1 CURRICULUM VITAE Banu Helvacioglu Department of Political
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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Banu Helvacioglu Department of Political
CURRICULUM VITAE Banu Helvacioglu Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06533, Turkey phone:+90 312 290 1470 (w) fax: +90 312 266 4960 e-mail: helvaci@bilkent.edu.tr Nationality Canadian and Turkish citizenships DEGREES: 1988 - Ph.D., Political Studies, Queen's University Dissertation title: "The New Right in the U.S.A.: A 'Morbid Symptom' of the Crisis of American Politics". Supervisors: Colin Leys and Richard Simeon 1984 - M.A., Political Studies, Queen's University Thesis title: "The Asiatic Mode of Production and Oriental Despotism". Supervisor: Colin Leys 1982 – B.A. Honors (with distinction), Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE Sept 2009 – present Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara 2009 Assistant Prof, Philosophy Department (in conjunction with Pol.Sci. Dept), Bilkent U. 1997-2009 Ankara Assistant Prof, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, 2002 – 2003 Paris. Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, 1 1994- 1997 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara. 1989- 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, (received tenure in Dec. 1992) 1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University. 1983 -1988 Teaching Assistant, Political Studies, Queen's, tutoring: POLS 131 (Intro. to Comp. Pol.) POLS160 (Intro. to Inter. Rel'ns.) POLS 260 (International Politics) Spring 1986 Research Assistant for Dr. Bruce J. Berman, Political Studies, Queen's; Project title: "Explaining Mau Mau in Kenya: A Study in the Sociology and Politics of Knowledge." Summer 1984 Organizer of Seminar Series for the Programme of Studies in National and International Development (PSNID), Queen's University. 1982 - 1983 Research Assistant to Prof. Haldun N. Gulalp, Dept. of Political Science and Public Adm., METU, in the preparation of a "Development Studies Bibliography." 1980 - 1982 Research Assistant, Political Science and Public Adm., METU, in the field of Development and Latin American Politics. PUBLICATIONS “Love as a Metonymy for National Mourning”, Lahoucine Ouzgane (ed.), Masculinities in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, NY: Routledge (forthcoming in 2015). “Melancholy and Hüzün in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul”, Mosaic 46 (2) June 2013. “The Smile of Death and the Solemncholy of Masculinity”, L. Ouzgane (ed.), Islamic Masculinities, London: Zed Press, 2006. “Human Nature in Nature’s Nature”, Public, no. 26, 2002. 2 “An Ethics for Our Times: Moral Selves in Solidarity?”, A. Bakan and E. MacDonald (eds.), Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left, Toronto: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2002. "Globalization in the Neighborhood: From the Nation-State to Bilkent Center", International Sociology, 15 (2) 2000. "The Paradoxical Logic of Europe in Turkey: Where does Europe End?", Vilho Harle (ed.), special issue on Otherness, Identity and Politics, European Legacies, 4(3) 1999. "An Ankara Chronicle: Fidelity to an Impossibility", Cynthia C. Davidson (ed.), Anytime, NY: MIT/Anyone Corporation, 1999. “Europe in Turkish Discourse: How does One Conceive of Oneself?”, Rikard Larsson (ed.), Boundaries of Europe? Stockholm: Swedish Council for Planning and Co-ordination of Research, 1998. “L’Ambiguo Nazionalismo in Turchia”, Traduzione di Emanuela Fabretti, (“Hybrid Discourses of Nationalism in Turkey”), Franco Angeli (ed.), special issue on "Dove va l'Arca di Noe: Nationalismo Arabo-Islamico", Futuribili, 1997. “‘Allahu Ekber We are Turks’: Yearning for a Different Homecoming at the Periphery of Europe”, Third World Quarterly, 17 (3), 1996. “Final Discussion [on Modernity] ”, in Huricihan İnan (ed.), special issue on New Approaches to European History, Studies in Development, Ankara: METU, 1996. "Toronto's Racial Conflicts: Wild in the Streets?”, The Canadian Forum, no. 811, July/Aug. 1992. "The Thrills and Chills of Postmodern Imaginary: The Western Intellectual Vertigo", Studies in Political Economy, no. 38, Summer 1992. "The State in the Reaganite Era: Capital, Labor and More?", in John Shields and Steve McBride (eds.), Regulating Labour: The State and Industrial Relations in a Neo-Conservative Era, Toronto: Garamond Press, 1991. "The God-Market Alliance in Defence of Family and Community: The Case of the New Right in the U.S.A.", Studies in Political Economy, no. 35, Summer 1991. PUBLICATIONS IN TURKISH 3 4 “Hatırın Hatırı” (A letter to Hrant Dink’s grand-daughter), Birikim, no. 214, 2007. “Yaşlı Avrupa Gözüyle Irak Krizi: Paris’te Durum çok mu Farklı?” (in anticipation of a war in Iraq), Birikim, no. 168, 2003. “Mekana Sığmayan Ankara’da Mekan Nasıl Yaşanmakta?” (“Why is Spatiality in Ankara an Impossibility”), Gönül Pultar, et.al., derleyen, Kültür ve Modernite, Istanbul: Tetragon, 2003. “Neo-Liberal Ahlak: Beterin Beteri Vardır”, (on Neo-Liberal Morality) Birikim, Haziran, 2002. “Bir Ankara Günlüğü: İmkansıza Sadakat”, Çeviren Fatih Tokatlı, (“An Ankara Chronicle”) derleyen, C. Davidson, Anytime, Ankara: Mimarlar Derneği, 2000. “Deconstruction ve Mimarlık” (“On Deconstruction and Architecture”), Mimarlık Üzerine Tartışmalar, Ankara: Mimarlar Dernegi, 1996. "Evvel Mekan İçinde Kalbur Zamanlar İçinde: Tarihi Coğrafi Materyalizm" ("A Critical Evaluation of Historical Geographical Materialism"), Toplum-Bilim, no. 64-65, 1994. "Clinton Yönetiminde ABD" ("An Optimistic Evaluation of the Clinton Administration"), Birikim, no. 60, June 1994. Non-Academic publications in Turkish “Hükümsüz Kimlikler”, Edebiyat Eleştiri, no. 8, Bahar, 1995. “Ses (siz)in”, Fol, no. 4, Temmuz, 1996. “Kaza Ol …”, Fol, no. 5, Ocak, 1997. Conference Proceedings “When Testicles cannot Testify: An Antinomy in the Ethics of Mourning”, ISSEI, The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2 - 6, 2012. “Locating Sites of Cruelty: Three Literary Responses to Death Marches and War in Anatolia (1905 – 1922)”, in the CD collection of Concentrationary Imaginaries/Imaginaries of Violence, University of Leeds, April 13 – 15, 2011. "Contradictions of European Identity: A Case for Cultural Hybridity", Conference Proceedings of V Conference on European Culture, Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, October, 2000. Unpublished manuscripts “Some Reflections on Gezi Direniş (in Turkish, Bir Tenefüs Düşünce Molası) June 2013. “On the Strength of The Absurd: Singing with Kierkegaard’s Abraham and Mother’s No” (2005). International Lectures: Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, May 1999: "Some Reflections on the Globalization of Violence". "A Dress Rehersal for Radical Evil". Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, February 1999: "Gender, Violence and the Self". Department of African Studies in collaboration with the Division of Social Science, York University, February, 1999: "Globalization in the Neighborhood". PAPERS PRESENTED: 2012- 2001 “When Testicles cannot Testify: An Antinomy in the Ethics of Mourning”, ISSEI, The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2 - 6, 2012. “What Happens to Truth in Historically Induced Aphasia?”, ISSEI, The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2 - 6, 2012. “Locating Sites of Cruelty: Three Literary Responses to Death Marches and War in Anatolia 1905 – 1922”, Conference on Concentrationary Imaginaries, Imaginaries of Violence in Contemporary Cultures and Cultural Forms, organized by University of Leeds, Leeds, April 2011. “Minority Rights in Turkey: A Historical Rem(a)inder”, in Etnicity and Democratic Governance/ Gouvernance Démocratique et Ethnicité, Public Conference 5 organized by Université de Montreal and Queen’s University, Montreal, October 25 -27 2007. “Remembering and Thinking of Death and Hrant Dink’s Death” (co-organizer and the panelist for a Memorial), February 8, 2007, Bilkent. “On the Strength of the Absurd: Singing with Kierkegaard’s Abraham and Mother’s No”, Conference on Women and the Divine, hosted by The Institute of Feminist Theory and Research, The University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University College, Liverpool, England, 17 – 19 June 2005. “Translating Gender in Turkish Literature: Moral Imperatives of Being a Wo/man”, in “Gender, Sexuality, and Health”, organized by Centre for Asian and African Literatures, School of Oriental and African Studies, University College London (UCL), London, November 4-6 2002. “Male Subjectivity in the Making of the Ottoman Turk”, in “Balkan Masculinities”, organized by Centre for South-East European Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (UCL), London, June 7-8 2002. “Mekana Sığmayan Ankara’da Mekan Nasıl Yaşanmakta?”, Kültür, Modernite Konferansı, Antalya, October, 2001. “Aesthetics of Politics: Body Parts, Dead Bodies and Death Herself”, in Center for Research in Transitional Societies, Bilkent University, November, 2001. ADMINISTRATIVE-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2007 – present 2005 – present 2000 – present 1998 – present 1997 – present 1999 – 2002 Jan.- Dec. 1993 Board member of International/Interdisciplinary Bilkent Seminar Series Co-Director of Political Theory, Dept of Pol. Sci., Bilkent U. Member of Comprehensive Examination Examining Committee Supervising Ph.D. dissertations in Pol. Sci. Dept, Bilkent Member of Ph.D. recruitment committee, Pol. Sci. Bilkent Appointed by Rector Prof. Ali Dogramacı to design and direct Political Philosophy courses in Political Science and International Relations Departments. Co-ordinator of Public Administration Program, Ryerson Polytechnic University. 6 Spring 1993 1992 - 1993 1992 - 1993 Dean's Committee for the Selection of Best Essay Prizes, Dean of Arts, Ryerson. President's Advisory Committee on Homophobia, Ryerson; co-author of ethics guidelines for the committee. Library Committee, Ryerson. Fall 1992 Organizer of two workshops on research methods for public administration students at Ryerson. Spring 1992 Dean's Committee for the Selection of Best Essay Prizes, Dean of Arts, Ryerson. 1991-1993 Department Representative for Library acquisitions, Ryerson. 1990- 1993 Comparative Politics, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of Politics, Ryerson. ACADEMIC AWARDS 2002 Granted “Doçent” degree by the Examiners of the Higher Education Board. Winter 1994 Ryerson Research Professorship. October 1993 Canadian Embassy (Ankara-Turkey) Travel Grant. 1991-1992 Travel/Research grants from Dean of Arts, Department of Politics, and Ryerson Faculty Association Spring 1990 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant for field research. Fall 1987 1986-1987 1983-1986 June 1982 Feb. 1982 The Skelton-Clark Fund for Field Research, Queen's University. Queen's University Graduate Fellowship. R.S. McLaughlin Fellowship, Queen's University Top Student Award (METU, Turkey). Book Prize (METU, Turkey). Areas of Teaching and Research: *Modern Political Theory 7 *History of Political Thought *Continental Political Philosophy *Aesthetics of Politics LANGUAGES English, Turkish, French (fair comprehension of spoken and written French with the help of a dictionary). 8