Alternative Universalisms? Contemporary Turkish Discourses on Culture in International Relations

Speaker: Katerina Dalacoura, LSE Chair: Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre Building on a long intellectual tradition going back to the late Ottoman period, debates in present-day Turkey on the role of culture and civilisation in world politics, and the relationship between modernity and Islam, are vibrant and ongoing. These debates are inevitably linked to power. In this talk Katerina Dalacoura attempts to move beyond the political maelstrom and focus on the ideas of individual thinkers and intellectual trends in relative isolation. Recorded on 2 March 2016.