These seminars are free and open to all. No ticket is required. For further information about the LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies and its seminars and other activities, please email euroinst.turkish.studies@lse.ac.uk or visit the Contemporary Turkish Studies web page.
Summer Term 2014
European Institute 2014/15 Events coming soon.
One Day Conference: Religious Diversity and Tolerance in Europe and Turkey
Date: Friday, 6 June 2014
Time: 10:00-18:15
Venue: NAB.LG.01, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
“Persistence of Three Kemalisms in the Post-Tutelage Turkey: Secular Nationalist, Cultural and Left-Populist”
Speaker: Assoc.Professor Yüksel Taşkın (Marmara University)
Date: Wednesday, 30 APRIL 2014
Time: 18.00-20:00
Venue: Room COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
Public Conference: Turkey's Regional Policy at a Crossroads
Date: Monday, 28 April 2014
Time: 16:00-20:00
Venue: CLM.3.02, 3rd Floor, Clement House, LSE, WC2B 4JF, London
Lent Term 2014
Panel: “Rising Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in Turkey’s Economy: Assessment of the Last Decade and New Prospects”
Speakers: Alpay Filiztekin, Fatih Özatay, Erinç Yeldan
Date: Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Time: 18:00-20:30
Venue: TW1.G.01, Tower 1, LSE
“Freedom of Expression in Turkey: Problems and Challenges”
Speaker: Yavuz Baydar, Columnist, Daily Today's Zaman
Date: Monday, 3 March 2014
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: NAB.1.04, New Academic Building, LSE
Half-Day Conference: “Reviving Famagusta; From Ghost Town to Eco-city?” (Organized jointly with LSE Hellenic Observatory)
Free and open to all, but registration is required
Date: Friday, 21 February 2014
Time: 14:00-18:45
Venue: The Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE
“Limits, Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Turkish Foreign Policy: A Political Economy Perspective”
Speaker: Rıfat Barış Tekin, Marmara University
Date: Monday, 17 February 2014
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
Panel and Documentary Screening: “Dynamics of Kurdish Question and the ‘Peace Process’ in Turkey”
Speakers: Hale Akay, Nurcan Baysal, Cengiz Güneş, Dilek Kurban, Esra Özyürek
Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Time: 17:00-20:30
Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
“Turkey and the West: Bargaining for Realignment”
Speaker: Hilton L. Root, George Mason University and King’s College London (KCL)
Date: Monday, 27 January 2014
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
“A Critical Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy: History, Identity and the Policies of AKP”
Speaker: Ayla Gӧl, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Date: Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
Michaelmas Term 2013
"Nation-Building and Urbanization in Turkey, 1935-1965"
Speaker: Associate Professor Elliott Green (Department of International Development, LSE)
Date: 27 November 2013
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE