Research Activities
Turkey in the Modern World > 2008-2009 Schedule
The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World, Harvard University is Co-sponsored by The Weatherhead Center and The Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Muhammet Bas and Lenore G. Martin, co-chairs*
All Turkey in the Modern World seminars meet from 4:30-6:00 pm in the Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2008
September 17, 2008
“Turkey and the Gulf: A New Romance?”
Lenore G. Martin, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Emmanuel College and Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weathehead Center for International Affairs, both at Harvard University
October 15, 2008
“Europeanization of Turkish State Ideology: Kemalism in the 21st Century”
Ali Tekin, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Assistant Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University
October 29, 2008
“Turkey’s Challenges: A Muslim Democracy in the Turbulent Middle East”
Cengiz Candar
Columnist Radikal, Turkish Daily News and Chief Columnist for Referans
November 12, 2008
“Rethinking US-Turkish Relations”
Ian O. Lesser, Ph.D.
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
November 24, 2008 (Monday)
“European Identity and Enlargement after Lisbon”
Dimitris Kerdis
Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Note: This seminar is in the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, room S354.
December 5, 2008 (Friday)
“How Western Can a Country Be Without Democrats?”
Soli Ozel
Professor of International Relations, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Columnist for the Turkish daily, Sabah
Note: This seminar is from 12:30-2:00pm the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, room S354.
Spring 2009
February 4, 2009
“Dealing with PKK Terror: A New Balance between Confrontation, Coercion, and Co-optation”
David L. Phillips
Author of From Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition. He is a visiting scholar at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Note: This seminar will meet from 5:00-6:30 pm.
February 18, 2009
“The Justice and Development Party and Women in Turkey”
Fatma Tutuncu
Visiting Scholar, Women, Gender, and Sexual Studies, Harvard University; and Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey.
“Assessing the Secularism Debate in Turkey through the Lenses of Liberalism”
Koray Tutuncu
Schell Fellow, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, Yale University; and Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey.
Note: This seminar will meet from 4:00-6:00 pm.
March 3, 2009
“The transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: The AKP and its foreign policy implications”
Ergun Ozbudun
Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law, Bilkent University.
Note: This seminar meets from 12:00-2:00 pm in CGIS South, Room S050.
This seminar is co-sponsored with the Transatlantic Relations Seminar.
March 4, 2009
“The Turkish Sabbataians: From Judeo-Islamic Messianic Mystics to Secular Muslims”
Cengiz Sisman
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Program and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.
April 1, 2009
“Turkey and the EU: Crucially Important to Each Other in the Evolving International Order”
Mario Zucconi
Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and international Affairs, Princeton University; and Senior Fellow, Italian Social Science Council, Rome, Italy.
April 29, 2009-CANCELED
“Turkey: Plans, Pipelines and Politics”
Carol Saivetz
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
Note: This event has been canceled.
*Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies, is on leave 2008-2009