5-8 June 2012, Tartu

The European International Studies Association is inviting paper proposals for the 1st European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) in Tartu, Estonia, from 5 to 8 June 2013.

There will be a keynote speech by Professor Barry Buzan on ‘Rethinking IR in the Perspective of the 19th Century’.The registration fee will be EUR 50 (full) / EUR 30 (research students).

Please submit your paper via the link provided at this website. The deadline is 15 December 2012. Applicants will be notified by 15 January 2013 about the outcome of the selection process.

Website: http://europeanizationofturkey.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/call-for-paper-proposals-1st-european-workshop-in-international-studies-tartu-5-8-june-2013/

23 November 2012, London

An international symposium organised by the Architecture Research Group at the University of Westminster in conjunction with SOAS Seminars on Turkey. The half-day symposium brings together a panel of scholars from architecture, planning, art history, heritage, and Turkish studies to revisit the making of modern Ankara in a cross-disciplinary perspective, while also debating its legacy on the eve of the Republic’s 90th anniversary.

Web site:

www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/architecture/archive/2012/the-making-of-modern-ankara-space-politics-representation

Onur Yıldırım, Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922-1934. (Middle East Studies: History, Politics, and Law.) New York: Routledge. 2012

This study presents a comprehensive, balanced and factually grounded narrative of the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations as a historic event that has been the subject of much distortion in the historiographical traditions of nationalist lore in Greece and Turkey, as well as in scholarly publications of various sorts elsewhere over the span of the past eighty years. Diplomacy and Displacement contributes to the general literature on the Exchange by incorporating into the broader picture the Turkish dimension of the event, particularly the Turkish side of the decision-making process, and the episode of the Muslim refugees that have been left outside the scope of the research agenda, thereby, breaking up the established notion of the Exchange skewed towards the Greek side. It thus sheds doubt on the success paradigm attributed to this event. By adopting a people-centered approach to the Lausanne Treaty and its consequences, the book offers a critique of official versions of the story and encourages people to consider policy decisions together with their huge and often devastating implications for the lives of ordinary people.

Onur Yıldırım, Diplomasi ve Mübadele: Türk-Yunan Mübadelesini Yeniden Düşünmek, 1922-1934

New York Routledge s:240