News and Updates
Populism and Protests: Mobilization and Counter-mobilization in Turkey
Selin Bengi Gümrükçü attended the Southern Political Science Association’s 91st Annual Conference in January 2020, where she presented her talk, “Populism and Protests: Mobilization and Counter-mobilization in Turkey”.
Consortium Scholar Receives Artinian Travel Award
Selin Bengi Gümrükçü received the Artinian Travel Award, from the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), to attend their Annual Meeting, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Artinian Award is a travel grant available for program participants who are full-time but untenured faculty… Continue reading→
Reading Rorty in Tehran
Kian Tajbakhsh, Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, gave a presentation titled, “Reading Rorty in Tehran. Or what happened when I road-tested Rorty’s philosophy of life inside an Iranian Prison,”… Continue reading→
Breaking The Border: The Experience of Kurds in the Middle East
As part of our Scholar Lecture series, Savaş Ergül presented a lecture entitled “Breaking the Border: Experiences of Kurds in the Middle East” at Trinity College on November 19, 2019. A review of this lecture can be found here. Continue reading→
Experiences of students in Erasmus exchange: Return to Collective Research
On November 8, 2019, The University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne held a conference entitled “Regions, Frontieres, Migrations: Les Mobilites Etudiantes En Question” [“Regions, Borders, Migration: Student Mobility in Question”]. Cem Özatalay and his colleagues presented their talk, entitled “Expériences… Continue reading→
Global Displacement and Mental Health Conference
Nour Audi took part in the Global Displacement and Mental Health Conference at Vassar College in November 2019. This convening brought together government officials, healthcare providers, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, funders, and social entrepreneurs to discuss their experiences at the intersection of… Continue reading→
Selin Bengi Gümrükçü Inaugural MESA Global Academy Grant Awardee
Selin Bengi Gümrükçü attended Middle East Studies Association in October 2019 as an inaugural MESA Global Academy grant awardee. The MESA Global Academy, is an interdisciplinary initiative to sustain essential research collaborations and knowledge production among MENA-focused scholars from the… Continue reading→
“It is not a hope for bread, but hope for human dignity.”
Ahmet Çoymak presented “It is not a hope for bread, but hope for human dignity: Psycho-political dynamics of emigration,” at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference theme “Empowering… Continue reading→
Right-Wing Political Violence in Turkey in the 1970s
Consortium Scholar Selin Bengi Gümrükçü gave a talk, “Causes and Consequences of Repression,” at the Midwest Political Science Association conference on April 20, 2019. She also moderated a panel on “Right-Wing Political Violence in Turkey in the 1970s.” The latter… Continue reading→
Scholars Share Perspectives on Identity and Conflict in Turkey
Zayde Antrim, Utku Balaban, Nazan Bedirhanoğlu, Cem Ozatalay, and Savas Ergül presented on a panel titled, “At the Crossroads: Identity and Conflict in Turkey” at Trinity College on March 28, 2019. The scholars shared their perspectives on Turkey’s shift from… Continue reading→