School of Health and Social
Studies
Centre for Research
In Ethnic Relations
STATE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN CHANGING TURKEY
International Workshop
20th June 2011
Institute of Advanced Study
Milburn House Seminar Room
Programme
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Opening
10:15 – 12:45
Morning Session:
“POLITICAL
DILEMMAS:
MAIN
ISSUES AND NEW
TENDANCIES”
10:15 – 11:30 Session 1:
Chair: Danièle Joly (director of CRER)
Discussant:
Ekrem
Eddy
Güzeldere
(European Stability Initiative, Istanbul)
Ömer Arslan (Bilkent University, Turkey), Turkish Military’s Organizational Culture and
Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: Headed Towards a Liberal Model?
Tim Jacoby (University of Manchester, UK), Kurdish Political Representation and
Constitutional Reform
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Charlotte Joppien (University of Hamburg, Germany), Context Matters: AKP’s Municipal
Politics
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee/Tea Break
11:45 – 12:45 Session 1 :
Chair : Gülçin Lelandais (CRER)
Discussant: Nicola Pratt (PAIS, University of
Warwick)
Alper Kaliber(Yasar University-Turkey), The Reorganization of Geopolitics: Understanding
the New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy
Mark Meirowitz(SUNY College, USA), Where is Turkey Headed ? The Current State of USTurkish Relations and prospects for the Future.
12:45 – 13:15 Discussion/Questions
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 16:45 Afternoon Session:
“TURKISH SOCIETY: NEW TRENDS,
DYNAMICS AND
CLAIMS”
14:15 – 15:30 Session 3:
Chair: Sevinç Bermek (CRER)
Discussant: Deniz Günce
(CADIS-EHESS, France)
Demirhisar
Gülçin Erdi Lelandais (University of Warwick, UK), Urban Transformations,
Environmental Planning and Social Resistances: the case of Sulukule and Hasankeyf
Deniz Kosulu (Institute of Political Studies Aix en Provence-CHERPA, France), Shia
Claims in Contemporary Turkey
Clémence Scalbert-Yücel (University of Exeter, UK), Kurdish Language at large: What has
changed?
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15:30 – 15:45 Coffee/Tea Break
15:45 – 16:45 Session 4:
Chair: Khursheed Wadia (CRER)
Discussant: Owen Parker (PAIS)
Sebastiano Sali (King’s College, UK), Too Many Identities for Only One Citizenship.
Towards an Epochal Change in Turkey?
Östen Wahlbeck (University of Helsinki, Finland), Transnational Social Capital and SelfEmployement among Turkish Immigrants in Finland
16:45 – 17:15 Discussion/Questions
17:15 – 17:30 Concluding remarks
17:45 End of workshop
18:00 Cocktail
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