University Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna

AYSE CAGLAR | CURRICULUM VITAE

Current Position:

2011 - University Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna

Education:

2004 Habilitation in Anthropology and Sociology, Free University Berlin, Germany

Habilitationsschrift: Encountering the State in Migration-Driven Transnational Social Fields: Turkish Immigrants in Europe

1995 Ph.D., Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dissertation Title: German Turks in Berlin: Migration and their Quest for Social Mobility

1985 M.A., Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Thesis title: The Grey Wolves: A Study of a Nationalist Ideology in Turkey

1980/1981 M.A., Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1980 B.A., Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Language Skills: Turkish – native | English, - excellent | German – good | French - reading knowledge

Academic Positions:

2011 - February- University Professor, University of Vienna

2010 January-2011 - Research group director at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Multiethnic and Multireligious Societies, Goettingen, Germany

2009 September - Awarded the ”Egyetemi Tanar” title , the highest academic honor in the Hungarian higher education system, conferred by the President of the Republic of Hungary

2009 - Granted the title of University Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2006 - 2011 - Full Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2003 – 2007 Department Chair, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2003 August - 2006 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

1994-2002 - Assistant Professor at the Institut fuer Ethnologie, Free University Berlin, Germany

Current Administrative Positions and Duties at the University of Vienna:

2015 – Coordinator of the CREOLE Program (Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes – Joint Curriculum)

2014, 2015, 2016 – Member of a Habilitation Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna

2013 - Alternate Member of the Senate of the University of Vienna

2012 - Member of the Faculty Conference (Faculty of Social Sciences), University of Vienna

2011 - Member of the Ph.D. Committee at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna

2011-2014 – Member in Search Committees for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

Major Fields of Interest:

• Globalization, transnationalization processes and reconfiguration of states • Migration, migrants and migrant industries • Displacement, dispossession and urban restructuring • Neoliberalization processes • Citizenship • European cultural policies, (im)migrant cultural production and cultural industries • Nationalist discourses, popular culture and consumer culture

Teaching Experience and Guest Professorships:

2014 February-March – Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU, Budapest, Hungary

2012 March-May – Guest Professor, Department of Anthropology (Ethnologisches Seminar), Zuerich University, Switzerland

2010 May – Guest Professor Danube University, Krems, Austria

2006 April - Guest Professor Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

2005 July (5-19) - Course Director (together with Judit Bodnar) and Instructor of “Transnational Flows, Structures, Agents and the Idea of Development” at the CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary

2004 July (4-19) - Course Director (together with Judit Bodnar and Shalini Randeria) and Instructor of “Transnational Flows, Structures, Agents, and the Idea of Development” at CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary

2002-2004 - Research Associate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

2001 September (3-14) - International Summer Academy "The Local Production of Islamic Knowledge" in Istanbul organized by the Working Group “Modernity and Islam”, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin and The Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden

2001 July - Summer Institute "Public Spheres and Muslim Identities" at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany

2000 April/May - Transnational Communities Program, Oxford University (Socrates – Staff Mobility)

1999 July - Summer School, Mediterranean Program, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

1993-1994 - Full-time lecturer at the Institut fuer Ethnologie (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Free University Berlin, Germany

1993 - Part-time lecturer at the Institut fuer Ethnologie, Free University Berlin, Germany

1993-1995 - Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK

1984-1986 - Teaching Assistant (Department of Anthropology), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1981-1982 - Teaching Assistant (Department of Anthropology), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1980-1981 - Teaching Assistant (Department of Sociology) McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1979-1980 - Research Assistant (Department of Sociology), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Membership in Research Grant Evaluation Panels and International Research and Academic Institutions

2017 – DFG Panel Member

2016 – Member of Academy of Sciences in Turkey

2015 – 2018 Member of the Evaluation Panel of the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) – NCCR (National Centres of Competence in Research) “On the Move”

2014 - Panel Member of the Evaluation of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidating Grants

2006-2012 - Panel Member of the Evaluation of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants

