[Discussion] Turkey: towards post-nationalism? 14-16 October 2004 Basel

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From: Hans-Lukas Kieser <hans-lukas.kieser@unibas.ch>

Basel (Switzerland), 18 September 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Please find here an announcement concerning a symposium to take place
at Basel University on Turkish nationalism and on Turkey's perspective
of joining the EU.
For more information see http://www.hist.net/kieser/bs04/

Best regards,
Hans L. Kieser (Swiss Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)

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THURSDAY, 14 October 2004

Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1, Room 115

19.00 Key-note lecture: Udo Steinbach (Deutsches Orient-Institut
Hamburg): Die Tuerkei und Europa - am Ende eines langen Weges

FRIDAY, 15 October
Orientalisches Seminar, Missionsstr. 64a (rear building), Room 05
(ground floor)

09.15=D09.45 Welcoming addresses and introduction


09.45-11.15 Liberalism versus political unitarism

- Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS Paris): "La projection du Kemalisme:
troisieme p=99le d'un systeme antiliberal."

- Rifat Bali (Istanbul): "Politics of Turkification during the
single-party period."

- Elise Massicard (CNRS, Paris): "Claiming difference in an
unitarist frame: The case of Alevis."


11.45-12.45 Ethno-religious variety versus political unitarism

- Kemal Kirisci (Bogazici University, Istanbul):  "Old and new
patterns of immigration into Turkey: EU as a vehicle of 'post-national'
transformation in Turkey.

- Gabriel Goltz (Ankara): "Die armenische Minderheit in der Tuerkei -
zu den Entwicklungen seit den EU-Anpassungsreformen."


14.15-15.45 The urgency of leaving nationalism behind

- Erik-Jan Zuercher (Universitaet Leiden): "Kemalism between
universalism, particularism, and Turkist racism."

- Fikret Adanir (Universitaet Bochum):  "Between developmental
dictatorship and quasi-fascism: The Kemalist regime of the inter-war
period in comparative perspective."

- Ebru Bulut (EHESS, Paris):  "Du support publicitaire aux theories
de complots; pregnance et grammaire sociale du nationalisme populaire."


16.15-17.15 The urgency of leaving nationalism behind (continued)

- Gulistan Gurbey (FU Berlin):  "Die 'Tuerkei den Tuerken' oder
eine pluralistische Gesellschaft? Zum Kurdenkonflikt."

- Eugen Krieger (Europainstitut-Basel):  "Fragile EU-Perspektiven der
Tuerkei seit den 1960er Jahren."


18.30-20.00 Public Podiumsdiskussion
ueber die Tuerkei und die Grenzen Europas/ panel discussion on Turkey
and the boundaries of Europe (in German) - Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1,
Room 115

Fikret Adanir, Hamit Bozarslan, Gulistan Gurbey, Guenter Seufert, Udo
Steinbach, Georg Kreis (Gespraechsleitung)


SATURDAY, 16 October
Orientalisches Seminar, Missionsstr. 64a (rear building), Room 05
(ground floor)


09.00-11.00 Resettlement, expulsion and genocide

- Fuat Dundar (EHESS Paris):  "Young Turkish settlement politics."

- Berna Pekesen (Universitaet Bochum):  "Der Massenexodus von Armeniern
aus dem Sandschak von Alexandrette in den 1930er Jahren."

- Raymond Kevorkian (Universite de Paris III):  "Entre aveux et deni:
comment assumer la responsabilite du genocide des Armeniens?
L'antecedent des cours martiales d'Istanbul (1919-1920).

- Muge Gocek (University of Michigan):  "Defining the parameters of
a post-nationalist Turkish historiography: the Armenian case."


11.30-13.00 Biographies marquees par le nationalisme

- Maurus Reinkowski (Universitaet Freiburg): " 'Leading the Nation'.
Autobiographies Written by Turkish=CAMilitary Officers."

- Paul Dumont (Universite Marc Bloch Strassburg):  "Mustafa Kemal -
prolegomena d'une biographie critique."

- Johann Strauss (Universite Marc Bloch Strassburg):  "Comment peut-on
preserver un patrimoine? Les erudits minoritaires dans la Turquie
republicaine."

14.30-15.15  Towards a Turkish "post-nationalism"? (Final discussion
with all participants)