The Edge of Heaven - a film screening
"The Edge of Heaven" (2007), directed by Fatih Akin
They are mothers and daughters, convicts and college professors, disillusioned political activists and smitten idealists. As they move between Turkey and Germany, they are seeking prosperity, love, freedom, redemption and answers about who they are and where they belong in the world.
With an introduction by Neveser Köker, honors faculty fellow, Barrett Honors College; faculty affiliate, Melikian Center.
Neveser Köker is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests are in modern political thought, feminist theory, Islamic political thought, comparative political theory, French colonial history and Middle Eastern studies.
Köker's research examines political membership and belonging through the rich history of transnational interaction and exchange between Europe and the Middle East. Her book manuscript with the current working title, “Traveling Affinities: Politics of Belonging Between Nation and Empire,” studies 18th- and 19th-century French and Ottoman writings and archival documents that defy easy geopolitical narratives, either of long-standing confrontation between “East” and “West” or of cosmopolitan coexistence in “contact zones.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies and the School of International Letters and Cultures.