Istanbul in a Globalizing World Symposium

On Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at the third and final international symposium of the Istanbul in a Globalizing World project, organized in cooperation with Bahçeşehir University and the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, leading thinkers from different disciplines will come together to discuss the opportunities and challenges brought by an increasingly cosmopolitan and globalizing world and share their assessments of the Istanbul experience.

The symposium will begin with an opening speech by Bahçeşehir University President Yılmaz Esmer . In the first panel, chaired by Türkiye-US expert Ömer Taşpınar(Brookings Institution), Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Dimitar Bechev (European Council on Foreign Relations) will look at Istanbul as the mirror of cosmopolitanism from European and Mediterranean perspectives. In the 2nd session, chaired by Nora Fisher Onar(Bahçeşehir University), leading cultural critic Murat Belge (Bilgi University) and the author of the bestselling books Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières , will present their approaches through literature.

THREE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WILL DISCUSS ISTANBUL!

Chaired by Fuat Keyman(Sabancı University), the third and final session will bring together three social scientists. The first speaker, the academic known worldwide for her many works on "European" and "Islamic" modernity, Nilüfer Göle (Paris École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – ECHHR), will share her assessments of how the promise of cosmopolitanism can be realized through the combination of these two understandings of modernity. The second speaker, an expert on the politics of citizenship and nationalism in the Middle East, Sami Zubaida (Birkbeck, University of London), will give his views. The final talk will be given by the political economy and Istanbul expert from Boğaziçi University, Çağlar Keyder .

 “The symposium on "Istanbul in a Globalizing World" will be held as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events at the Bahçeşehir University Fazıl Say Conference Hall.

Bahçeşehir University
Directorate of Corporate Communications

Date: Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Time: 09:45 – 18:00
Venue: Bahçeşehir University - Fazıl Say Hall

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