Podcasts about ko university

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 https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779985/filming-in-european-cities/#bookTabs=1 Ipek Celik Rappas is Associate Professor in Media and Visual Arts at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research explores media and marginalized communities in Europe, and the relationship between media labor, production, and space. She is the author of In Permanent Crisis. We spoke to Ipek about why and how television and movie producers frequently seek off-the-beaten-path locations for filming, some behind-the-scenes stories from Game of Thrones and other productions, and what steps can be taken to create a more sustainable screen economy.

With the exile of Syria's Bashar Al-Assad recently, much interest has been focused on the sect of Islam of which he was a member. However, there are some who claim that the denomination known as Alawite is not Islam at all, but a heretical break-off sect. To understand this somewhat intricate situation we speak with Dr. Stefan Winter who has studied religion in Syria and Turkey for decades. Stefan Winter is a Canadian historian specializing in the study of Ottoman Syria. He teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal and has been visiting professor at Koç University in Istanbul. His research concentrates on Shi‘i, Bedouin and Kurdish principalities in northern Syria and southern Anatolia and has been published by Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press and in a number of academic journals. His work won the Syrian Studies Association's prize for best dissertation in 2002 and the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association's Fuat Köprülü Award in 2017.

In this episode we are joined by renowned archaeologist Ian Hodder to delve into his extensive work at Çatalhöyük, a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site in Turkey. We explore the burial practices that shed light on social hierarchies, the role of food in shaping community identity, and how the unique architectural layout of Çatalhöyük reflects its complex social structure. Ian Hodder discusses the symbolism and ritual life of this early society, offering insights into one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in the world. Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist known for his pioneering work in post-processual archaeology, which emphasizes the interpretation of cultural meaning in archaeological findings. He is a professor at Koç University in Istanbul and directed the Çatalhöyük Research Project for 25 years, transforming our understanding of early human settlements. Çatalhöyük, one of the largest and best-preserved Neolithic sites, is known for its densely packed houses, art, and evidence of early communal living. The site provides key insights into the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, with elaborate burial practices and rich material culture reflecting a sophisticated, interconnected society.

Since November, Yemen's Houthi rebels have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea, claiming this campaign is in response to Israel's military operation in Gaza. As a result, major shipping companies have suspended their routes through the Suez Canal, which handles 12% of world trade. The US has established a naval coalition named Operation Prosperity Guardian to fend off Houthis attacks. So far, however, the attacks have continued, and there is a risk of a direct confrontation between the US and the Houthis. Does this mean the Gaza war is being widened to a Middle East conflict? Host Ding Heng is joined by Zhang Sheng, Visiting Research Fellow with Koç University in Istanbul, Turkiye; Lee Pei May, Assistant Professor of Political Science with the International Islamic University Malaysia; He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Kara and Jordan meet with Dr. Serena Love to discuss her ongoing work with Seamus Blackley on the collection of ancient yeast and reconstruction of ancient bread making techniques. How does one collect ancient yeast without contamination? What can be learned through experimental archaeology? And most importantly, what did ancient bread taste like?! --- Bio: Serena is an anthropological archaeologist with 30 years' experience working in Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Iraq and most recently in Australia. She earned a PhD from Stanford University with a specialty in geoarchaeology and prehistoric architecture, where her research developed new methods for analysing mudbricks and theoretically blending phenomenology and archaeological science to reach innovative interpretations about social lives in the past. Serena's publications have focused on symbolic landscapes in Egypt and the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. Serena has lectured internationally and taught archaeology at Stanford, Brown University and University of Queensland, and held a Senior Fellowship at Koç University in Istanbul in 2016. Serena is committed to science communication and community-led research and has spent the past 7 years working with Aboriginal communities in Queensland with grant writing, capacity building and developing curriculum aligned, archaeology themed teaching materials for Australian classrooms. Serena uses archaeology to connect the people of today with the people of the past and she is driven to constantly explore, learn and share the subject wherever possible.  -- If you want knowledgable hot takes on headlines about archaeology, Egyptology, and antiquity in general delivered to your inbox, subscribe to our Substack Ancient/Now. You can also support the podcast by becoming a Patron. Follow Kara on social media: https://linktr.ee/karacooney

The White House and senior Republicans may have reached an "agreement in principle" to raise the debt ceiling, but now lawmakers must vote on it. The US government has never defaulted on its debt, but that didn't stop rating agencies including Morningstar from placing the country's AAA credit rating under review. Joining Julia to discuss is Morningstar Senior Vice President of Sovereign Global Ratings Michael Heydt.  Also on today's show: Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics at Koç University in Istanbul. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

SPONSORED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION. Junwon Ko, University of Kentucky, spoke with IISE's Frank Reddy during #IISEAnnual2023 in New Orleans. Ko took part in IISE's Sustainable Development Division volunteer project. Just as in previous years, the effort marks the start of the Annual Conference.Learn more about our sponsor at: https://sps.columbia.edu/iise

In this episode of the party cooperation series, Zsolt Enyedi talks with Murat Somer, professor at Koç University working on polarization, religion, ethnic conflicts, democracy, and democratic erosion. He is an advisor to various civil society organizations and opposition political parties.   Turkey is a country with a long experience of cooperation among parties both in the government and outside of it. At the same time, Turkish politics is deeply polarized. The party system is dominated by AKP, the Justice and Development Party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's president. AKP is supported by the so-called People's Alliance. The opposition party with most governmental experience is CHP, the Republican People's Party. CHP leads the Nation Alliance, which is also called the “Table of Six”, having currently five other members. The Pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, HDP, is at the head of a third, smaller alliance. The parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled to take place on 14th of May, six weeks from now.  

