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An insightful workshop with brilliant speakers 👇🏼

Call for Papers: Turkish Politics in Transition – New Perspectives on State, Society, and Foreign Policy The Political Studies Association’s Turkish Politics Specialist Group invites contributions for an upcoming online workshop and a prospective special issue on the evolving landscape of Turkish poli…

🚨 Call for Contributions! 🚨
The ‪Political Studies Association‬’s Turkish Politics Specialists Group is organising a special issue workshop.
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2025
‪@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬
psaturkishpolitics.uk/2025/07/16/c...
#AcademicWorkshop #SpecialIssue #CallForPapers

With great sadness we announce the passing of our colleague, Professor Fulya Atacan, following her extended illness. Fulya was internationally recognised for her scholarship on Middle Eastern politics and Islamic movements, and will be dearly missed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/condolences/...

cok uzucu... tum sevenlerinin basi sagolsun...

Clear-eyed look at food devastation in Turkish life, including lack of access to nutritious food, including not only meat, but also fruits and vegetables, and pesticide contamination. Particularly damming, given Turkey’s great agricultural potential.

📣 Call for Papers: The Authoritarian Eco-System 📣

We are launching a new policy brief series w/ the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on authoritarian politics!

Deadline: 3 October 2025
Submit abstract (500 words) researcher’s profile, and CVs to: arc.psa.sg@gmail.com

Details? Read the call &🧵

Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social

congratulations👏👏👏

Our Kurdish Studies Conference (11-13 June) will close with a screening of All The Mountains Give, followed by a Q&A with Director Arash Rakhsha.

The film offers a powerful account of the Kolbari covert goods traders along the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq.

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nR...

Very much looking forward to my virtual book launch tomorrow!

Here is the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

34th BATAS Spring Symposium Event Poster

Poster: Prof Selva Demiralp talk on Inflation and Institutions: Turkiye, the United States, and the Politics of Price Stability

#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week.
1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation
2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement
Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...
Keeping busy during #eid
@lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI
🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux
📅7 June, Saturday
🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement
🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu
www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

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here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?

Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.

My piece on the real dangers of AI.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version

Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis"
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...

Meeting in Defiance Some thoughts on “no” before travelling to Istanbul

I’m off to Istanbul today - my first ever visit to Turkey. Looking forward to sharing some killjoy solidarity & meeting in defiance! I shared a few thoughts on my newsletter, which includes a link to the livestream for the lecture on Wed with the title, No!
open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

‘What I learned when students walked out of my AI class’ Chris Hogg found the question of using AI to create art troubled his students deeply. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding for both student and educator

Lecturer Chris Hogg of @royalholloway.bsky.social found the question of using #AI to create #art troubled his students so deeply, they walked out of the class. Here’s how the moment led to deeper understanding: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-... #GenAI #artificialintelligence

I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars!

#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
@lse-ei.bsky.social
Details are here👇

Such a great initiative — highly recommend this workshop 👇🏼

Wild stuff.

The memo purports to authorize "a line officer, or any other available officer" to decide who is an "Alien Enemy," subject only to supervisor review.

It does not require court approval for anything.

Alarm over EU plan to use Horizon funding for defence Concerns framework programme’s budget could be redirected to back projects with military uses ‘threatens to undermine its core purpose,’ say leading research universities

Plans to break with a 40-year tradition and allow dual-use and defence-related projects to be funded under Horizon Europe have been branded “unacceptable” by leading research universities
#AcademicSky #HorizonEurope

Webinar: How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book Learn what scholarly writers need to know when trying to publish for broader readerships and markets. Webinar hosted by Laura Portwood-Stacer with guest Kate McKean, literary agent and author of Write...

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

@evreki.bsky.social'dan Turkiye'nin siyasal gecmisi ve gelecegine dair harika bir yazi:
"Türkiye’nin geleceği, bugünün geçmişten farkına ... değil, yüzleşilmiş bir hafızadan doğan, çoğul ve demokratik bir tahayyüle yaslanmalı"
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/evr...

Started the conference with the presentation of the paper: “Are Exclusionary Attitudes on the Rise Among Political Science Students? The Turkish Case” from Prof. Funda Gençoğlu, Dr. Asuman Özgür Keysan, and Dr. Zelal Ozdemir.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@psaturkish.bsky.social
#Psa2025

Dün Afganlı maden işçisi Nourtani’yi yakanlara ödül gibi ceza verildi. Kısa zamanda özgür de kalacakları kesin
Yoksuldu üstelik mülteciydi.
Davasını takip eden güzel insanlar vardı. Biz de buradan sesi vermeliyiz.
#NourtaniSuçlularıYenidenYargılansın