Past Events
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2024-25 Academic Year
Saturday 7 June 2025, 3.00pm to 3.30pm GMT
In this conversation recorded during the 34th BATAS Spring Symposium in collaboration with Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE (June 7, 2025), Elif Toker-Turnalar speaks with Emel Sevinç, a London-based writer, project curator, and practitioner, about her compelling project and display "More than a Bundle Story."
Venue: In-person public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS)
You can either download the podcast or watch the video of this event online.
Saturday 7 June 2025, 10.00am to 5.00pm GMT
The 34th BATAS Spring Symposium, held in collaboration with Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE, brings together scholars and experts to explore Turkish politics, society, and culture in a time of transformation.
Venue: In-person public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS)
Thursday 5 June 2025, 6.00 to 7.30pm GMT
This lecture compares recent inflation dynamics in Türkiye and the United States to explore how political pressures and institutional credibility shape inflation expectations and policy effectiveness.
Speaker: Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics at Koç University, Director of the Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum, and a Founding Partner at Ethos Economics Consulting.
Discussant: Orkun Saka, Visiting Senior Fellow, European Institute, LSE and an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics at the City, University of London.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE
Venue: In-person public event (MAR.2.10, Marshall Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies
You can either download the podcast or watch the video of this event online.
Friday 29 November 2024, 6.00 to 7.00pm GMT
Speaker: Selçuk R. Şirin, Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE
Venue: In-person public event (Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies
You can either download the podcast or watch the video of this event online.
Friday 29 November 2024, 10.30am to 5.00pm GMT
In this workshop, as we explore the interaction between political populism, media and academia in Türkiye, we also aim to discuss the potential political future that AI technology holds in store for us.
Venue: In-person and online workshop (MAR.2.09, Marshall Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies
Access the full report here: Workshop Report.
The Political Feasibility of the Adoption of the UNDP’s “Türkiye Compact” by the EU, the UK, and Switzerland
Thursday 31 October 2024, 6.00 to 7.30pm GMT
Speakers and Project Researchers: Kemal Kirişci, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; Friedrich Püttmann, PhD Candidate, European Institute, LSE.
Discussants: Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po Center for European and Comparative Studies in Paris; John Alty, Visiting Professor in Practice, European Institute, LSE.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE
Venue: In-person public event (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
You can download the podcast or read a brief of this event.
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 6.00 to 7.30pm BST
Speakers: Dimitar Bechev, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and the Director of the Dahrendorf Programme on Europe in a Changing World at St Antony's College, Oxford; Sir John Jenkins, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and Consultant at Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics; Ziya Meral, Lecturer in International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS; Selin Nasi, Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE
Venue: In-person public event (Thai Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)
You can download the podcast of this event, watch the video online or read the summary transcript of the event.
2023-24 Academic Year
Wednesday 12 June 2024, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
With recent elections in Turkey, and forthcoming voting in South Africa and the Western world (the UK, EU and the US), this panel will delve into the aspirations and perspectives of global middle powers, and will analyse the impact of their rise on the global order.
Speakers:
Chris Alden, Professor of International Relations and Director of LSE IDEAS; Yolanda Kemp Spies, Director of the Diplomatic Studies Programme at Oxford University, served as a South African diplomat for 18 years before she joined academia in 2005; Buğra Süsler, Lecturer in the UCL Department of Political Science and the Head of Turkey and the World Programme at LSE IDEAS.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics
Venue: Online and in-person (WolfsonTheatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE)
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Friday 07 June 2024, 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm
The US economy used to spend 2% of its GDP on R&D in the 1980s; now, that figure stands at 3.5%. The fraction of the workforce identified as “inventors” has more than doubled since 2000. However, rather than experiencing acceleration, the economy has faced a productivity slowdown in return. Despite proactive policies directing additional resources toward fostering faster growth, where does the economy fall short? This lecture will argue that it’s not solely about the quantity of resources allocated for industrial policy, but also about the “who” behind their utilization.
Speaker:
Ufuk Akçiğit, the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago; Research Professor and Head of the Research Group: The Economic Gap between East and West Germany at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH); Co-Director of Graduate Placement at the University of Chicago; Research Associate at NBER and Research Affiliate at CEPR.
Hosted by the European Institute, Contemporary Turkish Studies, School of Public Policy and Systemic Risk Centre at LSE.
Venue: Online
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Friday 07 June 2024, 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
The workshop will feature a number of selected presentations/discussions and culminate in a public keynote lecture. The event will provide a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed.
Hosted by the European Institute, Contemporary Turkish Studies, School of Public Policy and Systemic Risk Centre at LSE.
Venue: Online and in-person (CBG.1.01, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE)
Thursday 07 March 2024, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
This panel aims to discuss possibilities for settlement in Syria and reappraise the role of regional and global powers, including Türkiye.
Speakers:
Rim Turkmani, Senior Policy Fellow at LSE Middle East Centre and LSE IDEAS; Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer at Istanbul Kadir Has University and member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; Selin Nasi, Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE and London Representative of the Ankara Policy Center.
Chair:
Michael Mason, Director of the Middle East Centre, Professor of Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and Middle East Centre
Venue: In-person and online public event (Yangtze Lecture Theatre (CBG.2.01), Centre Building, LSE)
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Wednesday 24 January 2024, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Bringing together experts and practitioners, this panel examines Türkiye’s past and future role within NATO in light of the organisation’s 75th anniversary, its recent enlargement and current challenges.
Speakers:
Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe, Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair holder on Hybrid Threats in the EU at Kadir Has University; Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS; and Tacan İldem, Retired diplomat and former NATO Assistant Secretary-General, Turkish Ambassador to the Netherlands, and Chairman of the independent think tank EDAM.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the LSE IDEAS
Venue: Online Public Event
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Friday 17 November 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
29 October 2023 marks the centenary of the proclamation of the Republic in Turkey. In this year’s BATAS John Martin Lecture, Professor Şule Kut will take a tour d’horizon of Turkish politics and foreign policy over time and across the major issues with a particular view for continuity and change.
Speaker:
Şule Kut, Professor of Turkish Foreign Policy and the Balkans; Member of the Advisory Board of the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE; Board member of the Turkish Social, Economic and Political Research Foundation (TÜSES); Founding member of the History Foundation in Turkey; Member of Global Relations Forum based in Istanbul.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and The British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS)
Venue: In-Person Public Event (Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)
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Wednesday 4 October 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
This panel will reflect on the Turkish political economy since the Kemal Derviş era in the early 2000s. It will address questions related to the legacies of previous reforms, the contributions of Kemal Derviş to public policy, and the future of the Turkish economy. The panel will also assess the impact of the IMF, international loans and transnational links in relation to economic stability and crisis.
Speakers:
G. Kemal Ozhan, Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics at Koç University, Director of the Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum and founding partner at Ethos Economics Consulting.
Sinan Ülgen, Director and founding chairman of the think tank Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), Senior fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and Managing Partner of the consultancy Istanbul Economics.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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2022-23 Academic Year
Thursday 8 June 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
This event will explore the consequences of the 6 February 2023 earthquakes for Turkish society, politics and foreign policy. The 7.6–7.8 magnitude earthquakes that impacted the southern regions in Turkey were inhabited by more than 15 million people.
Speakers: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Buğra Süsler, Lecturer in the UCL Department of Political Science and Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS.
Özge Zihnioğlu, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool.
Chair: Chris Alden, Professor of International Relations and Director of LSE IDEAS.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and LSE IDEAS
Venue: Online and in-person (MAR1.08, The Marshall Building, LSE)
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Friday 02 June 2023, 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm
Turkey’s economic problems are all rooted in International economics 101. All standard textbook problems with easy and straightforward solutions known by many emerging countries and applied successfully since early 2000s. Why then these problems persist in Turkey?
