This lecture is organized in conjunction with the Eighth Annual Boston University "Big Fat Books" Symposium on Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red. Please note that the location for this week's lecture will be different from other weeks'! Speaker: Erdağ Göknar is Associate Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and former director of the Duke Middle East Studies Center. He is a scholar of literary and cultural studies and an award-winning translator whose research focuses on the intersections of literature and politics in Turkey and the Middle East; specifically, on late Ottoman legacies in modern and contemporary Turkish fiction, historiography, and popular culture.