2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Deadline Approaching
The deadline to submit proposals for the 109th Annual Meeting in New Orleans is only 10 days away!
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Why America never fell in love with soccer By James Montague, CNN “In 1950 we played Besiktas of Istanbul, in St. Louis. They beat us badly, 5-0. It was a tryout as much as anything, and then we faced an English select team with Stanley Matthews playing, in New York, and they won 1-0. Those … Read more
The deadline to submit proposals for the 109th Annual Meeting in New Orleans is only 10 days away!
How can you participate?
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services?Google Search, Google News, and Google Images?on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over. …………………….
One has to wait and see if this is another PR shot or a substantive move. Usual suspects oppose: high judiciary, main opposition parties…
Turkey’s government on Monday announced plans to amend several articles of the constitution, a legacy of the 1980 coup, arguing that the changes would make it more democratic and strengthen the country’s bid to join the European Union. Opposition parties criticized the Islamic-rooted government for trying to increase its political clout over the secular judiciary. The changes would increase the number of Constitutional Court justices to 16 and give parliament the power to appoint three of them. Another measure would hand the appointment of some key prosecutors and judges to the parliament and the president instead of an autonomous judiciary body.
This could be the only end game before the general elections.
Turkish constitutional reform plans anger judges | World news | guardian.co.uk
Interview with Dr. Jenny White on Turkish Politics and Her Latest Novel ?The Winter Thief? from Changing Turkey in a Changing World by Changing Turkey Jenny B. White is associate professor of anthropology at Boston University, former president of the Turkish Studies Association and of the American Anthropological Association Middle East Section, and sits on … Read more
Report on equality between women and men 2010
Source: European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
From Main Developments:
Combating persisting gender inequalities in all spheres of society is a longer-term challenge, since it entails structural and behavioural changes and a redefinition of the roles of women and men. Progress is slow, and gender gaps persist as regards employment rates, pay, working hours, positions of responsibility, share of care and household duties, and risk of poverty.
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Cámara Abierta 2.0: Facebook, Estambul 2.0, En tu ciudad… (16/03/10) My part begins at 8.30 min…. The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation) or Corporación Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) is the state-owned public corporation that assumed the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service from Ente Público … Read more
First International Newroz Festival in Istanbul is produced by Gola Culture, Arts and Ecology Association is an NGO which supports the development of participatory and pluralistic societies and organizes cultural and artistic activities in order to achieve its goals. We, as Gola have been organizing the International Newroz Festival in cooperation with Istanbul 2010 Culture … Read more
(The sun today during the spring equinox. Happy Spring Equinox Day! Image courtesy of SOHO ? ESA/NASA.) VIA Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-21 1- After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United 2- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 3- Barça at Turkish Airlines! 4- Behemoth concert tomorrow. 5- Turkish TV series, a threat … Read more
This is from last week. PM Erdoğan could make to the covers of four most best selling weekly satire magazines after his attack on columnists…
The last time he was continuously reacting in a nationalist tone I remember was the pre-municipality elections period. That costed him dearly. He could not persuade nationalist Turks and he lost non-nationalist Turks and Kurds of all sorts…
Now he is back into his nationalist tone. He supports the policies of Union and Progress Party of late Ottoman period which is the prime suspect of Armenian massacres. Well done. He attacked a columnist Cengiz Çandar, who criticized him in these terms. What may be the only good point is that policy elites care for what columnists state. They would not care at all. But they care and want to shape their ideas. In the mean time, in a totally different angle I am also angry with Mr. Çandar because he had ditched me once. After he scheduled an interview for my dissertation research, he did not answer back my calls:)
Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, has been voted the winner of the Chatham House Prize 2010. This annual award is presented to the statesperson deemed by members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.
By Simon Akam
ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) – Turkey’s largest city is a 2010 European Capital of Culture filled with the treasures of a glorious past from the Roman and Ottoman empires, while straddling the Bosphorous Strait where Europe meets Asia.
In Ian McEwan?s new novel, Solar, an anthropologist of science named Nancy Temple causes the downfall of the hero, Michael Beard, a Nobel laurate physicist, by resigning from a committee he heads in protest to his statement that women are just not as interested in physics as men, and this has to do with biological differences. The press then accuses Beard of being a social Darwinist, a eugenicist and a hegemon, and digs out his womanizing to compound the evidence of him being a misogynist.