Speaker: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by the European Institute, Systemic Risk Centre and Contemporary Turkish Studies
Venue: Online
Friday 02 June 2023, 9.00 am to 5.05 pm
The event will provide a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed. There will be a dedicated discussant for each paper, as well as open floor discussion.
Hosted by the European Institute, Systemic Risk Centre and Contemporary Turkish Studies
Venue: Online and in-Person (Vera Anstey Room, Old Building)
Friday 10 March 2023, 6.30pm to 7.30pm GMT
Lara Melda won the BBC Young Musician 2010 competition, performing Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in the final round with Vasily Petrenko and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff.
The concert programme will include:
Sonata No.17 in D minor ‘The Tempest’, Op. 31 No. 2
Largo: Allegro
Adagio
Allegretto
BEETHOVEN
Étude in D flat major, S. 144 No. 3 ‘Un Sospiro’
LISZT
Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Allegro maestoso
Scherzo, Molto vivace
Largo
Finale. Presto, non tanto
CHOPIN
Venue: Shaw Library, Sixth Floor, Old Building, LSE
Thursday 09 March 2023, 6.30pm to 9.00pm GMT
This photo exhibition celebrates the achievements of young female scientists, musicians, artists and athletes from every corner of Anatolia, Türkiye.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and Aydın Doğan Foundation
Venue: Lower ground floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Thursday 09 March 2023, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
This forum will present the achievements of prominent female researchers from Turkey and how they have contributed to science and technology in the UK.
Participants: Melis Duyar, Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey; Özge Eyice, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbial Ecology at the Queen Mary University of London; Zeynep Kalender Atak, Senior Scientist in Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca; Zeynep Okray, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford; Pınar Özcan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Said Business School, University of Oxford, and the Director of the Oxford Future of Finance and Technology (Fintech) Initiative; Emine Yılmaz, Professor, a Turing and an ELLIS Fellow at University College London, Department of Computer Science, where she leads the Web Intelligence Group.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE)
Wednesday 08 March 2023, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
This event will appraise 100 years of the Turkish Republic, taking stock of changing ideas of modernity, progress and Westernisation.
Speakers: Faruk Birtek, Emeritus Professor, Boğaziçi University; Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Professor, Koç University; Laurent Mignon, Professor, University of Oxford; Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair, LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at LSE
Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE)
Wednesday 08 March 2023, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm (GMT)
As part of the Turkish Week at LSE, this event will discuss the impact of the 7.6–7.8 magnitude earthquakes in February on cities in Turkey. Speakers, who have witnessed the devastation first hand, will share their observations, with a focus on the immediate needs of the victims. The panel will also explore how cities can be rebuilt through solidarity between multi-ethnic and diverse communities, other cities, local governments, non-governmental organisations and international aid. The aim of the panel is to raise awareness about the continued needs of the local communities with practical recommendations on what can be done, based on lived experiences and other global incidents of urban destruction.
Speakers:
Mehmet Nuri Gültekin is Professor of Sociology at Gaziantep University.
Mehmet Karlı is a research fellow at the European Studies Centre of the University of Oxford.
Nilüfer Numanoğlu Atalay (LSE'01)is a co-founder and trustee of Turkey Mozaik Foundation (TMF).
Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology at LSE, and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy is Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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Tuesday 07 March 2023, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
This talk will look at the discourse of Orientalism and Occidentalism in Turkish and Hollywood cinemas and how they feed upon and reflect each other.
Speaker: Murat Akser is Lecturer in Screen Production in the School of Communication and Media, Ulster University.
Chair: Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Venue: Online and in-Person (MAR.2.08, The Marshall Building, LSE)
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A summary of this event is available to read here.
Tuesday 07 March 2023, 12.45pm to 2.00pm GMT
This talk aims to challenge the scholarship that has so far studied European youth in ethno-culturally, and religio-politically divided separate clusters, such as “migrant-origin” and “native” youths.
Speakers: Ayhan Kaya, Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy; Katerina Dalacoura, Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Venue: Online and in-Person (PAR.LG.03, Parish Hall, LSE)
Monday 06 March 2023, 10.00am to 05.45pm GMT
Tuesday 07 March 2023, 10.30am to 12:15pm GMT
This two-day workshop will concentrate on the issue of inclusive higher education with a particular focus on transnational students, including refugees.
Speakers:
Akile Ahmet, Dr, Head of Inclusive Education, Eden Centre for Educational Enhancement and International Inequalities Institute, LSE; Muhammad Al Mahameed, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School; Kenan Çayır, Professor, Department of Sociology, Istanbul Bilgi University; Begüm Dereli, Dr, Project Officer, The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE); Nick Gill, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter; Mehmet Nuri Gültekin, Professor, Department of Sociology, Gaziantep University; Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, European Institute, LSE; Omar Kadkoy, Project Manager, The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV); Ayhan Kaya, Professor, Department of International Relations and Director of the European Institute (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence), Istanbul Bilgi University; Gencer Özcan, Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Friedrich Püttmann, PhD Candidate, European Institute, LSE; Tolga Sınmazdemir, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London; Mehmet Ali Tuğtan, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Aslı Tunç, Professor, Department of Media and Communication and Vice-Rector, Istanbul Bilgi University
Chairs: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute; Özge Onursal Beşgül, Assistant Professor and Vice-Director of the European Institute, İstanbul Bilgi University
Co-organised by the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, LSE)
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Join us for this event, co-organised with the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), that will explore linkages between archaeology, soft power and international relations.
Speakers: Professor Stephen Mitchell, Emeritus Professor of classics and ancient history, University of Exeter; Sir David Logan, British Ambassador to Turkey from 1997-2001; Professor Tuna Şare Ağtürk, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford and Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Venue: Online and In-Person
The in-person event will be followed by a reception.
Listen to the podast, watch the video, or read the summary transcript of the event.
2021-22 Academic Year
Wednesday 8 June 2022, 5:30pm to 7pm
Speakers: Professor Oya Dursun-Özkanca, Endowed Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College, USA; Colonel Rich Outzen, Geopolitical Consultant and Retired Colonel who served in the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; Professor Gencer Özcan, Professor of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Venue: Online
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Wednesday 9 February 2022, 3.30 to 5pm
Speakers: Dr Pınar Artıran, Assistant Professor, WTO Chair Holder and the Director of the Research Center on International Trade and Arbitration Law at Istanbul Bilgi University; Christopher Gaunt OBE, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce Turkey; Lord Robin Janvrin, Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Turkey from 2015-2021; Dr Mustafa Kutlay, Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at City, University of London.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies.
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2020-21 Academic Year
Thursday 12th November 2020, 5.30-7.00pm (UK time)
Speakers: Rebecca Bryant, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.Mete Hatay, Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo Cyprus Center.Discussants: Stef Jansen, Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester UniversityAlice Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of SussexNina Caspersen, Professor of Politics at the University of YorkChair: Dr Eray Çaylı, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and Guest Teacher, European Institute, LSE
Abstract:What is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the "aporetic state" to describe such entities, which project stateness and so seem real, even as nonrecognition renders them unrealizable.Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It traces the process by which the island's "north" began to emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized space following violent partition in 1974. Like other de facto states, the TRNC looks and acts like a state, appearing real to observers despite international condemnations, denials of its existence, and the belief of large numbers of its citizens that it will never be a "real" state. Bryant and Hatay excavate the contradictions and paradoxes of life in an aporetic state, arguing that it is only by rethinking the concept of the de facto state as a realm of practice that we will be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.
