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2nd Bilkent IR Graduate Conference: Rethinking Change in International Relations
Conference Schedule
June 1st , 2015
Morning Schedule 08:30 – 12:15
Afternoon Schedule 14:00 – 17:30
Time
Session
Time
Session
08:30 – 09:00
Registration and Opening
14:00 – 15:30
Keynote Speech
09:00 – 10:30
Panel 1
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break - Refreshments
10:30 – 11:45
Coffee Break - Refreshments
16:00 – 17:30
Panel 3
11:45 – 12:15
Panel 2
19:00 – 21:00
Conference Reception
12:15 – 14:00
Lunch Break
June 2nd , 2015
Morning Schedule 08:30 – 13:00
Afternoon Schedule 14:00 – 20:00
Time
Time
Time
Session
09:00 – 10:30
Panel 4
14:00 – 15:30
Panel 6
10:30 – 11:45
Coffee Break - Refreshments
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break - Refreshments
11:45– 12:15
Panel Session 5
16.00 – 17:30
Panel 7
12:15 – 14:00
Lunch Break
2nd Bilkent IR Graduate Conference: Rethinking Change in International Relations Conference Program
DAY 1 – 01.06.2015
09:00 - 10:30 - #1 Panel Title: “Diverse Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis”
Name/Surname
Paper title
Institution/ Affiliation
Chair
Esra Çuhadar
--Bilkent University - POLS
Discussant
To be announced
Presenter 1.
Erdem Ceydilek
Socially Distributed Foreign Policy: A Redefinition Of Agency in International Relations in The
Bilkent University - IR
Age Of Global Digital Public Sphere
Presenter 2.
Cagla Kılıc
A Role Analysis Of Chinese Foreign Policy
Bilkent University - IR
Presenter 3.
Erkam Sula
Turkish Foreign Policy Roles and Events Dataset (TFPRED): In search for a ‘Theory’ of TFP
Bilkent University- IR
10:45 - 12:15 - #2 Panel Title: “Contemporary Security Challenges: Identity, Citizenship and Migration”
Chair
Discussant
Presenter 1.
Name/Surname
Can Mutlu
Can Mutlu
Cagla Luleci
Presenter 2.
Presenter 3.
Presenter 4.
Oguzhan Turkoglu
Selen Akan
Sarp Samil Dagcinar
Paper title
----Exceptional discourse or everyday practice? Migration as (in)security and the question of the U.S.Mexico border
Securitization Of Migration And The Case Of The Netherlands
Foreign Policy Perspective and its reflection on a city: the case of Antakya
Hobbes Gets off the Tube at the Piccadilly Circus: Hobbesian Insight into the 21st Century
Institution/ Affiliation
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University- IR
Bilkent University- IR
METU - IR
İstanbul Bilgi University - IR
Bilkent University- IR
14:00 - 15:30 - KEYNOTE SPEECH:
Prof. Dr. Meliha ALTUNIŞIK
Department Of International Relations,
METU/ANKARA
16:00 – 17:30 - #3 Panel Title: “Foreign Policy Making in Turkey”
Chair
Discussant
Presenter 1.
Presenter 2.
Presenter 3.
Name/Surname
Serdar Güner
Erkam Sula
Kaan Namli
Kari Coffman
Erdem Ceydilek
Paper title
------A Liberal Approach to Public Opinion in Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Turkey’s Syrian Policy
Turkish Foreign Policy during the Kobani Crisis: A Poliheuristic Approach
Constitution Of Turkish Self: A Post- Structuralist Foreign Policy Analysis Of Jdp's Foreign Policy
Discourse On Distant Natural Disasters
Institution/ Affiliation
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
DAY 2 – 02.06.2015
09:00 – 10:30 - #4 Panel Title: “Making sense of International Relations through IPE”
Name/Surname
Paper title
Chair
Tore Fougner
---Discussant
To be announced
Presenter 1.
Hacer Eris
Hisorical Materialist IPE
Presenter 2.
Sezgi Karacan
Between the City and the Camp
Presenter 3.
Nuve Yazgan
Austerity as a Panacea? Political Consequences of Austerity Policies in Greece
Presenter 4.
Rana Coskun
Post Washington Consensus and Growth in Developing Countries
10:45 – 12:15 - #5 Panel Title: “Understanding Terrorism and Internal Armed Conflicts”
Name/Surname
Paper title
Chair& Discussant Anastassia Boitsova
Presenter 1.
Alperen Ozkan
Transnational Terrorism By Domestic Terrorist Organizations: The Case Of The PKK
Attacks In Germany
Presenter 2.
Basar Baysal
Changing Public Opinion; Kurdish-Turkish Reconciliation Efforts After 2012
Presenter 3.
Baris Ari
Opening Of Peace Processes In Internal Armed Conflicts
Presenter 4.
Alice Martini
Changing The Way We Think About Terrorism
14:00 - 15:30 - #6 Panel Title: “Questions of Identity in IR”
Chair& Discussant Emre Soran
--Presenter 1.
Nassef Manabilang Adiong Comparative Conundrum between Nation-State and Muslim Governance
Presenter 2.
Burak Ağalday
Does Identity Matter? The Impact of the Syrian Guests in Turkey on EU-Turkey
Accession Talks
Presenter 3.
Oznur Akcali
Social Movements and Theoretical Underpinnings: The Solidarity and a Critique of
Constructivism
16:00 – 17:30 - #7 Panel Title: “Middle Eastern Politics”
Name/Surname
Paper title
Chair& Discussant Eyüp Ersoy
--Presenter 1.
Safak Beren Yildirim
Enforcement of the ICC in Current Syrian Conflict Regarding to Human Rights
Presenter 2.
Egehan Altinbay
Rational Theory in Explaining Interstate Conflict: The Case of Iran-Iraq War
Presenter 3.
Elizabeth Richter
The Foreign Policy of the Supreme Leadership of Iran: Operational Code of Ayatollahs
Khomeini and Khamenei
Institution/ Affiliation
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Institution/ Affiliation
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
Bilkent University - IR
University of Essex
Universidad Autonoma de
Madrid
Hacettepe Uni. - METU IR
METU - IR
Bilkent - IR
METU - PSPA
Institution/ Affiliation
Bilkent IR – YBU IR
Eskisehir Osmangazi Uni.-IR
METU - IR
Bilkent -IR