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1. Avril 2021 à l'IFEA
2. Activités hors IFEA
3. Podcasts
4. Publications
5. Notes et réflexions
6. Annonces

07/04/2021 6:00 pm

Intervention en français

Daniel Meier (Universités Ca' Foscari (Venise) et Saint Joseph (Beyrouth))

Limites de souveraineté, bornes géographiques, postes frontaliers ou traits sur une carte, les frontières font partie de notre imaginaire, nous entourent et compartiment notre univers. Mais est-ce qu'une frontière étatique peut être résumée à une ligne de délimitation internationale ? Comment expliquer l'inflation contemporaine de murs frontaliers à l'ère de la mondialisation ? Avec la pandémie de Covid-19, l'Europe apparaît plus que jamais fragmentée mais aussi barricadée derrière ses frontières. La frontière comme rempart serait-elle de retour ? Cette présentation entend revenir sur la façon dont on peut lire les frontières dans un monde globalisé en mettant l'accent sur la région du Moyen-Orient. Dans un premier temps, la présentation s'arrêtera sur l'avènement du système de frontières modernes en montrant comment il a été assez largement imposé à la région par le truchement des dominations impériales européennes. Cela nous permettra ensuite de revenir sur la relation entre frontières et conflits puis sur les dispositifs contemporains de frontières murées et plus généralement la dynamique de sécuritisation aux frontières. Enfin, au cœur des relations entre le Moyen-Orient et l'Europe, on observera la mise en place de la frontière mobile, réticulaire et digitale qui structure les rapports euro-méditerranéens autour des questions migratoires.


Daniel Meier est docteur en sociologie politique du Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies à Genève. Après plusieurs années de recherche au Liban et en Irak, il a été Senior Associate Fellow au St Antony's College (Oxford) et a effectué un semestre de recherche au centre d'études internationales des frontières de l'Université Queen's (Belfast). Après avoir été ingénieur de recherche au sein du programme européen EUborderscapes, il est chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE et enseignant à Sciences Po Grenoble. En 2018, il a été professeur invité aux Universités de Turin et Laval au Québec. Il enseigne ponctuellement à l'Université Ca' Foscari (Venise) et Saint Joseph (Beyrouth). Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Shaping Lebanon's Borderlands (IB Tauris, 2016) et Les frontières au-delà des cartes (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2020).

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12/04/2021 6:00 pm

Intervention en anglais

Barış Zeren (chercheur indépendant/CETOBAC) 

Séance modérée par Denis Hermann (IFEA)In December 1909, Ottoman police patrols in Bitola discovered the body of a certain Jovanovich who had been stabbed to death. Local Ottoman authorities launched a wave of operations in the town that resulted in the arrest of local Bulgarian notables for their involvement in the murder. The murder was considered a political crime –– a definition that placed the case within the framework of the Law on Brigandage, which was adopted as a provisional law bypassing the parliament. The local tension created a vortex drawing in provincial and central bureaucracies, the Ottoman parliamentarians as well as Macedo-Bulgarian political actors. This presentation aims to reconstruct the evolution of the case in its interaction with the new Ottoman political-legal sphere and to shed light on the implementation of the laws as well as on the power relations in an era marked by parliamentarism and discourse of Ottoman fraternity.
 
Barış Zeren is an independent researcher and associate member of CETOBAC, EHESS. He received his PhD in 2017 from Boğaziçi University and EHESS in which he studied the socio-political and judicial crisis of transition to the constitutional regime in the Ottoman Empire. He gave courses in Ottoman, Republican Turkey, and Russian history at Işık University and Boğaziçi University. His current research agenda includes the role of trans-imperial and underground networks in the development of the culture of constitutionalism within the period of 1848-1914 with a particular interest in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

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The Syrian Crisis and its Effects on Turkey’s Foreign Policy

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15/04/2021 6:00 pm
Intervention en anglais
 

Sinan Ülgen (EDAM)
Galip Dalay (Oxford University, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow)

Since its foundation in 1923, the Turkish Republic has never encountered a regional security and political crisis as severe as the Syrian Civil War. Indeed, the Syrian crisis that erupted in the context of the Arab uprising ten years ago continues to have significant impacts on the neighboring countries, especially on Turkey that had a very privileged relationship with Damascus before the civil war.

 In terms of foreign policy, the impact of the Syrian crisis is the most serious one. Turkey has become increasingly torn between its traditional loyalty to the West and new security calculations precipitating a tilt to the East, namely a rapprochement with Russia, Iran, and even China. To what extent is the Syrian crisis a turning point in the Turkish foreign policy traditionally oriented toward the West? What are the other effects of the Syrian crisis on Turkish foreign policy? These are the main issues that will be developed in the 7th session of the joint seminar organized between Kadir Has University and the IFEA this month with two prestigious scholars: Sinan ÜLGEN and Galip DALAY.

