PARADOXICAL IDENTITIES:
STATUS OF WOMEN IN TURKEY

by

Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence
Yakin Ertürk
Professor of Sociology and Gender & Women's Studies,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

"Identity politics: Secularist and Islamist Discourses"
Monday, 3 February 2003
12:00 noon
8417 Social Science

"Can International Regimes Help Transcend Dichotomies?
The United Nations and the Candidacy to The European Union"
Wednesday, 5 February 2003
3:30 p.m.
8417 Social Science

Yakin Ertürk has been on the faculty of the Department of Sociology and the Gender and Women’s Studies Programme at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and in 2002 became the head of the latter. Between 1997 and 2001 she took leave from her university post and joined the United Nations, serving first as Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Oct.1997- Feb.1999), then as Director of The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) at UN Headquarters in New York (March 1999 – Oct. 2001).

Ms. Erürk is a Spring 2003 Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence at the UW-Madison. More information about her is available here.

Yakin Ertürk's lectures are cosponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Women and
Citizenship Research Circle, and the Havens Center.
A full schedule of events associated with the Havens Center's Spring 2003 program,
"National Feminisms, Transnational Arenas, Universal Human Rights,"
can be seen on the the center's website.

Students can receive 1-3 credits in Sociology 994 (Colloquium in Critical Sociology) for attending lectures and seminars in this series. The Departments of Sociology and Political Science are also offering a graduate seminar, “National Feminisms, Transnational Arenas, Universal Human Rights” (Sociology 924 and Political Science 960), in conjunction with this series. For more information, please contact the Europrean Union Center (265-8040 or eucenter@intl-institute.wisc.edu).