Research seminars are aimed at scholars working in related academic fields. Members of the public may be able to participate if space allows. Please contact Professor Hans-Ingvar Roth, hansi.roth@suits.su.se for inquiries about Research Seminars.
Past research seminars
Research Seminars, Spring 2020
Bengi Ruken Cengiz (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "When everybody else is silent: Women’s movement as an oppositional actor in Turkey and its strategies for resistance"
Alp Eren Topal (University of Oslo), "Revivalism, Messianism and Charismatic Political Leadership: Some Reflections on the Turkish Case"
Ayşecan Terzioğlu (Sabancı University), "Pandemic as the New Normal: The actors and narratives in the Turkish COVID-19 crisis"
Erol Saglam (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), “When Your Home is Haunted: Collective Memories, Places, and Treasure Hunts in Contemporary Turkey"
Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Issues in Turkish Politics
Bengi Ruken Cengiz (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "Who wants rights? Findings of an Istanbul Field Survey on Perceptions on Citizen Rights and Political Party Preferences"
Varuzhan Geghamyan (Yerevan State University), "Personality cults in Turkish politics: from Atatürk to Erdoğan"
Pınar Sayan (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "How does the Peacebuilding Community Perceive Peace in Turkey?”
Jonas Tallberg (Political Science, Stockholm University), Research Seminar
Lucia Ardovini (Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)), “Surviving Repression: Stagnation Vs Adaptation in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 coup”
Diğdem Soyaltin (Altinbas University), "Council of Europe, Turkey and Social Sanctions"
Ece Cihan Ertem (Lund University), "Politics of Religion, Secularism, and Education: Islamic Kindergartens in Turkey"
Seren Selvin Korkmaz (SUITS) and Edgar Şar (Bogazici University), “From June 24 to March 31: Political Polarization in Turkey between Two Elections"
Yeşim Arat (Bogazici University), "Beyond the Democratic Paradox: The
Decline of Democracy in Turkey"
Lorenzo D'Orsi (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "When silence talks. The moral landscape of leftist painful memories in Turkey"
Halil Karaveli (Turkey Center of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center), "Why Turkey is Authoritarian From Atatürk to Erdogan"
Imren Borsuk Eroğlu (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "Displacement and Asset Transformation from Squatter Settlement into Mass Housing: The Case of Relocated Kadifekale Squatters"
Bilge Yabancı (Visiting Postdoctoral Researchers, SUITS), "Building Authoritarianism From Below? Turkey’s Tamed Civil Society Under The AKP Rule."
Imren Borsuk Eroglu (Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, SUITS), "Communal violence against Kurds in Turkey"
Paul Levin (Director, SUITS) & Åsa Eldén (Visiting Senior Researcher, SUITS), Ongoing Research
Marc Baer (London School of Economics), "Mistaken for Jews: Turkish PhD students in Nazi Germany"
Cengiz Candar
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (University of Strasbourg), "The incorporation of unofficial Islam into official Islam in the 'new Turkey' and its multi-layered consequences"
Kenneth Long (University of Saint Joseph), Higher Seminar: "Transitional Justice in Turkey: Retribution or Restoration?"
