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Our speaker will be Nader Sohrabi, visiting Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Buffett Institute. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of Iowa and Carleton College, and has held fellowships at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran (CUP, 2011). Broadly, his work includes study of collective action, revolution, nationalism, and ethnic conflict in the Middle East in the early twentieth century.

Professor Sohrabi will be presenting his paper titled, "Reluctant Nationalists, Imperial Nation State, and New - Ottomanism: Antinomies of the End of Empire"