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Inflation and Institutions: Türkiye, the United States, and the Politics of Price Stability

Thursday 5 June, 6.00 to 7.30pm GMT 

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.

Venue: In-person public event (MAR.2.10, Marshall Building, LSE) 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies

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More than a Bundle Story: An Interview with Emel Sevinç

Saturday 7 June 2025, 3.00pm to 3.30pm GMT

More than a Bundle Story: An Interview with Emel Sevinç

 

Speaker: Emel Sevinç, a London-based writer, project curator, and practitioner.

Venue: In-person public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE) 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS)

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Youth in the Digital Age: Global Trends with a Focus on Türkiye

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

Venue: In-person public event (Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE) 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies

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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. 

Venue: In-person public event (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE) 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute

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Shifting Dynamics in the Middle East: Türkiye’s Repositioning in the Region

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

Venue: In-person public event (Thai Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE) 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)

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Global middle powers and the changing world order | LSE Festival

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.

Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics

Venue: Online and in-person (WolfsonTheatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE)

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The Hidden Risks of Industrial Policy: When More Isn't Always Better

Friday 07 June 2024, 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm

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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The Civil War in Syria: Prospects for Peace and the Role of External Actors 

Thursday 07 March 2024, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

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. 

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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NATO Enlargement and Türkiye’s Partnership with the West 

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

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.

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the LSE IDEAS

Venue: Online Public Event

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Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy: A Centennial Reflection

Friday 17 November 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

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.

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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With or without the IMF? The ups and downs of the Turkish political economy since 2000

Wednesday 4 October 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm 

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.

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute

Venue: Zoom Webinar

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After the Earthquakes: Turkish Elections, Politics and Foreign Policy in 2023

Thursday 8 June 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

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. 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and LSE IDEAS

Venue: Online and in-person (MAR1.08, The Marshall Building, LSE)

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Turkey’s Economic Problems and Solutions: A small open economy approach

Friday 02 June 2023, 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm 

Speaker: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park.  

Hosted by the European Institute, Systemic Risk Centre and Contemporary Turkish Studies 

Venue: Online

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Celebrating Women in Science and Technology

Thursday 09 March 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT

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.

Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.

Venue: Online and in-Person (Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE)

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100 years of the Republic of Türkiye: Changing Ideas of Modernity

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT

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

Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute

Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE)

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Cities in the Aftermath of the Earthquakes: Experiences, Needs and Possible Futures in Turkey 

Wednesday 08 March 2023 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm (GMT)

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. 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute

Venue: Zoom Webinar

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Turkey and the West: Mutually Suspicious Perceptions in Film and Television

Tuesday 07 March 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT

Speaker: Murat Akser is Lecturer in Screen Production in the School of Communication and Media, Ulster University. 

Venue: Online and in-Person (MAR.2.08, The Marshall Building, LSE)

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Archaeology and Soft Power: Cultural Diplomacy between Türkiye and the UK

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 6:00pm to 7:30pm 

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. 

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.

Venue: Online and In-Person

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70 Years in NATO: Turkey's partnership with the western alliance since 1952

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.

Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.

Venue: Online

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UK-Turkey Trade Partnership Post-Brexit: Limits and Prospects

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.

Hosted by the LSE European Institute and LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies.

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