Across the globe, health-care workers have gone on strike to protest the stress placed on them by the global COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn, pushing already-strained services beyond their limits. These labour actions are part of the challenges faced by countries attempting to provide welfare services to their populations. We talk to three experts about why social welfare services are being cut, and what actions governments may need to take to ensure better access. Featuring Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, senior economics lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in the UK, Christine Corlet Walker, a research fellow at the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey, also in the UK, and Erdem Yörük, assistant professor at Koç University in Istanbul in Turkey.This episode was produced by Mend Mariwany and Katie Flood. The executive producer is Mend Mariwany. Eloise Stevens does our sound design and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available soon. Sign up here for a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.Further reading: Better income assistance programs are needed to help people with rising cost of livingCOVID-19 holds lessons for the future of social protectionDegrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet – podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Turkey has experienced a severe erosion of democratic principles. Democratic institutions have been changed, the media heavily influenced and controlled by government forces, and opposition politicians are intimidated and persecuted. With Esra İşsever-Ekinci I discuss Turkey's democratic backsliding. She explains what steps the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) took to secure their power grab. Changing the democratic institutions was an essential part of preserving power, so that now it looks unlikely that the opposition forces are able to seriously challenge this power in the upcoming elections in the 2023 general elections. To name just two setbacks, a presidential system was introduced in 2017, that concentrates more power in the executive, and the media have become heavily controlled by the government so that the opposition has mostly lost its voice. Esra İşsever-Ekinci is a postdoctoral researcher at Koç University in Istanbul. She got her PhD in Political Science and Government from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in the U.S. in 2019. Her research is in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Institutions and Electoral Systems, focusing especially on issues of electoral reform and gender. CORRIGENDUM: 8:33 Democrat Party instead of Democratic Party; 13:20 1970s instead of 1960s; 19:47 15 million votes, it may sound like 50 million. Show notes with a full transcript and links to all material discussed: https://rulesofthegame.blog/turkeys-democratic-backsliding/ Schedule: 0:00 Introduction / 3:07 Personal questions / 5:34 main discussion / 40:29 Recommendations by Esra İşsever-Ekinci Find more information about Esra İşsever-Ekinci's research: https://gsssh.ku.edu.tr/en/departments/international-relations-and-political-science/faculty/show/esraekinci/ Follow Esra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/es_ekinci Please send feedback to stephan.kyburz@gmail.com. Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Esra İşsever-Ekinci.

IWP professor Dr. Henry P. Williams discusses "Turkey's President Erdogan's Balancing Leading to the 2023 Elections." About the lecture Dr. Henry P. Williams will discuss how Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is walking a tightrope leading up to the 2023 national elections, as well as the implications for the Western alliance and NATO. About the speaker Dr. Henry P. (Phil) Williams III is originally from Michigan. He received degrees and diplomas from Culver Military Academy, the University of Virginia, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the University of Florence, Italy, and two Masters and a Doctorate in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, a joint Tufts and Harvard Program. He has lived in four foreign countries and has studied and worked professionally in four foreign languages: French, Greek, Italian, and Turkish. Formerly a Wall Street and International Investment Banker, he currently operates a small consulting business and lectures on a variety of topics, including American History, Turkey, and the Middle East. He has been featured on National Public Radio related to several of his interests, has written news commentary pieces on Turkey and the Middle East, and has published scholarly articles on Ottoman and Turkish Law. He has recently spent two semesters (2016-17) in Istanbul teaching a course at Koç University titled “Turkey and America, East and West – Where the Twain Meet.” Dr. Williams is a past National Board member of the English-Speaking Union, a Past Virginia State President of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has served on the board of the American Friends of Turkey for over twenty-three years. He is the author of Turkey and America: East & West – Where the Twain Meet. At IWP, Dr. Williams teaches The Turks: Relations with the MENA, Europe and America, Then and Now, which IWP plans to offer in summer 2022. IWP Admissions: https://www.iwp.edu/admissions/ Support IWP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E231090&id=3

Six years after the EU-Turkey Joint Statement, domestic changes in Turkey and international developments such as the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan have ensured the border between Greece and Turkey remains a hotspot for migration flows. Today, Turkey is one of the world's biggest refugee-receiving countries and hosts four million refugees. In this episode, Ayşen Üstübici, assistant professor at Koç University in Istanbul, speaks to Mariana about EU-Turkey migration diplomacy and the Turkish role in international migration governance. Looking back, Ayşen outlines the implications of the 2016 statement and the evolving attitudes of Turkish cities towards migrants and asylum-seekers in the intervening years. Then Stefanos Levidis from Forensic Architecture explores the other side of the border with Danai, looking at the Greek case as the external border of the EU. Stefanos explains why the EU-Turkey border is important and how the natural environment can be weaponized to enforce border controls. Read Chatham House's expert comments on EU migration policies: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/03/ukraine-exposes-europes-double-standards-refugees https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/10/what-externalization-and-why-it-threat-refugees Credits: Speakers: Ayşen Üstübici, Stefanos Levidis Hosts: Danai Avgeri, Mariana Vieira Editor: Jamie Reed Sound Services Recorded and produced by Chatham House

Six years after the EU-Turkey Joint Statement, domestic changes in Turkey and international developments such as the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan have ensured the border between Greece and Turkey remains a hotspot for migration flows. Today, Turkey is one of the world's biggest refugee-receiving countries and hosts four million refugees. In this episode, Ayşen Üstübici, assistant professor at Koç University in Istanbul, speaks to Mariana about EU-Turkey migration diplomacy and the Turkish role in international migration governance. Looking back, Ayşen outlines the implications of the 2016 statement and the evolving attitudes of Turkish cities towards migrants and asylum-seekers in the intervening years. Then Stefanos Levidis from Forensic Architecture explores the other side of the border with Danai, looking at the Greek case as the external border of the EU. Stefanos explains why the EU-Turkey border is important and how the natural environment can be weaponized to enforce border controls. Read Chatham House's expert comments on EU migration policies: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/03/ukraine-exposes-europes-double-standards-refugees https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/10/what-externalization-and-why-it-threat-refugees Credits: Speakers: Ayşen Üstübici, Stefanos Levidis Hosts: Danai Avgeri, Mariana Vieira Editor: Jamie Reed Sound Services Recorded and produced by Chatham House

