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Experienced Fellow

Timothy Murphy

M. Alper Yalcinkaya (Experienced)

Doctorate from:

University of California, San Diego, United

Department at UC3M:

Social Science

E-mail: myalcink@clio.uc3m.es

CONEX Fellow from 24/06/15 to 15/01/18

Project:

SRCTAHCS: Science, Religion and Citizenship in Turkey: A Historical-Comparative Study

Alper Yalcinkaya’s project is a study of the Turkish debate on science and religion in the twentieth century. He will focus particularly on the ways in which science, Islam, and the relations between the two were represented in public debates, and for this purpose, he will study the popular media, archival documents, literature, textbooks, and parliamentary debates. As much of this era was characterized by Cold War politics, he will also study how the global and national political and social context influenced these representations. As a side project, he will also focus on contemporary debates on evolution in Turkey, and study the cultures, strategies and activities of movements that are seeking to popularize evolutionary theory.

CV:

Alper Yalcinkaya is a sociologist whose research focuses on the public representations of science and religion. He studies the debates concerning the relations between science and the state, and science and religion in Islamic
societies in particular. After completing his BA and MA at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, Yalcinkaya completed his PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California at San Diego, and became assistant professor of sociology at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published on late Ottoman views on science, and his book Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press.

Dissemination Activities

Journal Article:

  • Science and Spirituality: Ottoman inconsistencies, Europe's paradoxes, Rubrica contemporanea, ISSN-e 2014-5748, Vol. 6, Nº. 12, 2017, 7-8.

Conferences:

  • "Religion and "Turkishness" from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Cold War".,Public perceptions of Science and Religion Conference, University of California, San Diego, 5-7 May 2016
  • "US Philanthropy and the scientific field in Turkey in the early Cold War era", 3 Societies Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 22-25 June, 2016.
  • "Science and alliance: the politics of science education in Turkey in the early cold war era". At the 3 Societies Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 24 June 2016.
  • "Science and alliance: the politics of science education in Turkey in the early cold war era". At the Middle East Studies Assotiation Annual Conference, 19 November 2016.
  • "Science and Religion in Muslims societies". Organized by the research group composed of schollars from institutions from the UK and Canada, Manchester, UK, 27 June 2017.
  • "Science and Religion". Coorganized and ran the workshop with Dr. Darina Martykanova of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 11 November 2016.
  • "Science, Religion and other binaries in Turkish thought". At Science and Religion. Exploring the Spectrum conference, Manchester, UK, 27 June 2017.
  • "US Philanthropy and the scientific field in Turkey in the early Cold War Era". At Turkologentag, Hamburg, Germany, 15 September 2016.