The PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group cordially invites you to its online forum, where we will analyze the recent local electoral outcomes in Turkey.
The event will take place on April 16, 16:00-17:00 British Summer Time on Zoom.
We will be hosting Professor Seda Demiralp from Işık University and Dr Aykut Öztürk from the University of Glasgow, who will share their insights on the notable victories secured by the main opposition party in key cities such as Istanbul and Ankara, indicating a setback for the ruling AKP government. The presentations will be followed by a Q and A session.
Please find the joining link below.
Topic: Turkish Politics Specialist Group Local Election Forum Time: Apr 16, 2024 04:00 PM London
PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group cordially invites you to a virtual book launch event featuring Dr Zeki Sarigil as he introduces his latest work, “How Informal Institutions Matter: Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres.”
Date: March 12, 2024 Time: 13:30 (GMT) Platform: Zoom
The book will be examined by Dr. Digdem Soyaltin Colella from the University of Aberdeen and Şebnem Yardimci-Geyikçi from Universität Bonn. Following the presentation, there will be insightful feedback from the discussants and an engaging Q&A session.
The book is open access and can be read through this link.
Registration can be made through Eventbrite. We look forward to your participation in this enriching discussion.
We are happy to announce the call for submissions for the Summer 2024 Research Colloquium organized by the Turkish Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA). This colloquium aims to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career, and senior academics who study various aspects of Turkish politics.
The colloquium will be conducted virtually in early June 2024 in accordance with Turkish time. It will offer scholars an opportunity to receive feedback on their works in progress and develop their knowledge of different theoretical and methodological approaches to studying Turkish politics.
The colloquium is structured to accommodate four paper presentations. During the initial 20 minutes of the session, each speaker will deliver their working paper. Subsequently, a minimum of one discussant will provide their insights on the draft paper for 20 minutes. To conclude, the final 20 minutes will be dedicated to an extensive Q&A session with the virtual audience.
All participants are required to thoroughly review all papers before the event and be ready to offer constructive feedback in a supportive environment on the respective works. To facilitate this, we kindly request that speakers submit their draft papers at least two weeks ahead of the colloquium. This will grant ample time for both the discussants and the audience to critically assess the drafts.
Applicants should send the abstracts of their draft papers to turkishpoliticspsa@gmail.com (Subject: ResColloq Summer 2024) by March 15th, 2024.
We will notify the successful applicants by March 31st, 2024. We will prepare the line-up once the successful applicants are determined.
We very much look forward to receiving your applications!
Colloquium Organizers
Dr. Buğra Güngör (American University of Central Asia)
Prof. Özlem Kayhan Pusane (Isik University)
Dr. Seçkin Sertdemir-Ozdemir (University of Turku)
The PSA Greek Politics and Turkish Politics Specialist Groups are inviting you to a virtual roundtable to discuss the domestic and international dynamics of the post-electoral context in Turkey and Greece on 20 November 2023 from 16:30 – 17:30 GMT.
The event will host:
Professor Myrto Tsakatika (University of Glasgow)
Dr Özlem Kayhan Pusane (Işık University)
Dr Leonidas Karakatsanis (University of Macedonia)
Dr Buğra Güngör (American University of Central Asia)
The discussion will be moderated by Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos and Dr Begum Zorlu (City, University of London).
Professor Myrto Tsakatika’s research mainly centers on European Union politics and public policy, with a particular emphasis on exploring the concept of the ‘democratic deficit,’ and shifts in public Euroscepticism. She is also conducting a comparative study of radical left parties, with a special focus on Southern European countries.
Dr Özlem Kayhan Pusane’s broader research and teaching interests lie in the areas of security studies, civil-military relations, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism. Özlem Kayhan Pusane is also the International Relations officer of the PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group.
DrLeonidas Karakatsanis’s research interests include the politics of identity and reconciliation, peace and conflict transformation, nationalism, minority rights, immigration, civil society and the politics of resistance. His theoretical interests include discourse theory, theory of deconstruction, theories of affect, post-structuralist political theory and interdisciplinary approaches to social and political sciences. The area of his research is Turkey and its neighbours in the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean.
Dr Buğra Güngör’s research interests include conflict processes, soft power, public diplomacy, foreign policy analysis, and Turkish foreign policy. He has extensive experience with managing development and humanitarian projects commissioned by various UN agencies, IOs, and INGOs in Switzerland and Turkey. He is also the co-convenor and chair of the PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the upcoming “PSA Turkish Politics Virtual Book Launch with Élise Massicard” event, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been canceled.
The event has been rescheduled to take place on Wednesday, 10th January 2024. Please find the updated event details below, adjusted for various time zones:
UK: Wednesday, 10th January 2024, at 5:00 PM (17:00)
France: Wednesday, 10th January 2024, at 6:00 PM (18:00)
Turkey: Wednesday, 10th January 2024, at 8:00 PM (20:00)
For those who have already registered for the event, the registration will automatically carry over to the rescheduled date. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to your participation on the new date.
PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group is inviting you to its virtual book launch event in which Dr Élise Massicard will present her new book Street-Level Governing Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey, published by Stanford University Press.
The event will take place on Zoom on Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 10:00 (PDT/PST) / 18:00 (BST/CET) / 20:00 (Turkish Time).
The book will be discussed by Professor Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) and Professor Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington).
The presentations will be followed by feedback from discussants and a Q&A session.
Elise Massicard is Research Professor at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique / Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po. Her research focuses on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She studies relationships between space and politics, which she inquires through parties, social movements, the sociology of institutions, state-society relations, and everyday politics.
Massicard is a founding member and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies. She is also a member of the Editorial board of the journals Critique Internationale, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, and Diyar. Zeitschrift für Osmanistik Türkei- und Nahostforschung (Germany). Elise Massicard is a founding member of the Consortium of European Symposia on Turkey. Since 2017, she is vice chair of the Scientific Interest Group “Middle East and Muslim World”, (GIS MOMM), and she chairs its priority project on structuring French research on Turkish worlds. She is the author of The Alevis in Turkey and Europe: Identity and Managing Territorial Diversity (Routledge, 2012) and of Street-level Governing. Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey, (Stanford University Press, 2022). She coedited with Nicole Watts Negotiating political power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013). She coedited with Marc Aymes and Benjamin Gourisse Order and Compromise. Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Brill, 2015). She co-edited with Alain Dieckhoff and Christophe Jaffrelot Contemporary Populists in Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
We are happy to announce the call for submissions for the 2023-2024 Research Colloquia organized by the Turkish Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA). These colloquia aim to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career, and senior academics who study various aspects of Turkish politics.
Photo: Begum Zorlu
The colloquia will be conducted virtually, featuring monthly talks from November 2023 to January 2024 in accordance with Turkish time. It will offer scholars an opportunity to receive feedback on their works-in-progress and develop their knowledge of different theoretical and methodological approaches to studying Turkish politics.
Each colloquium is structured to accommodate two paper presentations. During the initial 20 minutes of the session, each speaker will deliver their working paper. Subsequently, a minimum of one discussant will provide their insights on the draft paper for 20 minutes. To conclude, the final 20 minutes will be dedicated to an extensive Q&A session with the virtual audience.
All participants are required to thoroughly review all papers before the event and be ready to offer constructive feedback in a supportive environment on the respective works. To facilitate this, we kindly request that speakers submit their draft papers at least 10 days ahead of the colloquium. This will grant ample time for both the discussants and the audience to critically assess the drafts.
Applicants should send the abstracts of their draft papers to turkishpoliticspsa@gmail.com (Subject: ResColloq 2023-2024) by September 10th, 2023.
We will notify the first round of successful applicants by September 17th, 2023. We will prepare the line-up once the successful applicants are determined.
We very much look forward to receiving your applications!
Colloquia Organizers Dr. Buğra Güngör (Geneva Graduate Institute) Prof. Özlem Kayhan Pusane (Isik University) Dr. Seçkin Sertdemir-Ozdemir (University of Turku) Dr. Begüm Zorlu (City, University of London)
In commemoration of the Republic of Turkey’s 100th anniversary, a thought-provoking one-day workshop is set to revisit Turkish secularism in a long durée perspective. This event will trace the evolution of state-religion dynamics in Turkey, beginning with the constitutional inception of secularism and extending to the contemporary discourse surrounding desecularization, particularly during the Justice and Development Party’s governance.
The PSA’s Annual Conference 2024 will be convened by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and held from 25-27 March 2024. It plans to be held only in person. Therefore, we welcome papers and panels which will be presented on-site.
Full conference details can be consulted on the link.
Once again, this year the Turkish Politics Specialist Group will be organizing four panels for the conference. While the theme for the conference is ‘After (Neo-) Liberalism: Towards An Alternative Paradigm’, we are glad to receive quality abstracts on any aspects of Turkish politics, broadly defined.
If you would like to be considered for inclusion in one of these panels, please email us a 200-word abstract by September 5, 2023, to the email address turkishpoliticspsa@gmail.com.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or queries.
PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group hosted a virtual book launch event in which Dr Spyros Sofos presented his book Turkish Politics and ‘The People’ Mass Mobilisation and Populism, published by Edinburgh University Press. The recording of the book launch is available on Youtube.
The book was discussed by Dr Evren Balta (Özyeğin University) and Dr Toygar Sinan Baykan (Kirklareli University). Sofos’s presentation was followed by feedback from discussants and a Q&A session.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Spyros Sofos is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. He has previously worked as a Research Officer at the LSE Middle East Centre on the Kuwait programme Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion: An Intersectional Analysis of Urban Citizenship in Kuwait City project. Prior to joining the LSE, he worked as Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University; Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University; Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and held visiting positions at Siena, Tartu and Istanbul Bilgi Universities.
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