# Event Details - **Event Name**: Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Chat & Chowder with Suzy Hansen and her new book "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan."About this EventJoin us for this installment of our popular Chat & Chowder series, featuring Suzy Hansen, Journalist, Author, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, to discuss her book, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan."Chat & Chowder programs are an excellent opportunity to engage with expert speakers and to network with other globally-oriented participants in an informal environment. Each event features a presentation, audience Q&A, dedicated time for networking, and (of course!) a selection of chowders and beverages.Thanks to the generous support of The Lowell Institute, Chat & Chowder is free of charge for all participants. We sincerely appreciate The Lowell Institute’s commitment to our mission.Please consider helping sustain this work by making a contribution here.This program will be streamed to Zoom from 6:15 to 7:15. To attend the program virtually, please register for the Zoom webinar here.Advance registration is required. We cannot accommodate walk-ins for the in-person program.Disclaimer: WorldBoston is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-advocacy, educational organization dedicated to fostering civil discourse on international affairs. Our speakers' opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WorldBoston, our affiliates, or our community. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/4c32b940-2c04-11f1-adf0-4de4cd755510-rimg-w1200-h165-dc000000-gmir.png https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/4c6206a0-2c04-11f1-a536-6780090db813-rimg-w740-h740-dc492f15-gmir.jpg Suzy Hansen lived in Istanbul for more than a decade, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award. She has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bard College. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/4c8e6dd0-2c04-11f1-adf0-4de4cd755510-rimg-w493-h740-dcbcc4c0-gmir.jpg Karagumruk, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for petty thieves, cheap apartment blocks, and a massive influx of Syrian refugees. It's here that Suzy Hansen went looking for the truth behind the headlines of the Turkish president Erdoğan's authoritarian turn, a catastrophic regional war, and an accelerating geopolitical crisis. She asks: Was Turkey a harbinger of what would soon arise in other countries, the resurgence of authoritarianism? Or do the lives of this neighborhood, and the transformations of Erdoğan's Turkey, reveal a more complex story?During a decade spent reporting from Karagumruk, Hansen discovered the neighborhood's secrets and got to know its people: Ismail, the longtime muhtar, or neighborhood councilman; Huseyin, a loyalist for Erdoğan's Islamic nationalist AK party; and Ebru, a real estate agent and mother with ambitions to unseat Ismail. Through these local perspectives, Hansen connects the events unfolding in Karagümrük to the forces roiling Turkey, the Middle East, and the world, capturing the sweep of the last ten years in microcosm.From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Notes on a Foreign Country, From Life Itself is a story for a world out of joint. An absorbing account of one neighborhood in Istanbul that has seen profound change, it offers lessons for all of us who feel the pressure of the disorienting global forces remaking our lives. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/4cbfde10-2c04-11f1-a536-6780090db813-rimg-w1200-h108-dcffffff-gmir.jpg WorldBoston's Chat & Chowder series features key authors on international affairs in an engaging setting. In addition to discussion of a featured book (usually sold at a significant discount), the program offers the opportunity for discussion among members and guests - and of course a selection of chowders and beverages. This Chat & Chowder will be hosted in-person (from 6:00 to 7:30PM ET) and live-streamed to Zoom (from 6:15 to 7:15 PM ET only). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/boston/chat-and-chowder-|-from-life-itself/100001985316625470 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Workshops, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Boston - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Foley & Lardner LLP - **lat**: 42.3460968 - **long**: -71.08145189999999 - **full address**: Foley & Lardner LLP, 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/70bf5db24f53e37dcdd9df458625445f4590f80d4d457021c4c20697a387ba1e-rimg-w1200-h600-dceaf4f2-gmir.jpg?v=1774853252 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself being held? - **A:** Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself takes place on Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Foley & Lardner LLP, 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself? - **A:** Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself is organized by WorldBoston. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Chat & Chowder | From Life Itself", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/70bf5db24f53e37dcdd9df458625445f4590f80d4d457021c4c20697a387ba1e-rimg-w1200-h600-dceaf4f2-gmir.jpg?v=1774853252", "startDate": "2026-05-26T18:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-05-26T19:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/boston/chat-and-chowder-|-from-life-itself/100001985316625470", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Foley & Lardner LLP", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "111 Huntington Avenue", "postalCode": "02199", "addressLocality": "Boston", "addressRegion": "MA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.3460968", "longitude": "-71.08145189999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Chat & Chowder with Suzy Hansen and her new book \"From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan.\"", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-26T19:30:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/boston/chat-and-chowder-|-from-life-itself/100001985316625470" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/boston/chat-and-chowder-|-from-life-itself/100001985316625470", "price": 0, "name": "In-Person General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/boston/chat-and-chowder-|-from-life-itself/100001985316625470", "price": 0, "name": "In-Person Admission with Donation" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "WorldBoston", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/worldboston/22618696", "description": "The mission of WorldBoston is to foster engagement in international affairs and cooperation with peoples of all nations.  As globalization increasingly shapes every aspect of life on our planet, so does our Greater Boston region increasingly experience, and even help shape, these global trends.By means of our nationally-recognized global engagement and citizen diplomacy programs and our networking and community events, every year WorldBoston provides people from all over the world – and people right here – hundreds of opportunities for learning and connection. 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