Ogan presents paper at conference in Amsterdam
Professor Emerita Christine Ogan presented “Addressing the Problems that Ensue when combining Social Movement and Ethnic Minority Research,” at a conference Oct. 1 in Amsterdam.
She presented the paper, co-authored with Roya Imani Giglou of KU Leuven, at the Global Cultures of Contestation conference at the University of Amsterdam.
Ogan has three more works in development:
- A book chapter from co-authors Ogan, Giglou and Leen d’Haenens of KU Leuven, “The Relationship between Online and Offline Participation in a Social Movement: Gezi Park Protests in the Diaspora,” will be published in Taking the Square: Meditated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space by authors Maria Rovisco and Jonathan Ong of the University of Leicester.
- A book chapter from co-authors Ogan and Yeşim Kaptan of the Izmir University of Economics, “Was that Tear Gas or Just Me Laughing Until I Cried? Humor and Satire Use in the Gezi Resistance Movement,” will be published in From Tahrir Square to Gezi Park: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements.
- Ogan will be the keynote speaker at the Media-Bridge-Cultures Conference in Istanbul in December. Her talk, “The Turkish Diaspora in Northern Europe: The Method and the Meaning of Connections made with Turkey over the Decades,” will explore interactions between Turkey and Germany.