Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered on 23 June 2015 a lecture entitled “The Constitutional Structure of Turkey’s Government” at the SPEA Summer School in Turkey, Bilkent University, Ankara.
Lecture at the University of Tartu-26.05.15
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 26 May 2015 entitled “Turkey’s EU Membership Debate: Its Meaning for Europe” at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Lecture at the University of Tartu-25.05.16
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture on 25 May 2015 entitled “Islam and Democracy in Turkey” at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Presentation at KAS Workshop-07.05.15
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis made on 7 May 2015 a presentation entitled “Energy Discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Matching Expectations and Reality” at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Conference “Energy in Transition” in Berlin.
Jean Monnet Roundtable Series on Greek and Turkish Nationalism-05.05.2015
Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Roundtable Series
announces:
“Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modes of Comparison”
Tuesday, 5 May 2015, 15:30-17:00
A-130 (FEASS Seminar Room)
Panelists
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides
University of Athens
Prof. Ahmet Evin
Sabancı University
Panelist-Moderator:
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Bilkent University
Biographical Information:
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides earned a BA in Political Science and Modern European History, Wesleyan University (B.A. with Highest Honors in Government, 1972), an MA and a PhD in Political Science at Harvard University (M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1979).
Apart from the University of Athens he has held teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of Athens, Brandeis University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford and the European University Institute. He has served as the Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and the Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. His books in English include:
The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992); Enlightenment Nationalism Orthodoxy (Variorum, 1994); An Orthodox Commonwealth. Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2007); From Republican Polity to National Community. Reconsiderations of Enlightenment Political Thought (Voltaire Foundation, 2003); Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Eleftherios Venizelos. The Trials of Statesmanship (Edinbourgh University Press, 2006); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Prof. Ahmet Evin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle East Studies and Cultural History in 1973. He was named William Mitchell Fellow at Columbia where he continued his graduate work. He had his BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1966.
Prof. Evin is a Senior Scholar in Istanbul Policy Center and Professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and and Jean Monnet chair at Sabancı University. Prior to his appointment at Sabancı University Ahmet Evin, the founding dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, taught at New York University, Harvard University, Hacettepe University (Ankara), University of Pennsylvania (where he also served as director of the Middle East Center), University of Hamburg, and Bilkent University in Ankara (where he headed the Department of Political Science).
As director of education of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Geneva-based international development foundation, he coordinated the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in cooperation with that US-based resource center assisted in the development of architectural education in Asia and Africa. He has also served as consultant to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture as well as an editor of the Award publication.
Evin is also the founding member of Turkish Economy and Social Studies Foundation and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He has authored or edited over 10 volumes on politics, culture, and development.
Jean Monnet Talk Series-Paschalis Kitromilides-04.05.2015
Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Talk Series announces:
“The Neo-hellenic Enlightenment and the Ottoman Empire”
Monday, 4 May 2015, 12:30-14:00
A-130 (FEASS Seminar Room)
by
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides
University of Athens
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides earned a BA in Political Science and Modern European History, Wesleyan University (B.A. with Highest Honors in Government, 1972), an MA and a PhD in Political Science at Harvard University (M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1979).
Apart from the University of Athens he has held teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of Athens, Brandeis University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford and the European University Institute. He has served as the Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and the Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. His books in English include:
The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992); Enlightenment Nationalism Orthodoxy (Variorum, 1994); An Orthodox Commonwealth. Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2007); From Republican Polity to National Community. Reconsiderations of Enlightenment Political Thought (Voltaire Foundation, 2003); Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Eleftherios Venizelos. The Trials of Statesmanship (Edinbourgh University Press, 2006); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Presentation in a Conference on Turkish Politics-02.04.15
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered on 2 April 2015 a presentation entitled “The View from Turkish Domestic Politics”, at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation-ELIAMEP Workshop “Turkey in the “New” Erdoğan Era: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications” in Athens.
CfP: Jean Monnet Student Workshop on EU Studies, Bilkent, 25-26/6/2015
CfP: Jean Monnet Graduate Student Workshop
The Present and Future of EU Studies in Turkey:
Maintaining Relevance in a Changing Turkey
Bilkent University, Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Thursday 25-Friday 26 June 2015
While the EU economic crisis has attracted particular attention in recent months, other aspects of EU studies have maintained a strong academic and policy interest. Transatlantic relations, immigration, terrorism, the rise of Euroscepticism throughout Europe have been just a few of the areas where the European Union faces formidable challenges.
Meanwhile, EU-Turkey have been been going through a process of reconfiguration. Turkey’s EU accession process appears no more a priority for the European Union or Turkey itself. The European Union is focused on managing domestic crises with the hope of turning them into opportunities for further integration. On the other hand, Turkey has developed alternative strategic visions which bring her closer to the emerging powers.
