Title: Why Election Boycotts May Not Be A Bad Idea ? (with Jesper Bjarnesen and Gudlaug Olafsdottir) Speaker: Sebastian van Baalen (Uppsala University) Date and Time: 30 March 2026, Monday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Ülkemizin yetiştirdiği en değerli tarihçilerden, bölümümüzde 2004-2012 yılları arasında öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmış Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı’yı kaybetmenin derin üzüntüsü içindeyiz. Hocamıza Allah’tan rahmet ve tüm sevenlerine başsağlığı dileriz.

Title: The Political Consequences of Economic Growth in the Neolithic Speaker: Tanguy Le Fur (University of Lille) Date and Time: 11 March 2026, Wednesday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A228 Seminar Room, FEASS

Title: Kızıl Yıldız: Sovyetler Birliği Tarihi Speaker: Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) & Onur İşçi (Boğaziçi University) Date and Time: 6 March 2026, Friday, 12:30-13:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Title: “Uluslararası İlişkilerde Güncel Gelişmeler: ABD, İsrail, İran Çatışması” (Türkçe) Speaker: Tuğba Bayar, Seçkin Köstem, Efe Tokdemir, Ömer Zarplı (Bilkent University) Date and Time: 4 March 2026, Wednesday, 16:30 Place: A130 Seminar Room

Title: Countering Insurgency / Terrorism: Severing the Ties Between Non-State Armed Actors & Their Constituency Date: February 25, 2026, 12:30-13:20 Place: Main Campus Library, Art Gallery Speaker: Efe Tokdemir (Bilkent University)

Çağlayan Başer’s book “Public Preferences, Gender, and Foreign Support for Armed Movements” was published by Cambridge University Press Element Series in Gender and Politics.

“Assoc. Prof. Efe Tokdemir, of the Department of International Relations, has been awarded the highly competitive ERC-2025 Consolidator Grant for his groundbreaking project COUNSTER. The project aims to explain why, how, and when governments target the constituents of non-state armed actors (NSAAs) and what determines the success or failure of these government-constituency relations as a…