2012 - Member of the Czech Science Foundation

2012 - Member of Academia Europaea in London

Professional Experience (editorial and advisory board membership):

2016 – Scientific Advisory Board: Towards a European THeory Of juStice and fairness – ETHOS, Horizon 2020 EU funded project, submitted February 2016

2015 – Editorial Board Member – American Ethnologist

2015 - Editorial Board Member - Anthropological Theory

2014 – Editorial Board Member - New Perspectives on Turkey, Cambridge University Press

2007- The International Institute of Sociology

2006-2012 - Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin

2009-2012 - Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna

2004 - The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in Social Science, Budapest

2010 - International Research Programme on Provincial Globalisation: The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India’s Regional Towns at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore

2012 - MireKoc, (Migration Studies Center) Koc University, Istanbul

2004 - CEU Press Publications Advisory Board

2005 - Editorial Board Member – Focaal

2012 - Editorial Board Member - International Journal of Political Sociology

2000- 2012 Associate Editor - Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs

2012 - Scientific Advisory Board Member of Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs

1996-1998 - Co-editor of Sociologus (Germany) with Prof. Georg Elwert

Professional Experience (Conferences, Session Organization, Program Development and Evaluation):

2014 Dec (3) - Session at 113th Annual Meeting of the AAA conference in Washington, D.C., “Twenty Years of the Transnational Migration Paradigm: Conjuncture, Temporality and Agency”, co-organised with Ninna Nyberg Sørensen.

2014 - Member of the Peer Expert Panel for the Accreditation Procedure at the Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2013 April (11-12) - Conference “The Crisis, Cities, Displacement, and Migrants”, IFK International Research Center of Cultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2010 December - Workshop on “Law and Mobility: Sites, scales and the entanglement of the judicial and the political, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany

2006-2007 - Workshops, Regional meeting for Central and Eastern Europe Good Practices of Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship. November 4, respectively January 28, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2006 June (24-25) - Workshop (co-organized with Prem Kumar Rajaram) “New Directions and Missing Perspectives in Migration Research”, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2006 - Commissioned background paper “Transcultural Entanglements: Ambiguities and Chances” for the Advisory Board meeting of European Cultural Foundation on April 22, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2006 - Conference (co-organized with Nina Glick Schiller) “Migration and City Scale”, 19-20 May, 2006, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

2004 June (4-6) - Inaugural Workshop “Re-envisioning Society: the State and Nation and the Social Imagination”, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2004 March (23-27) - Workshop “Cultural Policies and Immigrant Cultural Production in Euro-Mediterranean Space: Cultural Intermediaries or Interlocutors”, co-organized with Ayse Oncu (Bogazici University) in the 5th Annual Mediterranean Meeting, (RSCAS), Montecatini, Italy.

2003 – Preparation of the MA and Ph.D. Programs in Sociology and Social Anthropology for (Mid-States) accreditation in the USA

2002 December (16-17) - Conceptual memo to the plenary session on Global Ethnography organized by the SSRC, New York, USA

2002 September (6-7) - Conceptual formulation and the organization of the workshop with the “Foundation for Migration, Population and Environment" (FMPE Switzerland) and Bogazici University (BU Istanbul) on the state of the art and the future of migration research in Turkey, “Migration Research in Turkey", Istanbul, Turkey

2002 August (14-17) - “East West and the Limits of Civilization" Session (co-organised with Levent Soysal) for the 7th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002 - Organizational meeting at NYU to establish a joint MA program on Migration at the Free University, Berlin, New York University (NYU), University College London and University of Amsterdam

2002 - Conceptual paper for a new program at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. “Social formations on the shores of power or analytical borderlands: Turkey at the edge of Europe“

2001 - Report on the Situation of Migration Research in Turkey for Stiftung Bevoelkerung, Migration und Umwelt, Switzerland

2001 - Outline of a Trans-disciplinary and Trans-regional Research Agenda Centered on Turkey, for the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany

2000 March (23-26) - Session on "State Sovereignty and the Globalization of People and Production" at the German-American Frontiers Symposium 2000, Atlanta, USA

1999-2000 - Organizing Committee Member of German-American Frontiers of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (GAFOSS) Symposium (Max Planck Society for Human Development and Social Science Research Council)

1999 - Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Consumption, 21-23 August 1999, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

1998 December 14 - Workshop on "The Professionalization of Women in Turkey" (co-organized with Ute Luig), Free University Berlin, Germany

1997 July - Workshop on "Kurdish Women and Activism" (co-organized with Martin van Bruinessen), Free University Berlin, Germany

Lectures and Forums:

2017 May (3) – “The social and the “cultural” in land grabbing and labor: urban restructuring and the war economy in Mardin”, joint CASCA and IUAES conference, Ottawa, Canada 5

2017 March (9) – “Reading and writing the city in relation to the politics of today”, panel discussion at the African Centre for Migration & Society and Wits City Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017 March (8) – “Migrants, city making and the value creation processes in a multiscalar perspective: Space and time in migration scholarship”, public lecture at the African Centre for Migration & Society and Wits City Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017 January (11) – “Diversity and City-Making”, talk at the Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung ‘Transkulturalität’, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria

2016 November (17) - “A Multiscalar Approach to Value Creation in a Disempowered City: Failures and the Historical Conjuncture”, AAA Annual conference in Minneapolis, USA

2016 November (8) – “Migrants and City Making in a Multiscalar Perspective: Space and Time in Anthropology of Migration”, paper presented at ‘Anthropology in Austria’ of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK

2016 September (15) – “The Spatial and Temporal Frameworks of Migration Scholarship: Challenges for the 21st Century”, keynote speech at the First Tomsk Anthropology Forum, Tomsk, Russia

2016 July (9) – “The challenge of diversity”, summer school talk at the Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology Vienna “Divercities: governing urban diversity”, Vienna, Austria

2016 July (4) – Impulse lecture at the Creole Intensive Program “European Anthropology under Construction: new approaches, methodologies, theories, and challenges for the 21st Century, Barcelona, Spain

2016 May (11-13) – “Emplacing Migrants in Disempowered Cities: A Multiscalar Analysis”, keynote speech at the II. International Urban Studies Congress, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 Nov (18-22) – “Chronotopes of Migration Scholarship: The Challenges of Radical Contemporaneity”, AAA Annual conference in Denver, USA

2015 Aug (27-29) - “Migrants between Myth and reality: Displacement, dispossession and city making” – IJURR Lecture, RC21 Conference 2015, Urbino, Italy

2015 Jan 26 – “Migrants and cities: the Spatial and Temporal Frameworks of Migration Scholarship and the challenges of anthropology” – Inaugural Lecture at the University of Vienna, Austria

2014 Dec (2-6) - “Migrants and city-making processes in times of crisis”, SAE Roundtable Luncheon Discussions, AAA conference in Washington, D.C.

2014 October (27-29) – “Nations Unbound and beyond: the global perspective and the spatio-temporal frameworks “, Perspectives on Nation Unbound: The Transnational Migration Paradigm in the Current Conjuncture - Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 May (15-18) – “Crisis, displacements, and migrants in disempowered cities”, IUAES/JASCA conference, Tokyo, Japan

2014 April (23-26) - “The Crisis, City-Making and Migrants”, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria

2013 November (19-24) - “Still 'migrants' After All Those Years: Foundational Mobilities, and Temporal Politics”, Invited to the Executive Committee Session at the Annual AAA (American Anthropology Association) Meeting, San Francisco, USA

2013 November 12 -“Locating Migrants: Locality, a Blind Spot in Migration Scholarship”, Invited talk at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2013 October 16 - “Politicizing the City: Sites and Processes of Contentious Politics: Displacement of Roma in Berlin”. Invited Lecture at the Department for Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

