Conference Papers & Speeches
2025 Victoria, University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies
Constellation of Truths: Towards a conceptualization of borders, (un)civil society, and contentious
politics
Presentation: Counter-hegemonic struggle from the gutter: how Germany’s AfD and Austria’s FPÖ
discursively construct a border between belonging and not belonging
7-8 April.
Krakow, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies
Workshop: 'Post-Truth in Action'
Presentation: Counter-hegemonic struggle from the gutter: how Germany’s AfD and Austria’s FPÖ
discursively construct a border between belonging and not belonging
3 March.
2024 Istanbul, Kadir Has University
Convenor and Organizer of the Workshop 'Feminist Security Policy for the Black Sea region'
11 June.
2023 Ankara, TED University, Center for Gender Studies
Speech: The Promise of Feminist Foreign Policy
1 December.
2022 Thessaloniki, 9th European Workshops in International Studies
Workshop: Populism in International Relations - Moving Beyond Borders and Levels of Analysis
Presentation: 'Populist Subaltern Realism',
6-7 July.
Istanbul, Conference organized by Acibadem University's Sociology Department
Speech: 'Europe's Migration Policy during the War',
17 May.
2021 London, Webinar "Towards Open Access Social Orders" by the journal East European Politics
Presentation: 'The rising power of Turkey and the role of business entrepreneurs',
12 March.
Zürich, Lecture Series Die Türkei am Scheideweg? at Volkshochschule Zürich
Presentation: 'Das Wirtschaftswunder in der Baisse',
18 January.
2019 Sofia, 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Presentation: 'Beyond Brussels and Moscow: Turkey as an alternative player in its
post-Soviet neighbourhood', and
Presentation: 'Dual Agent of Transition: How Turkey perpetuates and undermines neo-patrimonial patterns in its Post-Soviet Neighbourhood',
12 September.
St Gallen, Public Lecture Series 'Einladung zur Politikwissenschaft: Aktuelle politische
Herausforderungen und ihre Erforschung'
Presentation: 'Einblicke in die gegenwärtige Türkei: aussenpolitische Fragen'.
16 May.
The Hague, EU-STRAT Final Conference at Leiden University
Presentation: 'Dual Agent of Transition: How Turkey perpetuates and challenges neo-patrimonial patterns in its Post-Soviet Neighbourhood',
11-12 April.
Siggen, Junge Europäischen Föderalisten Europa-Akademie on EU-Africa relations
Presentation: 'Zentralisierung und Föderalismus im postkolonialen Afrika',
7 April.
Florence, EU-STRAT workshop 'Drivers of Opening and Closure in the Eastern Neighbourhood: What Lessons for the European Union' at the European University Institute
Presentation: 'Dual Agent of Transition: How Turkey perpetuates and undermines neo-patrimonial patterns in its Post-Soviet Neighbourhood',
18-19 February.
2018 Bucharest, 'The present and future of secessionist conflicts'.
Organizer and chair of this workshop at New Europe College in cooperation with the
Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies,
7 July.
Istanbul, 'Diverging Lines: Dialogue and cooperation in research on the Eastern Black Sea region'. Organizer and chair of this EU-STRAT project workshop in cooperation with Bogazici University,
8 June.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: The European Union's Existential Crisis,
12-13 May.
Cambridge, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference.
Presentation: Turkish Foreign Policy towards its Eastern Black Sea Neighbours
13-15 April.
2017
Tbilisi, Data Collection Workshop with researchers from Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and
Ukraine.
20-21 November.
Regenstauf, 1st Corridors Young Researchers Workshop: Obstacles and Opportunities for Dialogue
and Cooperation in Protracted Conflicts.
Presentation: Turkey's foreign policy towards the Black Sea and South Caucasus regions,
3-9 September.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: The European Union and the Crisis of Democracy,
6-7 May.
2016 Washington, DC, 9th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
Presentation: Alternative Identities and the State in Contemporary Turkey,
27-29 October.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: Internal Crises of the European Union,
14-15 May.
2015 Montreal, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference.
Presentation: The failure of transitional justice in South Sudan,
26-29 August.
Paris, 6th European Conference on African Studies. Presentation: Seeing is believing!? Making and propagating an idea of the nation in South Sudan,
8-10 July.
2014 San Francisco, Sudanese Studies Association 33rd Annual Conference.
Presentation: Does Nationbuilding matter for State-building in South Sudan?,
23-25 May.
Mainz, Institute for Anthropology and African Studies.
Speech: Nation verzweifelt gesucht. Staats- und Nationenbildung im Südsudan,
13 May.
2013 Baltimore, 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
Presentation: Deterritorialisation and reconfigured sovereignty in South Sudan,
21-24 November.
Kampala, Nile Basin Conference ‘Authority, territory, community: dynamics of water, land tenure regimes, and state formation in Africa’.
Presentation: Land and belonging in emerging South Sudan,
14-15 October.
Halle, Conference Emerging South Sudan: negotiating statehood.
Panel Chair: ‘Post-Conflict Reconstruction’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
23-24 September.
Lisbon, 5th European Conference on African Studies.
Presentation: Making borders and identities in South Sudan,
27-29 June.
Rome, Conference Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century.
Presentation: South Sudan – an outlier in post-colonial African nation-building?,
20-22 June.
Zagreb, Conference Identities and Identifications – Politicized Uses of Collective Identities. Presentation: Nationbuilding in Nascent South Sudan – How to Remember the War,
18-20 April.