2019-20 Academic Year
Tuesday, 3rd March 2020, 18.30-20.00
Venue: CLM.5.02, LSE
Speaker: Associate Professor Damani Partridge, University of Michigan
Chair: Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Abstract: This paper thinks through the relationships between European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and “Black” futures. To what extent do noncitizens have access to democratic participation? How do they make claims on nation-states (and related institutions) and hold them accountable to their needs and desires? The paper examines, in particular, the ways in which holding states and other institutions accountable to “Black” claimants intervenes in philosophical and everyday discussions of enlightenment and genocide. It works through the relevance of the Haitian revolution to French democracy and post-World War II African-American military occupation to a democratizing and denazifying Germany. From Berlin “post-migrant” theater’s use of “Black Power,” to the contemporary articulations of refugee rights, the paper investigates the extent to which “Blackness’’ is central to enabling real democratic participation beyond national belonging, most recently in a context in which the German state demands accountability for Nazi perpetration and the associated proof that one is not anti-Semitic or a terrorist.
Speaker's biography: Damani J. Partridge (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003) is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. As a researcher, he has published broadly on questions of citizenship, sexuality, post-Cold War ‘freedom’, Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, ‘Blackness’ and embodiment, the production of noncitizens, the culture and politics of ‘fair trade’, and the Obama moment in Berlin. He has also made and worked on documentaries for private and public broadcasters in the US and Canada, and currently directs the Filming Future Cities Project in Detroit and Berlin (see filmingfuturecities.org). In 2012, he published Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany and is currently preparing his manuscript, “Articulating ‘Blackness’ as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, European Enlightenment, and Noncitizen Futures,” for publication.
14th January 2020, 18.30-20.00
Speaker: Professor Paul A. Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Chair: Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Abstract: This talk interrogates the liminal ethno-racial category of Berber/Amazigh as it develops in colonial North Africa and comes to be reinvigorated in postcolonial France. With a particular focus on the southeastern oases of Morocco, it sketches the colonial military, administrative, and scientific logics which divided Berber (or Imazighen) "autochthons" and black Haratin "allochthons and the consequences of such a divide for local social relations and their transformations in the wake of Moroccan independence and the increased social mobility of Haratin. It particularly examines how questions of race continue to haunt contemporary activism around Berber culture, language, and land—where a discursive embrace of Berber Africanity remains in tension with ongoing local struggles between Imazighen and Harratin over economic and political resources. As the paper argues, these relations—differently figured in rural oases, urban Morocco, and the diaspora—are increasingly framed, particularly among the younger generation, by a global racial discourse on "whiteness" and "blackness" that variously includes or excludes Haratin/Blacks from Berberness and Berbers/Imazighen from Blackness. At stake is how different racial projects and desires coalesce and compete across the transnational Mediterranean.
Speaker's biography: Paul A. Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. He is author of Postcolonial France: Race, Islam and the Future of the Republic (Pluto, 2018) and Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Indiana, 2004), and co-editor (with Ussama Makdisi) of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana, 2006). He is currently completing a book on Amazigh/Berber ethno-politics, historical consciousness, and development in southeastern Morocco. His new research focuses on cosmopolitan immigrant labor politics in the former coal mines of northern Europe. He chairs the board of directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).
2018-19 Academic Year
Wednesday, 13th March 2019, 18.30-20.00
Venue: COW 1.11, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Dr Zeynep Kezer March, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture Planning, Newcastle University
Chair: Dr Eray Cayli, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Abstract: At the turn of the 20th century, Harput’s silk factories encapsulated the ambitions of their Armenian proprietors, the advantageous attributes of the region’s geography, and the anxieties spurred by rising ethnic tensions. As the Ottoman Empire increasingly integrated with global trade networks, Harput’s enterprising Armenian craftsmen, keen to explore emerging commercial opportunities, propelled the introduction of new industries, including metal foundries, shoe making and, importantly, silk manufacture. In addition to renowned nearby textile centers in Diyarbakır, Ayntab, Aleppo and Beirut, they ventured abroad to France and America, seeking new techniques, technologies, and trade partners. Instrumental to the expansion of their geographic and commercial horizons was the concomitant launch of German, French, and American missionary schools, which, next to religious instruction, provided them with indispensible language, literacy, numeracy and modern craft skills. Moreover, as a well-irrigated fertile terrain with a temperate climate located on the banks of Euphrates, Harput’s surroundings—also called the Golden Plain—had long been recognized for its fruitful vineyards and orchards. Silk factories tapped into the region’s considerable mulberry orchards and drew from a significant number of Armenian households, employing about 500 (mostly female) skilled workers. Despite outbreaks of ethnic violence, the factories prospered and quickly gained international recognition for their high-quality products. The events of 1915, not only wiped out the region’s Armenian population, but with them a nascent landscape of integrated agricultural and industrial production. Unskilled workers and easy-growing plants replaced specialist know-how and labor intensive crops. Once intensifying networks of commerce and expertise withered away, leaving the region impoverished and isolated for decades to come.
Speaker's biography: Zeynep Kezer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture Planning at Newcastle University (UK). She holds a B. Arch. from Middle East Technical University in Ankara and an M Arch and a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the spatial dimension of state formation processes with a specific emphasis on Turkey. She has published numerous articles in books and academic journals, and a monograph entitled Building Modern Turkey: State Space and Ideology in the Early Republic published the University of Pittsburgh Press. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the University of California, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Killam Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation, the British Academy, and the Aga Khan Foundation. During the 2019-20 academic year, will be a senior research fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC to work on her project examining state penetration in the Elazığ-Dersim region, its effects on the region’s mostly Kurdish and Armenian populations, and their cultural landscapes during the twentieth century.
Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 18.30 - 20.00
Speaker: Dr Ece Kocabıçak, LSE Fellow, Department of Gender Studies, LSE
Chair: Dr Esra Ozyurek, Associate Professor and Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSEVenue: COW 1.11, Cowdray House, LSE
Abstract:This paper investigates the significance of property ownership for varieties of patriarchy thereby extending existing theories. Using the case study of Turkey, it differentiates two forms of domestic patriarchy: premodern and modern. In the premodern form male dominance in landownership leads to patriarchal exploitation of women’s labour in agriculture, whereas in the modern form women’s exclusion from paid employment maintains patriarchal exploitation of labour within the home. In differentiating the reasons and consequences of the premodern form from those of the modern form, I use the methods of the legal and comparative analysis over time. The period considered is from the early-twentieth century to the contemporary period. I find that women are legally dispossessed of agrarian land which, in turn, establishes premodern domestic patriarchy by maintaining patriarchal exploitation of women’s labour in agriculture. The premodern form increases the gender gaps in education, paid employment, and access to basic financial assets thereby limiting women’s engagement in the public sphere. This, in turn, prevents the transition from domestic to public patriarchy. Premodern domestic patriarchy further shapes trajectories of capitalist development by (i) sustaining a pattern of small landownership, (ii) constraining labour supply, (iii) subsidizing urban wages, and (iv) obstructing the production and export of advanced manufactured goods.
Speaker's bio:Dr Ece Kocabıçak is currently working as an LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science (2017-current). Her teaching and research engage with the contemporary debates in international development, comparative political economy, political sociology, and social inequalities. Her research expertise is on trajectories of capitalist development; varieties of gender regimes; state-formation; the relationship between gender, class, race-ethnicity, and sexuality based inequalities; and the significance of political collective subjects for social change. She further focuses on the processes and factors that sustain gender-based exclusionary strategies in property ownership, labour market, education, and political decision making in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Ece is currently working as a member of the Female Employment and Dynamics of Inequality (FEDI) Network (led from SOAS) on the dynamics of gender inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
2017-18 Academic Year
This interdisciplinary lecture series hosts academics invested in debates on Turkey and connected geographies from a variety of perspectives. The goal is to open up a critical space for deeper and critical analysis of society, culture, religion, and politics in Turkey, among Turkey's diasporic populations and across other relevant regions. Speakers are expected to address, through their research, different aspects of past, present and future complexities of contemporary Turkey and proximate contexts, revealing connections between different life practices and processes in multiple spaces and temporalities.Unless otherwise stated, lectures in this series will take place throughout the 2017-18 academic year on the first Wednesday of every month between 6pm and 8pm at Room 1.11, Cowdray House, 6 Portugal Street, LSE.Admission is free, open to all, and on a first-come-first-served basis.
