Past Events | 2014

Virtual Book Launch - Sovereignty Suspended, Building the So-Called State by Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay

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.

“Blackness” as a Universal Claim, Holocaust Heritage, European Enlightenment, and Noncitizen Futures

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.

Black-Blanc-Berber: The Politics of 'Race' in Colonial Morocco and BeyondTuesday,

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).

A Frayed Fabric: The Unmaking and Remaking of Harput’s Cultural Landscapes

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.

Varieties of patriarchy in the global South: the case of Turkey

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.

The LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies' lecture series for the 2017-18 academic year is themed "Society, Culture and Economics."

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: "The Political Economy of Turkey’s Kurdish Question: De-development in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia"

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).

Time: 6-8pmVenue: COW.1.11

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Esra Özyürek, the LSE Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies

Wednesday, 18 April 2018: Rethinking Women’s Agency in Early Republican Turkey: the Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the 1930s

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

"Institutional Quality and Implications for Growth and Equity: Lessons for Turkey"

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

"Is Eurasia Rising? The View from Turkey"

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)

Connected Pasts and Futures: Jews and Muslims of EuropeInvite-only workshop convened by Esra Özyürek, European Institute and Marc David Baer,International History The London School of Economics and Political Science,8-9 June 20178 June

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 -

‘Reflections on Tolerance in the History of the Middle East and Mediterranean’9 June

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’

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

The Sultan is Back: The Politics of Sacred Places and Remaking Muslim Lives in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

State and community communication networks in Turkey

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Politics of Culture in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus: Performing the Left since the Sixties

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Constitutional Referendum in Turkey: Now What?

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Thinking through the Kurdish Issue: Reflections on Sovereigns and Citizens in Turkey

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Encrypted Arabic: Language and Subjectivity at the Turkish / Syrian Interface

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

Lecture as part of the series "Anthropology of Turkey and Beyond"

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Building Witnesses: Turkey’s Architecture of "Confronting the Past” in the Case of Sivas '93

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

Lecture title: Remaking the Middle East through Violence and Magic: The Examples of ISIS and YPG

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

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Workshop: "Formation of Istanbul’s City Region"Time: 14:00 - 17:00

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

Public Lecture: 'Dimensions of the Turkish Crisis'

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

Public Conference: "Interrogating the Post-Ottoman"

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

Public Seminar: 'Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq'

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

Workshop: "The AKP and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

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

Public Lecture: 'The State in Training: Human Rights Translations and Encounters with Europe in Turkey'

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

Public Lecture: 'A Turbulent Period in Turkey'

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: "Citizenship, Identity, and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Rise of Muslim Consciousness"

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

Monday, 15 June 2015

Public Conference: “World Society and Turkey”

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

Public Conference: " Encountering the Past in Turkey"

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

Public Conference: "Social Change in Turkey since the Year 2000"

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

Workshop: "The State of Democracy in Turkey: Institutions, Society and Foreign Relations"

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

Public Panel: "The State of Democracy in Turkey: Institutions, Society and Foreign Relations"

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

Public Seminar: "Haunted Heritage: Ruination and Commodification of Stone Houses in Mardin"

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

Monday, 9 March 2015

Book Launch and Public Panel: "The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging"

Time: 18:30 - 20:00 Venue: CLM 3.02, Clement House, LSE

Speakers: Professor Gökçe Yurdakul and Associate Professor Anna C. Korteweg

Gökçe Yurdakul is Georg Simmer Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt University, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences. Anna C. Korteweg is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.Discussants: Dr. Ruth Mandel and Asmaa Soliman Ruth Mandel is Reader in Social Anthropology at University College London (UCL).Asmaa Soliman is PhD Candidate in School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London (UCL).

Chair: Associate Professor Esra Özyürek, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Public Seminar: "Regime of Denial and Forensic Epistemologies in Cases of Torture in Post-1980 Turkey"

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

Public Lecture: “What the Future Holds for the Cyprus Talks”

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

Public Lecture: "State Violence and the Ethics of Minority Question in Turkey"

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

Book Launch and Public Panel: "Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe"

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.

Organized jointly with LSE European Institute

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Public Seminar: "Creative Aspirations and Mediated Desires: Understanding Women's Exercise Craze in Istanbul"

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies and LSE European Institute Inaugural Lecture: "The Limits of Transformation from Above: Turkey since 1914"

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

Symposium: "Contemporary Turkey at a Glance II: Turkey Transformed? Power, History, Culture"

Time: 9:30 - 18:00 Venue: İstanbul Bilgi University, Santral Campus

Monday, 28 April 2014, 4:00-8:00 pm, CLM3.02, Clement House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Half-Day Public Conference

"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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

“Persistence of Three Kemalisms in the Post-Tutelage Turkey: Secular Nationalist, Cultural and Left-Populist”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish One-Day Public Conference

“Religious Diversity and Tolerance in Europe and Turkey”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Turkish Foreign Policy and the Balkans: Implications for Transatlantic Security"

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Conference and Documentary Screening

“Dynamics of Kurdish Question and the ‘Peace Process’ in Turkey”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture

“Limits, Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Turkish Foreign Policy: A Political Economy Perspective”

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)

"Reviving Famagusta; From Ghost Town to Eco-city?”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture

“The Slow Death of Turkish Media”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Conference

“Rising Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in Turkey’s Economy: Assessment of the Last Decade and New Prospects”

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

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture

“Turkey and the West: Bargaining for Realignment”

Professor Hilton L. Root (George Mason University and King’s College London (KCL)

Chair: Dr. Bill Kissane(Department of Government, LSE)

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