Scholars in the Press
Call for submissions: “Isolation, Exile and the Everyday Pandemic”
Reading Period: August 1st, 2021 – October 1st, 2021 Consortium scholar Simten Cosar, in patnership with the publication Sampsonia Way is calling for submissions for an upcoming project tackling the consequences of the pandemic experience.
New Blog Post: “Why Not Voting Means Different Things in Tehran and New York City”
July 16th, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University Tajbakhsh discusses and compares the voter turnout, or lack thereof, in the recent New York City and Tehran elections. “New Yorkers…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Election Conundrum in Iran”
June 17th, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University Tajbakhsh discusses the Iranian national and local elections on June 18th. “In other words because the basic preconditions necessary for fully…Continue reading→
New Article: “Iran’s Presidential Election: Opportunity or Dead End?”
June 15, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Masih Alinejad and Sara Bazoobandi Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The upcoming Iranian presidential elections could have important implications for the country’s poltical future alongside the ongoing nuclear negotionats between Washington and Tehran. Sada asked these three…Continue reading→
New Article: “The Aftermath of the Gezi Park Protests: Rising Populism and Mobilization for Autocracy”
June 16th, 2021 By: Selin Bengi Gümrükçü, Visiting Scholar in the Political Science Department, Rutgers University Published in: Jadaliyya In this article, Gümrükçü describes the effects that the 2013 Gezi Park Protests had on the political landscape in Turkey. “The AKP government turned a crisis…Continue reading→
New Article: Ideology, Discourse, and Alliance Structures: Explaining Far-Right Political Violence in Turkey in the 1970s
By Selin Bengi Gümrükçü Published in Terrorism and Political Violence During the 1970s, Turkey’s radical nationalist youth were ideologically and culturally shaped by their involvement in the idealist (ülkücü) movement. The idealists also played a significant role on the streets in fomenting the mass political…Continue reading→
“The 2022 Beijing Olympics Will Be Yet Another Games Tarnished By Genocide”
On February 4, 2020, Dr. Teng Biao published an opinion piece titled, “The 2022 Beijing Olympics Will Be Yet Another Games Tarnished By Genocide,” in the Washington Post. Read the article here. Dr. Teng Biao is an academic lawyer, currently Grove Human Rights Scholar at…Continue reading→
Human Rights Scholar & Other Chinese Dissidents Face Public Harassment
The Washington Post reported in an article published on December 18th, 2020 that human rights scholar and activist Teng Biao, together with other Chinese dissidents in North America, were the latest victims of public harassment staged by Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman with links to…Continue reading→
Oppression, Resistance and the High-tech Totalitarianism
By Teng Biao, published by Democracy Seminar on December 16, 2020 This piece is based on Teng Biao’s presentation during “Repression and Resistance: Inside and Outside the Academy” webinar organized by the New University in Exile on November 12, 2020 (video available). The webinar was focused on…Continue reading→
Purge, Exile, and Resistance: Rethinking the Conflict of the Faculties through the Case of Academics for Peace in Turkey
By Cem Özatalay, Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, Galatasaray University Published in the European Journal of Turksish Studies, December 2020 Introduction “Like dissident journalists, writers, and artists, the persecution of dissident academics by governments has been a common issue since the beginning of modern times. Raison…Continue reading→