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Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
8 October 2015 @ George Mason University


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This event brings together scholars from anthropology and political science to interrogate the conceptual relationship between state formation and capital accumulation as related but distinct technologies of power in contemporary Turkey.  From gold traffic between Turkey and Iran and smuggling economies in Turkey’s Kurdistan to the historical development of energy infrastructures and im/mobilities across the Turkey-Syria border, the authors aim to chronicle the shifting and transnational operations of economic and political power. By exploring states of migrancy as well as economies of mobility in conjunction with state formation and capital accumulation, Migrant States & Mobile Economies aims to rethink the political in both political economy and political theory through the historiography and ethnography of contemporary Turkey. 
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Conference Agenda:

Introductory Remarks 
Huseyin Yilmaz, Co-Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, GMU
Bassam Haddad, Director of the Middle East Studies Program, GMU

Panel 1 
Money in Black or Blood? The Political-Moral in the Smuggling Economies of Turkey’s Kurdistan
Firat Bozcali, Stanford University 

Rethinking the History of Turkey's Political Economy: Generating Consent by Infrastructure  
Cihan Tekay, CUNY—The Graduate Center 

Panel 2 
Who/What Can Cross the Border? Mobilities and Immobilities at the Turkey-Syria Border 
Elif Sari, Cornell University 

Golden Shoes and Tobacco Seats: Scaling Sanctions and Transactions across the Iran/Turkey Border 
Emrah Yildiz, Harvard University 

Keynote Address 
Introduction by Huseyin Yilmaz, Co-Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies

Seeking Refuge: Lip-Sewing and Truth-Telling 
Banu Bargu, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
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​​CONFIRMED EVENTS

First Workshop (April 24-25, 2015)
"Development and the Uprisings"
Location: ASI Office, George Mason 

Second Workshop (June 14-15, 2015)
"The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation and Class Dynamics"
Location: SOAS, London

Third Workshop (September 14, 2015)
"The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization" 
Location: Birzeit University, Ramallah

Fourth Workshop (September 17, 2015)
​"Tunisia: An Economy in Transition"
Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Fifth Workshop (October 8, 2015)
​"Turkey: Migrant States and Mobile Economies"
Location: GMU, VA

Sixth Workshop (November 6, 2015)
​"Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Teaching  and Research"
Location: GMU, VA

Seventh Workshop (November 7, 2015)
"Pedagogy Workshop"
Location: GMU, VA

Eighth Workshop (February 19-21, 2016) 
“New Directions in Middle Political Economy"
Location: Stanford, CA
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