16 March 2022 The heritage agenda in the Levant, whether focused on tourism, local communities, or sustainability, has typically been set by external agents. This event addresses this issue through presentations and discussion from two previous winners and co-authors of CBRL's Contemporary Levant best paper prize – Christina Luke, 2021 – and Shatha Abu-Khafajah, 2019. The discussion will be chaired by cultural heritage specialist, Paul Burtenshaw.  In the presentation based on her and Lynn Meskell's paper, ‘Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the desert', Christina Luke charts the nascent development agendas for archaeological heritage and tourism at Petra, Jordan. Findings reveal that saving Petra was underwritten by an increasing American vigilance in the Middle East and technocratic tourism-as-assistance agenda resulting in an overburden of international bureaucracy and consultancy culture.   Drawing on the co-authored paper with Riham Miqdadi ‘Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: Examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan' Shatha Abu-Khafaja will examine the ‘local' within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan. Sustainable development on the basis of local communities' participation dominates contemporary heritage practices in Jordan. Shatha will situate archaeology and heritage within colonialism and neoliberalism to examine how, in the Arab region, local communities have shifted from periphery to centre. Despite participatory paradigms, the shifts seem to have almost always come ‘from the outside', operating on sites and peoples alike. Shatha argues that in order to make sustainable development in the field of archaeology and heritage change has to come from within. This implies questioning western approaches and introducing conceptual and practical alternatives and options based on cultural localities. About the speakers:  Shatha Abu-Khafajah graduated as an architect from the University of Jordan in 1997. She specialized in documentation and conservation of archaeological heritage while doing her master degree in archaeology. Her PhD in cultural heritage management from Newcastle University enabled her to synthesise architecture and archaeology with special interest in establishing a sustainable approach to heritage management in the Arab region that is community-based and context-oriented. She is currently an associate professor at the Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan. Her research focuses on examining the relationship between people and place. Currently, she is exploring ‘the decolonial options' in cultural and heritage studies Christina Luke is Associate Professor of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She's conducted archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Central America, Mexico, the Balkans, and Turkey. Her professional background includes the US Department of State as well as training programmes with the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, Montenegro, and Turkey. Her research has been funded by the US National Endowment for the Humanities, US National Science Foundation, British Cultural Protection Fund, and the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council. Her current projects focus on food and society, Ottoman conservation policies, and the historiography of archaeology and preservation in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. This work grew from journal articles and her 2019 book, A Pearl in Peril: Heritage and Diplomacy in Turkey (Oxford University Press). She also serves as Editor for the Journal of Field Archaeology. About the chair: Paul Burtenshaw is an independent specialist in cultural heritage and sustainable development. He has worked on a number of community development and tourism projects in Jordan and globally. Burtenshaw holds a PhD from UCL in heritage and economic development and was the Director of Projects at Sustainable Preservation Initiative between 2014 and 2019.

Dr.Yücel Yemez is a professor in the Computer Engineering Department at Koç University. His main research areas are Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, and Machine Learning. In this episode, we talked about the relations of his research areas with industry, and the importance & applications of his research areas in the real world.

In this episode, we talk to Prof. Murat Tekalp, who is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. We talk about his research interests including image restoration and super-resolution which are the classical signal processing problems over the years, as well as modern deep learning approaches for digital image and video processing.

In this episode, Cultural and Artistic Events Coordinator at Koç University, the Artistic Programmer of Sevgi Gönül Kültür Merkezi, sound artist Oğuz Öner talks to the architect and curator Gabriel Kozlowski about his relationship with music and sounds. He discusses various definitions of noise and silence, his first solo single Silence Wide, which he defines as “a poetic journey and a blast of emotions” as well as his upcoming projects. *This episode has been recorded in late May 2021.

To learn more about the Enabled Disabled Podcast and share your story, please visit https://www.enableddisabled.com/ Bob Kulhan is a co-founder of Baby Wants Candy and has been performing, teaching & studying improv and sketch comedy since 1994 in Chicago and since 2009 in NYC. Bob was trained in improvisation by Del Close, Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Susan Messing and others at Chicago's ImprovOlympic theater, Mick Napier at The Annoyance Theater, and taught and mentored by Martin de Maat at The Second City (among so many other greats in all 3 fantastic schools!). Bob currently performs in NYC with Baby Wants Candy (Soho Playhouse), The Scene (The PIT), Dos Experimento! (The PIT), Mystic Improv (The PIT) and The Windy Pendejos? (The PIT and… really wherever the heck else we can play!). Bob's has created more than a dozen one-man and sketch comedy shows. You can find his characters on YouTube videos (“The BonVivant Gourmet” “SafetyMen” & the hit Holiday song “Christmas Hot Pants”) For the last 24 years Bob has performed and taught improvisation internationally. His teaching and performing credits include Chicago's famed The Second City, Improv Olympic, The Annoyance Theater, The PIT, Columbia College, London TheaterSports, The Banff Centre, The Australian Graduate School of Management, and Koç University in Istanbul, University of South Carolina's The Darla Moore School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Columbia University Business School, and Duke University's The Fuqua School of Business. In addition to all things improv, Bob is passionate about cooking, SCUBA diving, and Brazilian Jju-Jitsu. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enableddisabled/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/enableddisabled/support

Turkish Cargo, the cargo division of Turkish Airlines, is the fastest-growing air cargo brand globally with bold ambitions to become one of the world's top 3 air cargo brands. While most air cargo companies were hit hard during the last year, Turkish Cargo propelled forward, growing their market share to 5%. In this podcast, we're joined by Turhan Özen, the Chief Cargo Officer of Turkish Airlines, to unpick the four pillars behind Turkish Cargo's exponential growth and how they're planning to shake up the air cargo industry with their new SmartIST hub. The air cargo industry is due for a considerable upgrade, and Turkish Cargo is keen to lead the change. In this episode, we find out how.   About the speaker Before joining Turkish Airlines in 2016 as the Chief Cargo Officer, Turhan Özen dedicated ten years to CEVA Logistics, with his first role being an Operations Director. In 2019 Turhan transitioned into business development, assuming various leadership positions until 2016 where he became the Managing Director for the Middle East, North Africa, & Central Asia regions. Turhan studied Business Administration at one of Turkey's most prestigious universities, Boğaziçi University, and gained his Executive MBA from Koç University.

Dr. Engin Erzin is a professor at Koç University, a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. In this episode, we talk about multimedia signal processing and the role of deep learning with a focus on audio-visual signal processing.

