Webinar: Changing Gender Performances of Turkish Women Diplomats

Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rahime Süleymanoğlu Kürüm & Prof. Dr. Bahar Rumelili

Facilitator: Dr. Damla Aksel

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2022, 14:00-15:30

Venue: Bahçeşehir University South Campus, M Conference Hall / Zoom (Hybrid)

Zoom Link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83571025501

About the Speakers:

Bahar Rumeliliis a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, and holds a Jean Monnet Chair. Her research focuses on international relations theory, processes of European identity construction, conflict resolution, and the interaction between the EU and Turkish politics and civil society. She is the author of Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia (Palgrave, 2007) and the editor of Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security: Peace Anxieties (Routledge, 2015). Her articles have been published in high-impact journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies and Journal of International Relations and Development. She received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2009 and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye Incentive Award in 2014.

Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürümis a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University. She is also an associate member of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP). Her research focuses on Europeanization, EU foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, gender studies in the EU, and diplomacy and gender. She is the author of "Conditionality, the EU and Turkey: From Transformation to Retrenchment" (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of "Feminist Framing of Europeanisation: Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU" (Palgrave, 2021).