SUITS News
- Book Launch: Cengiz Candar's Turkey's Mission Impossible 2021-01-15 Cengiz Candar in conversation with Bitte Hammargren on 8 December, 2020.
- Hans Ingvar Roth on ”Human rights – fighting an uphill battle” 2020-12-01 The latest issue of Världspolitiken Dagsfrågor from UI focuses on human rights
- Ahmet Gürata – New visiting researcher of Turkish media and scholar at risk 2020-10-13 Dr. Ahmet Gürata, a film scholar specializing in Turkish cinema and media, has recently joined Stockholm University as senior visiting scholar. He left Turkey after being put on trial for signing Academics for Peace’s Declaration and comes to Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies through Scholars at Risk.
- CEST Summer School postponed to 2021 2020-04-27 Because of the corona crisis, CEST's inaugural summer school, originally planned for 2020, will be held next year.
- Isa Blumi examines the Albanian question in new article 2020-04-02 In “The Albanian question looms over the Balkans again” in Current History (March 2020), Isa Blumi details the political situation affecting Albanians and their international relations in an article that has already proven to be prescient.
- “Inequalities” Workshops add “Justice” to the conversation 2020-03-19 On 6-7 March the second workshop on “Inequalities” was held in Istanbul, organised by SUITS visiting researchers İmren Borsuk and Pinar Sayan, together with Pınar Dinç and Sinem Kavak of Lund University.
- Roth’s book on PC Chang listed among “Best Human Rights Books of All Time” 2020-03-18 BookAuthority has named “PC Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” by Hans Ingvar Roth as 55th out of 75 of the best books about human rights
- Hans Ingvar Roth speaks about multilateral cooperation in Helsinki 2020-02-11 5-6 February 2020 Prof. Hans Ingvar Roth participated in a discussion panel held in Hananalys on "Finland, Sweden and Norway in multilateral cooperation."
- SUITS to lead CEST 2020-01-23 SUITS has become the lead institution for the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST) with plans to expand activities
- SUITS welcomes postdoc Dr. Bengi Ruken Cengiz 2019-09-20 Her research interests include theories on democratization and authoritarianism, de-consolidation of democracy, regimes of citizenship, social and political cleavages and political parties.
- Panel discussion on Turkish elections available as podcast 2019-04-04 “Local elections in Turkey: what lies ahead”, a collaboration between SUITS and the Swedish Institute of International affairs (UI), is available for streaming
- 4th Annual CEST conference hosted by SUITS 2019-01-14 From 29 November to 1 December 2018, Stockholm was the site of the Fourth Annual European Symposium on Turkey which focused on Societal Conflict and Cohabitation in Turkey and beyond.
- SUITS celebrates its 5th anniversary 2018-11-28 What have we accomplished and where are we headed?
- Hans Ingvar Roth speaks at conference "Human Dignity for Everyone and Everywhere" 2018-08-21 Hans Ingvar Roth gave a speech on P.C. Chang's views on human dignity and human rights in Oxford at Christchurch College.
- Isa Blumi on lecture tour across 3 continents for his new book 2018-06-20 Following the publication of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World (University of California Press, 2018), Dr. Isa Blumi is giving lectures and video and radio interviews around the world.
- Turkish Enigma Versus Kurdish Dilemma 2018-03-27 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Cengiz Çandar presented a paper at a recent London School of Economics Middle East Centre meeting on Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Professor Jenny White to Present Spindle Autocracy Article at UiO in Norway 2018-03-26 Professor Jenny White to present widely acclaimed recent article in Oslo
- P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2018-03-22 Professor Hans Ingvar Roth spoke at Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales, in Paris, earlier this month.
- Freedom of religion as distinct human right 2018-02-09 Professor Hans Ingvar Roth spoke at Temple University in Rome, Italy earlier this month.
- SUITS welcomes postdoctoral fellow Dr. Imren Borsuk 2018-01-29 With a grant from the Swedish Institute, she is continuing her work communal violence against Kurds and the “Kurdish problem” in Turkey.