Sema Çömez is a PhD Student in Industrial Engineering & Operations Management at Koç University in Turkey. She earned a master of science degree at Boğaziçi University and bachelors degree at Istanbul Technical University also in Industrial Engineering. She is the 2020 Lupina Young Researchers award winner and earned an honorable mention for the Dana Meadows Award of the System Dynamics Society for her work modeling heart failure. Transcript: https://bit.ly/SD-cast-Ep7-TranscriptSema and other young modelers were inspiring to watch in the 2020 International System Dynamics Conference. The 2021 conference is July 25th - 30th. See the link below for more information: https://systemdynamics.org/conference/Please also consider attending the free Student-Organized Colloquium which is on Sunday, July 25th: https://systemdynamics.org/2021-colloquium/Below are links to Sema's works and the Lupina Award (which we referenced in the interview): https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2020/papers/P1353.pdfhttps://youtu.be/EJCWOm3MAxYhttps://systemdynamics.org/lupina-young-researchers-award/Now, here is a poem I wrote about Sema:Sema ÇömezStudents should do what she saysStart simple and learn the terminologyBefore you jump into physiologySema won the Lupina Young Researcher awardAnd models the dynamics of health issuesTo help prevent events that are untowardBy simulating our bodys' mechanismsTo suggest treatment for our heart tissues(Which can aid humans and other organisms?)But we should exercise on a regular basisTo prevent problems like heart disease Diseases like cancer create uneaseMesses up our natural homeostasis processesVicious cycles can bring us to our knees(No reinforcing loops, please!Unless it is virtuous and creates an oasis)So we must screen and act early(Else some patients may become surly)In order to prevent a potential tragedyFrom this unfortunate maladyWe can model these diseases that one abhorsTo focus on treatment like Sema and her mentorsThank you for listening to SD-cast. Please subscribe to SD-cast to hear more SDories.Email me, ctang@wpi.edu, if you would like to be on SD-cast or recommend someone.  See below for the WPI SD Social Media accounts:https://twitter.com/WPISDclubhttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/1916314/Sign up for the WPI System Dynamics Club mailing list: https://bit.ly/WPIsdMailFormMusic:Intro and End“Limelight” by Podington Bear is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. I cut and moved the music track to fit the intro and ending.https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Haplessly_Happy/Limelighthttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Dr. Aykut Erdem is an Associate Professor at Koç University. You are welcome to this new episode of the Q&AI podcast if you wish to explore better ways to understand, interpret and manipulate visual data. We talk about many things from modeling human visual attention to using cooking recipes for multimodal commonsense reasoning, and his approach to teaching in his new course, “Deep Unsupervised Learning”.

This Week in Turkey’s guest was Professor Murat Somer, a faculty member at the political science and international relations department of Koç University. Professor Somer assessed the implications of the open letter penned by a group of retired admirals, expressing concern over the questioning of the validity of the Montreux Convention. Professor Somer weighed the political benefits of the letter for the government, as well as the opposition’s response.

Dr. Metin Sezgin is an Associate Professor at Koç University and leads the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) Lab. Their main research focus is human-computer interaction and intelligent user interfaces. In this episode, we talk about their ongoing work at IUI Lab on sketch interpretation and its relation to language and cartoons as well as his take on teaching and collaborations with industry.

In this episode, I talked to two media and communication studies scholars, Ergin Bulut and Can Ertuna, about their new research on journalism during the pandemic in Turkey. Although the pandemic had an overall negative effect on journalism, their research also showed unexpected social effects of the pandemic. Due to the public interest in accurate information, sensational journalism and the media coverage of pseudo-experts took a hit and the crisis opened up a space for real journalism, which allowed journalists to ask questions to authorities. We also talked about their individual research projects. Bulut’s book A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry, an ethnographic study of a video game studio in the US Midwest, discusses how the gendered and classed forms of labor, workplace inequalities, and racialized production cultures are rendered invisible with a discourse of “labor of love”. Ertuna’s work on journalism under an increasingly authoritarian regime following the 2016 coup attempt shows the dire conditions of journalism as a labor form at the intersection of political and economic insecurities. Ergin Bulut received his PhD from the Institute of Communications Research at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at Koç University's Media and Visual Arts Department, where he teaches classes on media industries, video game studies, media sociology, and media and populism. He researches in the area of political economy of media and cultural production, video game studies, media and politics, and critical theory. Can Ertuna has a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from Galatasaray University. He is currently working as a full time lecturer at Bahçeşehir University New Media department. He has also been working as a journalist for the last 20 years. Currently he is also working as a freelance journal for mainly international news organizations. Ergin Bulut: https://ku.academia.edu/EBulut https://mysite.ku.edu.tr/ebulut/ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501746536/a-precarious-game/#bookTabs=1 Can Ertuna: https://bahcesehir.academia.edu/CanErtuna https://www.canertuna.com/akademi/

Their study shows the advantages to the rich world of vaccinating everyone on the planet. What roadblocks stand in the way of an internationally coordinated effort of mass-vaccination against Covid-19? On February 22, we host Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics, and Sevcan Yeşiltaş, Assistant Professor of Economics, both at Koç University, Istanbul, for a discussion of their study of the costs and benefits of an equitable distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine, as well as the dangers of vaccine nationalism. You can find a copy of the transcript here: http://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2021/02/22/can-we-vaccinate-everyone-on-the-planet/

In this episode, I am hosting Zeynep Serinkaya Winter. We will discuss the gendered representations of disability in the Turkish cinema, focusing on melodramas produced between 1960 and 1980. Zeynep reveals how disability and gender intersect to signify bodies as spaces of modernization and consolidation of the nation-state project.Zeynep is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary background, currently working on digital dissidence, queer movements in Turkey and digital intimate publics. She completed her master's degree in the Comparative Studies in History and Society Program at Koç University. Zeynep has also been actively involved in civil society work, advocating for freedom of expression. She is a founding member of the Civic Space Studies Association and the co-coordinator and translator for LGBTI News Turkey, where she occasionally contributes as a writer. Her translations have also appeared in publications such as Cogito and Jacobin. Currently, she continues her doctoral studies in the Design, Technology and Society program at Koç University.Zeynep's research depicts the genre of melodrama as conducive to the enmeshment of ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism. Melodrama's sensationalist nature, coupled with its simplistic depiction of events and character development, can be seen as an infrastructure of essentialist representations reproducing ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism.Zeynep highlights the fact that Turkish melodramas responded to the side effects of modernization efforts of Early Republican Turkey. The rapid industrialization, urbanization, state-led rise of a national bourgeoisie, internal migration from rural to urban areas had led to urban sprawl, poverty and a disenchanted working class. Melodramas became the medium through which emotions arising from these complex social events can be filtered and reduced to a dichotomy of traditional values vs modern lifestyles. A middle class consisting of able bodies is the golden mean of representation in melodramas, through which hetero-patriarchal gender norms are reproduced.By drawing upon eugenic discourses that had been circulating amongst the intelligentsia, Turkish melodramas marginalize both extreme richness and extreme poorness. Melodramas equate both with moral corruptions such as excessive drinking, overt sexualization, or gluttony and idleness. People living at these extremes are marked as undesired citizens via grotesque demonization or extreme victimization. For example, the image of a rich woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a villain who does extreme evil deeds to separate the hero and the heroine. On the other hand, the image of a poor woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a victim whose subjectivity had been completely erased by every unfortunate event that happened to her.Gendered representations of disability are incorporated into melodramas as a crucial narrative tool to perpetuate hetero-patriarchal norms. For example, melodramas equate mobility impairment with asexuality or sexual dysfunction. As Zeynep puts it: “Wheelchair users are often depicted as failing from performing their gender roles, as a husband that satisfies his wife or as a wife that can be procreated with.” Moreover, bodies that are marked as female and male experience different effects of disability in Turkish movies. For example, female blindness means vulnerability to male sexual aggression. Blind women are depicted as in need of male protection and care. Male blindness, on the other, means loss of patriarchal control over women.

