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Décès de l’historien Jean-Paul Roux, spécialiste du monde turc
L’historien français Jean-Paul Roux, spécialiste du monde turc et de la culture islamique, est décédé lundi à Saint Germain-en-Laye à l’âge de 84 ans, a-t-on appris auprès de sa famille. Ancien directeur de recherche au CNRS, ancien professeur à l’Ecole du Louvre où il avait été nommé en 1965 sur proposition d’André Malraux, Jean-Paul Roux a consacré son oeuvre à faire connaître dans le monde érudit comme dans le grand public l’histoire et la mythologie des peuples turcs et mongols. Né à Paris le 5 janvier 1925, il avait étudié à l’Ecole des Langues O’ et à l’Ecole pratique des hautes études avant de se tourner vers la recherche et d’entrer au CNRS à 27 ans. Il avait organisé deux grandes expositions sur les arts de l’islam à l’Orangerie des Tuileries en 1971 puis au Grand Palais en 1977 qui avaient contribué à réveiller l’intérêt du public pour la culture islamique et abouti à la création en 2003 au sein du musée du Louvre du département des arts de l’islam. Il a publié de très nombreux ouvrages, notamment “Un choc de religion” en 2007 relatant “la longue guerre de l’islam et de la chrétienté”, “la religion des turcs et des mongols” (1984) ainsi qu’un “Dictionnaire des arts de l’islam” (2007), fruit d’un demi siècle d’études, de voyages et d’enseignement. (AFP)
Add comment juin 30, 2009
Cemaat nedir ?
TÜRKİYE’DE ERMENİLER
Cemaat-Birey-Yurttaş
Ferhat Kentel, Füsun Üstel, Günay Göksu Özdogan, Karin Karakasli
“Türkiyeliyim… Ermeniyim… iliklerime kadar da Anadoluluyum…”
Hrant Dink
Bu kitaba temel olan araştırma, Türkiye Ermenilerinin tarih boyunca süregelen kimlik inşa etme süreçlerinde, etken olan tüm unsurların ele alınarak; çok boyutlu ve karmaşık bir gelişim içinde “cemaat” üyesi ve yurttaş olarak kimliklerini nasıl kurguladıkları sorusuna cevap arıyor.
Türkiye’de kimlik tartışmaları, son yıllarda demokratikleşme ve sivilleşmeye paralel bir biçimde yeni paradigma ve yaklaşımlar kazanırken; küreselleşme, ulus-devlet modelinin geleceği, yeni toplumsal hareketler, azınlık siyasetlerinin yeni biçimleri ve kuramsal tartışmaların değişik boyutları düşünce alanında farklı bir gündem yarattı. Bu gündem bir anlamda dünün kimlik tartışmalarına hâkim olan iki farklı “duruş”un, anlayışın dışına çıkmanın zorunluluğuna dikkat çekiyordu. Bir yanda her türlü kimliğin sorgulanmadan dışlanması ya da yazarların deyimiyle “şeytanileştirilmesi” diğer yanda kimliklerin kendinde bir değer olarak sorgulanmadan “kutsanması”…
Yazarlar bu araştırmanın, sözkonusu iki “duruş”un dışında Türkiye’deki Ermeniler ile Türkler arasındaki ilişkileri “yeniden okuma” ve Türkiye Ermenilerini önyargılar ya da yüzeysel bir “kutsama”nın ötesinde topluluk kimliği içinde geçmişi ve bugünüyle tanıma çabasından doğduğunu söylerken; bu çalışmanın “tehcir/soykırım” tartışmalarının ötesinde yüzyıllar boyunca aynı coğrafyada birlikte yaşamış birçok ortak değeri paylaşmış iki topluluğun demokratik yurttaşlık temelinde birbirlerini tekrar “keşfetme” aracı olmayı hedeflediğini dile getiriyor.
Günay Göksu Özdoğan, Füsun Üstel, Ferhat Kentel ve Karin Karakaşlı’nın ortak ürünü olan bu eser, gerçekten Türkiye halkını oluşturan toplulukların bu topraklardaki ortak tarihlerinin yeniden hatırlanmasına ve birbirlerini daha iyi tanıma ihtiyacına cevap verecektir.
Çalışma “Tarihten Günümüze Türkiye’de Ermeniler ve Ermeni Kimliği”, “Osmanlıdan Günümüze Ermeni Kurumları ve Siyaset”, “Günümüzde Türkiye’de Ermeni Olmak” ve “ ‘Sadık Milletten’ Talep Eden Yurttaşa” gibi bölümler içeriyor. Kitapta ayrıca “Araştırma Belgeleri” ve “Ekler” bölümü de tamamlayıcı olarak yeralmaktadır.
Add comment juin 26, 2009
Do we need management?
INTERACT: France, Turkey, EU University Dialogue
Summer School on
“Managing Diversity: EU and Turkey”
This program is implemented by the European Institute of the İstanbul Bilgi University, in partnership with Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) within the framework of INTERACT: France, Turkey, EU University Dialogue project funded by the European Commission’s EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue program.
