Politics
of Peace vs. Politics of Empire in the Middle East: Democratic Struggles,
Neo-Ottoman Aspirations
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us for a free public lecture at 7-9pm on Thursday October 3rd, 2013 in Room 179
(west end of the building on the ground floor) at University
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Bio
Sedef
Arat-Koç is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public
Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at
Ryerson University . She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of
Toronto. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Peasants, Hegemony and the Politics of
“Normal Times”: The Cases of the Republican Peoples’ Party and the Democrat
Party, Turkey. She also holds a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University
of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Arts from Bogazici Üniversitesi (Turkey).
Dr.
Arat-Koç joined the Department of Politics and Public Administration in January
2006. Before coming to Ryerson, she was Associate Professor at the Women’s
Studies Program and the Department of Sociology at Trent University.
Sedef’s
research interests include immigration policy and citizenship, especially as
they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism;
racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and
political identities under neoliberal globalization. Currently, she is working
on “whiteness” in Turkey as a cultural, political and class identity in the
context of neoliberalism and post-cold war geopolitics.
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