Past Events

 

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.

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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.

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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 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. 

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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

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 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)

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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)

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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)

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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   

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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)”

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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)

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 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

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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)

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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)

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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)

Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Nation-Building and Urbanization in Turkey, 1935-1965"

Speaker: Associate Professor Elliott Green (Department of International Development, LSE)

Chair: Dr. Rebecca Bryant(A.N. Hadjiyannis Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE)

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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))

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

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)

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Thursday, 30 May 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,New Academic Building, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture

"Turkey’s Economy during the Last Decade: What has Changed and What has not?"

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) 

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Monday, 21 January 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11,  Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Alevi Question in Turkey and the Justice and Development Party: Limits of Tolerance"

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)

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Monday, 28 Janaury 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11,  Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Politics of the Intimate: Gender Equality Policies at the Intersection of Neo-conservatism and Neo-liberalism in Turkey"

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)

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Monday, 11 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11,  Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Kurdish Problem as a Problem of Turkish Identity: What do the Turks Want?"

Speaker: Professor Ahmet İnsel(Department of Economics, Galatasaray University)

Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk(Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, LSE)

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Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, CON.2.05, Connaught House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"New Roads for the Central Banks: Unconventional Monetary Policies and Monetary Policy Experimentation in Turkey"  

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)

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Monday, 25 February 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm, COW1.11,  Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars

"Sex-Segregation in Academic Careers: Revisiting the Turkish Puzzle"   

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)

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Friday, 1 March 2013, 1:30-4:45 pm

 "Turkey and the Middle East: A Changing Relationship"

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)

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 Thursday, 7 March 2013, 4:45-6:15 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Featured Public Conference"Transformation in World Politics: The Challenges for Global and Regional Order"   

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) 

Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Public Lecture

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

"Cyprus Talks: Exhausted? Time for Change"

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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

"Turkey and the Arab Spring"

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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)"Cyprus - Tired of Talking? Civil Society to Bring Life to a Stagnant Process"

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)

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Wednesday, 6 June 2012, 6:00- 8:00pm, COW1.11, Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House, LSE

The Award Ceremony for the Doctoral Thesis Competition (organized 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).

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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

"Turkey and the new Arab Awakening"

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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

"Turkishness and its 'Others''

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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

"Gender and Society in Turkey: The Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Political Islam and EU Accession"

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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

"The Rise and Decline of Population Politics in Turkey"

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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

"Turkey and the European Court of Human Rights: Why We Need Human Rights Courts and Why do They Fail?"

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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

"Turkey's Agricultural Transformation: Is a Reversal in the Making?"

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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)

"European Questions-Turkish Angles: Europe's Unemployment"

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

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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

"Creating a Common Future Together: Towards a Visionary Europe"

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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)

"Anthropology, History and Linguistics: Ataturk and the New Turkish Nationalism, 1922-1938"

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

"Can Turkey Be a Model for the Arab World?"

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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)

"European Questions-Turkish Angles: Europe's Banking System"

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)

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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)

"Turkey's Experience with Neoliberal Policies since 1980"

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)

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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)

"Turkey's Experience with Neoliberal Policies since 1980"

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)

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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)

"European Questions-Turkish Angles: Europe's Nation States"

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)

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Thursday, 17 November 2011, 7:00-9:00 pm, Room U8, Tower1, Portugal Street, LSE

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference

"Turkey's New Constitution"

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)

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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

"Economic Liberalisation, Class Dynamics and New Business Groups in Turkey"

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

'The Alevi-Bektashi Problem Revisited' 

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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

'Kurdish Political Representation, Constitutional Reform and the Military in Turkey'

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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)

“Urban Classes and Politics in the Neoliberal Era: Turkey in Comparison”

Sponsored by: Turkish Economy Bank (TEB)

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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)

“European Questions-Turkish Angles: Europe’s History”

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)

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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)

“European Questions-Turkish Angles: Citizenship in Europe”

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)

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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

'Layers of Gendered Silencing: Converted Armenian Survivors of 1915'

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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

'The EU and Turkey, Challenges and Opportunities in the Economic and Financial Fields''

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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

'Turkey's Boom and Bust Cycles amidst the Global Crisis'

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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

'The EU, Turkey and Cyprus: Time for a New Approach?'

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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

'Islam and Democracy in Turkey'

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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

'The Politics of Naming: First Name Selection in Turkey'

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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

'Laicism in Turkey: From Empire to Republic'

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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

'Global Crisis and the Turkish Economy'

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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

'Environmentalism in Turkey: Revisiting the State Theory'

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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

'Secularism Contested: Debate and Dissent in Turkey'

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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

'Democracy in Paradox: How to Make Sense of Recent Political Changes in Turkey'

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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

"Can One Speak of Turkish Exceptionalism?"

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) 'Turkey-EU Relations'

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) 'Turkey-EU Relations at a Critical Juncture'

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 'Energy and Geopolitics: How should Turkey Position Itself'

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 'The Demography of Turkey's Kurds: Implications for an Ethnic Conflict'

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 'Atatürk's Young Turk Years (1906 - 1919)'

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 'European Cultural Diversity and Turkey: An Outlier or a Complement?'

Monday 26 January 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Seminars Kerem Öktem (Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, University of Oxford) (CANCELLED) Chair: Professor Şevket Pamuk 'Political Islam and Heterodoxy: The AKP, the Alevis and the Limits of Tolerance'

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 'The Materiality of Sovereignty: the Re-Mapping of Place Names in Northern Cyprus'

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) 'Debating Turkey in Europe:Economic Prospects and Cultural Challenges'

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 'Turkey's EU Accession Process'

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) 'The Meaning of Europe and Challenges of the Economic Crisis'   Friday 1 May 2009, 9:30 am – 5:45 pm, J116, Cowdray House, LSE LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies 2nd Annual Doctoral Dissertation Conference 2nd Doctoral Dissertation Conference Programme

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) 'Turkey's Economy and the Global Economic Crisis'  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 'Civil Society and Turkish Armenian Relations Since 2000    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 'Lost Time in Turkey-EU Relationship'    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 'Turkish Foreign Policy Between Two Security Communities and the Realpolitik of Energy'  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 'Fear and Loathing in the Turkish National Imagination'  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 'The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy and Turkish Music'   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 'Turkey and World Financial Crisis: Why Haven't the Banks Collapsed?'   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) 'Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy'   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 'Cyprus: The Settlement Process'

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 'Time, State and Society in the late Ottoman Empire and Kemalist Turkey

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

'The Ideological Evolution of the AKP: the Impact of Political Inclusion and the  Experience of Government'

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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)

'History of Money, Inflation and  Finance in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey'

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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

'Reading and Commodification in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic'

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 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

'Turkish Economy Facing Another Crisis'

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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

'Two Faces of Democracy in Turkey'

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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)

'Turkey-EU Relations'

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Friday 28 November 2008, NAB204, New Academic Building

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies One Day Conference (jointly with Global Political Trends Centre)

'State, Society and Democracy in Turkey in the Era of Globalisation since 1980'

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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

'Capital City Resurgent: Istanbul since the 1980s'

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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

"Turkey-EU Relations in the Doldrums?"

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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

"Straddling Regional Sub-Systems: Turkey and its Kind"

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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

"On the Ethical Implications of EU – Turkey Relations"

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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

"Applying EU Criteria of Democratic Governance to Turkey: A bottom up Approach"

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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

"Conditionality, Impact and Prejudice in EU-Turkey Relations"

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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

"Turkey's Bumpy Road towards the European Union"

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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

"Political Economy of the Rise of AKP: Democrats or Islamic populists?"

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