[Bilimsel Haber] International Conference: The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and the Future of Turkey Thursday November 7, 2013

[Tugrul Keskin]

International Conference
The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and the Future of Turkey
Thursday November 7, 2013

VIRGINIA TECH NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
1021 PRINCE STREET ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314

RSVP IS REQUIRED to attend the conference:
kurdishandturkish at yahoo.com <mailto:kurdishadnturkish at yahoo.com>
Tel: 202-378-8606
http://turkeyandkurds.blogspot.com/

Organized and Sponsored by
School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech, National Capital
Region <http://www.ncr.vt.edu/programs/pia.html>
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair (Indiana University)
<http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eceus/faculty/silay.shtml>
Center for Turkish Studies (Portland State University)
<http://www.pdx.edu/turkish_studies_center/home>


OPENING REMARKS BY KEMAL SILAY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON
<http://www.iub.edu/>   <http://www.iub.edu/>

PANEL - 1: 
Kurdish Nationalism and Imperial Legacy

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Moderator: Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech <http://www.vt.edu/>
Perception of Identity among the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Iran - Derya Berk
(Rutgers University <http://www.rutgers.edu/> )
De Facto States and the Independence Question: Is Iraqi Kurdistan an
Exception? - Zheger Hassan (University of Western Ontario
<http://www.uwo.ca/> )
Europe’s Kurdish Diaspora as Bellwether - Vera Eccarius-Kelly (Siena College
<http://www.siena.edu/pages/1.asp> )
Imperialism and Kurdish Nationalism in Turkish Press - Begümşen Ergenekon
(Middle East Technical University <http://www.metu.edu.tr/> )


PANEL - 2: Room - I
Young Academicians and Kurdish Nationalism

10:30 - 12:00 AM

Moderator: Tuğrul Keskin, Portland State University <http://www.pdx.edu/>

Modernization, Religiosity, and Ethno-nationalism of the Kurds in Turkey -
Keri Hughes (California State University - Long Beach
<http://www.csulb.edu/> )
>From Juba to Erbil: The Growth of Cross-­Continental Consciousness - Evan
Fowler (John Hopkins University <http://www.jhu.edu/> )
Foundational Mythology and The Discursive Construction of Terrorism in the
PKK - Selim Can Sazak (Columbia University <http://www.columbia.edu/> )
Political Mobilization Theory, Syrian Kurds and PKK - Wladimir van
Wilgenburg  (The JamestownFoundation <http://www.jamestown.org/> )

PANEL - 3: Room - II
Kurdish Nationalism in Contemporary Turkey

10:30 AM - 12 :00 PM

Moderator: Birol Yeşilada, Portland State University <http://www.pdx.edu/>

Emergence of Kurdish Nationalist Movement: From Social Movement Theories
Perspective - Rahman Dağ (Exeter University <http://www.exeter.ac.uk/> )
The “Arab Spring” and the Kurdish Community: An Analysis of the Kurdish
Movement in Turkey in the Aftermath of the Arab Revolutions - Tülin Şen
(King's CollegeLondon <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx> )
Language and Nation Building: The History of Kurdish in Turkey - Engin
Gülbey (Turkish Police Academy <http://www.pa.edu.tr/?appcode=mainpage> )
Evolution of Turkish Nationalism and the Changing Nature of Kurdish Problem
- Salim Çevik (Ipek University <http://www.ipek.edu.tr/en-US> )

PANEL - 4: Room -I 
PKK and Kurdish Nationalism

1:30 - 3:30 PM

Moderator: Birol Yeşilada, Portland State University <http://www.pdx.edu/>
<http://www.pdx.edu/>

US Policies and PKK’s New Situation  - Deniz Tansi (Yeditepe University
<http://www.yeditepe.edu.tr/?language_id=2> )
The PKK and Kurdish Movement in the 1970s - Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya (Ghent
University <http://www.ugent.be/en> )
Turkey’s War on Terror: A Comparison of Applied Strategies in Dealing with
the PKK - Doğan Koç  (GülenInstitute-University of Houston
<http://www.guleninstitute.org/> )
The PKK Problem: Turkey's Incapacity to Solve It - Birol Başkan (Georgetown
University- School of Foreign Service in Qatar
<http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/> )

PANEL -5: Room -II
The Kurds and the Future of Turkey

1:30 - 3:30 PM

Moderator: Joshua Hendrick (Loyola University ofMaryland
<http://www.loyola.edu/> )

Understanding the “Kurdish Question”: an ethnographic case study in
Yüksekova Tahir Abbas (Fatih University
<http://www.fatih.edu.tr/?&language=EN> ) and İsmail Hakkı Yiğit
(Mississippi State University <http://www.msstate.edu/> )
‘Prepared for Peace, Ready for War’? Context and Challenges of the Current
Peace Process - Edel Hughes (University of EastLondon
<http://www.uel.ac.uk/> )
An Ethnographic Account of the Compulsory Public Service of Doctors in
Hakkari: The Limits of the JDP’s Assimilation Strategy and the Production of
Space - İlker Cörüt (Central European University <http://www.ceu.hu/> )
The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism within the Turkish State Discourse -
İnci Aksu Kargın (Indiana University, Bloomington <http://www.iub.edu/> )

PANEL -6: 
The Kurds and the Future of Turkey

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Moderator: Kemal Silay, Indiana University,Bloomington <http://www.iub.edu/>

Managing Violent Conflicts of Mesopotamia through Regionalism: Emergence of
Kurdish Sphere as a Game Changing Actor for Contestation and Peace Process -
Haluk Baran Bingöl (Kennesaw State University <http://www.kennesaw.edu/> )
Negotiations Between Pro-Islamic Government and Öcalan, the PKK Question for
Turkey - Ali Kemal Özcan (Tunceli University
<http://www.tunceli.edu.tr/index.html> )
The AKP’s Kurdish“Closing” - Elif Genç (York University)
>From the Right for Independence to the Claims for Territorial Autonomy: The
Kurdish Questions in Turkey - Maya Arakon (SüleymanŞah University
<http://www.ssu.edu.tr/?&changelang=en> )
The Correlates of Kurdish ethno-nationalism in Turkey: A more definitive
test - Faruk Ekmekçi (Ipek University <http://www.ipek.edu.tr/en-US> )

DINNER: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
BY INVITATION ONLY
INDIGO LANDING RESTAURANT
ONE MARINA DRIVE  
ALEXANDRIA, VA  |  22314

http://www.indigolanding.com/

ORGANIZERS: 
Kemal Silay, Professor of Turkish Language and Literature; Ottoman and
Modern Turkish Studies Endowed Chair Professor; Director, Turkish Language
Flagship Center; Director, Turkish Studies Program Indiana University
Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs. Director of
the Government and International Affairs program; Virginia Tech
Tuğrul Keskin, Assistant Professor of International and Middle East Studies;
Affiliated Faculty of Black Studies Sociology, and Turkish Studies; Portland
State University


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