Thursday, May 23: Trust in Democratic Societies Roundtable
About Project Mosaic:
Project Mosaic is the outcome of a partnership bringing together the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Lund University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights Turkey Office, the Department of Political Science, Istanbul University and the Department of Philosophy, Koç University.
The project aims to foster academic debate and cooperation as well as practical interventions in order to meet the multitude of challenges polarised, divided or fragmented societies such as the Turkish one are facing, and to work towards establishing a ground upon which an open, tolerant and inclusive society, and the development of shared horizons among citizens can be built.
TIME AND PLACE
Thursday, May 23 between 15:00-18:00 at the The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
Admission only by registration to the event. For further information and registration please contact spyros.sofos@cme.lu.se
Roundtable participants
The ambition of the project team to foster a genuinely interdisciplinary discussion is supported by a roundtable organization methodology entailing the careful selection of the participants so as to ensure representation of a broad spectrum of different disciplinary and practice traditions and a discussion format that would encourage frank and free exchange and debate.
The invited paricipants included Zeynep Alemdar, Political Scientist, Okan University; Bann Seng Tan, International Relations Scholar, Boğaziçi University; Mehmet Bahadır Er, film director; Zeynep Gambetti, Boğaziçi University; Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu, Political Scientist with experise on Political Economy and Development,Boğaziçi University; Emre Erdoğan, Political Scientist with Political Psychology expertise, Istanbul Bilgi University; Gülru Göker, Gender Studies Scholar, Sabancı University; Murat R. Özsunay, Legal Scholar, Özyeğin University, İlker Çayla, Social Anthropologist, Okan University; İrem Aydemir, Middle Eastern Studies Postgraduate Scholar, Lund University, Can Pürüzsüz, editor, 140journos and Urban Conservation and Renovation Postgraduate Scholar, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Pelin Karakoca, Zeynep Direk, Philosophy Department, Koç University; Hikmet Kırık, Political Scientist, İstanbul University; Aysel Madra, Sociologist- Researcher/Programme Advisor – Turkey Programme, RWI; and Spyros Sofos, Political Sociologist, CMES, Lund University.
The expertise and training of the majority of discussants can be situated within social science and humanities disciplines and traditions, however, members of the team had competences that enabled them to situate their interventions in the context of technological advances in communications, surveillance and artificial intelligence, while others drew on their experiences as journalists, film makers and cultural activists.
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