15 – 31 July 2009
First Week
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
09:30 – 12:30h Opening session and presentation of the INTERACT Project and the Summer School programme
– Senem AYDIN, İstanbul Bilgi University, European Institute and Department of International Relations
- Jean MARCOU, İFEA, Senior Research Fellow and University of Grenoble
Keynote Speech by Volkan VURAL, Retired Ambassador, Former Secretary General of EU Affairs
Introduction of Student Participants
Complementary Coffee, Tea and Cookies
Presentation of the logistics details of accommodation and stay by
- Gülperi Vural, İstanbul Bilgi University European Institute Coordinator
- Kerem Çiftçioğlu, İstanbul Bilgi University European Institute Project Assistant.
13:30 – 16:30h- The History of EU-Turkey Relations
Emre GÖNEN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
9.30 – 12:30h: Nationalism in Turkey: An Impediment to EU Accession?
Umut ÖZKIRIMLI, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
13.30h – 16.30h: Guided visit of Istanbul and visit to Phanar Patriarchy
Friday, July 17th, 2009
9.30h – 12.30h: EU Enlargement Policy: How does it Work?
Emre GÖNEN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
13.30h -16.30h: Nationalism in Turkey and Greece
Umut ÖZKIRIMLI, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
Sunday, July 19th, 2009: Boat Excursion along the Bosphorus to the Black Sea
Second Week
Monday, July 20th, 2009
9.30h – 12.30h: Diversity in Turkey: A General Framework on Issues of Democracy in Turkey
Ayhan KAYA, İstanbul Bilgi University, Director of the European Institute, Department of International Relations
13.30h -16.00h: Turkish Accession in the French Debate: Islam, Immigration, Identity
Riva KASTORYANO, Sciences Po Paris
16.00: Guided Visit to a Mosque
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
9.30h – 12.30h : EU Accession Negotiations with Turkey
Joost LAGENDIJK, Member of European Parliament
13.30h-16.30h : European Public Opinion on Turkey: Challenges to Diversity
Alain SERVANTIE, DG Enlargement European Commission
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
9.30 h -12.30h: Diversification of Turkish Foreign Policy and its Implications for Turkey’s Relations with the EU
Soli ÖZEL, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
13.30h-16.30h: Migrants and Descendents from Turkey in France: Behaviour and Discourse
towards Turkey’s Accession to the EU
Samim AKGÖNÜL, Assoc. Professor, Strasbourg University and Galatasaray University
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
9.30 h -12.30h: Why Aren’t We There Yet?: Turkey’s Media Debates and Challenges Lying Ahead in the EU Process
Aslı Tunç, İstanbul Bilgi University, Vice Dean of the School of Communications
13.30h – 15.30h: Multiculturalism in Europe and Turkish Accession
Riva KASTORYANO, Sciences Po Paris.
Possibility to switch this lecture for guided tour to Armenian Patriarchy
Friday, July 24th, 2009
9.30 h -12.30h: Turkey’s Domestic Reform Trajectory: The Scope for Diversity
Soli ÖZEL, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International
13.30h-16.30h: National Identity in Europe and Turkish Accession: Cases of France, Germany and the UK
Senem AYDIN, İstanbul Bilgi University, European Institute and Department of International Relations
Saturday,July 25th,2009
Afternoon: Guided visit to Alevi Communion (Şahkulu Sultan Dergahı)
Third Week
Monday, July 27th, 2009
9.30h -12.30h: Emre GÖNEN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations (TBC)
13.30h-16.30h: Situating Turkey in Europe: A Historical Perspective
Özge Onursal, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
9.30h -12.30h: Lessons Learnt? : The Use(s) of EU Conditionality in Central and
Eastern Europe and Turkey
Deniz Mc Donald, Central European University, Budapest
1.30h- 16.30h: The role of Civil Society and Communication in the Accession Process
Alain SERVANTIE, DG Enlargement, European Commission
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
9.30h-12.30h: Q&A Session: All you wanted to know but never asked about EU-Turkey relations
Moderator: Senem AYDIN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Departmant of International Relations
13.30h-16.30h: Discursive Construction of European Identity in the EU’s Relations with Turkey: The Case of the European Institutions
Senem AYDIN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Departmant of International Relations
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
9.30h -12.30h: Debates on Europeanisation
Özge Onursal, İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations
13.30h – 16.30h: Issue of Migration within the Scope of Turkish Accession
Ayhan KAYA, İstanbul Bilgi University, Director of the European Institute, Department of International Relations
Friday, July 31st, 2009
9.30h -12.30h: Impact of Nabucco project pipeline on Turkish-Russian relations
Laurent VINATIER, Sciences Po Paris-Centre for International Studies and Research.
13.30h – 15.00 Round table: TOPIC (TBC)
Laurent VINATIER, Sciences Po Paris-Centre for International Studies and Research
Deniz Mc Donald, Central European University, Budapest
Ayhan KAYA, İstanbul Bilgi University, Director of the European Institute, Department of International Relations
Senem AYDIN, İstanbul Bilgi University, Departmant of International Relations
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Departure
1 comment juin 26, 2009
Refugees
Un cartoon pour les réfugiés
Tel est le nom de l’action organisée cette année dans le cadre de la Journée mondiale du Réfugié. Ce projet est porté par différentes organisations pour les réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile en Belgique. Vers le 20 juin, des dessins de presse publiés dans plusieurs quotidiens et magazines belges vont aborder avec humour le thème des réfugiés.
