Joint Seminar of the Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and Human Rights Law Research Center 

Assoc. Prof. Nergis Canefe, York University

"Transitional Justice as Legal Discourse with Example from the Global South"

This six hour seminar will cover theoretical debates regarding transitional justice, along with examples of implementation from different regions of the world. Additionally, the topic will also be discussed in the context of the trends in applied legal theory that focused on this topic.

Date: 11 & 18 December 2017 (Monday)

Time: 19:00 – 22.00

Venue: Istanbul Bilgi University, santraistanbul Campus, Seyfi Arkan - 107

The seminar will be conducted in Turkish language with no translation provided.

Please confirm your participation: galma.akdeniz@bilgi.edu.tr

The seminar that will take place on the 18th is a continuation of the 11th of December seminar. Those interested should attend on both dates. 

Nergis Canefe was born in Ankara in 1967. After getting her B.A. from Boğaziçi University in 1988, she continued with postgraduate studies with focus on Ottoman history. In 1991 she completed an M.A. in Historical Sociology at University of Binghamton (USA) as a student of Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arrighi. In 1998 she completed her PhD in Political and Social Thought at York University (Canada) as a student of Howard Adelman and Joseph Carens. Between 1998 and 2002 she worked at Historical Research Institute of University of London, and at European Studies Institute of London School of Economics. During this time period she became a member of Nationalism and Ethnicities Group formed by Anthony Smith. During 2002-2003 academic year she taught classes and supervised thesis work at Sociology and Cultural Studies Department of İstanbul Bilgi University. Since 2003 she is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Law at York University. In 2005 she has completed her PhD in Law on Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity and Human Rights from Scgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Her areas of research are comparative citizenship and nationalism, forced migration, memory and migration, minority rights, and crimes against humanity. She has more than fifty scholarly articles in books and journals including Citizenship Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Balkanologie, Turkish Studies and Rethinking History. Some of her publications include: Co-edited volume “Turkey and the European Integration” (Routledge 2005); Citizenship, Identity and Belonging: Limits of Turkish Nationalism (original title in Turkish “Milliyetçilik, Bellek ve Aidiyet”, Bilgi Yayınları, 2006); co-edited volume “Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm” (Libra Yayınları, 2014); “Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Perspectives from the Global South” (Cambridge University Press, 2018),  and is currently working on “The Syrian Exodus: Precarity, Survival and Rights” to be published by Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları. Ms. Canefe speaks English, Turkish, French and Ancient Hebrew, is a mother of two, and is a prolific painter.