Conference on Jewish and Christian Reception(s) of Muslim Theology
International conference held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 23 - 25 May 2013
The aim of SRII is to promote academic research on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Among the many fields of study represented at the Institute are Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Classical and Byzantine Studies, Educational Studies, General History, with the emphasis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history, Political Science, including International Relations, Religion, Social Anthropology, Sociology as well as West and Central Asian Languages and Literatures.
International conference held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 23 - 25 May 2013
Set in Istanbul, the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, this summer course offers the participants a unique possibility to deepen their knowledge about the concept of Human Rights and its historical and contemporary trajectory. The aim of the course is to develop new approaches to the discourse of human rights by placing it in a historical and transcultural perspective. Our aim is to go beyond the Eurocentric narrative of how the concept of human rights developed by studying legal traditions, political transformation processes and philosophical developments in both Europe and the Ottoman Empire. The course thereby gives more in-depth knowledge of differences, similarities and correlations in how human rights have been understood and institutionalised in Europe, with special reference to the Nordic countries, as well as in Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, and the possibilities and limitations we are facing in the current global discourse of human rights.
The following themes will be dealt with in a historical and contemporary perspective, with consideration to gender, class, and ethnicity:
Årets tema för det kommande numret av Dragomanen 15/2013 är:
Kulturmöten och kulturkonfrontationer
Temat gäller i bred bemärkelse och kan röra både nutid och historisk tid, liksom olika typer av material, metoder eller teoretiska perspektiv.
Redaktionskommittén efterlyser därför artiklar, inom alla SFII:s intresseområden som berör detta tema. Välkommen att skicka förslag eller abstrakt till kristina.josephson_hesse@arkeologi.uu.se. Deadline för artiklarna kommer att vara 20130701
One of the chapters deals with Turkey, who was just recently accepted as a dialogue partner with the SCO (“Rethinking Regional Organization: Turkey and the SCO”). This volume was produced and edited within the framework of Stockholm Int. Program for Central Asian Studies (SIPCAS) under the supervision of SRII Director, Professor Birgit Schlyter. Funding was provided by The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), Stockholm. The final book was published by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen.

The Turkish newspaper Vatan writes on 29 October, 2012:

Gunvald Ims is here.
Catalogue on Travel Literature in the Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection
Stora forskningsstipendiet Mindre forskningsstipendiet Stipendium I turkologi
on Human Rights 17-28 June, 2013. Deadline for applications 15 March
from SRII partner SIPCAS on Eurasian Geopolitics
co-edited by the SRII Deputy Director, on medieval and Ottoman Damascus