TURKEY-EU RELATIONS: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE?

We would like to invite you to our workshop/conference and the screening of the film ’Coffee Futures’ by Dr. Zeynep Gursel from the University of Michigan. The film screening is sponsored by the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology and the event is organized with the support of the Institute for World Society Studies, ‘Changing Turkey in a Changing World’ (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Netzwerk Tuerkei.

Title of the event:  “Turkey-EU Relations: an Uncertain Future?”

Date: 30 August 2010, 1-7 pm   Venue: K4-129The event is open to public and free. For any queries please contact:  Didem Buhari (M.D.Buhari@rhul.ac.uk)

Programme

13:00 Opening remarks by Prof. Mathias Albert

13:20 Screening of the film ‘Coffee Futures’

13. 45-14.15 Open debate on the film

14.15-14.25 Coffee Break

14.25-16.25 FIRST SESSION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE(S)

14.25-14.55 Dr. Jochen Walter (Bielefeld): Turkey and Europe: inside/outside or in-between? On reading communicative distinctions

14.55-15.25 Dr. Basak Alpan (METU): Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey: “Europe-as-hegemony” and discourses after 1999

15.25- 15.55 Omer Ozgor (Bielefeld): The dilemma of religion regarding the Turkish membership of EU

15.55-16.25 Didem Buhari (Royal Holloway– Changing Turkey) Turkey-EU Relations from World Polity perspective: the case of Ombudsmanship

16.25-16.35 Coffee Break

16.35- 18.35 SECOND SESSION: ACTORS, PROCESSES, REACTIONS

16.35– 17.05 Rana Islam (Erlangen University– Netzwerk Tuerkei) “Turkey’s new foreign policy outreach and its compatibility with EU norms”

17.05- 17.35 Gozde Yilmaz (Free University Berlin – Netzwerk Tuerkei): Compliance with Minority Rights in Turkey (1999-2010): Recent Revival or Stagnation?

17.35- 18.05 Gunal Incesu (Bielefeld): Free movement for Turkish workers? Germany-Europe-Turkey and the question of free movement for Turkish workers

18.05-18.35 Baris Gulmez (Royal Holloway – Changing Turkey): Understanding Euroskepticism in Turkey

18.35-19.05 M. Sezer Ozcan (Bielefeld): The Historical Evolution of Turkey’s Europeanization Process

How to get here:

Bielefeld is easy to reach (see below) both by car and by train: every hour an intercity train on the route from Cologne/Bonn to Berlin stops at Bielefeld Hbf. Then you take Stadtbahnlinie 4 [Lohmannshof] till Universität (7 minutes).

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