[Fdu] OISE/UT panel: The Middle East in Revolt

Cynthia Wright cynthia.wright at utoronto.ca
Tue Jun 4 22:11:04 EDT 2013


 
OPEN & FREE PANEL DISCUSSION

 

Thursday, June 13th at 7:00-9:00

OISE/UT: Room 2-211

 

The Middle East in Revolt: Turkey, the Kurds and the New Imperialist Order

 

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.

 

SPEAKERS

 

Sedef Arat-Koç 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.

 

Amir Hassanpour, 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 Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985 (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 Encyclopedia of Television, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,  Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East, Encyclopedia of Diasporas and Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.

 
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