[Discussion] European Turkey: Modernization, Secularism and Islam, Cornell

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

European Turkey: Modernization, Secularism, and Islam
Cornell university
3-4 december

http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/europe/initiatives/turkey.asp

The Mediterranean Studies Initiative Presents: A Forum on Turkey
The Institute for European Studies? Mediterranean Initiative is pleased t=
o
announce the third in a series of workshop-forums devoted to countries of=
 the
Mediterranean which are, for various reasons, the focus of world attentio=
n.
This Fall we have chosen Turkey as our focus of interest, partly because =
of the
controversy surrounding Turkey?s bid to become part of the E. U., and
partly because Turkish immigrants and their descendents form an important
Muslim minority in Europe. The forum will take as its themes, the creatio=
n of
the modern Turkish state, Turkey?s development since the second World
War, minorities in Turkey, European fears of Islamic fundamentalism,
Turkey?s bid to join the E.U., and the role of trade and economic
development in creating and maintaining Turkey?s secular status.


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This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

 Friday, December 3rd, A.D. White House
5:30 p.m. Opening reception and Buffet
Welcoming Remarks: Davydd Greenwood and Gail Holst-Warhaft (Institute for
European Studies, Cornell)
Address by His Excellency the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Dr. O=
. Faruk
Logog(lu
7:30 p.m.   Turkish Music Concert by Cornell?s Middle Eastern Ensemble
Turkish dance performance by Chandani


Saturday, December 4th, B01 Sage Hall
9:00 a.m.
to
11:00 a.m. Panel 1: The Emergence of Modern Turkey
Opening Remarks: (Chair) Don Quataert (SUNY Binghamton): ?The Ottoman
Empire and the Turks.?

Justin McCarthy (University of Louisville, Kentucky): ?The Trauma of
Transition: From Empire to Republic.?

Aysel Morin (Xavier University of Louisiana): ?Crafting a Nation: The
Mythic Construction of the new Turkish National Identity.?

Kagan Arik (University of Chicago): ?Tradition, Custom and
Modernism.?

Nalan Turna (SUNY Binghamton): "Envisioning a Millet (nation) from within=
 and
beyond the Empire: Turkey and Alternative Nation Views."

11:15 a.m.
to
1:00 p.m. Panel 2: Post-Modern Turkey: Part A ? Foreign Relations
(Chair and discussant Michelle Campos, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell)
Bruce Kuniholm (Duke University): ?Turkey?s Relationship to the U.S.
and Europe.?

Soner =C7ag(apty (Washington Institute for Near East Policy): ?Between
Baghdad and Brussels: Turkish foreign policy in a new era.?

John VanderLippe (SUNY New Paltz): ?The Effect of Turkish-US Relations on
Turkey?s Position in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the
EU.?

1:00 p.m.
to
2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m.
to
3:30 p.m. Panel 3: Post-Modern Turkey: Part B -Secularism, Tolerance & th=
e E.U.
(Chair and discussant Ecehan Ko=E7 Cornell).
Binnaz Toprak (Bog(azi=E7i University, Turkey): "Political Islam in Turke=
y."

H=FClya =DCnl=FC (Penn State): "Turkish Feminist Literature: At Home and
Abroad.?

Hakan Yilmaz (Bog(azi=E7i University, Turkey): "Turkey and Europe: Percep=
tual
Asymmetries."

Gulhan Balsoy (SUNY Binghamton): "A Gendered Reading of Cibali, Tobacco F=
actory
Photographs."

3:45 p.m.
to
5:30 p.m. Panel 4: Trade, Economic, & Secularism
(Chair and discussant, Jan Katz, Johnson Graduate School of Management, C=
ornell)

Birol Yesilada (Portland State University, Oregon): ?The Political Econom=
y
of Financial Crisis and Recovery in Turkey.?

Cem Emrence (SUNY Binghamton): ?Playing with Global City: The Rise and
Fall of a Turkish Soccer Team."

Sevgin Akis Roney (Bog(azi=E7i University, Turkey): ?Tourist Development =
and
Modernization in Turkey.?

6:00 p.m.
to
7:15 p.m. Dinner. Sage Hall Atrium
Keynote speaker: Dr. Kemal G=FCr=FCz, (Weatherhead Center for Internation=
al Affairs,
Harvard University)
7:30 p.m.  Screening of the film ?Distant? (shown in WSH), by Nuri
Bilge Ceylan.

The Forum is Co-sponsored by the Cornell/Syracuse Upstate Consortium for =
Trans
European Studies; Comparative Muslim Societies; International Programs -
College of Ag & Life Sciences; the Johnson Graduate School of Management;=
 Near
Eastern Studies; the Music Department and the Turkish Students Associatio=
n.

For more details contact:
Gail Holst-Warhaft
Institute for European Studies
Cornell University
120 Uris Hall
Ithaca. NY 14853-7601
glh3@cornell.edu
607-255-7592