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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Talk: Electoral Integrity in Turkey
Speaker: Prof. Emre Toros, Hacettepe University
Date & Time: Monday, 30 October 2023, 12.30 p.m.
Place: A-130
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Talk: Commons Management in Migrant Communities
Speaker: Godfreyb Ssekajja, Indiana University Bloomington
Date & Time: Monday, 17 January 2022, 17.30 p.m.
Place: Online