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 6-8pm
Speaker: Dr Veli Yadırgı (SOAS)Veli Yadirgi holds a B.A. in Philosophy (King’s College, London), an MSc. in Global Politics (LSE), and a PhD (SOAS), and has worked as a political correspondent and editor in different media companies in Europe. His doctoral dissertation was entitled ‘The Political Economy of the Kurdish Question in Turkey: De-development in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia’. His expertise and research interests include: Political, Economic and Social History of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish Question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Politics and Development Economics of the Countries of the Middle East; Social Change; and Social Theory. Veli is a member of the London Middle East Institute, the Centre for Ottoman Studies and Neoliberalism, Globalisation and States (all at SOAS). His most recent publication is The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Venue: COW.1.11
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Speaker: Dr Sevgi Adak (Aga Khan University)
Dr Sevgi Adak is Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London. She has held various research and teaching positions in the past. Between 2009 and 2014, she was a research fellow at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in January 2015, she taught at the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Bahcesehir University. Her book, Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: Gender, Power and Resistance under the Kemalist Regime, will be published by IB Tauris in 2017.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: COW.1.11
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Speaker: Prof Mehmet Ugur (University of Greenwich)
Prof Mehmet Ugur's areas of interest include open economy macroeconomics, international economics and finance, economics of the EU, monetary integration in Europe, European public policy, regulatory institutions of the world economy, and statistical methods for research. He has examined PhD theses internally at the University of Greenwich and externally at Essex, Keele, Leicester, Manchester and Warwick universities. Prof Ugur has method specialism in meta-analysis, a statistical method of evidence synthesis in economics, public policy and medical care. He is co-convenor for the Campbell and Cochrane Collaboration Economics Methods Group (CCEMG) – an international network of individuals with an interest and expertise in approaches to evidence synthesis that combine economics and systematic review methods. Prof Ugur is also a member of the Meta-Analysis of Economic Research Network (MAER-Net), an international network of scholars committed to improving economic science through meta-analysis. He coordinated and hosted MAER-Net's 2013 Colloquium at the University of Greenwich. Prof Ugur acts as an editorial board member for academic journals and as advisory board member for research centres. His consultancy engagements include International Budget Partnership (Washington), Routledge (UK), and Centre for Innovation and Competition-based Development Studies (Turkey).
Abstract: The incorporation of institutions into economic analysis has been a good step in the right direction. However, the extant literature does not pay sufficient attention to how the relationship between institutional quality and economic outcomes under globalisation may be mediated though: (i) prevailing global ideologies and power structures; and (ii) global distribution of investment opportunities. This lecture argues that the mediated/conditional nature of the link between institutional quality and economic outcomes is essential for understanding why both foreign and domestic investors have overlooked the adverse consequences of institutional degradation in Turkey for too long. To work out these arguments, the lecture begins with the ‘discovery’ of institutions in mainstream economics and how institutional quality may be related to observed economic outcomes, particularly growth and equity. Then it provides a synthesis of the empirical findings on the growth and equity effects of institutions. In the third part, it examines the economic growth in Turkey against the evidence of institutional degradation under the increasingly corrupt and authoritarian AKP regime. The lecture closes with three observations: (i) domestic and international markets and market-makers have not been bothered by the large-scale institutional cull in Turkey; (ii) the bet in favour of the AKP regime is a reflection of the global investor bias in favour of authoritarianism as a meta-institution that delivers ‘compliance with contracts without complications’; (iii) a new mix of economic and political institutions would be preferable in terms of equity and sustainability, but the political demands for this new mix are being suppressed by authoritarian regimes bolstered by domestic and international owners of capital.
Time: 6-8pm Venue: COW.1.11
Chair: Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner, Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Speaker: Dr Nora Fisher Onar (Coastal Carolina University)
Dr Nora Fisher Onar examines global politics with a focus on Turkey between the West and Middle East. Her research interests include IR theory, comparative area studies, political ideologies, gender, history/memory, and foreign policy analysis. She received her doctorate in IR from Oxford University and holds masters and undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and Georgetown, respectively. She speaks five languages including fluent Turkish and Italian. A non-resident fellow of the German Marshall Fund and research associate of Oxford’s Centre for International Studies, she has published extensively in academic journals like Conflict and Cooperation, Theory and Society, and Women’s Studies International Forum. She also regularly speaks and writes for policy fora like the Brookings Institution and Carnegie Endowment, Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, and OpenDemocracy. She is editor of a forthcoming book for Rutgers University Press titled Istanbul: Living With Difference in a Global City.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: COW.1.11
Chair: Assoc Prof Katerina Dalacoura (LSE)
2016-17 Academic Year
Workshop convened by Esra Özyürek, European Institute and Marc David Baer,International History The London School of Economics and Political Science,
8 June 2017
Session One:
David Feldman, Director, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London - ‘Antisemitism and Islamophobia: On the History of Two Concepts’Esther Romeyn, Center for European Studies, University of Florida - ‘The Queer Alliances in Anti Antisemitism as a Transnational Field of Racial Governance’Brian Klug,Philosophy, University of Oxford - Whose Europe? Islam, Judaism and the 'Battle for the Enlightenment'
Session Two:
Esra Özyürek, European Institute, London School of Economics - ‘Rethinking Empathy: Fear and Envy as Turkish- and Arab-German Reactions to the Holocaust’Aomar Boum, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles - ‘The Logic of Anti-Semitism: A Berber Immigrant Narrative about Jews in Sweden’
Session Three:
Nasar Meer, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh - ‘Racialization Relations’Josef Meri, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
9 June 2017
Session One:
Marc David Baer, International History Department, London School of Economics - ‘Queer Convert: German-Jewish, Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Marcus (1880-1966)’Humayun Ansari, Director of the Centre for Minority Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London - ‘South Asian Muslim Radicals' Entanglements with Networks in Berlin in the Early Twentieth Century’Nora Şeni, l’Institut français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8 - ‘Holocaust: The Missing Reference in the Turkish Intellectual and Artistic World’
Session Two:
Damani Partridge, Departments of Anthropology and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan - ‘Refugee Futures and Holocaust Heritage: European Dilemmas in “Teaching Democracy’’’Kimberly Arkin, Department of Anthropology, Boston University - ‘(In)visible Catholics, Ventriloquized Muslims, and Spectral Jews: The Ethics of Pluralism in French Biomedical Debates’
Session Three:
Marcy Brink-Danan, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - ‘Cacophony or Conversation? Communication, Complexity, and New Conceptions of Religious Diversity in the United Kingdom’Ben Gidley, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London - ‘Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Europe’s Secular Christian Landscape’
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Speaker: Dr David Henig (University of Kent)
David Henig is a social anthropologist trained as the Wenner Gren Foundation’s Wadsworth International Fellow in Social Anthropology at Durham University. Before joining the School at Kent as Lecturer in Social Anthropology, he taught at SOAS in London. His theoretical interests include the dynamics of global political economy, transnational religious movements, the social life of imperial formations, and religious, political and economic cosmologies. David has carried out extensive fieldwork in the post-Ottoman frontier regions of the Muslim Balkans and the Caucasus, and a shorter fieldwork along the Sino-Persian frontiers around the Pamirian knot. He engages with these frontier perspectives as a way to reassess dominating analytical and geopolitical discourses in order to formulate novel ethnographic, historical, political and theoretical insights for these regions, and for anthropological theory more generally. His most recent interest centres on linking anthropology with global transnational history and diplomacy, comparative imperialism, international relations, and geopolitics.
Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Speakers: Dr Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University) and Dr Ece Algan (Loughborough University)
This event will consist of two presentations followed by a panel discussion: "Communication Infrastructures as Mechanisms of Control and Colonialism in Turkey" by Burçe Çelik, and "An Ethnography of Affective Social Networks via Old and New Media in Şanlıurfa" by Dr Ece AlganBurçe Çelik is Lecturer at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. She received her doctoral degree in Art History and Communications from McGill University, and authored a number of publications on the history of communications, and media culture in Turkey.Ece Algan is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Media & Creative Industries at Loughborough University in London. Previously she worked as an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at California State University at San Bernardino. She has conducted longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork research on local media, mobile communication, youth and social change for over a decade in Southeast Turkey and published several journal articles and book chapters. She serves on editorial and advisory boards of Journal of International Communication, Global Media Journal's Mediterranean Edition, Open Cultural Studies and Moment: Journal of Cultural Studies.
Time: 6.00-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Speakers: Dr Leonidas Karakatsanis (The British Institute at Ankara), Dr Myrto Tsaktatika (Unviersity of Glasgow), and Dr Clemens Hoffmann (University of Stirling)
This event will consist of a presentation of the edited volume Politics of Culture in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus: Performing the Left since the Sixties (L. Karakatsanis & N. Papadogiannis, Eds.) by its co-editor, and a panel discussion culminating in a Q&A session.The event is supported by the British Institute at Ankara.Leonidas Karakatsanis (PhD Essex) is the author of Turkish-Greek Relations: Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship (Routledge, 2014). His current research focuses on the relation between contentious politics and affects in South-eastern Europe, the cultural politics of the Left in Turkey, Cyprus and Greece, and on a comparative approach to reconciliation and peace in the Caucasus, the Balkans & the Mediterranean. He is Assistant Director at the British Institute at Ankara.Myrto Tsakatika (PhD Essex) is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Myrto’s research has focused on European Union politics and public policy, namely on the question of the ‘democratic ‘deficit’, trends in public Euroscepticism and new governance modes. More recently she has worked on radical left parties in comparative perspective, particularly in Southern Europe.Clemens Hoffmann (PhD University of Sussex) is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling. He has previously taught at the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara. His research interests include Marxist Historical Sociology of International Relations, Political Ecology and Global Political Economy. Geographically his work focuses on the entire post-Ottoman world, especially Turkey, Northern Syria, Cyprus, the Balkans, as well as East Africa.
Time: 12-1.30pm Venue: 32L.G.03
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Speakers: Dr Sinem Arslan (University of Essex), Dr Mehmet Kurt (Queen Mary University of London), Steve Sweeney (Journalist for the Morning Star), and Güney Yıldız (Special Adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of House of Commons)
This event will consist of short presentations followed by a panel discussion.Time: 7.00-8.30pm Venue: TW1.G.01
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Speakers: Dr Mehmet Kurt (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr Naif Bezwan (Independent)This event will consist of two presentations followed by a panel discussion: "Islamist Civil Society, Kurdish Question and State of Exception in Turkey" by Dr Mehmet Kurt, and "The Exceptional State: Peace, Putsch and Plebiscite in Turkey" by Dr Naif Bezwan. Mehmet Kurt (PhD, Selçuk University) is Newton Advanced Fellow at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), Queen Mary University of London and writer of Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State (Pluto Press, 2017).Naif Bezwan (PhD, Universität Osnabrück) is an independent researcher currently based in London. Having emigrated in 1991 from Turkey to Germany, he obtained his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in the latter country. He then moved back to Turkey to serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Mardin Artuklu University, a post from which he was recently dismissed for political reasons as per an emergency decree. His research and teaching interests include the political and administrative system of Turkey in the context of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Republican era, the process of Turkey's accession to the European Union, Turkey's foreign policy, Turkey's policy towards Kurds as well as Kurdish quest for self-rule, and Kurdish political parties, modern history and society. Before taking up his post at Mardin Artuklu University in January 2014, Bezwan was a Visiting Scholar at King's Colllege London and at SOAS. He has regularly featured in press as an expert on Turkey's Kurdish conflict, its Middle East policy, Kurdish politics and intra-Kurdish relations.
Time: 6.00-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Speaker: Dr Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge Division of Social Anthropology) Born in Istanbul, Dr Yael Navaro completed her undergraduate education at Brandeis University (Sociology 1991) and her masters and PhD at Princeton University (Anthropology 1998). She was Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (1997-1999) and has been teaching at the University of Cambridge since 1999. She is presently Reader in Social Anthropology in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and College Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newnham College. Her research to date has explored affect and subjectivity in the domains of politics, the public sphere, law, and bureaucracy. Her first book Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Princeton University Press, 2002) studied the production of a state-revering culture in Turkey through ethnographic work on the interface between secularism and Islamism. This work then led her to study the unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus and its administration through questions about affect in a postwar environment, which materialized in her second book The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity (Duke University Press, 2012) based on ethnographic research on affect in zones of ruination and abandonment, in materialities left behind and expropriated in the aftermath of war, as well as in the documentary practices, administration, and economy of an unrecognized state. Between January 2012 and December 2016, she conducted full time research as Principal Investigator on a European Research Council (ERC) project titled "Living with Remnants: Politics, Materiality and Subjectivity in the Aftermath of Past Atrocities in Turkey."
Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Speaker: Dr Eray Çaylı (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture & LSE European Institute)
Dr Eray Çaylı is a researcher, educator and writer at the interface of architecture/art and anthropology. Eray’s PhD (University College London, 2015) studied the relationship between urban/architectural space and discourses of "confronting the past" (geçmişle yüzleşme) in Turkey, and is currently the subject of a book project he is working on. More broadly, in both his research and his teaching, Eray explores the ways in which the built environment shapes, and is shaped by, conflict, disaster and protest. He currently works as a researcher at the LSE European Institute, and teaches architectural history and theory at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture and the Syracuse University School of Architecture (London programme).
Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Speaker: Dr Nazan Üstündağ (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Dr Nazan Üstündağ is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. She received her PhD from Indiana University. Her interests include theories of modernity and postcoloniality, feminist studies, ethnography of the state, state and violence and resistance. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript on how state violence has been inscribed on the things, spaces, bodies, as well as visual and written documents in and on Kurdistan. Besides her academic interests, she also writes for political journals and newspapers. She is a founding member of the Peace Parliament and Academics for Peace, as well as a member of Women for Peace.
Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: COW 1.11
Chair: Associate Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies
2015-16 Academic Year
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Venue: Room 9.05, 9th Floor, Tower2, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Speakers: Professor Murat Guvenc (Professor and Director of the Istanbul Studies Centre, Kadir Has University, Istanbul), and Ms. Ozlem Altinkaya Genel (Doctor of Design Candidate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)Discussants: Professor Ricky Burdett (Director, LSE Cities, and Professor of Urban Studies, LSE), Mr. Philipp Rode (Executive Director, LSE Cities, LSE), Dr. Savvas Verdis (Senior Research Fellow, LSE Cities, LSE)Chair: Associate Professor Esra Ozyurek (Associate Professor, and the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, LSE)
Introduction: Professor Caglar Keyder (LSE Centennial Professor)Workshop Synopsis: The economic geography of Istanbul's evolution into a mega city of 15 million will be explored in this workshop. By looking particularly at the infrastructural projects of the last decade, the speakers will analyse the expansion of the city-region centred on Istanbul. They will focus on the transformation of land use patterns using census data as well as satellite imagery revealing land cover changes.This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Speaker: Professor Caglar Keyder, LSE Centennial Professor and Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton and at Koc University in Istanbul
Time: 18:00-19:30 Venue: Room NAB.LG.01, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Time: 13:00 - 19:00 Venue: Room COW1.11, 1st Floor, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE (13:00-15:45), and Room CLM.3.02, 3rd Floor, Clement House, LSE (15:45-19:00) Panellists: Nicolas Argenti, Marc D. Baer, Glenn Bowman, Rebecca Bryant, Maria Couroucli, Fatma Müge Göçek, David Henig, Amy Mills, Christine Philliou
Monday, 7 March 2016
Speaker: Associate Professor Diane E. King, Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky
Time: 17:30-19:00 Venue: Room CLM.7.02, 7th Floor, Clement House, LSE
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Organised jointly with LSE Middle East Centre
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Time: 09:30 - 17:45
Venue: Room 9.04, Tower 1, Clement’s Inn, LSE
Panellists: Evren Balta, Cengiz Çandar, Menderes Çınar, Toby Dodge, Serhat Erkmen, Elizabeth Ferris, Deniz Kandiyoti, Naz Masraff, Esra Özyürek, Bill Park, Aydın Selcen, Güneş Murat Tezcür, Gönül Tol, Güney Yıldız, Deniz Zeyrek
Organised jointly with LSE Middle East Centre
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Speaker: Dr. Elif Babür, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Time: 16:30-18:00pm Venue: Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Monday, 9 November 2015
Speaker: Caglar Keyder, LSE Centennial Professor, and Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton and at Koc University in Istanbul
Time: 17:30-19:00pm Venue: Cañada Blanch Room COW 1.11 Cowdray House, LSE
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Organized jointly with European Institute
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Book Launch and Public Panel:
Speaker: Dr. Nasar Meer, Professor Tariq Modood, Professor Sophie Gilliat-RoyTime: 18:00 - 20:00 Venue: Room TW1.G.01, Tower 1, LSE
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
2014-15 Academic Year
Monday, 15 June 2015
Time: 13:00-17:30
Keynote Speaker: Professor Roland Robertson
Speakers: Dr. C. Akça Ataç, Dr. S. Barış Gülmez, Dr. Pınar İpek, Dr Zeynep Kaya, Dr. Müge Kınacıoğlu
Venue: Canada Blanch Room, COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
Chair: Dr. James Ker-Lindsay, Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSEE
Organized jointly with LSE Research on South Eastern (LSEE) Europe
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 11-12-13 May 2015
Time:18:00-20:00 on 11 May 2015
10:00-18:30 on 12 May 2015
09:30-13:15 on 13 May 2015
Venue: LSE
Speakers and Moderators:
Dr. Ayşe Gül Altınay, Dr. Bilgin Ayata, Dr. Alice von Bieberstein, Dr. Zerrin Özlem Biner, Mr. Murat Çelikkan, Ms. Ayda Erbal, Professor Fatma Müge Göçek, Dr. Corry Guttstadt, Dr. Aslı Iğsız, Dr. Sossie Kasbarian, Dr. Joanne Laycock, Professor Leyla Neyzi, Mr. Marc Nichanian, Dr. Ceren Özgül, Dr. Esra Özyürek, Dr. Murat Paker, Dr. Ayşe Parla, Professor Max Silverman, Dr. Serap Ruken Şengül, Dr. Yael Navaro-Yashin
Thursday & Friday, 30 April - 1 May 2015
Time: 18:00-20:00 on 30 April 2015
10:30-18:00 on 1 May 2015
Venue: LSE
Speakers and Moderators: Dr. Utku Barış Balaban, Alpkan Birelma, Prof. Dr. Ayşe Buğra, Prof. Dr. Mine Eder, Dr. Sinan T. Gülhan, Prof. Dr. Çağlar Keyder, Prof. Dr. Deniz Kandiyoti, Dr. Başak Kuş, Dr. Esra Sarıoğlu, Dr. Cihan Z. Tugal, Dr. Funda Üstek, Dr. Dilek Yankaya, Sami Zubaida
Friday, 20 March 2015
Time:09:00 - 16:30 Venue: Room 9.04, Tower 2, Clement’s Inn, LSE
Panellists: Dr. Can Açıksöz, Dr. Mücahit Bilici, Dr. Ali Çarkoğlu, Dr. Serkan Delice, Dr. Yaprak Gürsoy, Dr. Deniz Kandiyoti, Dr. Levent Korkut, Dr. Levent Köker, Dr. Talip Küçükcan, Dr. Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Dr. Berna Turam, Dr. Emma Sinclair-Webb, Dr. Nuri Yurdusev
Organised jointly with LSE Middle East Centre
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Time:18:00 - 19:30 Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New academic Building, LSE
Panellists:Dr. Ali Çarkoğu, Dr. Deniz Kandiyoti, Dr. Talip Küçükcan
Organised jointly with LSE Middle East Centre
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Time: 17:30 - 19:00 Venue: Room COW1.11, 1st Floor, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Dr. Zerrin Özlem Biner, Research Associate in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSEConference Poster
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Time: 16:30 - 18:00 Venue: Room COW1.11, 1st Floor, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Assistant Professor Başak Can, Department of Sociology, Koç University, İstanbul
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Time: 18:30 - 19:30 Venue: Graham Wallace Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE
Speaker: H.E. Mr. Özdil Nami, A Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Community
Chair: Dr. James Ker-Lindsay, LSE
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 Venue: NAB.1.04, First Floor, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE
Speaker: Dr. Kabir Tambar, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Speaker: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Discussants: Dr. Ruth Mandel, Dr. Nasar Meer, Professor Joel RobbinsChair: Professor Deniz KandiyotiRuth Mandel is Reader in Social Anthropology at University College London. Nasar Meer is Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship at Strathclyde University and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow. Joel Robbins is Sigrid Rausing Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Deniz Kandiyoti is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Organised jointly with LSE European Institute
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 Venue: NAB1.07, First Floor, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE
Speaker: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSEConference Poster
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Çağlar Keyder
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek
Professor Keyder will propose an account of the last hundred years of the 'state tradition' in Turkey. Çağlar Keyder is Centennial Professor at the LSE European Institute and Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University.
Esra Özyürek is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, LSE.
