Assistant Professor Yigit Akin has been awarded a year-long post-doctoral fellowship offered by the research program “Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe” (EUME). EUME is a project at the Forum Transregionale Studien a research platform designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural, and regional frames. The Forum is funded by the Senate of Berlin and is administered by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study.
Yigit Akin will be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, “World War I in the Middle East” to be held on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C., from June 9 through July, 6, 2012.