Brian Van Wyck (Baltimore)
Islam, Race, and the Making of Turkish Difference: Turkish Teachers and Imams in the Federal Republic of Germany
05.07.2023 17:15 – 18:45
Historicum Room K226, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"
The KFG colloquium continues on Wednesday, July 5th with a lecture by Junior Fellow Brian VanWyck on "Islam, Race, and the Making of Turkish Difference: Turkish Teachers and Imams in the Federal Republic of Germany".
Brian Van Wyck is a historian and assistant professor at the University of Maryland. He specializes in the history of migration from Turkey to West Germany. His current research focuses on how West Germans and Turks grappled with the permanent presence of Turkish guest workers, refugees, and their families in West Germany from the 1960s onward. Brian Van Wyck has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Free University of Berlin, and Humboldt University of Berlin. His research and studies have been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, the Berlin Program, the Critical Language Scholarship, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the summer term 2023, he is a junior fellow at the KFG in Munich.
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