Colloque "Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization" à Sciences Po Paris les 25-26 mars 2010

Thursday 25 March 2010 : Presentation and Opening

Aydin Ugur – Istanbul Bilgi University
Christian Lequesne – Directeur du CERI-Sciences Po
Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Keynote Speaker: Kemal Dervis - Former administrator of UNDP - Director, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Friday 26 March 2010

1) Historical Perspectives of Turkish Nationalism

Chair: Pierre Birnbaum – Université Paris 1
Erik-Jan Zürcher – International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam: Why was the Republic of Turkey Proclaimed so Late?
Umut Ozkirimli – Istanbul Bilgi University: Mapping Nationalism in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and the Struggle for Hegemony
Cemil Kocak – Sabanci University: Kemalist Nationalism in Turkey
Ayhan Aktar – Marmara University: 'Tax me to the end of my life!'. Anatomy of an Anti-minority Tax Legislation, 1942-43

Discussant: François Georgeon – EHESS

2) Islam and Nationalism in Turkey

Chair: Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Jenny White – Boston University: The Two Faces of Muslim Nationalism
Kenan Çayır – Istanbul Bilgi University: The New Voices, New Subjectivities and the Changing Discourse of Islamism
Binnaz Toprak – Bahceşehir University: The Changing Role of Political Islam in Turkey
Elisabeth Ozdalga – Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul: Religious and National Identities as Reflected in Imaginative Literature

Discussant: Jean-François Leguil-Bayart – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

3) Who is a Turk? Question of Citizenship and Minority in the Prism of Nationalism

Chair: Anne-Marie Le Gloannec – Sciences Po-CERI

Aron Rodrigue – Stanford University: Millets to Minorities: Ottoman Legacies, Republican Challenges?
Haldun Gülalp – Yildiz Tecnical University: Normative Foundations of the Limits to Participatory Citizenship
Samim Akgönül – University of Strasbourg: Nation Building Process in Turkey and Religious Minorities: Between Legal
Citizenship and National Belonging

Discussant: Alain Dieckhoff – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

4) Nationalism and Civil Society: Within and Without Borders

Chair: Jean Leca – Sciences Po

Tanil Bora – İletişim Yayincilik: The « White Turk » Trendy, Cool and Nationalist
Ayhan Kaya – Istanbul Bilgi University: Accommodation of Islam in Western Europe: Individualization vs.
Institutionalization of Islam
Rusen Cakir – Vatan daily Newspaper: The Future of Kurdish “Opening” in the Shadow Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms
Ferhat Kentel – Sehir University: Nationalisms in Everyday’s Life : Reconstructions of Borders Against and Within
Authoritarianism

Discussant: Riva Kastoryano – Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS

Source : http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org/reunion_affiche.php?id=44

Photo-voyage #40 : Canada - Historical and architectural layers visible in Toronto's urban landscapes

Toronto (Ontario, Canada)

Near Union Station
October 2009
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Photo-voyage #18 : Canada - Le coquelicot du souvenir

Toronto (Ontario, Canada)

West Queen West Street
November 2009
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Le coquelicot que Canadiens sont nombreux à porter au revers de leurs vestes ces jours-ci sont le symbole de la mémoire des combattants morts pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale, à l'approche du 11 novembre (date de l'armistice de la Guerre 14-18 et appelé ici "Remembrance Day").

Remembrance Day, London, 2006
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

Le symbole du coquelicot vient du poème de John McCrae "In Flanders Fields" :

Au champ d'honneur les coquelicots
Sont parsemés de lot en lot
Auprès des croix. Et dans l'espace
Les alouettes devenues lasses
Mêlent leurs chants au sifflement
Des obusiers.
Nous sommes morts
Nous qui songions la veille encor'
À nos parents, à nos amis,
C'est nous qui reposons ici
Au champ d'honneur
À vous jeunes désabusés
À vous de porter l'oriflamme
Et de garder au fond de l'âme
Le goût de vivre en liberté
Acceptez le défi, si non
Les coquelicots se faneront
Au champ d'honneur

"Version originale" - Anglais :

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields.

Photo-voyage #11 : Canada - Maisons victoriennes et bohèmes de Cabbagetown, Toronto

Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Cabbagetown
Octobre 2009
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Sur une des façades (photo du haut) flotte le drapeau de la "communauté" du quartier de Cabbagetown (ci-dessous), dont le nom provient des immigrants Irlandais qui s'y sont installés à partir de la fin des années 1840, dont on dit qu'ils étaient si pauvres qu'ils cultivaient des choux devant leurs maisons.

Sur l'histoire et l'actualité du quartier : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbagetown,_Toronto
Site tenu par des membres de la "communauté" : http://www.oldcabbagetown.com/comm_open.php

Photo-voyage #5 : Canada - Younge Street, "la plus longue rue du monde" de Toronto au Lac Simcoe

Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Downtown, Younge Street
Septembre 2009

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[Younge Street] (pronounce "young") was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at 1896 km, and is a national historic site.

Highway 11 was a part of Yonge Street, which led to claims that Yonge Street was the longest street in the world. Running from the shores of Lake Ontario, through central and northern Ontario to the Ontario-Minnesota border at Rainy River, together they were over 1,896 kilometres long. But Yonge Street could only be called the longest street in the world if "Highway 11" and "Yonge Street" were synonymous, which is not the case anymore. The original Yonge Street continues along its original alignment, ending in Holland Landing. This alignment was extended over the years, and today ends just south of Lake Simcoe.

Yonge Street is fundamental in the planning and layout of Toronto and Ontario, forming the basis of the concession roads in Ontario. It was also the site of Canada's first subway line.

Looking north from Temperance Street in 1903

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street