Dans le cadre du séminaire « Recompositions, représentations et usages de l’environnement en Turquie et dans son voisinage »Mercredi 21 octobre 2015 à 14h30 à l’IFEABengi Akbulut (chercheure indépendante)« From « iron networks » to cemented dreams: development as in-justice » « From « iron networks » to cemented dreams: development as in-justice » Development is perhaps the most controversial theme that marks the debates on contemporary Turkey. And rightly so: not only because discussions on the most effective way to achieve it are heating up once again, but also because development comes with its discontents, from communities whose living spaces are destroyed by energy projects to those bearing the detrimental health impacts of industrial pollution, from residents of entire villages submerged under water with dam constructions to miners killed

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Recompositions, représentations et usages de l’environnement en Turquie et dans son voisinage » Présentation d’ouvrage « Yeni İstanbul çalışmaları: Kente politik ekoloji çerçevesinden bakmak »Lundi 12 octobre 2015 à 17h à l’IFEAAyfer Bartu (Université de Boğaziçi)Cenk Özbay (Université de Boğaziçi)Interventions en turc Geçtiğimiz kasım ayında yayımlanan İstanbul Çalışmaları: Sınırlar, Mücadeleler, Açılımlar (Metis, 2014), hem kentin içinde bulunduğu hallere hem de araştırma odakları, soruları ve yöntemlerindeki yeniliklere vurgu yaparak, olabildiğince geniş bir açıdan İstanbul’a bakmayı hedefliyor. Kentin « devlet eliyle » küreselleştirilmesi, « büyüme » saplantısı, neoliberalizmin kent üzerindeki baskıları, hukukun taşıdığı muğlaklıkların istismar edilişi, mülksüzleştirme, mutenalaştırma, kentin dönüşüm coğrafyası, « tehlikeli » diye mimlenmiş mahallelerdeki devlet şiddeti, Gezi Parkı direnişi ve yeni kentsel muhalefet, İstanbul’u sırtında taşıyan toplumsal emek, kentteki turizm, trafik, ulaşım sorunları, hareketlilikler, kadın

Lundi 19 octobre 2015 à 18h à l’IFEACaroline Finkel (historienne, Istanbul), Donna Landry (Université de Kent), Gerald MacLean (Université d’Exeter) The Making of the Evliya Çelebi Way Turkey’s first (and so far only) long-distance equestrian route, the Eviya Çelebi Way, was officially declared open In October 2013, at a ceremony in the historic village of Babasultan on the lower slopes of Uludağ. The Mayor of Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi presided, in his capacity as signatory to an agreement to support the route and make it operational. The EÇW Project began with the aim of re-enacting Evliya’s travels across Ottoman Anatolia, to reconnect people with the Ottoman past and horse culture. In 2009 an international team of academics and equestrian enthusiasts pioneered