The Duffy Speaker Series is a lecture series presented by the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Wayne State University. The series invites distinguished artists and designers to campus to address students and the art community for lectures, reviews, and studio visits. The Duffy Speaker Series is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first serve.

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Yasemin Gencer is a scholar of Islamic art and civilization specializing in the history of Ottoman and modern Turkish art and print culture. She received her PhD in Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2016. She is the author of multiple articles on printing and the early Turkish Republican popular press and publishes a research and translation blog entitled Today in 1920s Turkey which comprises the basis for her monograph, tentatively titled 1920s Turkey: Image, Print, and Modernity. Translation plays a significant role in Gencer’s research, writing, and teaching alike. In addition to translating and publishing primary and secondary sources in her field, Gencer has recently submitted for publication her English translation of Celal Nuri's Hatem ül-Enbiya (1914), a full-length Ottoman Turkish scholarly monograph on the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Gencer has taught courses on Islamic Art History at WSU since 2020 and recently received a pre-faculty postdoctoral fellowship (2023-2025) to continue her research here in Detroit.