L’objectif de cette action est de rappeler que les personnes en exil ont souvent dû quitter leur pays par crainte de persécution ou en raison d’un conflit armé. Ces personnes – hommes, femmes et enfants – n’ont pas choisi d’être réfugiés mais recherchent d’urgence la protection d’un autre pays.
La Journée mondiale du Réfugié
La date du 20 juin a été désignée par l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies comme ‘Journée mondiale du Réfugié’. Plus d’une centaine de pays, dont la Belgique, profitent de cette occasion pour organiser des évènements qui informent le grand public sur le sort des 42 millions de réfugiés de par le monde.
On compte, à travers le monde, 16 millions de réfugiés et de demandeurs d’asile et 26 millions de personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays . La moitié des réfugiés et personnes déplacées à travers le monde sont des femmes, des enfants et des adolescents. Contrairement aux idées reçues, 80% des réfugiés restent dans leur région d’origine. Beaucoup sont déracinés depuis des années et aucune issue n’est en vue.
Près de 12 000 personnes ont introduit une demande d’asile en Belgique. Elles sont principalement originaires de Russie, d’Irak et d’Afghanistan. L’année dernière, la Belgique a octroyé une protection internationale à plus de 3 000 personnes.
Le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR) vient de publier son rapport complet pour l’année 2008. “Global Trends 2008″ peut être consulté sur le site www.unhcr.org
Add comment juin 25, 2009
Boundaries!
CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Boundaries:
Media, Culture and Identity in Europe
2-3 October 2009, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
What is Europe according to its others? An essence, an origin, a center? Or is it nothingness, a void or chiasm? Where is Europe? In diasporic or migrant spaces? How is Europe different from the West? Can an identity be made European? Could it be Eurocentric or Euro-chiasmic? Can one leave one’s cultural frame to take on another? Can one transnationalize and/or regionalize a national identity or vice versa? Can the European Union create a single entity or a grand signifier of Europe out of multiple differences? What is the role of communication, media, and culture in such exchanges, transformations, processes and practices? Can we account for the similarities, proximities, and relations or should we focus on the differences, cleavages, and tensions?
This conference aims to explore the questions above and how such questions surface in media and cultural texts, ranging from everyday practices to media representations. The papers may deal with various meanings of Europe and its relation to non-European cultures, and how these are experienced or altered at the level of media, culture, and identity. Possible paper topics are:
Eurocentrism and its alternatives
Transnationalism and nationalisms
Global, regional, and local media and culture
Diasporic and migrant culture and identities
Gender equality and cultural diversity
Tactics and strategies of dialogue between cultures
Symbolic representations of Europe in various cultural practices
Theories of European cinema, media and culture
Challenges for European cinema, media, and cultural studies
European communication studies and strategies
The EU policies on media, communication, and culture
Confirmed Keynote Speakers (alphabetically listed):
Emine Bozkurt ( Member of the European Parliament for the PvdA ), member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee ; member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality ; member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Turkey ; substitute member of the Culture and Education Committee ; Vice-Chair of the Diversity and Integration Network for the Socialist Group .
Prof. Angela McRobbie (University of London, Goldsmiths College, Media and Communications) author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, forthcoming (2010); Feminist Cultural Studies: Essays on Post-Feminist Aesthetics , Literature and Popular Culture, forthcoming (2010); The Aftermath of Feminism : Gender, Culture and Social Change (2008); The Uses of Cultural Studies (2005); In the Culture Society (1999); British Fashion Design (1998).
Prof. Kevin Robins (Based in Istanbul and a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London) author of Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (1999); Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision (1996); Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (co-author, 1995).
Prof. William Uricchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies), author of We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009); Media Cultures (2006); Media, Technology, Convergence (1997); Reframing Culture: the Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films (1993, co-author).
Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Please send a 300-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker (mailing address & email address) to emcs@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2009.
Deadline for acceptance information: June 29, 2009.
Deadline for submitting the completed papers: September 20, 2009.
Deadline for papers for conference proceedings: October 18, 2009.
Organizing Committee
- Prof. Haluk Gürgen (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Prof. Dieter Mersch (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
- Prof. Winfried Gerling (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
- Assoc. Prof. Süheyla Schroeder (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; visiting fellow at University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
- Assoc. Prof. Savas Arslan (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Assist. Prof. Defne Karaosmanoglu (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Assist. Prof. Christine Hanke (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; visiting fellow at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
The conference is organized by an EU funded project, “European Media and Cultural Studies and Media Awareness,” jointly run by Bahcesehir University (Istanbul, Turkey), University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany) and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany).
Please note: There is no fee for the conference registration.
The language of the conference is English.
If you have further questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us. E-Mail: Aysegul Kesirli (conference assistant) Phone: +90 (212) 381 0764
Add comment juin 25, 2009
