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<P class=MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN
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& FREE PANEL DISCUSSION<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thursday, June
13<SUP>th</SUP> at 7:00-9:00<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">OISE/UT: Room
2-211</SPAN></B><SPAN
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<P class=MsoPlainText><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The
Middle East in Revolt: Turkey, the Kurds and the New Imperialist
Order<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Middle Eastern
states and world powers find it very difficult to govern and maintain the
obsolete regional and international order that was crafted by UK and France in
1918 in the wake of dismantling the Ottoman Empire, and survived the upheavals
of WWII, the rise of US Empire, the end of the Cold War, unceasing wars, and the
"Arab Spring." The state of crisis offers opportunities for the peoples in the
region to build a different world, but as we have seen in the aftermath of the
"Arab Spring", Middle Eastern social movements have failed to shape the
direction and extent of social and political transformation, while
fundamentalism and imperialism have replaced one type of authoritarianism with
another and turned the region into a state of interminable war and destruction.
This panel will discuss developments in Turkey, the project to re-structure the
Middle East under a neo-Ottoman order, and Turkey's role in maintaining the
US-centred imperialist system.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN
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<P class=MsoPlainText><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: red">Sedef
Arat-Koç</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and
a member of the School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University, contributing
to graduate programs in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Policy Studies and
Communication and Culture. Arat-Koç’s research interests include imperialism in
the Middle East and Turkish society and politics in a period of neoliberalism
and post-Cold War geopolitics. She is presently working on “neo-Ottomanism” in
Turkish foreign and national policies and the relationship of “neo-Ottomanism”
to the politics of imperialism in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Amir
Hassanpour</SPAN></U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">, Associate
Professor (Ret.), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,
University of Toronto. Dr. Hassanpour has taught the history and politics of the
modern Middle East at the University of Toronto. He is author of
<I>Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985</I> (San Francisco 1992) and
other works published in Turkey, Iraq and Iran. He has contributed numerous
article to academic journals and reference works such as the <I>Encyclopedia of
Television</I>, <I>Encyclopaedia Iranica</I>, <I>Encyclopedia of Modern
Asia</I>, <I>The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians</I>,
<I>Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East</I>, <I>Encyclopedia of
Diasporas</I> and <I>Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against
Humanity</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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