2013 August (28-31) - “The Crisis, Displacements, Cities, and Migrants”, (together with Nina Glick Schiller, Manchester University), Research Network Sociology of Migration, Session What Kind of ‘Turn’ for Migration Research? Methodological Challenges in Times of Crisis, Critique, and Change, European Sociological Association (ESA) 11th Conference “Crisis, Critique and Change”, Torino, Italy

2013 August 26 - Keynote Address “Locating homeland ties in time and place and the resilience of methodological nationalism”, Research Network McGen Generations, Multiculturalism, and Nordic Identity, funded by Nordforsk, Reykjavik, Iceland

2013 June 13 - Keynote Address “Locating migration”, 13th International Conference Migration and Urbanity, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2012 November (13-18) - “Acts of Citizenship, Displacement and Sites of Contentious Politics: EU Citizen Roma in Berlin”, Annual AAA (American Anthropology Association) Meeting, San Francisco, USA

2012 July (6-7) - “Acts of Citizenship, Displacement and Sites of Contentious Politics: EU Citizen Roma in Berlin”, at the Brazilian Anthropology Association Meeting. Post-Event: International Seminar Displacements, Inequalities and Human Rights, Sao Paolo, Brazil

2012 May (28-29) – “Politicizing the city: Sites and processes of contentious politics: Displacement of Roma in Berlin”. Invited talk at the Conference Politicizing the City, Milton Keynes, Open University, UK

2012 January 10 - “Globalization, urban re-invention and migrants”. Public lecture in Ringvorlesung Transnationale Oeffentlichkeiten Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies (SOCUM), Johannes Guterberg- University, Mainz, Germany

2011 December (9-10) - “The Context of Loyalties and Transnational Ties: Different Trajectories of Migration Scholarship in the USA and Europe”. Invited Speech at the Congress Fear and Anxiety over National Identity. Contrasting North American and European Experiences and Public Debates on Immigrant and Second Generation Integration, by the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, USA

2011 November 19 - “What is left behind: Subjectivity in the Shadow of Remnants”. Discussant at the Conference What is left behind: Subjectivity in the Shadow of Remnants, at the Annual AAA (American Anthropology Association) Meeting, Montreal, Canada

2011 October (28-29) - “Locating Hometown Associations: Migrant transnational networks and the urban scale”. Invited Speech at the Conference Transnationalization, Migration and Development, Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria

2011 October (3-5) - “Contentious Politics: Sites and Acts of Rome in Berlin”. Invited Speech at the October Urban Aspirations Workshop Mumbai. Transcendence and Control in a Global Mega City, by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the Tata Institute of Social Science October, Mumbai, India

2011 July 3 - “Migration, Scholarship: A comparative Perspective”. Invited Speech at the MIREKOC Opening Session of the Summer School, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 June 30 - “The Added Value of the Doctorate”, Invited Speech at the Conference Why doing a good PhD is never a waste of time. The Added Value of the Doctorate, Center for Doctoral Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria

2011 May - “Circular Migration between Hungary and Ukraine: Historical legacies, the economic crisis and the multidirectionality of circularity”. Invited Speech at the Congress Circular Migration of the TCN – the CEE Experiences, by the Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland

2011 May (5-7) - “Locating Migrants”, Invited Speech at the Conference Lokalitaet und transnationale Prozesse. Modalitaeten der Verflechtung, by the ZiF - Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung der Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany

2009 December - Presidential Session “Dilemmas of Citizenship: The End/s of Identity” at the 108th annual AAA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2009 (“Acts of Citizenship: Family Law, Third Country Nationals and Contentious Performances”)

2009 November - Co-organizer and Discussant of the Invited Panel by American Ethnologist and Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology “Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migration, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, US. 23 November 2009

