Public Lecture: Professor Donatella della Porta

Dear Friends & Colleagues,
 
You are cordially invited to the public lecture organized by Özyeğin University Department of International Relations entitled 'Democratic Spaces: Gezi Park Two Years After' by Professor Donatella della Porta.
 
Prof. Dr. Donatella della Porta is professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, where she directs the Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). She has directed the Demos project, devoted to the analysis of conceptions and practices of democracy in social movements in six European countries. She is now working at a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She is co-editor of the European Political Science Review (ECPR), Cambridge University Press. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy and political corruption. Among her very recent publications are:

• Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Can Democracy be Saved? Oxford: Polity Press, 2013.
• Clandestine Political Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Meeting Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (With Dieter Rucht).
• Blackwell Encyclopedia on Social and Political Movements. Blackwell, 2013 (With Davide Snow, Bert Klandermans and Doug McAdam (eds)).
• The Hidden Order of Corruption: An institutional approach. Ashgate, 2012 (With Alberto Vannucci).
• The Policing of Transnational Protest. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006 (With Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter (eds)).
• Globalization from Below. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2006 (With Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter).
• Social Movements: an introduction, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006 (With Mario Diani).
• Transnational Protest and Global Activism. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 (With Sidney Tarrow (eds)). 

 
The event is scheduled to take place on 6 May 2015 Wednesday at 13:40 in room FEAS/AB2 G30, Özyeğin University Çekmeköy Campus.
 
Please note that there are shuttles to Özyeğin Çekmeköy Campus from Altunizade at 13:00; for additional information about transportation to the campus and extra shuttle times, possibly from Taksim, please contact and RSVP to Ms. Aslıhan Perihan Turan at aslihan.turan@ozyegin.edu.tr.
 
For access to Çekmeköy Campus, please visit:
https://www.ozyegin.edu.tr/OzUDE-YASAM/Kampuslere-Ulasim/Cekmekoy-Kampusu-Ulasim?lang=en-US
 
We are looking forward to seeing you,
 
Sincerely,
 
Department of International Relations
School of Social Sciences
Özyeğin University
 
http://ozyegin.edu.tr/international-relations