Sinan Ülgen graduated in 1987 from the University of Virginia with a double major in computer sciences and economics. He undertook graduate studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium where he received, in 1990, a master’s degree in European economic integration. He then joined the Turkish Foreign Service as a career diplomat. In 1992, he was posted to the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union in Brussels where he became part of the team that negotiated the Turkey-EU customs union. Ulgen is the founder and managing partner of Istanbul Economics. The consultancy specializes in market entry strategies for international companies, political and economic risk analysis related to Turkey and regulatory affairs. Ulgen is also the chairman of the Istanbul based think tank, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels. His research and opinion pieces have been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for European Policy Studies, Center for European Reform, the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, Brookings and the World Economic Forum as well as newspapers such as Le Figaro, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, European Voice, Project Syndicate and the International New York Times. He is also the co-author of a book on Turkey-EU relations with Kemal Dervis and a frequent commentator on Turkish affairs in the international press. Ulgen served on the academic advisory board member of the NATO Defence College in Rome. He was a member of the Europe Council of the World Economic Forum. He was also a member of the international policy experts group setup by the NATO Secretary General Rasmussen.

 Galip Dalay is the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, an associate fellow at Chatham House, and a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center (BDC). His current research focuses on the question of regionalism, regional order and governance in the Middle East, Turkish politics, Turkish foreign policy, regional Kurdish politics, Middle Eastern politics, Turkish -Russian and history and politics of Turkish -Western/European relations, and history of post-colonial and post-imperial forms of internationalism. Dalay’s pieces and analysis have appeared on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate,  Newsweek,  Le  Monde,  Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Middle East Eye and The World Politics Review.
 

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Journée d'étude: La place des réseaux sociaux dans la recherche

28/04/2021 9:30 am- 1.00 pm
 

Cette demi-journée a pour double objet de réfléchir sur la place des réseaux sociaux et leur usage dans la recherche en Turquie et de proposer des pistes méthodologiques. Comment ont évolué les médias et les réseaux sociaux en Turquie ? Pourquoi faire appel à l'analyse de ces réseaux dans la recherche est devenu de plus en plus pertinent ? Comment mener leur analyse ? Avec quels outils ? Comment en rendre compte ?

La séance sera animée par Isabelle Gilles et Marine Ledroit, coordonnée par Solène Poyraz et Youenn Gourain.
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Arab Presence in Turkey Refugeedom in Syria (1915-1946) Colonialism, Local Politics and Land

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28/04/2021 6:00 pm
Intervention en anglais

Seda Altuğ (The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History)
Session moderated by Alexis Wick (American University of Beirut)
This webinar is part of a series on Arab Presence in Turkey and is co-organized with the research program aMiMo (Migrations and Mobilities) at IFEA.

Scholars working on refugees and the refugee issue in the Middle East usually operate within the fields of minority, refugee, diaspora and area studies. Many scholars assume that refugees, as victims of state violence can solely be understood with reference to the past violence that they were exposed to in their home country. Similarly, these groups are considered as self-made and self-enclosed entities whose history, present and future stand out as marginal annexes to the national history. These historiographical claims hold true for the scholarly work on the post-WW1 Christian and Kurdish refugees in Syria under the French mandate (1921- 1946). This talk attempts to nuance these claims and demonstrate the ways in which these internally diverse groups of refugees who are survivors of genocide and state-sponsored mass violence in Turkey and British-Iraq (1915-1931) have cultivated novel subjectivities and articulated the terms of their belonging in French-Syria. Through reflecting on the experiences of these refugee groups, this talk will argue that the refugee issue, namely the debates about the arrival of refugees, the French colonial state’s governing of the issue and the refugees’ involvement in Syrian politics in mid-1930s reveals the terms of Syrianness-in-making in the first half of the 20th century in Syria.
 

 Seda Altuğ, Historian, is a lecturer at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She received her PhD from Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her dissertation is entitled "Sectarianism in the Syrian Jazira: Community, Land and Violence in the Memories of World War I and the French Mandate (1915–1939)". Her research interests are state-society relations in French-Syria, sectarianism, land question, empire, border and memory. Her recent work concerns land, property regimes and citizenship practices in the late Ottoman East and Syria under the French mandate.

16/04/2021 9:00 - 11:00 am

L'Observatoire Urbain d'Istanbul cherche, pour son nouveau cycle d'excursions urbaines, à questionner la production du quartier par les individus qui le traversent et l'habitent. C'est donc la production matérielle, symbolique et sociale par les habitant.e.s que les excursions urbaines de 2021 chercheront à comprendre à la croisée de la sociologie, de la géographie et de l'urbanisme. Plus précisément, les quartiers sélectionnés ont pour objet commun qu'ils apparaissent comme le fruit du croisement de certaines migrations (internes ou externes) contemporaines. Populations réfugiées, migrants économiques, externes ou internes, comment ces communautés participent-elles à inscrire et à fabriquer de nouvelles urbanités ?

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