2008 June (26-30) - “Eclipsed Pathways of Migration Scholarship”. Plenary Session on Methodological Nationalism at the 38thWorld Congress of International Institute of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2008 June 6 - “Migration Scholarship, Migrants and Cities: Blind Spots and Promises”, Keynote Address at the Conference “Migration in and from Turkey: Political, Social and Cultural Outcomes”, Migration Research Program at the Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 May (16-18) - “Making Connections: Comparative perspectives on forced entry and exclusion from marriage” at the Conference on “Multiculturalism, Autonomy and Law”, University of Vienna, Austria

2007 November/December - Migrants, neo-liberal spaces and identity politics. Paper presented to the Presidential Session Neoliberalism and Transnational Migration: Beyond Methodological Nationalism at the Association of American Anthropologists, Washington D.C., USA

2007 November 26 – “Migrant Incorporation and Questions of urban scale”, Invited talk at University of El Paso Texas, USA

2007 May (4-5)– “Multiple registers of culture: third country nationals, codification of culture, and the asymmetries at courts”, Invited Paper presented at the Workshop Contesting Multiculturalism: Gender, Culture, and Sexuality, Vienna

2006 July (23-29) - Beyond the Secluded Publics of Multiculturalism: Minorities, disjunct cultural policies in Europe and the analytical borderlands. Invited paper for the Presidential Session at the International Sociology Association Meeting in Durban

2006 - Keynote Address to Swedish Anthropology Association Conference, “On the Shores of Power: immigrants in cultural policies and taming “diversity” in times of neo-liberalism, March 24-26, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 November/December - "Shout, for the Lord Has Given You the City": Global Christianity and Immigrant Simultaneous Incorporation. Co-authored with Nina Glick Schiller. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association meeting, invited session, Washington D.C., USA

2005 May - “Immigrant Incorporation and Politics of Scale” Invited lecture at Oxford University, COMPAS and Department of Anthropology, Oxford

2005 May (9-10) - “What Kind of Internationalization at Home? Challenges of Transdisciplinarity” Invited paper at the Conference “Internationalization at Home”, organized by Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic), Rotterdam

2004 September (8-12) - Immigrant Transnational Legal Spaces: Citizenship, Family Code and Cultural Justice. Paper presented inthe Workshop “Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology” at the 8th EASA Conference, Vienna, Austria

2004 September (8-12) - “Claiming the High Ground: Global Religion and God as a Pathway of Migrant Simultaneous Incorporation” (Co-authored with Nina Glick-Schiller). Paper presented in the Workshop “Travelling Religion – Circuits of gendered Moralities”, at 8th EASA Conference, Vienna, Austria

2004 March (23-27) - “Immigrants, Cultural Diversity and the Subversive Potential of Cultural Policies”. Paper presented at the Workshop “Cultural Policies and Immigrant Cultural Production in Euro-Mediterranean Space: Cultural Intermediaries or Interlocutors”, 5th Annual Mediterranean Meeting European University Institute, Montecatini, Italy

2002 November (20-24) - "The ambiguous insiders: Immigrants, the transnational media and the European Union". Paper presented at the 101st Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, USA

2002 June (12-15) - “The growing dominance of religion in the research on Turkish immigrants in Europe” Paper presented atthe SSRC conference “Transnational religion and Migration”, Istanbul, Turkey

2002 February (7-9) - “The missing link in transnational citizenship: the case of German Turks”. Paper presented at the Conference “Is European Citizenship possible?” Social Science Net Workshop, Collegium Budapest, Hungary

2001 March (23-25) - "Die Verwicklungen des Medienkonsums deutscher Tuerken" Keynote address at the Conference "Zwischen Autonomie und Gaengelung. Tuerkische Medienkultur in Deutschland", Locum

2000 June/July - "Entanglements in public sphere in Berlin: media, advertisement industries and the state". Invited paper at the conference "Towards a new Urbanism. Re-Imagining the Cultural Metropolis and Reconstructing Urban knowledge”, Berlin

2000 June (1-3) - "Pink card blues: Multiple rules of membership". Invited paper at the "International Conference on Citizenship, State and Identity in a Globalizing World", Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

2000 May 4 - "Media corporatism, cosmopolitanism and the public sphere". Invited lecture at Nuffield College, Transnational Communities Program, Oxford, UK