Saturday & Sunday, 18-19 October 2014
Time: 9:30 - 18:00 Venue: İstanbul Bilgi University, Santral Campus
2013-14 Academic Year
Monday, 28 April 2014, 4:00-8:00 pm, CLM3.02, Clement House, LSE
"Turkey's Regional Policy at a Crossroads"
Professor Maurice Fraser, Director, European Institute, LSE
Session I: Turkey’s Syria Predicament
Paper Titles and Speakers:
“Turkey and the Syrian Uprising: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
Dr. Özlem Tür (Associate Professor of International Relations, and the Chair of the Middle East Programme, Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
“Turkey’s Syrian Quagmire”
Dr. Christopher Phillips (Lecturer in the International Relations of the Middle East, Queen Mary, University of London)
“The Impact of the Syrian Civil War on Turkey-Syria-Iran Relations”
Professor Özden Zeynep Oktav (Yıldız Teknik University, İstanbul)
Chair: Dr. Rebecca Bryant (A.N. HadjiyannisSenior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
Session II: Iraq, Iran, and the Regional Kurdish Question
Paper Titles and Speakers:
“The Arab Spring and Turkey-Iran Relations, 2011-2014”
Dr. Süleyman Elik (Assistant Professor of International Politics, Istanbul Medeniyet University)
“Turkey and the KRG in a Rapidly Changing Middle Eastern Political Setting”
Dr. Marianna Charountaki (Post-doctoral Fellow, Reading University, UK)
“Turkey's New Little Brother: the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Turkish Foreign Policy”
Professor Gareth Stansfield (Professor of Middle East Politics, University of Exeter, and Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
Chair: Associate Professor Rıfat Barış Tekin (Marmara University, İstanbul and Visiting Fellow, LSE)
Wednesday, 30 April 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Associate Professor Yüksel Taşkın (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University)
Chair: Dr. Rebecca Bryant (A.N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
Friday, 6 June 2014, 10:00am-6:15pm, NAB.LG.01, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speakers and Moderators:
Samim Akgӧnül, John R. Bowen, Marcy Brink Danan, Katerina Dalacoura, Matthew Engelke, Katherine P. Ewing, Effie Fokas, Ayhan Kaya, Ceren Özgül, Esra Özyürek, Mathijs Pelkmans, Kabir Tambar
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Dr. Ayla Gӧl (Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University)
Chair: Mr. Bill Park(Defense Studies Department, King's College London)
Thursday, 12 February 2014, 5:00-8:30 pm, CLM.3.02, Third Floor, Clement House
Paper Titles and Speakers:
“Turkey's Solution Process: The Impossibility of a Peace Excluding People”
Hale Akay (Research Coordinator (Turkey), Citizens Network for Human Security Project, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly)
“Invisible Struggle: Displaced Villagers Rebuilding Lives in Their Homeland”
Nurcan Baysal (Researcher, and Board Member of Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research)
“Conflict Resolution in Turkey: Challenges and Prospects”
Dr. Cengiz Güneş (Associate Lecturer, Open University, UK)
Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek (Chair, Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Documentary Screening: “Bûka Baranê (The Children Chasing the Rainbow)(In Turkish with English Subtitles)”
Monday, 17 February 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Associate Professor Rıfat Barış Tekin(Marmara University and LSE)
Chair: Dr. Gül Berna Özcan(Reader, Royal Holloway University)
Friday, 21 February 2014, 2:00-6:45 pm, The Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Conference
(jointly with LSE Hellenic Observatory)
Speakers & moderators:
Dr. Ceren Bogac
Professor Kevin Featherstone
Dr. Rebecca Bryant
Glafkos Constantinides
Robert Cowley
Dr. James Ker-Lindsay
Dr. Gabriel Koureas
George C. Lordos
Symeon Matsis
Mustafa Ongun
Dr. Wendy A. Pullan
Layik Topcan
Dr Christala Yakinthou
Monday, 3 March 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, NAB.1.04, New Academic Building, LSE
Yavuz Baydar (Journalist and Columnist with Daily Today's Zaman)
Chair: Dr. Rebecca Bryant(A.N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
Discussant: Dr. Ayça Çubukçu(Assistant Professor of Human Rights, LSE)
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 6:00-8:30 pm, TW1.G.01, Tower 1, LSE
Paper Titles and Speakers:
“Inequality Trends in Turkey”
Professor Alpay Filiztekin (Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University)
“The Unpleasant Status-quo: Having to Rely on Others' Money to Keep the Large Income Gap Between Turkey and the Developed World Intact”
Professor Fatih Özatay (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
“Turkish Economy in the 2000s: Beyond Legend and Myth”
Professor Erinç Yeldan (Dean, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Yaşar University)
Chair: Dr. Robert Hancké (Associate Professor (Reader) in European Political Economy, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 27 January 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Professor Hilton L. Root (George Mason University and King’s College London (KCL)
Chair: Dr. Bill Kissane(Department of Government, LSE)
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Associate Professor Elliott Green (Department of International Development, LSE)
Chair: Dr. Rebecca Bryant(A.N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
2012-13 Academic Year
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
(jointly with Research on South Eastern Europe (LSEE))
Speaker: Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Elizabethtown College, U.S.A)
Chair: Dr. James Ker-Lindsay(LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE)
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Sevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Chair: Dr. Waltraud Schelkle (Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE and Adjunct Professor, Economics Department, Free University of Berlin)
Monday, 21 January 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Professor Ayhan Kaya (Director of European Institute, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 28 Janaury 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Professor Feride Acar(Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 11 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Professor Ahmet İnsel(Department of Economics, Galatasaray University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, CON.2.05, Connaught House, LSE
Speaker: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ahmet Faruk Aysan(Member of the Board, Monetary Policy Committee Member, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 25 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
Speaker: Dr. Berkay Özcan (Lecturer, Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Chatham House)
Friday, 1 March 2013, 1:30-4:45 pm
Session 1: 'Turkey as an Economic Example to the Arab Countries' (1:30-3:15pm)
Speakers:
Mina Toksöz (Emerging Markets and Country Risk Consultant)
Şevket Pamuk (Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
Chair: Fadi Hakura (Associate Fellow, Chatham House)
Session 2: "Turkey and Regional Developments in the Middle East" (3:15-4:45pm)
Speakers:
Muhammed Ҫetin (Deputy-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Turkish Grand National Assembly)
Professor Ersin Kalaycıoğlu (Professor, Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Chair: Sir David Logan (Chair of British Institute in Ankara)
Thursday, 7 March 2013, 4:45-6:15 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)
2011-12 Academic Year
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Kudret Ozersay (Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and Special Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Leader, Dr. Dervis Eroglu)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Thursday, 3 May 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Bulent Aras (Professor, Chairperson of the Strategic Research Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, and also academic advisor to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6:00- 8:00pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Panel Discussion (jointly with LSE Hellenic Observatory, and ENGI (Services for Conflict Management)
Speakers: Michalis Avraam (NGO Support Centre-Cyprus), Katerina Antoniou (Youth Power-Cyprus), Marios Epaminondas (AHDR-Association for Historical Dialogue & Research-Cyprus), Bulent Kanol (Management Centre-Cyprus), Meliha Kaymak(EDGE-Cyprus), Alexandros Lordos (Cyprus 2015), Rana Zincir (UN Gender Advisory Team in Cyprus and AHDR).
Chair: Dr. James Ker-Lindsay (LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE)
Wednesday, 6 June 2012, 6:00- 8:00pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
(Organised by LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies)
Panel Presentations by the First and Second Place Winners:
First Place Winners: Dr. Ipek Gocmen, Faculty of Management/ Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, “The Politics of Religiously Motivated Welfare Provision” and Dr. Fatma Ozlem Koksal, Birkbeck College, University of London, “Remembering the Past Performing the Present: Turkey in Film”.
Second Place Winners: Dr. Derya Bayir, School of Law/Queen Mary University of London, “Negating Diversity: Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law” and Dr. Markus Ketola, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Europeanization and Civil Society: The Early Impact of EU Pre-Accession Policies on Turkish NGOs”.
The Jury Committee: Professor Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS), Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin(LSE) and Professor Sevket Pamuk (LSE).
