Events / Ayşe Çağlar

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places?	Mon, 04.03.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar	Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
	Tunisia: After the Terror	Mon, 15.01.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar	Tunisia: After the Terror Mon, 15.01.2024 Speakers: Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation aimed to explore the societal schism in Tunisia between conservative (Muslim) and liberal factions. Following a constitutional coup in 2021 that concentrated substantial power in the hands of the president, Tunisia is ostensibly more secure, but is grappling with authoritarian regression, a deepening economic crisis, and a broader erosion of human rights. The speaker showed how the specter of the terrorist threat is leveraged to justify violations. Read more
Tunisia: After the Terror Mon, 15.01.2024 Speakers: Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation aimed to explore the societal schism in Tunisia between conservative (Muslim) and liberal factions. Following a constitutional coup in 2021 that concentrated substantial power in the hands of the president, Tunisia is ostensibly more secure, but is grappling with authoritarian regression, a deepening economic crisis, and a broader erosion of human rights. The speaker showed how the specter of the terrorist threat is leveraged to justify violations. Read more
	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond	Mon, 11.12.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Mon, 11.12.2023 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Mon, 11.12.2023 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023	Wed, 29.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth, and Planet	Thu, 19.10.2023	Lecture	Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarFabio Wolkenstein	Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth, and Planet Thu, 19.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarFabio Wolkenstein Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. In the third lecture, Seyla Benhabib asked what it means to adopt a planetary perspective when the earth is endangered by the unprecedented intensity of the movement of news and people, services and microbes, fashion and money across borders. Read more
Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth, and Planet Thu, 19.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarFabio Wolkenstein Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. In the third lecture, Seyla Benhabib asked what it means to adopt a planetary perspective when the earth is endangered by the unprecedented intensity of the movement of news and people, services and microbes, fashion and money across borders. Read more
	Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below	Mon, 16.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar	Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explored “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation revolved around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrated how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explored “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation revolved around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrated how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
	Keywords in Refugee and Migration Studies - Day 1	Thu, 12.10.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarMartina Tazzioli, Federico Rahola, Shahram Khosravi	Keywords in Refugee and Migration Studies - Day 1 Thu, 12.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarMartina Tazzioli, Federico Rahola, Shahram Khosravi Series: Conferences and Workshops Keywords in refugee and migration studies are words in motion. They show in many cases the colonial and postcolonial imprint on them. It is necessary to not only review their histories but also the multiple deployments of terms for co-option. Read more
Keywords in Refugee and Migration Studies - Day 1 Thu, 12.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarMartina Tazzioli, Federico Rahola, Shahram Khosravi Series: Conferences and Workshops Keywords in refugee and migration studies are words in motion. They show in many cases the colonial and postcolonial imprint on them. It is necessary to not only review their histories but also the multiple deployments of terms for co-option. Read more
	Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics	Thu, 05.10.2023	Lecture	Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarGeorge Karamanolis	Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics Thu, 05.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarGeorge Karamanolis Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. By interpreting cosmopolitanism as “world citizenship,” Kant makes a fundamental contribution to this contested tradition. In the first lecture, Seyla Benhabib defended aspects of Kant’s legacy against liberal nationalisms as well as postmodern and de-colonial criticisms. Read more
Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics Thu, 05.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Ayşe ÇağlarGeorge Karamanolis Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. By interpreting cosmopolitanism as “world citizenship,” Kant makes a fundamental contribution to this contested tradition. In the first lecture, Seyla Benhabib defended aspects of Kant’s legacy against liberal nationalisms as well as postmodern and de-colonial criticisms. Read more
	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’	Mon, 03.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War	Thu, 23.03.2023	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more