Aktuelle Visiting Fellows
Seven ERDOĞAN
Seven ERDOĞAN is currently an Associate Professor at the International Relations Department of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University. She graduated from Boğaziçi University (İstanbul, Turkey) in 2007 and received her MA degree from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2010. Her MA thesis is on the Western Question of Muslim societies. She holds a PhD degree in European Studies from Ankara University (Ankara, Turkey). Her dissertation is on the role of the supranational institutions of the European Union in the accession process.
Her main research interests focus on various aspects of European integration, including the EU's external relations with accession and neighbourhood policy countries, the historical and institutional development of the Union, and the EU's migration agenda. She has published numerous book chapters and articles and has given numerous presentations and speeches. She is on the editorial board of two academic journals. She is also a member of the global paradiplomacy network.
In addition to her long and continuing interest in research on the European Union, her recent studies have focused on gender, paradiplomacy and climate change. Her recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Asian and African Studies and the Asian Journal of Women's Studies, indexed in SSCI. Her most recent piece entitled "From Neighbours to Potential Members: Is the War in Ukraine a Critical Juncture for the European Union's Enlargement Policy?" will be published on March 2025 in Siyasal: Journal of Political Sciences, indexed in ESCI.
Gabriele Leone
Gabriele Leone, Ph.D., holds a master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Calabria (UNICAL), where he completed a thesis on the birth and evolution of protest in the Turkish Republic and the role of the PKK in the Kurdish movement. His Ph.D. dissertation, which was done at the University of Lapland, focused on political-philosophical investigations aimed at clarifying the power relations between the Turkish nation-state and the unrecognized Kurdish minority. This research contributes to the extensive literature on the subject, particularly addressing the segment of biopolitical mechanisms and their potential totalitarian effects on Turkish democracy.
During the Summer Semester of 2023, Gabriele Leone was a Junior Visiting Fellow in the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe” Program. While residing in Graz from March to June 2023, he researched the project titled “Turkey: Biopolitics and National Identity.” His work explored the motivations driving the nation-state to employ biopolitical practices, understood as biological extrapolations of the political enemy, and examined the prospects for a possible rapprochement between Turkey and the EU regarding offers for the Kurdish minority. During the academic year 2024/2025, Gabriele Leone will be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies.
Brown Bag: “Turkish-Syrian Border in the Aftermath of the Syrian Civil War: Between Necropolitics, Gender, and Ethnicity”.