Young Scholars on Turkey (YSOT) Conference 2011
Friday, 15 April 2011
The University Club
University Hall, 2nd Floor
1135 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.
The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS)
Ali Vural Ak Global Islamic Studies Center at George Mason University
Conference Program
8:30 - 9:00 | Registration
Introductory Remarks by Nuh Yilmaz (SETA Foundation at Washington DC)
9:30 - 10:30 | Keynote Address by Ambassador Ross Wilson (The Atlantic Council)
10:30 - 12:00 | Panel I - National Identity, Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey
Moderator: Kadir Ustun (SETA Foundation at Washington DC)
Discussant: Burhanettin Duran (Istanbul Sehir University)
Matthew deTar (Northwestern University) "Figures of Nationalist Speech in Atatürk's Great Speech"
Sarah Fischer (American University) "The Politics of Education Policy in Turkey: Secularism and Gender in Turkey's Primary Education System"
Neslihan Cevik (University of Virginia) "Re-theorizing Contemporary Islam in Turkey: Muslimism and Sites of Hybridity"
12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:45 | Panel II - Turkey and the EU: Partners at Odds?
Moderator: Cemil Aydin (George Mason University)
Discussant: Emiliano Alessandri (The German Marshall Fund of the United States)
Ravza Kavakci Kan (Howard University) "Turkish Challenge to the Orientalist Narrative of the EU"
Selcen Oner (Bahcesehir University) "The Place of the EU in Multi-Dimensional Turkish Foreign Policy"
Juliette Tolay (University of Delaware) "Turkey's "Europeanness": Evidence from Turkey's Immigration Policies"
2:45 - 3:00 | Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:45 | Panel III - Turkish Foreign Policy
Moderator: David Cuthell (Institute of Turkish Studies)
Discussant: Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution)
Nick Danforth (Georgetown University) "US Attitude toward Turkish Democracy during the Cold War"
Ryan Kennedy & Matthew Dickenson (University of Houston) "Turkish Neocons? Popular Perceptions of Foreign Policy in Turkey"
Ali Balci (Sakarya University) "Turkish-Israeli Relations: The Role of Securitization in Turkish Foreign Policy"
4:45 - 5:00 | Concluding Remarks by David Cuthell (Institute of Turkish Studies)