2000 April - "Advertisement industries, media and cosmopolitanism". Invited paper at the conference "Conceiving Cosmopolitanism". University of Warwick, UK

1999 June (17-19) - "’Citizenship light’: Pink card and the citizenship debate in Germany". Invited paper at the conference "Redefinition of National Identity and Citizenship in the Age of Culturalist Politics in Germany, Israel, Lebanon and Turkey”, Bogazici University, June 17-19, Istanbul

1999 May (27-29) - "Urban Metaphors: The models of membership, urban spaces and the symbolic politics in Berlin”. Invited paper at the International WALD Conference "Global Flows/ Local Fissures: Urban Antagonisms revisited" May 27-29 Istanbul

1999 March (23-25) "Disentangling conflict in the politics and anthropology of immigration in Germany" Invited paper at the First Symposium "German-American Frontiers of the Social and Behavioral Sciences", Doelln

1999 March 4 - "Popular culture, urban spaces and the new scripts of community". Invited lecture, (Hilary Term Seminars), School of Geography, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

1999 February 2- "Popular culture, urban spaces and the new scripts of community". Invited lecture at the Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, USA

1999 February 4 - "Hybridization and popular culture: German-Turks in Berlin". Invited Lecture for the "Multiculturalism in Germany" series, Department of German Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, USA

1999 February 9 - "Urban spaces and popular culture: German-Turks in Berlin". Invited Lecture at German House, New York University, New York, USA

1998 September (4-7) – “The politics and anthropology of immigration”. Paper presented at 5th Biannual EASA Conference, Frankfurt

1998 June (26-28) - Deutsch-Tuerkisches Symposium der Koerber-Stiftung, Petersburg

1998 May (15-17) - "Cultural enclaves" and the public debates on German-Turks´ incorporation in Germany. Paper presentedat the 2nd SSRC Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation in Europe and the United States: publicdebates and social sciences, Berlin

1997 December (12-14) "Marginality and institutional incorporation: German-Turkish rap and Turkish pop in Berlin". Paper presented at the Conference Globalization and Ethnicity, Amsterdam

1997 October (3-5) SSRC Workshop on Immigrant political incorporation in Europe and the United States: Public debates and social science, Florence, Italy

1997 August (17-19) - “Diaspora Aesthetics”. Paper presented at the 6th Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Consumption, Oslo

1997 June (26-28) - "Hybridity: Some Methodological Queries". Paper Presented at the Conference "Beyond Multiculturalism", Berlin

1997 June 16 - "Afrikanische Modernen: Der wissenschaftliche Blick" Institutskolloquium, Institut fuer Ethnologie, Free University Berlin

1997 February (12-15) - Discussant to P. de Boeck "Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Expenditure and Identity inSouthwestern Zaire". Symposium "Afrika und die Moderne", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

1997 January 24 - Podiumsdiskussion "Welchen Beitrag leistet ethnic food zur interkulturellen Verstaendigung?" 5. Berliner Symposion zum interkulturellen Kommunikationsmanagement, Hochschule der Kuenste, 24 January, Berlin

1996 January 12 - Invited paper "Huntington und der modische Trend zum Kulturalismus". 3. Mittelmeer Symposium "Szenarien zur Deutung von Konflikten in der Mittelmeerregion", 12 January, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

1996 October 14 - "Hip-Hop and German-Turkish youth in a comparative perspective", Deutsch-Tuerkischer Dialog, Berlin

1996 July (12-15) - "Consumption, savings and the discursive constitution of generations". Paper presented at the 4th EASA Conference, Barcelona, Spain

1995 June 12 - "Intertwined Social Space of German Turks". 12 June, Manchester University (for the Leach Fellowship), Manchester, UK

1995 June (14-16) - "Creolization and Segregation in the City".Invited paper at the Conference the Future of Concrete Suburbs: Segregation, Ethnification and the Emergence of Ghettos." Summer University of Southern Stockholm

