• “Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice – a Comparative Study of 18 West European Democracies” - Oddbjørn Knutsen
• “Gezi Park Protests in a Comparative Perspective” - Erkan Doğan
• “Re-making Citizenship: Acts of Citizenship, Social Movements and Civil Society Activism" - Tuba Kanci

Oddbjørn Knutsen is a professor at the University of Oslo.  His research interests include Western European Politics, political cleavages and political parties, value orientations and value change in western democracies, political economy, social science methodology, and statistics.

Erkan Doğan is an assistant professor at Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.  His research interests include Turkish politics, Turkish political history, Turkish political thought, comparative politics, political theory, social movements, and urban activism.

Tuba Kanci is an assistant professor at Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey.  Her research includes citizenship, identity and gender studies, political theory, and Turkish politics.

Please RSVP to Shani Brasier at csd@uci.edu if you plan on attending. Lunch will be provided.