#  A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 3, 2014** 

 04:30PM - 06:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South Bldg, Belfer Case Study Room 020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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**The Center for Middle Eastern Studies,** **The** **Political Anthropology Working Group,** and ***Jadaliyya*** present###  A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey

 A discussion of the Gezi Park protests, which erupted in Istanbul in late May 2013, and their aftermath. This event coincides with the launch of the *JadMag* volume, *“Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey*, published by *Jadaliyya* and Tadween Publishing—a collection of essays intended as a pedagogical resource for those teaching and studying recent events in Turkey.

 **Panelists**  
*The Politics of Knowledge Production Today: Pedagogy, Policy, and Real Time,* **Bassam Haddad**, Director of Middle Eastern Studies Program and Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University & *Jadaliyya* Co-Founder and Co-Editor

 *Constructing Politics: Infrastructure and Public Space in Istanbul,* **Elizabeth Angell**, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Columbia University & Contributor to the *JadMag* Volume  
  
*Heterogeneous Rootedness: Gezi as a Global Event in Contemporary Turkish Literature,* **Ceyhun Arslan**, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University  
  
*Engendering Biographies & Bibliographies: Women's Movement, Critical Media Practice, and Gezi,* **Cihan Tekay**, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology, The CUNY-Graduate Center & *Jadaliyya* Turkey Page Co-Editor  
  
*Formations of the Areligious: Secularism, Islamism and Alignments of Dissent after Gezi,* **Emrah Yildiz**, Joint PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & *Jadaliyya* Turkey Page and *JadMag* Volume Co-Editor  
  
Moderator: **Cemal Kafadar**, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

 Following the panel, there will be a reception in the CGIS South concourse.

 *Special thanks to artist Taha Alkan for permission to use "Lady in Red Dress" (2013).*

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)  
**Sponsor(s):** The CMES Working Group on Film and Visual Arts in a Changing Middle East, the Political Anthropology Working Group, Harvard University, and Jadaliyya.



 

 



 

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