1996 March 16 - Invited paper "Der Kult um die Kultur. Nicht rechts, nicht links, sondern Kultur", Literatur- Werkstatt, Berlin

1995 August (10-12) - "Multiculturalism, Creolization and Segregation. A critical inquiry". Paper presented to the 2nd Theory, Culture and Society Conference: Culture and Identity: City, Nation, World", Berlin

1995 August (18-20) - Invited Paper "Go Go Dog! Multiple sources of Demand. A case study" The Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Research Consumption, Lund University

1994 December (9-12) - "Hyphenated Identities: Some Methodological Queries". Invited paper at the Conference on "Culture,Communication and Discourse", Manchester, UK

1994 September (2-4)-"A Coffee-table in "Two" Hands: German Turks in Berlin". Invited paper at the Conference on "Culture in the Global Marketplace", Vaxholm, Sweden

1994 September (9-10) - "Beyond Culturalism: Racism and Social Exclusion". Invited paper at the Conference "Fremdheit und Rassismus im Sport

1994 April (14-16) - "Social Exclusion and German Turks' Quest for Social Mobility".Invited Paper at the Conference "Migration, Social Exclusion and the European City". Utrecht, Netherlands

1993 September (8-11) "McKebap: DoenerKebap and Turkish Identity in Berlin", Paper present at “ The Global and the Local: Consumption and European Identity”, Fourth conference on research in Consumption, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1993 June 18 - "Comparing Popular cultures of Minorities in Germany and England", Invited paper at Sozialanthropologisches Colloquium, Free University Berlin, Germany

1993 June (1-3) - "Anthropologists from the margins of Europe: authoritative native informants or "proper" anthropologists?",Tagung "Ethnologie Europas", St. Augustin, Bonn, Germany

1992 December 8 - "Die tuerkischen Sozial Wissenschaftler in Deutschland – zwischen anerkanntem Informanten und ,echtem‘ Wissenschaftler", Invited paper at Gesamt Hochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany

1992 - "McKebap: Globalization, Migration and Consumer Culture", Paper present at the 2nd European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1992 - "Two Lives of a Coffee Table: Turkish Migrants` Quest for Social Recognition", Paper presented at the 2nd European Association of Social Anthropologists, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1992 - "Anthropology at Home and the Anthropological Discourse", Invited Paper at Pro-seminar on Fieldwork, Free University of Berlin, Department of Ethnology

1990 - "The Prison House of Culture and the Studies of Turks in Germany", Invited Paper at Sozialanthropologisches Colloquium, Free University, Berlin

1990 - Invited Paper, "Through the notion of "Izin" into the liminal lives of the Turkish migrants in Germany", Werkstatt fuer Ethnologie, Berlin

1990 - "Culture, Ethnicity and Identity: the Turks in Germany". Paper presented at the Workshop on Dominant National Cultures and Ethnic Identities", Berlin

1990 - "Das Kultur-Konzept als Zwangsjacke in Studien zur Arbeitsmigration", Invited Paper at the Workshop on "MigrantInnenforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Begrifflichkeit, Methode und politische Bedeutung", Wuerzburg, Germany

1989 - "The Myth of Return and its Implications for the lives of Turkish Workers", Invited Paper at the Workshop on"International Worker Migration: Political, Economic and Social Change in Turkey and Egypt", Istanbul, Turkey

1989 - "The Myth of Return, Pragmatism and the `Turkish culture' in Germany", Paper at the Symposium on Muslims, Migrants and Metropolis, Berlin, Germany

1986 - "Grey Wolves as a Metaphor", conference "Political participation in the Turkish Republic",Invited Paper at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

1985 - "Images of self and the others: the Turkist Discourse", Paper presented at the Canadian Ethnology Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada

1984 – “From Althusser's Theory of ideology and Durkheim's Theory of Religion to Ideology/Ritual as Discourse", Canadian Ethnology Society Meeting, Montreal, Canada

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