Turkish International Studies Association

A Network of Scholars working on Turkey

News

 

NEWS:

April: The elections for the Review Committee for the 2008 Turkish-ISA panels at the ISA, San Fransisco has ended.

The following scholars will be reviewing the submissions:

  Dr. Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University
  Dr. Esra Cuhadar Gurkaynak, Bilkent University
  Dr. Birol Yesilada, Portland State University
  Dr. Hasan Kosebalaban, Michigan State University
  Dr. Meltem Muftuler-Bac, Sabanci University
  Dr. Binnur Ozkececi-Taner, Macalester College

 

March: 47 of our members attended our Meeting in Chicago, March 1 2007.
Several organizational matters and future directions of the association were discussed.
Three Decisions were reached:
A) The formation of a review committee that will oversee the Turkish-ISA panels for 2008 ISA convention in San Francisco by April. As decided in our meeting the review committee will be elected among those who volunteered to become a committee member in our meeting. Since the formation of the review committee will be responsible for the decisions on the paper  proposals due this May, for practical purposes the review committee ought to be decided upon shortly.
B) Proposals to amend the constitution and a vote on the proposed
changes to constitution in April 2007.
C) The formation of a nomination committee that will accept
nominations for the office positions and execute the election process
in April 2007.

Call for Vote
1) Please vote for your choice of nominees for the Review Committee for Turkish-ISA panels for 2008 ISA convention in San Francisco. There are 10 nominees who volunteered to become a review  committee member. Please vote for 6 of these nominees at the following address by April
1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TurkishISA/surveys?id=2167139 You can also login to our Yahoogroup page and click the link polls in order to vote.
2) Please send your comments and proposed amendments to our current constitution to tisa@asu.edu by April 1. The current constitution is attached to this mail and is also available at our website: http://www.turkishisa.org. The proposals will be voted through the online Poll system of our Yahoogroup in April. Please be clear in your proposal and identify the reason why you would want an article or section changed.
As suggested in our annual meeting, the elections for officer positions will be held after the constitutional amendments.

 

TURKISH ISA MEETING AT CHICAGO March, 1, 2007

As you might have already heard, we will hold our First Annual Convention on Thursday , March 1: 12:00pm- 1:30pm  in Chicago at the annual ISA convention.

We've been in communication with the ISA headquarters for a meeting space and time. The name of the room that ISA has generously allocated for us is "Grand Tradition" (please check for updates when you get to the convention site). Acknowledging that we will be meeting during lunch time, you are welcome to bring your beverage, snack or sandwich.

 

We strongly urge you to participate in our meeting, as it is you who will shape the future direction of Turkish-ISA.

This is a special opportunity for you to meet your fellow colleagues. Among many other things:

1) You'll get acquainted with colleagues who work on Turkey

2) Discover opportunities for collaborative research projects

3) Find out publishing avenues for your paper

4) Explore the possibility of becoming an officer of our Association. Calenders

5) Become a jury member of Turkish-ISA to select papers for organized panels for next year's ISA convention

6) Survey the job-market

7) Elect officers and direct the future of our association

And many more social and scholarly opportunities.

 

 

 

For convention logistics check ISA website:

http://www.isanet.org/chicago2007/

For the official ISA Blog and roommate opportunities for the convention. http://isa2007.blogspot.com

Further information on meetings can be found at: http://www.isanet.org/chicago2007/meetingsandreceptions.pdf

 

 

 

Turkish-ISA is arranging a meeting room with ISA for the Annual Convention!

Turkish-ISA panels have been accepted to ISA Chicago 2007.

Visit the preliminary program at: http://www.isanet.org/chicago2007/

Check out the TISA listserv for further news.

 

Graduate Student Paper Award:

Our association will annually hold a “Graduate Student Paper Award”. Each year we will review the graduate student papers submitted to us.

 

The graduate student paper must have either appeared in that year’s American Political Science Association Annual Convention or the International Studies Association Annual Convention. A review committee will select among those submitted papers.

 

Criteria:

 

A sophisticated scholarly analysis of the case which clearly sets the problematique and the author’s contribution.

 

In relevance to our associational goals the paper must either be authored by a Turkish graduate student or use Turkey as a case in the paper.

 

The use of sophisticated methodological approaches (quantitative, qualitative/interpretative) in tackling the topic.

 

The paper must have either practical policy relevance or contribute to the existing scholarly literature-theoretically or empirically.

 

We expect that the readings and literature review ought to be up to date and that the paper makes references to the relevant body of literature that pertains to the subject matter.

 

Selection:

The TISA executive committee will nominate a jury of three which shall review the submissions.

 

Notification:

The Successful Paper will be notified in a month after the deadline of submission and will be announced on our website.

The author of the paper that is selected as the best paper of the year will receive an pre-announced amount. He/she shall have the Association’s award for the year and will most likely get his/her paper published in a leading journal in the field.