Research Turkey Public Conference and Book Launch with Professor Gerald MacLean: “Abdullah Gül and the Making of ‘New Turkey’” 29 January 2015, LSE
We are pleased to announce Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)’s Public Conference and Book Launch of the book “Abdullah Gül and the Making of ‘New Turkey’” in which the author Professor Gerald MacLean, Professor Emeritus at University of Exeter will give a talk. This event will take place on Thursday, 29 January 2015 between 7:00p.m. and 8:30p.m. at CLM.6.02, 6th Floor, Clement House, 99 Aldwych, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), WC2B 4JF. Associate Professor Bill Kissane of Department of Government, LSEwill kindly chair the event. You may find the synopsis of the talk, a short biography of Professor Gerald MacLean and a short biography of the chair Dr. Bill Kissane below.
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Synopsis of the Talk
Professor Gerald MacLean will give an overview of Turkey’s last decade under the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. Turkey has undergone a major transformation after the establishment of the AK Party single party government in 2002. Professor MacLean will specifically focus on the role played by Mr. Abdullah Gül, one of the founders of the AK Party, the first Prime Minister of the successive AK Party governments (2002-2003), Minister for Foreign Relations (2003-2007) and the 11thPresident of the Republic of Turkey (2007-2014). Professor MacLean also published a book, Abdullah Gul and the Making of New Turkey, in 2014, in which he provided an original research on Abdullah Gül, one of the key players in the governing of Turkey since 2002. The book includes in-depth interviews with President Abdullah Gül himself as well as his wife and close circle of colleagues and friends. In this event, in addition to Professor MacLean’s public lecture, there will also be a launch of his book. The copies of his book will be available for sale and he will sign his book after the event.
Short Biography of Professor Gerald MacLean
Gerald MacLean is Professor Emeritus at the University of Exeter. He has lectured and conducted research in Algeria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Lebanon, Libya, Romania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the USA, and holds visiting professorships at King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Boğazici University, Istanbul; and Bilkent University, Ankara. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2006. His recent books include: Abdullah Gül and the Making of the New Turkey (London, 2014), Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713, co-authored with Nabil Matar (Oxford, 2011), Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (2007; Turkish translation, 2009), The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Travellers to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 (2004; Turkish translation, 2006), Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East (ed. 2005), Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity (ed. 2006). He is a founding member of the Evliya Çelebi Way Project: http://hoofprinting.blogspot.com/
Short Biography of Dr. Bill Kissane
Bill Kissane is Senior Lecturer and Reader in Politics at the Department of Government at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was born in the Republic of Ireland in 1966 and lives in North London. After receiving a BA in Modern English and Sociology from Trinity College Dublin (1984-88), he received an MSc in Sociology (1992), and a PhD in Political Science (1998), from the LSE. Between 1988 and 1991 he worked as an English language teacher in Ireland, Spain, and Turkey. Since 1999 he has been a lecturer in Political Science at the Government Department of the LSE where he is now an Associate Professor. His current publications are After Civil War: Division, Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe (Penn Press 2015) and Civil War: The Contemporary Challenge (OUP 2016).
