\u201cIR and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women\u201d<\/p>\n
Date and Time: Monday, 25 November, 12:30-13:30
\nVenue: A-130<\/p>\n
This panel will overview the history of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which has its roots in Latin America, and describe feminist approaches to international violence. Feminist understandings of violence go beyond direct violence and a war\/peace binary. A focus on T\u00fcrkiye and its international obligations under the UN and EU (including failures and loopholes) alongside an examination of femicides in T\u00fcrkiye (including statistical data from the most recent national survey) and the localized struggles around femicides from the women\u2019s movement will be discussed. The panel aims to create interest in violence against women as a matter of life and death and as critical to IR.<\/p>\n
Speakers: Tu\u011fba Bayar (Bilkent University, International Relations), Burcu \u00d6zdemir-Sar\u0131gil (Global Citizenship, Ted University) and Crystal Whetstone (Bilkent University, International Relations)<\/p>\n
Short biographies:<\/p>\n
Burcu \u00d6zdemir-Sar\u0131gil received her Ph.D. in 2018 from the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University. She also studied at the University of Cologne and the European University Institute as a visiting PhD student. Between 2004 and 2014, she worked as a research and project assistant at the Center for European Studies, METU. Between 2018 and 2024, she was a part-time instructor and post-doctoral researcher at Bilkent University.<\/p>\n
Currently, she is a part-time faculty member at TED University, an active and founding member of the Women, Peace, and Security Working Group in Turkey, and a member of the Women in Foreign Policy Initiative. She has been involved in various research projects funded by T\u00dcB\u0130TAK, EU Jean Monnet, EU IPA, and the British Academy. Her main research interests include EU politics, diffusion of international norms, women\u2019s human rights, gender in foreign policy, violence against women, and new social movements. Her research has been published in such journals as South European Society and Politics, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and edited volumes of Routledge, Palgrave, Orion, and Bilgi University Publications.<\/p>\n
Dr. Tu\u011fba Bayar, at the Department of International Relations, conducts research on international regimes, international law and international human rights. Regionally she is specialized on the Middle East, particularly Iran\u2019s foreign affairs. She received research grants from various national and international institutions, such as T\u00dcB\u0130TAK and the European Commission. Her works are published in the journals \u201cTurkish Studies\u201d and \u201cSoutheast European and Black Sea Studies.\u201d Her current work focuses on the EU\u2019s normative power vis-\u00e0-vis democratically backsliding countries. Dr. Bayar is presently leading a Jean Monnet Module Project on the international and European protection of human rights.<\/p>\n
Crystal Whetstone is an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University\u2019s Department of International Relations. Her research specializes in gender, peace, violence and security with a focus on motherhood. She has examined peaceful motherhood movements in the global South and recently turned to violent motherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIR and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women\u201d Date and Time: Monday, 25 November, 12:30-13:30 Venue: A-130 This panel will overview the history of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which has its roots in Latin America, and describe feminist approaches to [\u2026] <\/p>\n