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

Assoc. Prof. Nergis Canefe, York University (Canada) 

"Transitional Justice: Theoretical Discussions and Implementation Examples"

This five 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.

Dates: 13 and 20 December 2016 (Tuesdays)

Time: 18:00 – 20:40

Place: Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus, D 306

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 20th is a continuation of the seminar that will take place on the 13th of December. Those interested should attend on both dates.

Nergis Canefe (PhD York, 1998) is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Law at York University. Her areas of interest are transitional justice, memory and trauma, minority and human rights, critical citizenship studies, 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. She published a co-edited volume "Turkey and the European Integration" (Routledge, 2004) and a volume in Turkish titled "Citizenship, Identity and Belonging: Limits of Turkish Nationalism" (Bilgi Yayınları, 2006).