In this episode, I am hosting Zeynep Serinkaya Winter. We will discuss the gendered representations of disability in the Turkish cinema, focusing on melodramas produced between 1960 and 1980. Zeynep reveals how disability and gender intersect to signify bodies as spaces of modernization and consolidation of the nation-state project.Zeynep is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary background, currently working on digital dissidence, queer movements in Turkey and digital intimate publics. She completed her master’s degree in the Comparative Studies in History and Society Program at Koç University. Zeynep has also been actively involved in civil society work, advocating for freedom of expression. She is a founding member of the Civic Space Studies Association and the co-coordinator and translator for LGBTI News Turkey, where she occasionally contributes as a writer. Her translations have also appeared in publications such as Cogito and Jacobin. Currently, she continues her doctoral studies in the Design, Technology and Society program at Koç University.Zeynep’s research depicts the genre of melodrama as conducive to the enmeshment of ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism. Melodrama’s sensationalist nature, coupled with its simplistic depiction of events and character development, can be seen as an infrastructure of essentialist representations reproducing ableism, hetero-patriarchy and nationalism.Zeynep highlights the fact that Turkish melodramas responded to the side effects of modernization efforts of Early Republican Turkey. The rapid industrialization, urbanization, state-led rise of a national bourgeoisie, internal migration from rural to urban areas had led to urban sprawl, poverty and a disenchanted working class. Melodramas became the medium through which emotions arising from these complex social events can be filtered and reduced to a dichotomy of traditional values vs modern lifestyles. A middle class consisting of able bodies is the golden mean of representation in melodramas, through which hetero-patriarchal gender norms are reproduced.By drawing upon eugenic discourses that had been circulating amongst the intelligentsia, Turkish melodramas marginalize both extreme richness and extreme poorness. Melodramas equate both with moral corruptions such as excessive drinking, overt sexualization, or gluttony and idleness. People living at these extremes are marked as undesired citizens via grotesque demonization or extreme victimization. For example, the image of a rich woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a villain who does extreme evil deeds to separate the hero and the heroine. On the other hand, the image of a poor woman excessively drinking signifies that woman as a victim whose subjectivity had been completely erased by every unfortunate event that happened to her.Gendered representations of disability are incorporated into melodramas as a crucial narrative tool to perpetuate hetero-patriarchal norms. For example, melodramas equate mobility impairment with asexuality or sexual dysfunction. As Zeynep puts it: “Wheelchair users are often depicted as failing from performing their gender roles, as a husband that satisfies his wife or as a wife that can be procreated with.” Moreover, bodies that are marked as female and male experience different effects of disability in Turkish movies. For example, female blindness means vulnerability to male sexual aggression. Blind women are depicted as in need of male protection and care. Male blindness, on the other, means loss of patriarchal control over women.

Welcome to the last episode of the year! In this episode, we interview Prof. Deniz Yuret, the founding director of KUIS AI and professor of computer engineering at Koç University. We talk about Deep Learning revolution(s), the relationship between language and creativity, a multidisciplinary look into AI research, his fascination with research as well as struggles, and his dreams and goals with KUIS AI looking into the future.

Dr. Barış Akgün is an Assistant Professor at Koç University. He leads the Alive Lab at Koc. They work on designing systems and algorithms for robots that can operate autonomously in complex real-world environments, side-by-side with humans.

Bob Kulhan, CEO and Founder of BusinessImprov, returns to the SHIPS podcast in episode 083 to talk about Energy Manipulation. This is a great episode for anyone looking for ways to consistently bring their best selves forward. We discuss what energy manipulation is, that energy is a choice, and how crucially important it is to be focused and present when talking to large groups or to an individual. Bob reveals to us that our energy, and what we bring into the room, has a huge impact on those around us. To learn more about Bob and BusinessImprov, please visit http://businessimprov.com/. To take advantage of the free resources he is providing, please check out https://businessimprov.com/free-download You can order his book on the BusinessImprov website or an Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Art-Business-Improv/dp/0804795800/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=getting+to+yes+and&qid=1580485080&sr=8-2 To listen to Bob's first episode on the SHIPS podcast, go to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reacting-adapting-communicating-bob-kulhan-episode/id1463063504?i=1000444199686 Bob Kulhan has spent the last two decades linking improvisation to business through the behavioral sciences. Bob is an elite improv actor as well as an Adjunct Professor at The Duke University Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University Business School. He also is the Founder and CEO of Business Improv®. Based out of Chicago, LA & New York City, BI is a world-class leader in developing experiential learning programs for businesses. For 26 years Bob has performed and taught improvisation internationally, including for Chicago's famed Second City (core faculty & master artist), iO (Improv Olympic’s resident company/faculty), Baby Wants Candy, The Annoyance Theatre, The PIT, and occasionally at UCB. His consulting and teaching work in leadership and managerial improvisation includes emphases on team skills, fostering a collaborative corporate culture, whole body listening, busting blocks to creativity, conflict management, dyadic relationships, creative and adaptive problem solving, leadership, influence, and creating agile cultures. Since 1998, his customized Business Improv programs have benefited a number of companies, b-schools and organizations, including GOOGLE, Ford Motor Company, Cushman & Wakefield, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Yale School of Management, Koç University in Istanbul, The Australian Graduate School of Management, SAS, Mazda, American Express, Glaxo Smith Kline, DuPont, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, PepsiCo, Capital One, Neutrogena, Progressive, Colgate-Palmolive, Raytheon, WebMD, Procter & Gamble R&D University, the US Department of Defense, and the US Naval Academy. Please visit patmcandrew.com to learn more about the host and producer of the SHIPS Podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/relate-patrick-mcandrew/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/relate-patrick-mcandrew/support

In this episode, I am hosting three guests; Didem Şalgam, Balacan Ayar and Zeynep Serinkaya-Winter.We will talk about the effects of neo-conservativism on women's experiences with gynaecological violence. Didem will draw upon her research to argue that conservative gender norms that have already and always resulted in gynaecological violence are being given new meanings by the ruling government of Turkey. Also, neoconservative interpretations of gender norms manifest themselves in the state policies about healthcare provided for women.Balacan will mention an important legal case related to gynaecological violence and how this case has the potential to be a me-too movement in Turkey, especially within the healthcare system.Finally, Zeynep will share her experiences with gynaecological violence, helping our listeners affectively understand the importance of solidarity in dealing with gynaecological violence.Didem has an MS degree in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. She also has an MA degree in Gender Studies from CEU. She is currently a doctoral candidate in gender studies working on practices of sexting in “new turkey”. Please have a listen at episode three for a detailed discussion of Didem's research.Balacan is currently an MA student in Gender Studies at CEU and a research assistant at Koç University in Turkey. She received her first master's degree in Comparative Studies in History and Society at Koç University. Her research interests are medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, gender studies, sexuality, and feminist studies Zeynep Serinkaya Winter received her Master's degree from Koç University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Her Master's thesis analysed the representations of disability and gender in Turkish melodrama films and the construction of normalcy through these representations. Her current research interests include freedom of speech, censorship, the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey, Turkish cinema and digital media. You can reach her at zserinkaya13 [at] ku dot edu dot tr. We will start the discussion with an attempt to define what gynaecological violence could entail. Gynaecological violence has eluded researchers, and it has remained as a silent but very persistent problem. Thus, we believe it is best to approach it from multiple perspectives in order not to leave out any experience that may not be as apparent as physical violence.From the cases our guests will present, we observe different ways in which violence upon women during gynaecological exams are justified — the norm of women remaining a virgin until marriage is one of them. The anti-abortion stance of the government, which has de-facto stopped state hospitals from performing an abortion on demand is another source of gynaecological violence. Sexual harassment during gynaecological exams is yet another source, especially in the cases where perpetrators try to gaslight women by arguing that the harassment was a part of the gynaecological exam. Finally, ignoring women's autonomy over their body, and performing medical exams without their consents must also count as gynaecological violence.Gynaecological violence could manifest itself as phycological attacks of the doctors and nurses such as verbally assaulting women for not being virgin or making them extremely uncomfortable through their actions. It could manifest in the form of physical violence such as not using lubricants during vaginal exams, inserting the devices or fingers without warning, too fast and with extreme force. Gynaecological violence could continue outside the examination room, for example, when the doctor violates patient-doctor confidentiality and discloses women's illness or pregnancy to their families or to others.

In this episode, I am hosting three guests; Didem Şalgam, Balacan Ayar and Zeynep Serinkaya-Winter.We will talk about the effects of neo-conservativism on women’s experiences with gynaecological violence. Didem will draw upon her research to argue that conservative gender norms that have already and always resulted in gynaecological violence are being given new meanings by the ruling government of Turkey. Also, neoconservative interpretations of gender norms manifest themselves in the state policies about healthcare provided for women.Balacan will mention an important legal case related to gynaecological violence and how this case has the potential to be a me-too movement in Turkey, especially within the healthcare system.Finally, Zeynep will share her experiences with gynaecological violence, helping our listeners affectively understand the importance of solidarity in dealing with gynaecological violence.Didem has an MS degree in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. She also has an MA degree in Gender Studies from CEU. She is currently a doctoral candidate in gender studies working on practices of sexting in “new turkey”. Please have a listen at episode three for a detailed discussion of Didem’s research.Balacan is currently an MA student in Gender Studies at CEU and a research assistant at Koç University in Turkey. She received her first master’s degree in Comparative Studies in History and Society at Koç University. Her research interests are medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, gender studies, sexuality, and feminist studies Zeynep Serinkaya Winter received her Master’s degree from Koç University, where she is currently a doctoral student. Her Master’s thesis analysed the representations of disability and gender in Turkish melodrama films and the construction of normalcy through these representations. Her current research interests include freedom of speech, censorship, the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey, Turkish cinema and digital media. You can reach her at zserinkaya13 [at] ku dot edu dot tr. We will start the discussion with an attempt to define what gynaecological violence could entail. Gynaecological violence has eluded researchers, and it has remained as a silent but very persistent problem. Thus, we believe it is best to approach it from multiple perspectives in order not to leave out any experience that may not be as apparent as physical violence.From the cases our guests will present, we observe different ways in which violence upon women during gynaecological exams are justified — the norm of women remaining a virgin until marriage is one of them. The anti-abortion stance of the government, which has de-facto stopped state hospitals from performing an abortion on demand is another source of gynaecological violence. Sexual harassment during gynaecological exams is yet another source, especially in the cases where perpetrators try to gaslight women by arguing that the harassment was a part of the gynaecological exam. Finally, ignoring women’s autonomy over their body, and performing medical exams without their consents must also count as gynaecological violence.Gynaecological violence could manifest itself as phycological attacks of the doctors and nurses such as verbally assaulting women for not being virgin or making them extremely uncomfortable through their actions. It could manifest in the form of physical violence such as not using lubricants during vaginal exams, inserting the devices or fingers without warning, too fast and with extreme force. Gynaecological violence could continue outside the examination room, for example, when the doctor violates patient-doctor confidentiality and discloses women’s illness or pregnancy to their families or to others.

Assoc. Prof. Deniz Aksen, lecturing classes in Business Administration / Operations Management and Information Systems at Koç University, was welcomed as our next podcast guest. In this episode, Dr. Deniz shares his insights on why teaching Digital Marketing, especially Google Ads, at universities is important, and how our Kubix Digital workshops benefit his every-year-growing e-commerce class. Besides this, he gives tips on how to prepare for a career in Digital Marketing. Host: Pınar Ünsal Guest: Deniz Aksen Shownotes: Koç University: https://case.ku.edu.tr/en/ About Deniz Aksen: https://case.ku.edu.tr/en/faculty-staff/faculty/show/daksen/ Kubix Digital workshop: https://kubix.digital/what-we-do/in-house-training/ Google Ads: https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/ Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/analytics E-Commerce: Business,Technology, Society: International Edition, 4/E: https://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/educator/product/ECommerce-BusinessTechnology-Society-International-Edition/9780135009321.page E-Commerce 2019: Business, Technology and Society, Global Edition, 15/E: https://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/educator/product/ECommerce-2019-Business-Technology-and-Society-Global-Edition/9781292303178.page Google - Skillshop: https://skillshop.withgoogle.com/ Google Ads academy: https://landing.google.com/academyforads/ Career opportunities at Kubix Digital: https://kubix.digital/join-us/ - - - - - - - - - - Please subscribe to our channel and rate our podcasts! To learn more about Kubix Digital, visit our website: https://kubix.digital, or follow us on: Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC-7aE_7oQ26lEly06cIH1BQ Twitter: twitter.com/Kubix_Digital Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/kubixdigital/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitalkubix/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/kubixdigital/ Pinterest: tr.pinterest.com/kubixdigital/

CEO and President of Business Improv, Bob Kulhan, joins us in episode 019 of SHIPS! The author of 'Getting To Yes And,' Bob talks a lot in this episode about the importance of collaboration and communication. These are the pillars to any successful business. We also discuss how pretty much anyone can benefit from learning improv because it is such an adaptable skill in interacting and relating with our fellow human beings. To learn more about Bob and Business Improv, please check out https://www.businessimprov.com (where you can also check out his book, 'Getting To Yes And'), https://www.bobkulhan.com, @bizimprov, or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-kulhan-0226a01/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-improvisations/. Bob Kulhan is an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration for The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University as well as an Adjunct Professor of Business for Columbia Business School, Columbia University. He also is the Founder & CEO of Business Improv®. Based out of Chicago, LA & New York City, BI is a world-class leader in developing experiential learning programs for businesses. For 25 years Bob has performed and taught improvisation internationally. His teaching and performing credits include Chicago's famed Second City, Improv Olympic, Columbia College, London TheaterSports, The Banff Centre, The Australian Graduate School of Management, Koç University in Istanbul, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Columbia University Business School, and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. His consulting and teaching work in leadership and managerial improvisation includes emphasis on team skills, fostering a collaborative corporate culture, whole body listening, busting blocks to creativity, conflict management, dyadic relationships, creative and adaptive problem solving, leadership, influence, and fostering creative cultures. Since 1998, his customized Business Improvisations programs have served a large international roster of blue-chip firms such as GOOGLE, PepsiCo, American Express, Capital One, Ford Motor Company, Cushman & Wakefield, SAS, Mazda, Glaxo Smith Kline, DuPont, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, Neutrogena, Progressive, Colgate-Palmolive, Raytheon, WebMD, Procter & Gamble, R&D University, the US Department of Defense, and the US Naval Academy. Bob has had the fortune of performing improvisation and facilitating Business Improv® workshops in the United States, England, Scotland, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Turkey, Dubai, Mumbai, and Banff, Canada, where he participated as a Faculty Member and Master Artist in both the Creativity Forum on Creative Leadership, and the Thought Leadership Forum on Ethical Governance and Creating a Climate of Corporate Integrity. Bob is the author of ‘GETTING TO YES AND’, by Stanford University Press, January 2017. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/relate-patrick-mcandrew/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/relate-patrick-mcandrew/support

Turning to domestic and international courts through strategic litigation has been central to global human rights activism for decades. It is a strategy that has been used to create long lasting social change in laws and public policies with the goal of advancing human rights. For some, litigation in the name of human rights has been a great success, making the human rights movement stronger by increasing its judicial power. For others, human rights litigation remains a 'hollow hope'. It brings minimalistic, slow and fragile gains at best or, at worst, gives rise to social and political backlash. The recent decay of the rule of law in many parts of the world further puts the role of litigation and courts as engines of human rights change into question. Can strategic litigation help promote long lasting human rights change or is it merely a hindrance? Can it be done differently to increase effectiveness? What’s does the future hold for strategic litigation for human rights in an age of illiberal democracies and authoritarianism? On 13 June 2019 Wolfgang Kaleck, Founder and Secretary General of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and Başak Çalı, Professor of International Law at the Hertie School of Governance and Director of the Center for Global Public Law at Koç University, debated the issue at the Hertie School of Governance. The discussion was chaired by James A. Goldston, Executive Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. More about the event here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/debatingthefutureofstrategichumanrightslitigation/

Ali Çarkoğlu, professor of international relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Sinan Ciddi, executive director of the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University, and MEI’s Gonul Tol join host Alistair Taylor to discuss Turkey’s March 31 local elections amid mounting economic problems and political polarization.

A conversation with Çetin Çelik, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey about his work on social class, institutional habitus, and high school choices in Turkey, in which he investigates the effect of schools on the educational performance of working-class students. How do institutions other than the family shape cross-school behaviors, attitudes, aspirations, and academic performances of the students? Why do they choose different school types? How do the institutional character of these different school types change over time the way students think, behave, and make choices about their futures? Currently, Professor Çelik is a Fullbright visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Institute, Harvard University. His new project on Syrian refugees comparing how the same refugees in different countries are responding to stigmatization in different country contexts, focusing on Lebanon, Turkey, Germany, and the United States. https://wcfia.harvard.edu/cetin-celik https://ku.academia.edu/ÇetinÇelik https://cssh.ku.edu.tr/en/people/personel-detail/?user=ccelik

Doğus Şimşek of Koç University and photographer Yusuf Sayman on “Çabuk Çabuk: Africans in Istanbul” (Pencere Yayınları). The book features text by Şimşek and over 100 photos by Sayman, giving a glimpse into the lives of migrants from a range of African countries struggling to get by in Istanbul. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get (English and Turkish) transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the archive, access to a 35% discount on over 400 Turkey/Ottoman history titles published by IB Tauris, and an archive of over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history, journalism and politics.

There’s a range of issues dividing voters in America today. As it turns out, though, the current polarization is not limited to the U.S. political system. What is triggering polarization, and what is the relationship between polarization and the populist movements underway globally? What, if anything, can be done to alleviate deepening political divides? Murat Somer is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. He has written several articles and books on polarization, democracy and democratic erosion across the world. In this conversation he explores the roots of polarization, the surprising similarities between Turkey and the US, and how we might heal divisions by taking a different approach to democratic politics.

There’s a range of issues dividing voters in America today. As it turns out, though, the current polarization is not limited to the U.S. political system. What is triggering polarization, and what is the relationship between polarization and the populist movements underway globally? What, if anything, can be done to alleviate deepening political divides? Murat Somer is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. He has written several articles and books on polarization, democracy and democratic erosion across the world. In this conversation he explores the roots of polarization, the surprising similarities between Turkey and the US, and how we might heal divisions by taking a different approach to democratic politics.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nathan Bertelsen, who is a Assistant Professor and expert in migrant health at New York University and Koç University. He shares how his work with migrants in the mediterranean has changed over time, and explains how the humanity, dignity and resilience of migrant refugees is experienced from different facets of migration. He sheds light on the event of the attempted coup in Turkey and talks about the migrant health course he teaches at NYU Florence. To learn more about the NYU College of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

About the lecture: The Eastern Question is a subject that involves the the East, the West, Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. It is a story of threat perception, religion and strategic considerations that have their origins going back to the Trojan Wars, carry up through the Crimean War and into the current tensions facing the Region, from Syria to the Ukraine, in the 21st century. About the speaker: Dr. Williams is originally from Michigan. He received degrees and diplomas from Culver Military Academy, the University of Virginia, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the University of Florence, Italy, and two Masters and a Doctorate in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, a joint Tufts and Harvard Program. He has lived in four foreign countries and has studied and worked professionally in four foreign languages: French, Greek, Italian and Turkish. Formerly a Wall St. and International Investment Banker, he is currently a licensed Realtor, operates a small consulting business, and lectures on a variety of topics, including American History, Turkey and the Middle East. He has been featured on National Public Radio related to several of his interests, has written news Commentary pieces on Turkey and the Middle east, and has published scholarly articles on Ottoman and Turkish Law. He has recently spent two semesters (2016-‘17) in Istanbul teaching a course at Koç University titled, “Turkey and America, East and West – Where the Twain Meet”. Phil is a past National Board member of the English-Speaking Union, a Past Virginia State President of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has served on the board of the American Friends of Turkey for over twenty-three years. Marilyn Williams is his wife and they have two grown children, Margaret (34) and Phillips (32).

About the lecture: The Eastern Question is a subject that involves the the East, the West, Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. It is a story of threat perception, religion and strategic considerations that have their origins going back to the Trojan Wars, carry up through the Crimean War and into the current tensions facing the Region, from Syria to the Ukraine, in the 21st century. About the speaker: Dr. Williams is originally from Michigan. He received degrees and diplomas from Culver Military Academy, the University of Virginia, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the University of Florence, Italy, and two Masters and a Doctorate in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, a joint Tufts and Harvard Program. He has lived in four foreign countries and has studied and worked professionally in four foreign languages: French, Greek, Italian and Turkish. Formerly a Wall St. and International Investment Banker, he is currently a licensed Realtor, operates a small consulting business, and lectures on a variety of topics, including American History, Turkey and the Middle East. He has been featured on National Public Radio related to several of his interests, has written news Commentary pieces on Turkey and the Middle east, and has published scholarly articles on Ottoman and Turkish Law. He has recently spent two semesters (2016-‘17) in Istanbul teaching a course at Koç University titled, “Turkey and America, East and West – Where the Twain Meet”. Phil is a past National Board member of the English-Speaking Union, a Past Virginia State President of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has served on the board of the American Friends of Turkey for over twenty-three years. Marilyn Williams is his wife and they have two grown children, Margaret (34) and Phillips (32).

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies at AUB Held a Lecture The Politics of Asylum Flows and Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Question of Inclusion and Exclusion with Sebnem Koser Akcapar Associate Professor of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul Since 2011, Turkey started to receive the first refugees from Syria fleeing the eruption of violence. Since then, the civil war escalated in Syria and Turkey has become the country hosting the highest number of refugees in the world, with 3 million Syrians, and half a million other nationalities mainly from Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. There are three important factors that are usually overlooked in the flows of Syrian refugees. The first one is about the diversity of the Syrian refugee population in Turkey. They come from different socio-economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds. The second point has to do with their areas of settlement as 92 percent of all Syrians in Turkey live in urban centers. This literally means that in everyday life Syrian and Turkish nationals are in close contact with each other either in these neighborhoods they reside or in the workplaces. Yet, there are no proper integration regimes in place even after six years of living together. The third one is about their legal status. Although most of them are under temporary protection regime introduced in 2013, they are still not considered as ‘refugees’ due to Turkey’s upholding of the geographical limitation clause in the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees. Taking case studies from female-headed households and traditional families with multiple children, from single women to gays, this article will focus on different strategies adopted by Syrian refugees living in various cities in Turkey and the gendered perspective in forced migration. We will also discuss evident racism, exclusion, and social problems experienced in the urban areas. Sebnem Koser Akcapar is currently working as Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. She is also the founding Director of Center for Asian Studies (KUASIA) at Koç University. After completing her PhD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium on the role of social networks in facilitating irregular migrant flows and the survival strategies in transit countries, she moved to the USA where she worked as a post-doc visiting fellow for two years at the Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University.

On today's show, Shahram Aghamir speaks with Erdem Yörük, a sociologist at Koç University in Turkey about workers' rights and safety in Turkey. On May 13th, Turkey witnessed what has been characterized as the deadliest mining accident in Turkish modern history. This tragedy has raised questions about the impact of neo-liberal and privatization policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its far reaching impact on the lives of millions of workers in Turkey. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan hosts a conversation with John Lee, Associate Professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and Dr. Jaleh Niazi of HistoryAdvocates, about a new campagin to bring radical change in the way ancient Persian civilization is being taught in K-12 public education.  The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – ” Coal mine tragedy in Turkey and correcting ancient Persian history in schools” appeared first on KPFA.

On this week's program, Shahram Aghamir speaks with Erdem Yörük, an assistant professor of sociology at Koç University in Turkey about the political graft in that country and how it all unfolded. Malihe interviews acclaimed Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoon about the inspiration for his new novel,”The Corpse Washer”. He writes about the accumulated tragedy of loss. The post Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – “Corruption in Turkey and Living with Death in Iraq” appeared first on KPFA.