TODAY 12:30-2pm: Challenges to Transform the Ethnicity Regime in Turkey
Neelanjan Sircar
Kurdish Electoral Behavior and Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007"
A talk by
Sener Aktürk
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Karen Barkey, Columbia University
Professor of Sociology and History
This talk is based on the working paper "Challenges to Transform the
Ethnicity Regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish Electoral Behavior and
Demands for Recognition, 1946-2007."
Recent publications by Sener Aktürk include "Continuity and Change in
the Regimes of Ethnicity in Austria, Germany, the USSR/Russia, and
Turkey: Varieties of Ethnic Regimes and Hypotheses for Change"
Nationalities Papers, March 2007, and Incompatible Visions of
Supra-Nationalism: National Identity in Turkey and the European Union,
European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 2.
Date: Monday, April 14
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Location: International Affairs Building, 802
A reception will follow the talk.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy,
Toleration and Religion (CDTR) and the Institute for Social and
Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).The talk is co-sponsored by
theCenter for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR),
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the
Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL).
For more information: Ahmet Kuru: ak2...@columbia.edu