Workshop anouncement "Ordering the Social - Producing Change. New Ethnographies of Turkey in Transformation"

[Michi Knecht]

Dear All,

I would likewould like to draw your attention to the upcoming conference "Ordering the Social - Producing Change. New Ethnographies of Turkey in Transformation", at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul, June 24 to 25, 2011.
More information is available on our website

http://www.sfb-repraesentationen.de/veranstaltungen/tagungen-und-wo...

The conference is open to the  public on Friday. If you wish to participate on both days, please register with the organizers in advance (because of a smaller room on the second day).

Kind regards, from Berlin
Michi Knecht


Conference organisers:
Nurhak Polat, Michi Knecht, Stefan Beck (Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin),
Levent Soysal (Chair of the Dept. of Radio, Television, and Cinema, Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University)

Discussants:
Ferhunde Özbay (Dept. of Sociology, Boğaziçi University)
Niyazi Kızılyurek (Dept. of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus)
Michi Knecht (Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)
Levent Soysal (Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University Istanbul)

Programm:

Friday, June 24

09:30     Institution welcome
Zafer Yenal
Chair of the Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University

Stefan Beck, Nurhak Polat, Michi Knecht

Workshop intro:  Extended Case Studies and the Ethnography of Persistency and Change


10:30 – 17:00     Ordering the Social: Emerging Forms of Participation/Obligation and New Subjectivities

10:30 – 12:30     Enacting critique, tradition and reform
Ståle Knudsen (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Bergen)
Popular resistance against energy projects in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Reforming the social and cultural landscape of a conservative region?

Dikmen Bezmez (Dept. of Sociology, Koç University Istanbul)
The emergence of disability-oriented institutional  frameworks under the roof of Istanbul’s government reproducing the idea of the “needy” disabled


14:00 – 16:00     New formations of participation
Erkan Saka (School of Communication, Bilgi University Istanbul)
Introductory ideas for an ethnography of emerging cyberspheres in Turkey
Barış Ülker (Free University Berlin)
Ordering the social and producing change through the “ethnic entrepreneurs”
Nurhak Polat (Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)
“Going Concern”: New Forms of Participation and Biosociality

16:30 – 17:00     Comments:
Ferhunde Özbay (Dept. of Sociology, Boğaziçi University Istanbul)


Saturday, June 25

09:15 – 13:30    Producing Change: Negotiations with the Past – Engagements with Possible Futures
       
09:15 – 10:45     Policies of Change
Banu Karaca (Sabancı University, Istanbul)
Contemporary cultural policy in Turkey: Policy by default or design?

Ebru Kayaalp (Faculty of Communications, İstanbul Şehir University)
“Law as gift” - an ethnography of law-making in Turkey

Tuna Kuyucu (Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
Perpetuating poverty and marginality through “Urban Transformation”
in Istanbul


11:00 – 13:00     Redistributing Sameness and Diversity
Esra Özyürek (Dept. of Anthropology, UC San Diego)
Turkish and christian: secularist fears of a converted nation

Sabine Strasser (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Vienna)
Transformations of honor: epistemic and cultural violence in Turkey and
the EU

Aysim Türkmen (Anthropology Department, Yıldız Technical University
Istanbul)
The Panoramic Conquest Museum

13:00 – 13:30     Comments:
Niyazi Kizilyurek (Dept. of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, Nikosia)   


14:30 – 18:00    Embodying Transformations: Actors, Knowledge and Technologies in Circulation

14:30 – 16:00     Actors of change and new forms of knowledge in the medical sectors
Aslıhan Sanal (Research Centre for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment (FSP BIOGUM), Hamburg University)
Transplanting the alien organ: Subjectivities in Turkey’s changing biopolitical landscape

Maral Erol (Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, Durham)
Transforming the menopausal Turkish woman and her medical responsibilities

Ayşecan Terzioğlu (School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Koç University Istanbul)
Grassroots Cancer Patients’ Organizations and Biological Citizenship


16:30 – 17:30     Making connections
Stefan Beck (Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin)
Biomedical mobilities – transnational lab-benches and cosmopolitan sub-politics?

Brian Silverstein (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tuscon)
Technologies of commensuration. Statistics, reform and society in Turkey

17:30 – 18:00     Comments:   
Michi Knecht (Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)
18:00     Coffee break

18:30 – 19:30    Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks
Comments and Conference Summing up:
Levent Soysal (Dept. of Radio, Television, and Cinema, Faculty of Communication, Kadir Has University Istanbul)

19:30    Closing and reception