Back	Saturday Seminars at the Ottoman Bank Museum: On the Occasion of the Republic's 80th Anniversary: "The Making of Modern Turkey" On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic, the Ottoman Bank Museum is organizing a series of seminars on the topic, "The Making of Modern Turkey". Our first guest speaker at the seminar scheduled for October 18, 2003, will be Prof. Oktay Yenal, first dean of the School of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Bogazici University. In November, we will host Prof. Çağlar Keyder, from the Department of Sociology at Bogazici University, and in December, Prof. Şevket Pamuk, from the Department of Economics and the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University. Organized in association with Boğaziçi University on the theme "Continuity and Disruption in the Turkish Republic" and held on the third Saturday of each month from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m., the "Making of Modern Turkey" seminars will involve a general assessment of the past century, followed by a historical discussion of the transformations triggered by the Republic. All 9 seminars will focus on issues concerning the state, relations between the individual and civil society, the concept of citizenship, financial and economic change, interventionist and liberal structures, legal order, basic rights and liberties, cultural and artistic progress and the understanding of modernity. The seminars, which aim to bring together scholars from universities and different arenas, will be held in two sessions. Following the presentation of individual papers in the first session, the active participation of listeners, in the ensuing discussions, will be encouraged, in the second session. It is planned to later publish the papers, presented at the seminars, in the form of a book.