Hülya Adak, currently on a research fellowship from the Orient-Institut Istanbul, is working on her book project “Nation-Building and Political Violence in Halide Edib Adıvar’s works.” She just received the prestigious “Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers” from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Brooke Luetgert, with her project titled “A Comparative Perspective on Parliamentary Legislative Activity and Bureaucratic Delegation (CPAD)”, and Mustafa Halit Tağma, with his project titled “Understanding Iran‘s Resumption of its Nuclear Program: The Role of Bureaucratic Politics (NUCBURPOLITICS)” , have just received the EU 7th Framework Marie Curie Career Integration Grant.

We congratulate them for their continuous success.

We celebrated the Emeritus professorships of  Ayşe Öncü, Korel Göymen, Fikret Adanır and Sabri Sayarı.

Years of experience, hard work, classes, research projects, mentored students and so much service to the society. We proudly crowned these exemplary careers with a "comma" at the Emeritus ceremony.

The 17th edition of the ISEA - International Symposium on Electronic Art, the leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, took place in Istanbul from 14 to 21 September 2011.

The Symposium was the outcome of the synergy that was developed between the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Sabanci University of Istanbul, under the direction of the ISEA2011 Istanbul Artistic Director and Conference Chair Prof. Lanfranco Aceti (Goldsmiths College, London, Sabanci University, Istanbul, LEA Editor in Chief, Kasa Gallery Director) and the Conference and Programme Director Özden Şahin (LEA Editorial Manager, Kasa Gallery Vice Director & In-house Curator).

Submissions are invited for an essay competition on the theme of "Performance of the Turkish Economy during Global Crises."

The essays submitted to the competition should meet the highest academic standards and address the place, strengths and weaknesses of the Turkish economy in the new global system, its power and mechanisms to cope with past and future global crises, preferably in a comparative perspective. The authors are free to address ramifications of these issues at the level of domestic sectors or the macroeconomic scale, to evaluate past policies and structural reforms or recommend new ones for sustainability of economic growth, development and performance of domestic financial markets, or to discuss the vulnerability of the Turkish real sectors to powerful global shocks.

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, March 31st, 2012.

FASS is the only institution in Turkey hosting a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with three Jean Monnet Chairs: Ahmet Evin, Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Bahri Yılmaz.

Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence are clearly labelled institutes specialising in European Studies, pooling the scientific, human and documentary resources relating to European integration studies.