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CANCELLED: Keynote Lecture with Nilüfer Göle on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey
A bridge between Europe and Asia? A secular role model for Muslim countries? The Republic of Turkey has inspired many hopes since it came into existence. In light of its centennial in 2023, Prof. Dr. Nilüfer Göle intended to revisit the promise and prospect of the country at the Annual Lecture of the Forschungs- und Studienstelle Schweiz-Türkei/Research Association Switzerland-Turkey (SFST). The event was co-organised by the Institute for European Global Studies, the Graduate School of Social Science, University of Basel and the Department of Anthropology, University of Bern. It was scheduled to take place on December 9, 2022, but unfortunately had to be cancelled.
Please Note: The keynote lecture with Prof. Nilüfer Göle had to be cancelled.
In her talk titled "The Turkish Republic before its Centennial: Towards or Beyond Post-Kemalism?", Prof. Dr. Göle intended to examine the state of the Republic amidst massive domestic and external transformations and explain which key challenges Turkey faces at its centennial and beyond.
About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Nilüfer Göle is one of the most influential thinkers from Turkey, who has spearheaded critical interventions both in Turkey and Europe on the questions of Islam, modernity, and secularism. She is the Professor for Sociology and Director of Studies at the EHESS in Paris. Her scholarship has opened up a new reading of modernity from a non-western perspective and a broader critique of Eurocentrism in the definitions of secular modernity. At present, her research focuses on the democracy of public space with the emergence of new forms of protest across the globe. Prof. Göle is a board member of the Nomis Foundation and the Director of the European Public Islam project at the European Research Council. She was awarded France’s most important decoration for her research, the Légion d’Honneur in 2014 and l‘Ordre nationale du mérite in 2020.
About the event
The SFST Annnual Lecture 2022 was scheduled to take place on December 9, 2022, at 6 pm in Hörsaal 101 of the Alte Universität (Rheinsprung 9, Basel), but unfortunately had to be cancelled.
It was organised by the Forschungs- und Studienstelle Schweiz-Türkei/Research Association Switzerland-Turkey (SFST) in cooperation with the Institute for European Global Studies, the Graduate School of Social Science, University of Basel and the Department of Anthropology, University of Bern.