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Talk: Predispositions, Trigger Points, and Refugee Antipathy

Speaker: Dr. Yasushi Hazama, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization

Date & Time: 12 December 2024, 12:30 p.m.

A-130

Talk: Statism in Early Republican Turkey: An International Perspective

Speaker: Asst. Prof. Samuel J. Hirst, Department of International Relations Bilkent University

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 15:30 p.m.
A-130

Talk: Cultural Diplomacy Despite the State: Mobility and Agency of State and Amateur Musicians in Turkish Classical Music Choirs

Speaker: Dr. Audrey M. Wozniak, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology
Harvard University & Visiting Researcher Orient-Institut Istanbul

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
H232

Talk: The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the Most Influential Accounts Engaged in Hamas/Israel Discourse

Speaker: Dr. Mert Bayar, Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: A History of Threats: Investigating the Construction of Security Threats in National Strategy Documents

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Neal, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

Date & Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 4.00 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: An Experimental Study of Public Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Türkiye

Speakers: Dr. Burcu Özdemir-Sarıgil, Global Citizenship Program, TED University; Assoc. Prof. Zeki Sarıgil, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University

Date & Time: Monday, March 25, 2024, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: A Paradox of Ethnic Politics? Minority Language Recognition and Political Trust

Speakers: Dr. Sevinç Öztürk, Department of Management & Organization, Bitlis Eren University; Dr. Aykut Öztürk, School of Social & Political Sciences, The University of Glasgow

Date & Time: Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Autocratization and the Welfare State

Speaker: Dr. Kerem Gabriel Öktem, Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), Bremen University

Date & Time: Monday, February 26, 2024, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Limits of the Humanitarian: Liminal Legality, Social Exclusion, and Segregation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Speaker: Dr. Burak Sönmez, Social Research Institute, University College London

Date & Time: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 11.00 a.m.
Place: A-326

Talk: The General Theory of Politics

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. James Alexander, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University

Date & Time: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Democratic Attitudes?

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Zeki Sarigil, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Nostalgia, Memory, and the 2023 Turkish Centennial

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Young, Lecturer at the Ohio State University in Columbus

Date & Time: Thursday, November 9, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Electoral Integrity in Turkey

Speaker: Prof. Emre Toros, Hacettepe University

Date & Time: Monday, 30 October 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilisation and Nation

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics and Political Science

Date & Time: Thursday, 5 October 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek

Speaker: Prof. Alev Çınar, Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University

Date & Time: Thursday, 14 March 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130 & Zoom

Talk: Locked in Place: Financilized Growth, Central Bank Credibility, and Authoritarianism in Turkey

Speaker: Dr. Ayça Zayim, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College

Date & Time: Thursday, 2 March 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130 & Zoom

Talk: Street-level governing: Researching politics from below in Turkey

Speaker: Dr. Elise Massicard, Senior Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research

Date & Time: Thursday, 28 February 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130 & Zoom

Talk: An Experimental Analysis of Crisis Narratives: Religious, Political and Scientific Narratives and Frames

Speakers:
Assoc. Prof. Zeki Sarigil, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University

Asst. Prof. Ayşenur Dal, Department of Communication and Design, Bilkent University

Date & Time: Thursday, 23 February 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130 & Zoom

Talk: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Turkish Centennial

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Young, Ohio State University

Date & Time: Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Turkish Capitalism Revisited: Between Neoliberalism, Cronyism and Statism

Speaker: Dr. Ali Burak Güven, Birkbeck, University of London

Date & Time: Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Anatolian Rock, ’60s Politics, and Youth Counterculture

Speaker: Kenan Behzat Sharpe, Ph.D. in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Gendered Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women’s Journals and Magazines in Turkey

Speaker: Dr. Petek Onur, University of Copenhagen

Date & Time: Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130

Talk: Why is the Middle East and North Africa so Patriarchal?

Speaker: Dr. Alice Evans, King’s College London

Date & Time: Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: H-232

Talk: NATO and Democracy in Turkey: A View from the U.S. Archives

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Danforth

Date & Time: Thursday, 31 March 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: Online

Talk: The Production of Space in Hong Kong and Taipei: Socio-Spatial Struggles over Global City Formation

Speaker: Dr. Sırma Altun, Ankara University

Date & Time: Monday, 14 February 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: Online

Talk: Fractals of Governance: The Management of Systemic Risk at the Limits of Advanced Liberalism, 1913–2008

Speaker: Onur Özgöde, Harvard University

Date & Time: Thursday, 27 January 2022, 17.30 p.m.
Place: Online

Talk: Long-Term Consequences of Public Policy Reforms: The Track-Record of the 1990s’ Decentralisation in Six African Countries

Speaker: Dr. Jan Erk

Date & Time: Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: Online

Talk: Party Networks and Hierarchical Local Governance in Emerging Democracies: A Case Study of Tunisia

Speaker: Salih Yasun, Indiana University Bloomington

Date & Time: Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 12.30 p.m.
Place: Online

Talk: Commons Management in Migrant Communities

Speaker: Godfreyb Ssekajja, Indiana University Bloomington

Date & Time: Monday, 17 January 2022, 17.30 p.m.
Place: Online