Rethinking Türkiye's Place in Europe
Speakers
The European Institute and Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE are going to Istanbul for a special event in partnership with Koç University, bringing together European Institute alumni, friends and students for an afternoon of discussion and networking.
The panel brings together academics from the LSE European Institute and the Department of International Relations at Koç University to examine Türkiye’s evolving place within European identity, economy and foreign affairs since the nineteenth century. Drawing on perspectives from philosophy, history and politics, the discussion will explore how changing ideas of Europe and broader political dynamics have shaped debates about Türkiye’s role on the continent, both past and present.
Programme
- 16.30- 17.00 Welcome and Registration
- 17.00- 18.30 Rethinking Türkiye's Place in Europe: Panel discussion and audience Q&A
Attendees are warmly invited to attend the event reception, which will follow the event.
Meet our speakers and chair
Welcome Address:
Şuhnaz Yılmaz (Özbağcı) is the Dean of College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and the former Director of Graduate School of Business at Koç University, Istanbul. She is a Professor of International Relations. She also held visiting faculty positions at UCLA, Stanford University, and Princeton University. Her areas of expertise include international relations, international strategy, foreign policy analysis, diplomatic history, energy politics, business-government relations, and sustainability.
Panellists:
Simon Glendinning is Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy at LSE. His recent work focuses on the history of European cultural identity and the Euronormativity of Europe’s modern self-understanding. He is the author of several books, including a two-volume text on European cultural identity, Europe: A Philosophical History –Beyond Modernity.
Ziya Öniş is Professor of International Political Economy at Koç University. His recent research focuses on a variety of themes in global political economy and rising powers, including the dynamics of the emerging post-liberal international (dis)order, varieties of populism in a comparative and global context, and domestic politics-foreign policy linkages in rising powers.
Şevket Pamuk is retired professor of Economics and Economic History at Boğaziçi University. In 2007-2013, he was Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, LSE. His research areas include economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Türkiye and Europe during early modern and modern eras, as well as money, wages, trade, state finances, institutions and institutional change.
Bahar Rumelili is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of International Relations, Koç University. Her research to date has focused on international relations theory, contributing to constructivist theories of identity and ontological security theory, processes of European identity construction, conflict resolution, and the interaction between the EU and Turkish politics and civil society.
Chair:
Yaprak Gürsoy is Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
More about this event
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