Back	Saturday Seminars at the Ottoman Bank Museum: Prof. Şevket Pamuk on The Making of Modern Turkey Prof. Şevket Pamuk, from the Department of Economics and the Atatürk Institute of Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, will be speaking this month at the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars organized by the Ottoman Bank Museum on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic. The seminar is scheduled for Saturday, December 20, 2003, from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. 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 involve a general assessment of the past century, followed by a historical discussion of the transformations triggered by the Republic. All 9 seminars 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, are held in two sessions. Following the presentation of individual papers in the first session, the active participation of listeners, in the ensuing discussions, is encouraged, in the second session. It is planned to later publish the papers, presented at the seminars, in the form of a book. A Yale University graduate, Prof. Şevket Pamuk obtained his PhD. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, as well as at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Villanova, Princeton, Michigan (Ann Arbor), in the US and Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Prof. Şevket Pamuk, is on the administrative board of the International Economic History Association, and has numerous published books and articles on Ottoman and Turkish economic history. Pamuk, who is currently conducting research on "Ottoman Economy in Modern Times" and "The Modern Economic Development of the Balkans and the Middle East since 1800" was also granted the Sedat Simavi, Thomas H. Cole and Fuat Köprülü awards for his work.