-spatial control arose that entail regimes of zoning and separation for trade and consumption. Accounting for narratives of regulationism and prohibitionism from a vantage acknowledging the republic's past, we map today's dynamic and ongoing shifts in Turkey's regulatory and discursive engagements with the place and practice of drinking.

This event is sponsored by the College of Humanities & Social Sciences; Office of Social Justice, Inclusion, and Conflict Resolution; and Departments of Geography & Environment, History, and Sociology & Anthropology.

Location: 245 Savitz Hall (Admissions presentation room)

Contact: Dr. Jordan Howell
E-mail:howell@rowan.edu