Knowledge Production, Economic Policy and the Transformation of Higher Education in Turkey

Date: 

Friday, April 16, 2021, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Online (Zoom registration link below)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Nazan Bedirhanoglu
Freedom Project Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Wellesley College

This event is part of a two-speaker talk with Sumercan Bozkurt-Gungen (Simon Fraser Univ) on neoliberalism and the corporate world in Turkey.

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3rncdiU.

Please note: this event will begin at 12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. If you live outside the US, double-check the time difference.

Nazan Bedirhanoglu is a Freedom Project Post-Doctoral fellow in Political Science Department at Wellesley College. She received her PhD in Sociology from Binghamton University and her MA in International Relations from Ankara University. Her research interests include political economy, intellectual property, cultural expressions, foreign policy, international organizations, the Middle East, and the Kurdish question. She teaches courses on international political economy and development at Wellesley College.  

Bedirhanoglu is now expanding her dissertation on the global governance of intellectual property rights and the historical transformation of the global intellectual property regime into a book manuscript. She also conducts two interrelated research projects: The first one is about the comparison of the Kurdish diaspora in the United States to its counterpart in Europe. The second one is an investigation of the impact of the global intellectual property and cultural heritage regimes on the Kurdish traditional knowledge under the conditions of tangible and intangible destructions and appropriations.

Contact: Liz Flanagan