Monday, 23 January 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Mr. David Gardner (International Affairs Editor with the Financial Times)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 30 January 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Dr. İpek Demir (Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 6 February 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Speakers: Saniye Dedeoğlu (Assistant Professor at Muğla University, Turkey and Marie Curie Research Fellow at Warwick University, UK), Adem Yavuz Elveren (Assistant Professor, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Turkey)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 13 February 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu (Associate Professor, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 20 February 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Dr. Başak Çalı (Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University College London)Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 27 February 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
İnsan Tunalı (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Koç University, İstanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Forum for European Philosophy)
Speakers: Sean Sayers (Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent), Marco Simoni (Lecturer in European Political Economy, European Institute, LSE), İnsan Tunalı(Associate Professor of Economics, Koç University, Istanbul)
Chair: Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 4:00-6:00 pm, U8, Tower1, Portugal Street, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture
Mr. Egemen Bağış (Turkish Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 5:30-7:00 pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with School of Oriental and African Studies)
Speaker: Şükrü Hanioğlu (Professor, Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University)
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Fortna (Professor in the History of Middle East, SOAS)
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm, D302, Clement House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with LSE Middle East Centre)
Sami Zubaida, (Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 24 October 2011, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Forum for European Philosophy)
Speakers: Philip Goodchild (Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham), Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE), Waltraud Schelkle (Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, European Institute, LSE and Adjunct Professor, Economics Department, Free University of Berlin)
Chair: Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE)
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 6:30-8:15 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with School of Oriental and African Studies, and New Perspectives on Turkey)
Speakers: Asaf Savaş Akat (Professor of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University), Fikret Şenses (Professor of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk (LSE)
Friday, 28 October 2011, 9:30am-6:10 pm, Graham Wallis Room (5th Floor), Old Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with New Perspectives on Turkey)
Speakers: Professor İzak Atiyas (Sabancı University, Istanbul), Dr. Kurtuluş Gemici (National University of Singapore), Professor Çağlar Keyder (Boğaziçi University and University of Binghamton), Professor Dani Rodrik (Harvard University), Professor Erol Taymaz (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), Assoc. Prof. Ebru Voyvoda (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), Assoc. Prof. Zafer Yenal (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul), Assoc. Prof. Hatice Deniz Yükseker (Koç University, Istanbul)Panel Moderators: Assoc. Prof. Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and New Perspectives on Turkey), Assoc. Prof. Biray Kolluoğlu (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and New Perspectives on Turkey), Professor Şevket Pamuk (LSE)
Monday, 14 November 2011, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Forum for European Philosophy)
Speakers: John Breuilly (Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Government Department, LSE), Sir Francis Jacobs (Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor, King's College London), Umut Özkırımlı (Visiting Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University)
Chair: Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE)
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 7:00-9:00 pm, Room U8, Tower1, Portugal Street, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference
Speakers: James Dingemans Q.C. (Barrister (3 Hare Court Chambers) & Deputy High Court Judge), Levent Gönenç (Associate Professor of Law, Ankara University, Ankara), Levent Köker (Professor of Law, Atılım University, Ankara)Chair: Can Yeğinsu (Barrister, 4 New Square Chambers, and Director of The Global Rule of Law Forum)
Monday, 5 December 2011, 6:00-7:45 pm, COW.1.11, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Gül Berna Özcan (Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
2010-11 Academic Year
Friday, 22 October 2010, 9:00 am-6:00 pm, Rectorate Hall, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with New Perspectives on Turkey)
Sponsored by: Turkish Economy Bank (TEB)
Monday, 18 October 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Tim Jacoby (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester)
Chair: Professor Sevket Pamuk
Monday, 25 October 2010, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Forum for European Philosophy)
Speakers: Peter Osborne (Professor of Modern European philosophy, Kingston University, London), Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE), Donald Sassoon (Professor of Comparative European History, Queen Mary, London)
Chair: Simon Glendining (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 1 November 2010, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Forum for European Philosophy)
Speakers: Richard Bellamy (Professor of Political Science, UCL, London), Thomas Diez (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tubingen), Maurice Fraser (Senior Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
Chair: Simon Glendining (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE)
Monday, 8 November 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Ayşe Gül Altınay (Assistant Professor, Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Chair: Professor Sevket Pamuk
Monday, 15 November 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Dirk Verbeken (Senior Economist, European Commission, Brussels)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 22 November 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Özlem Onaran (Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics, Middlesex University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 29 November 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Hugh Pope (Director, Turkey/Cyprus Project, International Crisis Group)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre, LG01 New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with SOAS)
Binnaz Toprak (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bahçeşehir University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 6 December 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Bengisu Rona (Emeritus Reader in Turkish Studies, SOAS)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
2009-10 Academic Year
Monday, 15 March 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
David Shankland (Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 25 January 2010, 6:00-8:00p m, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Ayşe Kadıoğlu (Professor, Sabancı University, visiting at University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 1 February 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Asaf Savaş Akat (Professor, Department of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, D602, Clement House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference
Fikret Adaman (Professor, Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 15 February 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, 116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Deniz Kandiyoti (Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 1 March 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Sedat Ergin (Columnist for the daily Hürriyet, former Editor in Chief of daily Milliyet)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 6:30-8:30 pm, D602, Clement House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with LSESU Turkish Society)
Andrew Mango (Author and Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference
Ali Babacan (Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy)
Chair: Howard Davies (Director of LSE)
Monday, 19 October 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Armine Ishkanian (Lecturer at the Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 26 October 2009, 6:00-8:00pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Atila Eralp (Professor, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 2 November 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Gülnur Aybet (Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Kent)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, D502, Clement House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with SOAS)
Jenny White (Assoc. Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 16 November 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Martin Stokes (Lecturer at the St. John's College, University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday, 30 November 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Thomas Marois (Lecturer at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Friday, 4 December 2009, 09:30am-6:00 pm, D602-D402, Clement House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with Global Political Trends Centre)
Monday, 7 December 2009, 6:30-8:00 pm, Sheik Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference
Mr. Mehmet Ali Talat (Turkish Cypriot Leader)
Chair: Professor Sevket Pamuk
2008-09 Academic Year
Tuesday 19 May 2009,10:30 am – 12.30 pm, The Maelbeek Room, IPC – Residence
Palace,155, Rue de la Loi, Brussels
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with TR PLUS - Centre For Turkey in Europe)
Speakers: Sevket Pamuk (Professor of Ecoomics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE), Binnaz Toprak (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)
Wednesday 6 May 2009, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference
Egemen Bağış (Turkey's Minister of State and Chief Negotiator for EU)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Friday 1 May 2009, 9:30 am – 5:45 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies
2nd Annual Doctoral Dissertation Conference
Friday 17 April 2009, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm, Rectorate Hall,Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with Centre for European Studies, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Saturday 4 April 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Levine Institute, New York City, USA
Organized by: Turkish American Society and LSE Alumni Club of New York
Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE)
Thursday, 11 March 2009, 5:30-7:30, Brunei Suite, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with SOAS)
François Georgeon (Professor, CNRS, Paris)
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Fortna
Thursday 12 March 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden
Organized by:The Swedish Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE)
Monday 9 March 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Mehmet Öğütçü (Senior Corporate Staff, British Gas Group)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 2 March 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Ahmet İçduygu (Professor, Koc University, Istanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Friday 27 February 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars (jointly with SOAS)
Erik-Jan Zürcher (Professor, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam)
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Fortna
Monday 9 February 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Yılmaz Esmer (Professor, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 19 January 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Yael Navaro-Yashin (Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 20 October 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Katerina Dalacoura (Lecturer, Department of International Relations, LSE)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Tuesday 21 October 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, NAB206, New Academic Building, LSE
Organized by: Anglo-Turkish Society
Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE)
Monday 3 November 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Benjamin Fortna (Lecturer, SOAS)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 10 November 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Oktay Yenal (formerly of the World Bank and Boğaziçi University, İstanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 17 November 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Şahin Alpay (Senior Lecturer, Bahcesehir University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Thursday 20 November 2008, 12:30 - 2:30 pm, Dublin, Ireland
Organized by: Institute for International and European Affairs
Şevket Pamuk (Professor of Economics and Economic History, European Institute, LSE)
Friday 28 November 2008, NAB204, New Academic Building
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with Global Political Trends Centre)
Monday 8 December 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, NAB104, New Academic Building
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies / Modern Turkish Studies SOAS
Caglar Keyder (Professor, Binghamton University and Bogazici University)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
2007-08 Academic Year
Monday 14 January 2008, 6:00 - 8:00p m, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Dr. Kirsty Hughes (Visiting Fellow, European Institute, LSE)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 11 February 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Philip Robins (Lecturer, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 18 February 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Thomas Diez (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Wednesday 20 February 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Vera Anstey Room, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Richard Rose (Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen
Chair: Professor Sevket Pamuk
Monday 25 February 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Nathalie Tocci (Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 3 March 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Ann Dismorr (The Swedish Ambassador in Turkey from 2001–5)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk
Monday 19 May 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars
Mine Eder (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul)
Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk