Lecture

FROM BELGRAD TO ISTANBUL. ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON URBAN DEVELOPEMENT (Lecture)

SAT 01.11. 10:30–16:30h Theater Basel

Symposium of the S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum Basel in cooperation with Culturescapes

The symposium serves as a conceptual bridge between the S AM exhibition ‘Balkanology’ and Culturescapes 2008 ‘Turkey’. Representatives of individual urban initiatives and urban experts discuss informal building and unregulated urban planning such as the Turkish ‘Gecekondu’ and similar urban phenomena in South Eastern Europe.

With: Orhan Esen, Urbanist (Istanbul), Dritan Shutina, Co-PLAN (Tirana), Vedran Mimica, Berlage Institute (Rotterdam), Kai Vöckler, Gastkurator S AM (Berlin), Milica Topalovic, ETH Zürich/Studio Basel (Basel), Dietmar Steiner, Direktor Az W Architekturzentrum Wien (Wien).

Filmscreening „X Daireler / X Apartments“ (Tarlabaşı 2008)

MIGRATION (Lecture)

Prof. Dirk Baecker

SAT 01.11. 17:00h Theater Basel

Prof. Dirk Baecker, teaching at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, discusses his theories on the topic of migration as a significant and substantial part of Europe’s unified diversity and in its possible role as a potential model with regard to current global society.

Dirk Baecker teaches Cultural Theory and Analysis at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at the Lake of Constance and lives in Basel.

KLEINASIEN – BRÜCKE ZWISCHEN ZWEI WELTEN (Lecture)

04., 11., 18. & 25.11. 19h Unternehmen Mitte

This series of lectures concernsitself with the development of AsiaMinor into modern-day Turkey.

with Joachim Daniel

MILITÄR & POLITIK IN DER TÜRKEI (Lecture)

Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski

WED 05.11. 20h Universität Basel

Prof. Reinkowski’s research focuses on the history of the Middle East with an emphasis on the Ottoman Empire.

DIE TÜRKEI – DAS NÄCHSTE EU-MITGLIED? BEDINGUNGEN HÜBEN WIE DRÜBEN (LECTURE)

THU 6.11. 18.15   20h Universität Basel

KULTURTAG SUFISMUS – DIE INNENSEITE DES ISLAM (Lecture)

SAT 8.11. 10–18h Goetheanum Dornach

The cultural day ‘Sufism – the Inside of Islam’ with prominent artists and researchers from the Islamic cultural sphere sets out in search of the kinship between the two religions Islam and Christianity.

with: Prof. Dr. Mahmud Erol Kılıç, Prof. Georg Schmid, Christine Gruvez, Joachim Daniel

VORTRAGSREIHE: TÜRKEI – ZWISCHEN GESCHICHTE, TRADITION UND MODERNE (Lecture)

10./17./24.11. & 1.12. 18.30 h Universität Basel

Presenter: VHS beider Basel

This series of lectures illuminates Turkey’s history, its societal interplay between tradition and modernity, migration, its relations to Switzerland and to the European Union.

with:

Christiane Schlötzer: Türkei – Aufbruch wohin? Die türkische Demokratie historisch betrachtet (10.11.)

Amalia van Gent: Leben auf Bruchlinien zwischen Tradition & Moderne (17.11.)

Annemarie Sancar: Türkei – Schweiz: Migration als bindender Faktor (24.11.)

Werner van Gent: Türkei & Europa: eine lange & mühsame Annäherung (1.12.)

PODIUM DISCUSSION: TÜRKEI IM UMBRUCH - ZWISCHEN ISLAMISIERUNG UND LAIZISMUS (Lecture)

FRI 21.11. 18h Aula, Universität Basel

The podium discussion ‘Turkey in Up-heaval’, with specialists from Turkey and Europe, will address the role of Turkey between the poles of Islam and laicism, taking into account the latest proceedings to ban the AKP.