Istanbul – Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, will host a series of lectures on Caucasia in general, which were first delivered at the Istanbul-based private University of Bilgi in 2005.
The lectures will be given at the Ankara-based private University of Bilkent between April 13 and May 31. They will largely be about the Circassian identity, how the Circassian nationhood as well as statehood emerged, theories of diaspora, nationalism and policies of energy. The Caucasian lectures came about as a project by the Caucasian Forum. These lectures are intended to put under discussion such concepts as ethnicity, nationalism, identity and nation-state, to benefit from such academic disciplines as political science, psychology, sociology and history in analyzing their implications, and to give from the perspectives of history, sociology and literature an objective account of how the Circassian identity emerged.
It costs one person 50 YTL to join the Caucasian Lectures (Agency Caucasus)
This year’s program contains the following timetable:
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The Lecture Timetable
The Dynamics of Unification in North Caucasus
April 19, Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Sefer BERZEG
Expert on Caucasus
Researcher – Writer
Identity as Path or Home: Images of Circassianness Taken as a Critical Reading Practice
April 26, Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Erol KOROGLU
Bogazici University
Department of Turkish Language and Literature
Classic and Modern Theories of Diaspora, The Caucasian Diaspora in Turkey
May 3, Saturday, 1 p.m – 5 p.m.
Dr. Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Supervisor of Scientific Studies
French Institute of Anatolian Studies
Processes of Nation Statehood and Nationalism
May 10, Saturday, 1. p.m. – 5 p.m.
Assist. Prof. Zana CITAK
Middle East Technical University
Department of International Relations
Russia: Its Foreign as well as Caucasian Policies in its Historical Continuum
May 17, Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Assoc. Prof. Mitat CELIKPALA
TOBB University of Economics And Technology
Department of International Relations
Global Energy Policies and Caucasus
May 25, Sunday,
A. Necdet PAMIR
Oil Engineer
Expert on Energy Policies
Russia: Its Structure and Tradition as a State and its Imperial Strategies
May 31, Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Assoc. Prof. Hakan KIRIMLI
Bilken University
The Center of Russian Studies