At the domestic level, rising polarization and growing concerns about the quality of Turkish democracy have reignited interest in the significance of the EU anchor.
Meanwhile, a heated debate has engaged with the question of the future of Europeanization as a research field. The ability of the European Union to bring about change within and beyond its borders has been scrutinized and disputed.
In light of the above, the Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Bilkent University invites graduate students who conduct research on any field of EU studies to participate in a two-day workshop which will take place on 25-26 June 2015 at Bilkent University. This workshop aims to provide a platform for the exchange of views and research ideas on the field of EU studies and help students advance their research projects. PhD students in their early phase of their research are particularly encouraged to apply.
Topics could refer, but are not limited to:
- The EU economic crisis
- EU foreign policy and the “Arab Uprisings”
- EU neighborhood policy
- The EU and the BRICs
- Turkey’s EU accession negotiations
- Turkey’s foreign policy vision vis-a-vis the EU
- Turkey’s ambitions beyond EU membership
- Turkey’s role in TTIP negotiations
- The Cyprus question and EU-Turkey relations
- The ECHR decisions and Turkey
Please submit your abstracts (about 300 words), including the title, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, position/occupation/degree program to Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis (ioannis(at)bilkent.edu.tr).
Papers are expected to be 5000-6000 words. Travel and accommodation support may be available to students who reside outside Ankara.
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 April 2015
- Notification of acceptance will be sent: 10 May 2015.
- Deadline for the submission of full papers 15 June 2015
Rebecca Bryant Talk: The Ambiguities of Domination: On Turkey’s Cyprus Problem-02.04.2015
Bilkent University Department of Political Science and Public Administration
POLS TALKS announces,
**
*The Ambiguities of Domination: On Turkey’s Cyprus Problem*
**
This paper proposes some categories to help us understand Turkey’s presence in north Cyprus, which has been variously described as that of an occupying power, a colonizer, a protector, and a patron state. In the terms now used by the European Court of Human Rights, north Cyprus is Turkey’s “subordinate authority.”Although Turkey is accused of exercising political hegemony in the island’s north, Turkish Cypriots enjoy a multi-party democracy that rates well on Freedom House’s democratic index. How, then, should we describe and understand this incomplete and ambiguous domination? Using long-term ethnographic research and a recent series of interviews with opinion-shapers in the island, the paper proposes that the north Cyprus-Turkey relationship reveals as much about the problems of de facto statecraft as it does about the specific relationship between the island’s north and its protector. Using examples from other de facto states, the presentation argues that recent tensions in the relationship in fact help us understand the strain of sovereignty under the pressure of global capital.
The lecture will be held by Dr. Rebecca Bryant from London School of Economics on Thursday, 2 April 2015, 1.00 p.m. in room T-271.
Jean Monnet Roundtable Series on Cyprus-11.03.2015
Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Roundtable Series
announces:
“Turkey, Cyprus and the European Union: Multiple Perspectives”
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 14:30-16:00
A-130 (FEASS Seminar Room)
Panelists
Dr. Başak Alpan
Middle East Technical University (METU)
Dr. Nikos Moudouros
University of Cyprus
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Bilkent University
Short Bio
Dr. Başak Alpan is an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer in European Politics and Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, at the Middle East Technical University (METU). She completed her undegraduate and postgraduate studies at METU and obtained her PhD at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include European studies, culture and identity dimensions of European integration, discourse theory, football politics and the construction of intercultural attitudes through football. Dr. Alpan has also been working as an editor at Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey) since 2012.
Dr. Nikos Moudouros is a graduate of the Turkish and Middle-Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cyprus. He obtained a postgraduate title from the University SOAS London and a Doctoral title from the Turkish and Middle-Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cyprus. He worked as a special advisor to the Presidency of the Cyprus Republic on Turkish and Turkish Cypriot Affairs during the period 2008-2013. His research interests focus on the modern history of Turkey, as well as the history of the Turkish Cypriot community. He is teaching as a Special Academic Staff at the Turkish and Middle-Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cyprus. He is the author of the book “The transformation of Turkey. From the Kemalist domination to ‘Islamic neo-liberalism’”, by Alexandria publications (Athens).
Dr Ioannis N. Grigoriadis is Assistant Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Science, University of Athens, where he studied Law. In 2002 he obtained a Master of International Affairs (MIA) and an Advanced Certificate of Middle Eastern Studies from the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. In 2005, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Ηe has worked as research associate at Columbia University and the University of Oxford. Between 2004 and 2009 he taught at Sabanci University, Isik University and the University of Athens. His recent publications include Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A “Sacred Synthesis”, (London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Trials of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union, (London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).