Takis Spetsiotis

Ulla Karin Warberg

Nicklas Jansson

Olof Heilo

Today Talks

Fereshteh Ahmadi Visiting Scholar at SRII University of Gävle

Prof. Tilman Borsche

Migrants, Refugees, Exiles

Ingmar Karlsson

in relation to Time & Place

Prof. Elisabeth Özdalga Associated Fellow and Former Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Kristina Josephson-Hesse, PhD Department of Archaeology & Ancient History Uppsala University

Prof. Zeynep Ahunbay

Sofie Bedford

Ingmar Karlsson

Magnus Andersson, PhD

Walls and fences to prevent outsiders from entering Europe have been rising up, in the past years, and far right parties that oppose immigration and integration policies have been getting louder and louder. A recent poll in Sweden has suggested that the most popular party in Sweden currently is Sweden Democrats who represent the far right spectrum. In a country which has previously been known for welcoming policies towards non-nationals, the results of this poll are surprising to many people.

Set in Istanbul, this summer course offers students from the Nordic countries and Turkey a unique possibility to deepen their knowledge of the concept of human rights and its application together with an international group of scholars and practitioners. Our aim is to go beyond the Eurocentric narrative of how human rights have evolved by investigating legal, political and cultural transformations in both Europe and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey. Students acquire an in-depth understanding of the ways in which human rights have been understood, institutionalized, and contested, with special reference to the Nordic countries and Turkey. How historical injustices have become matters of contemporary human rights and how cultural heritage is conceived of as a human right will also be investigated. Students have the chance to cooperate with leading human rights organizations and develop their skills to creatively tackle contemporary and historical human rights concerns in a small collaborative project within the three focal themes of the course: 1. Religion, nationalism and the universally human 2. Historical wrongs, the state, and human rights 3. Cultural heritage as human right

It is commonly argued that our personal spacer inevitably penetrated in modern and postmodern times with exponentially accelerating connection among the personal and public spaces.

Prof. Mia Lövheim - Uppsala University Prof. Alf Linderman - Sigtuna Foundation

Prof. Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford

Prof. Mikael Stenmark

Kim Konusuyor

Önver A. Cetrez,Uppsala University. Fellow of the SRII Collegium

Plurilingualism and Language Rights: Mother Tongue Education in Turkey: Political Prospects and Legal Dilemmas

Caroline FInkel, University of Edinburg and University of Exeter

Susan Rottman

Anne Karahan

Jesper Blid, Stockholm Univesity

Fedir Androshchuk

Federica A. Brolio - Assistant Professor of History of Art, Mardin Artuklu Univesity

Gustaf Fryksén - Lund University

Nina Ergin - Koç University

Åsa Eldén & Berna Ekal

Joakim Parslow

Sevda Alankus

Daniella Kuzmanovic

Nükhet Sirman

Sahin Alpay

Cecilia Olovsdotter

Jan Hjärpe

Marianne Boqvist

Paul Levin Stockholm University

Dr. Åsa Eldén Stockholm University

Helena Bodin University of Stockholm

Björn Magnusson Staaf

Cecilia Olovsdotter

Matthew Goldman

Dr. Roman Shliakhtin Fellow at ANAMED, Koc University

Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere

Dr. Susan Rottmann

Fereshteh Ahmadi

Çigdem Kafescioglu Bogaziçi University

Peter Weiderud

Michael Featherstone

Prof. Pontus Hellström

Karin Ådahl

Prof. Arja Karivieri

Johan Mårtelius - Director os SRII

Prof. Nuran Zeren Gülersoy ITU Faculty of Architecture Urban and Regional Planning Department

Önver Cetrez, Deputy Director, SRII

Pekka Tuominen

Jens Odlander, Consul General of Sweden

Jakob Erle

In contrast to “state language” or “official language”, a “national language” need not be declared as such by law. However, the more emphasis that is put on the nation-state in modern politics, the stronger the tendency to view a national language as representing in some sense the inhabitants of a well delimited territory stipulated to be a unique state. The two Turkic languages Turkish and Uzbek have played a prominent role in the formation of Turkey and Uzbekistan, respectively, and have themselves undergone profound changes as parts of these state-building processes.

Nationhood and Citizenship in Turkish Friday Sermons: Excerpts from an ongoing research project Speaker: Elisabeth Özdalga, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Fellow of the SRII Collegium

Birinci Dünya Savasi’nda Rusya’daki Malul Türk Esirlerinin Isveç Kizilhaçi Yardimiyla Mübadelesi

”Into golden dark” Orthodox Icons as Objects of Modern and Postmodern Desire

Cultural, Religious, Social and Political Perspectives

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio - Dominican Institute Istanbul (EHESS)

Mathilde Pinon - Art Historian, Docent at Context Travel

Jesse Howell - Research Fellow, RCAC

Scott Redford, RCAC

Özlem Ezer, METU Northern Cyprus Campus

Orhan Tekelioglu

Laurent Mignon

Jale Parla

Çimen Günay-Erkol

Türker Armaner

Edhem Elden

Ewa Balicka-Witakowska

Cecilia Olovsdotter

Michael Featherstone

Edhem Elden

Zaur Gasimov

Mehmet Ö. Alkan

Stefo Benlisoy

Prof. Bo Utas

Morten Kjaerum

Aryo Makk, PhD, Department of History, Stockholm University

Dr. Anita Sengupta & Sr. Priya Singh - Fellows at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India

Prof. Jeff Hearn - Örebro University, Sweden, Hanken School of Economics, Finland and University of Huddersfield, UK

Dr Cecilia Olovsdotter,Senior Research Fellow,Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Dr. Ivana Jevtic, Koc Universitesi

Birgit Schlyter,the director of the SRII

Valerie DeMarinis

Gunvald Ims - Visiting Scholar at SRII Spring 2013

Butrus Abu-Manneh - University of Haifa

Birgit Schlyter

Dr. Paul Levin - Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies

Med anledning av Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i Istanbuls 50-årsjubileum presenteras pågående forskningsprojekt som lyfter fram svenskarnas relation till det osmanska riket under 16- och 1700-talet.

Assoc. Prof. Kenan Çayir & Asst. Prof. Tuba Kanci

Dr. Rano Turaeva-Hoehne

Henrik Berggren, Turhan Kayaoglu and Sahin Alpay

Henrik Berggren, Turhan Kayaoglu and Sahin Alpay

Cecilia Olovsdotter

Paul Magdalino

Michael Fredholm

Birgit N. Schlyter

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ölmez

Nathan Light Uppsala universitet

Susan Whitfield