A Conference on Turkey: Citizenship and Institutions in Flux

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
International Affairs Building, 15th floor
420 West 118th Street

Speakers: Can Paker (Chair, TESEV), Etyen Mahçupyan (Turkish/Armenian Journalist, former Editor in Chief of Agos), Dilek Kurban (Program Officer, TESEV), Henri Barkey, (Lehigh University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Zehra Arat (SUNY Purchase), Jeremy Walton (New York University).

Panels will address how questions related to identity, nation-state and citizenship are being reshaped from below and how the Turkish state responds to minority, ethnic and religious challenges to citizenship in Turkey.  They will also examine the role and limits of state institutions and civil society in responding to social pressure for change.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Turkish Studies, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Middle East Institute (MEI)