A major book launch event with three authors: Cemil Aydin (UNC-Chapel Hill), "The Idea of the Muslim World" (Harvard University Press, 2017); Will Hanley (Florida State University), "Identifying with Nationality" (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Adam Mestyan (Duke), "Arab Patriotism" (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Professor Brett Wilson (CEU) presents a public lecture: "Subduing the Saints: State Control over Sufi Lodges in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey"