"Representations of Lifestyles in Turkey"
The Exhibition Enters its Last Week with a Panel Discussion

As the exhibition, The Person You Have Called Cannot Be Reached at the Moment: Representations of Lifestyles in Turkey, 1980-2005 enters its final week, the Ottoman Bank Museum is hosting a  panel discussion titled, "Lifestyles in Turkey" over the Past 25 Years, Culture and Society, on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. The panelists, Zafer Yenal, Meltem Ahıska, Çağlar Keyder and Nazan Üstündağ will focus on the lifestyles that emerged after 1980 and the socio-cultural transformations accompanying them.

One of the main themes the panel will discuss is the impact of the changes experienced in state structure, economic policies and class relations on the cultural sphere. Others topics to be examined include, globalization, neoliberal policies, ethnic conflicts, secularism, Islamist tendencies, and violence.

Taking as its point of departure the concept of "lifestyles," and social change in Turkey from the 1980s on, the exhibition holds up a mirror to both very familiar and very different aspects of our recent past and beckons viewers to look at the present with a different eye – even as "today" rapidly fades into "yesterday." The accompanying catalogue is on sale at the Ottoman Bank Museum. Curated by Assoc. Prof. Meltem Ahiska and Assist. Prof. Zafer Yenal from the Department of Sociology at Bogaziçi University and designed by Bülent Erkmen, the exhibition closes on September 17.

THE PERSON YOU HAVE CALLED CANNOT BE REACHED AT THE MOMENT: Representations of Lifestyles in Turkey, 1980-2005 The Ottoman Bank Museum May 10 -September 17, 2006 PANEL DISCUSSION September 13, 2006 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Free admission The Ottoman Bank Museum Bankalar (Voyvoda) Caddesi 35/37 (0212) 334 22 70