Talks

Selected Talks

Turkey Book Talk Episode #109

In February 2020, I appeared on the Turkey Book Talk podcast to discuss After Defeat 10 years after publication. You can listen to the episode here (or from your favourite podcast app).

Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 2019

From the 'Identity and Belonging in Post-Brexit Britain' panel today at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, where I talked about the reputational damage the three years of Brexit chaos (not the vote itself necessarily) did to UK's image in the rest of the world. Cambridge Festival of Ideas is an annual event where academic staff from the arts and sciences put on panels for general audiences . There is a similar festival for scientists in the Spring.

Audio recording here.

King's College London, 2018

A conversation about historical sociology and international political sociology.

Participants: Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries (King’s College London), Prof. Sandra Halperin (Royal Holloway, University of London), Prof. Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr. Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge), Alvina Hoffmann (King’s College London, chair). [with broken hand!]

Labour Party 2018 Conference in Liverpool

'The End of Democracy? The ‘New Turkey’ and a Region in Flux' panel, organised by Centre for Turkey Studies, UK (25 September 2018).

For a write-up of the panel, see here.
For a text of my talk, see here.

Columbia University, 2018

'Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins' Revisited

March 1, 2018, with Professor Duncan McCargo

For an overview of the event, see here.
For an audio recording, see here.

Related articles:

University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, 2017

Hierarchies in world Politics book talk, November 1, 2017.

Talk covering the Hierarchies research agenda in IR and locating Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) within that broader agenda.

YouGov experts Panel, 2017

Vodcast: Does the West need a new approach to Russia? - including: Lord Richards of Herstmonceux GCB CBE DSO (former UK Chief of the Defence Staff); Dr Ayşe Zarakol (University Lecturer in International Relations, University of Cambridge); Martin Jacques (author, broadcaster & speaker); and Daniel Hannan (Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England).

Recorded on June 26, 2017. Related survey info available here.

Nobel Institute, Oslo, 2016

Public Talk, June 9, 2016. Talk summarises key themes from my research agenda, especially as they relate to problems of stigmatisation/recognition.

London School of Economics, 2015

Book launch panel for The Global Transformation by Barry Buzan and George Lawson, March 17, 2015. My comments summarise my thoughts on the state of IR as a discipline.

I also occasionally appear on the Talking Politics podcast, hosted by David Runciman and a top podcast in the UK.

Here is a sample episode I was in:

David talks to Ayşe Zarakol about how Erdoğan accumulated so much power and what lessons his story provides for democracy in other places