Thursday 25 March 2010

Presentation and Opening

Aydin Ugur – Istanbul Bilgi University
Christian Lequesne – Directeur du CERI-Sciences Po
Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Keynote Speaker: Kemal Dervis
Former administrator of UNDP
Director, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Friday 26 March 2010

1) Historical Perspectives of Turkish Nationalism

Chair: Pierre Birnbaum – UniversiteÅL Paris 1
Erik-Jan Zürcher – International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam
Why was the Republic of Turkey Proclaimed so Late?
Umut Ozkirimli – Istanbul Bilgi University
Mapping Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony
Cemil Kocak – Sabanci University
Kemalist Nationalism in Turkey
Ayhan Aktar – Marmara University
'Tax me to the end of my life!'. Anatomy of an Anti-minority Tax Legislation, 1942-43

Discussant: François Georgeon – EHESS

Coffee break

2) Islam and Nationalism in Turkey

Chair: Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Jenny White – Boston University
The Two Faces of Muslim Nationalism
Kenan Çayır – Istanbul Bilgi University
The New Voices, New Subjectivities and the Changing Discourse of Islamism
Binnaz Toprak – Bahceşehir University
The Changing Role of Political Islam in Turkey
Elisabeth Ozdalga – Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Religious and National Identities as Reflected in Imaginative Literature

Discussant: Jean-François Leguil-Bayart – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

3) Who is a Turk? Question of Citizenship and Minority in the Prism of Nationalism

Chair: Anne-Marie Le Gloannec – Sciences Po-CERI

Aron Rodrigue – Stanford University
Millets to Minorities: Ottoman Legacies, Republican Challenges?
Haldun Gülalp – Yildiz Tecnical University
Normative Foundations of the Limits to Participatory Citizenship
Samim AkgoÅNnül – University of Strasbourg
Nation Building Process in Turkey and Religious Minorities: Between Legal
Citizenship and National Belonging

Discussant: Alain Dieckhoff – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Coffee break

4) Nationalism and Civil Society: Within and Without Borders

Chair: Jean Leca – Sciences Po

Tanil Bora – İletişim Yayincilik
The « White Turk » Trendy, Cool and Nationalist
Ayhan Kaya – Istanbul Bilgi University
Accommodation of Islam in Western Europe: Individualization vs.
Institutionalization of Islam
Rusen Cakir – Vatan daily Newspaper
The Future of Kurdish “Opening” in the Shadow Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms
Ferhat Kentel – Sehir University
Nationalisms in Everyday’s Life : Reconstructions of Borders Against and Within
Authoritarianism

Discussant: Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS