İstanbul Seminars 2015

PHILOSOPHERS BRIDGE THE BOSPHORUS
8th edition 

Politics Beyond Borders 
The Republican Model Challenged by the Internationalization of Economy, Law and Communication

Date: 26-30 May 2015
Place: santralistanbul Campus, E1-301

Speakers: Asaf Savaş Akat, Yaman Akdeniz, Cengiz Aktar, Kerem Altıparmak, Marco Ansaldo, Albena Azmanova, Seyla Benhabib, Giovanna Borradori, Murat Borovalı, Giancarlo Bosetti, Cemil Boyraz, Can Cemgil, Georges Corm, Boğaç Erozan, Alessandro Ferrara, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Patrizio Fondi, Philippe Gaudin, Nilüfer Göle, Manlio Graziano, Mohammed Haddad, Micheline Ishay, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Riva Kastoryano, Ferda Keskin, Fuat Keyman, Ivan Krastev, Regina Kreide, Jonathan Laurence, Stephen Macedo, Stefano Manservisi, Nadia Marzouki, Max Pensky, Soli Özel, İlay Örs Romain, David Rasmussen, Larbi Sadiki, Remzi Sanver, Ömer Turan, Barış Ünlü, Diego von Vacano

Workshops are conducted by Boğaç Erozan (Turkish Republicanism), Mohammed Hashas (Arab Nationalism, Republicanism and the Quest for a Modern State), Volker Kaul (Republican Political Theory) and Debora Tonelli (European Republicanism)

PROGRAM

Tuesday, 26 May, 2015

10.00 am - 10.15 am
Remzi Sanver, Rector of İstanbul Bilgi University: Opening
Giancarlo Bosetti, Director of Reset-Dialogues: Introduction

10.15 am - 11.00 am
Seyla Benhabib: Opening Remarks
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara

11.15 am - 1.00 pm
Ivan Krastev: Exit, Noise and Disloyalty
Giovanna Borradori: Politics of the Secret and the Consequences of Its Global Disclosure
Chair: Nilüfer Göle

2.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Manlio Graziano: The Long Crisis of the Nation-State and the Rise of Religions to the Public Stage
Chair: Asaf Savaş Akat

2.45 pm - 4.15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Turkey and the Great Middle East: Between the Jihadist Menaces and Kurdish Affirmation
Speakers: Georges Corm, Stefano Manservisi, Soli Özel, Larbi Sadiki
Chair: Asaf Savaş Akat

4.15 pm
Workshop with Discussion Groups

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

10.00 am - 10.45 am
Albena Azmanova: The Right to Politics and Republican Non-Domination
Chair: Jonathan Laurence

11.00 am - 1 pm
Abdou Filali-Ansary: Transitions to Republicanism? A Few Tentative Questions
Georges Corm: Can the Notion of Citizenship be Erased from Internationally Accepted Universal Human Rights?
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara

2.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Boğaç Erozan: Republican Conception of Liberty in Early Republican Turkey and its Contemporary Implications
Chair: Murat Borovalı

2.45 pm - 4.15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Rising Internal Tensions in Turkey: What Kind of Dialogue with Europe?
Speakers: Marco Ansaldo, Seyla Benhabib,Nilüfer Göle, Fuat Keyman
Chair: Ferda Keskin

4.15 pm:
Workshop with Discussion Groups

Thursday, 28 May, 2015

10.00 am - 11.30 am
Max Pensky: Republicanism, Sovereignty, and the Globalization of Law: What is the Future of the Anti-Impunity Norm?
Diego von Vacano: Post-Republicanism and Transcultural Democracy in Latin America
Chair: Ilay Romain Örs

11.45 pm – 12.30 pm
Regina Kreide: Republicanism with a Deliberative Face: Critiques, Protest, and Public Spheres
Chair: Ilay Romain Örs

1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Micheline Ishay: Islamism beyond Borders: Can Republicanism and Human Rights Prevail?
Chair: Volker Kaul

2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Mohammed Haddad: : The Crisis of the Republican System in the Middle East and its Religious Outcomes
Larbi Sadiki: The ‘Second Republic’: Post-Arab Spring Tunisia’s Search for Republicanism
Chair: Meysam Badamchi

4.00 pm
Workshop with Discussion Groups

Friday, May 29, 2015

10.00 am – 10.45 pm
Nadia Marzouki: The Politics of Compromise in Tunisia from the Constitutional Debate to Elections
Chair: Debora Tonelli

11.00 am – 1.00 pm
Final Presentations of the Discussion
Groups: (1) Republican Political Thought, (2) Turkish Republicanism, (3) Arab Nationalism, Republicanism and the Quest for a Modern State, (4) European Republicanism.

2.00 pm - 2.45 pm
Riva Kastoryano: Negotiations Beyond Borders: States and Minorities in Europe
Chair: Patrizio Fondi

2.45 pm – 4.15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Kurdish Struggle for Liberation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Republican Ideal
Speakers: Can Cemgil: The Kurdish Alternative to the Republican Ideal: the Rojava Experiment
Ramin Jahanbegloo: The Kurdish Solution: An Empathic Republicanism
Ömer Turan/Cemil Boyraz: Challenging the Turkish Republicanism: Political Imagination of Kurdish Movement
Barış Ünlü: The Kurdish Struggle and the Crisis of the Turkishness Contract
Chair: Cengiz Aktar

Saturday, 30 May, 2015

10.00 am – 11.00 am
Stephen Macedo: Free Speech, Offense, and Civility: Interpreting and Applying Republican Principles in America, France, and Elsewhere
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti

11.15 am – 1.00 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Freedom of Expression: Comparative Perspectives
Introduction: Philippe Gaudin: Republic and Laïcité in France: Which are the Tensions and Issues since the Attacks of January 2015?
Speakers: Yaman Akdeniz, Kerem Altıparmak, Stephen Macedo, David Rasmussen
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti

1.00 pm
Murat Borovalı and Giancarlo Bosetti: Closing

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