Great Falls Forum with Senem Aslan

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  • Feb 14, 2019

The 2018-2019 season of the Great Falls Forum continues on Thursday, February 14th, featuring Bates College Associate Professor of Politics Senem Aslan, with a talk entitled “Populism and the Politics of Emotion.” The program will take place from 12 noon to 1 PM in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library.

Why do state leaders cry in public? In this presentation, Dr. Senem Aslan explores this and other questions that illuminate our understanding of populism in today’s world.

A graduate of Bogazici University in Istanbul, Professor Aslan earned her Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University between 2008 and 2010. Her book, Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.  At Bates, she is an Associate Professor of Politics and teaches classes on state-building, nationalism, symbolic politics, and politics of the Middle East. Her recent research focuses on political amnesties in Turkey.

Admission is free to all Forum events and no reservations are required. This program is a bring-your-own, brown-bag lunch event. Coffee, tea and bottled water will be available on site at the library.

The Great Falls Forum is a monthly, brown-bag speaker series featuring statewide and regional leaders in public policy, business, academia and the arts. The programs are free, open to all and no reservations are required. Coffee, tea and bottled water are provided for a donation at the event. The Forum is a co-sponsorship of the Sun Journal, Bates College, Maple Way Dental Care, and LPL.

For more information, contact LPL Adult & Teen Services at (207) 513-3135 or LPLReference@Gmail.com