Open Letter to German Academia

We are deeply concerned to learn that the Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) in Essen is sponsoring a panel discussion on 13 June 2019 on the integration of refugee academics and students into Turkish higher education, and that it will do so in collaboration … more info

IIE-SRF Fellowships for Threatened Scholars

Applications due July 1, 2019: Apply Now There are more threatened and displaced scholars today than ever before. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) can help. IIE-SRF announces a July 1st deadline for its next round of applications from professors and researchers facing threats to … more info

Can Dündar zu Gast bei der Universität Duisburg-Essen

Der Journalist Can Dündar, der seit dem gescheiterten Putschversuch 2016 im Exil in Deutschland lebt, wird Dr. Ahmet Ünalans Seminar “Moderne Türkeistudien: Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft der Türkei und Deutschland, türkisch-europäische Beziehungen” besuchen und zu aktuellen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in der Türkei referieren.  Studierende sowie … more info

28th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Reclaiming Democratic Performatives: Actors, Spaces, Processes

The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is happy to announce our 28th annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Institute to be held at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland, July 9-25, 2019.  Widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical … more info