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Date and time
Tuesday 24 October 2023
16:00 - 17:30 (London GMT)
19:00 - 20:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
Speakers
Zühre Emanet
Independent ScholarCeren Lord
University of Oxford
Join us for the launch of the latest book in the BIAA-IB Tauris series, ‘The Politics of Education in Turkey’. Dr Zühre Emanet will talk about undertaking her ethnographic research in two schools in Istanbul during 2012-13 and how her critical observations formed the basis of her new book.
Zühre Emanet holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. She has previously worked as a primary school English teacher. 'The Politics of Education in Turkey' is her first book.
Ceren Lord is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the London School of Economics, Government Department. She has previously published on religious politics, secularism, nationalism, minorities and Turkey, and is currently working on a manuscript on the relationship between conflict and identity. Alongside her academic career, Ceren previously worked in finance as an economist focusing on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She is Associate Editor at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and the lead editor for the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) Contemporary Turkey series published by I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury.