Dr. Öğr. Üyesi REŞİDE ÖMÜR BİRLER

 Education

• PhD, Political Science. Carleton University, Canada 2007
• MA, Political Science. Bilkent University, Turkey. 2000.
• BS. Business Administration. Middle East Technical University, Turkey. 1999.

Professional Experience

• 2014-2021 Assistant Prof. Dr., Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• 2009-2014 Instructor Dr., Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
• 2001-2009 Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
• 2001-2006 Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Canada.
• 1999-2001 Research Assistant, Bilkent University, Turkey.

Scholarships and Awards

• Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, 2007.
• Carleton University Academic Excellence Scholarship for International Students,
• 2001-2005. Higher Education Council of Turkey, Graduate Study Scholarship,
• 2001-2005. Bilkent University, Honor Scholarship, 2000-2001.
• Bilkent University, Achievement Scholarship, 1999-2000. T
• urkish Education Foundation, National Scholarship, 1994-1999.

Publications

Articles

• “Çağdaş Tragedyalar: Farhadi ve Lanthimos Sinemasına Politik bir Bakış,” ILEF Dergisi, Ankara (forthcoming) doi: 10.24955/ilef.1000077
• “Alain Badiou’nun Düşüncesinde Devrim ve Siyasal Örgütlenme”, Mülkiye Dergisi Ankara. 2019: 43(1). 2

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Neoliberalization and Foundation Universities in Turkey,” in Neoliberal Transformation of Education in Turkey: Political and Ideological Analysis of Educational Reforms in the Age of the AKP, ed. by K. Inal and G. Akkaymak. Palgrave Macmillan: New York. 2012.
• “Liberalizm,” in Siyaset Bilimi: Kavramlar’ Ideolojiler, Disiplinler Arası İlişkiler, ed. by. G. Atılgan and E. A. Aytekin. Yordam Kitap: Ankara. 2012.
• “Muhafazakarlık,” in Siyaset Bilimi: Kavramlar’ Ideolojiler, Disiplinler Arası İlişkiler, ed. by. G. Atılgan and E. A. Aytekin. Yordam Kitap: Ankara. 2012.

Edited Books 

• (ed) 21. Yüzyılda Devletin Dönüşümü: Otoriterleşme, Kriz ve Hegemonya Galip Yalman’a Armağan. İmge Yayınları: Ankara 2021.
• (ed.) Health and Social Security in Turkey: Human vs. Market. Notabene: Ankara, 2016.
• (ed.) Health. Politics and Market in Turkey. Notabene: Ankara, 2015. (ed.) Winds of Politics and Economics in Turkey. Efil Yayınları: Ankara, 2011.
• (ed.) Turkey: Neo-Liberalism, Democracy and Nation-State. Yordam Kitap: Ankara, 2009.

Conference Proceedings

• “Political (or) Philosophy? A Critical Account of Leo Strauss’s Response to the Crisis of Modernity.” XXII World Congress of Philosophy Seoul, South Korea, 2008.

Researches

• “Transformation of Knowledge Production on Universities: The Cases of Faculty of Engineering.” Middle East Technical University, Scientific Research Project (BAP-08-11- 2014-004) Ankara, 2014.

Conferences

• “Political Collectivism in Alain Badiou’s Thought” Historical Materialism- Athens Conference, Athens, May, 2019.
• “Alain Badiou and the Idea of Revolution.” 15th National Social Sciences Congress, Ankara November, 2017.
• “Alan Badiou and Gezi Uprising.” Paper presented at Twenty Third World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, July, 2014.
• “Conservative Democracy: A New Mask for the Neoliberal Transformation.” Paper presented at Twenty Second World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, July, 2012. 3
• “Constitution of Neoliberal Freedom: From Negative Freedom to Market Authoritarianism.” Paper presented at Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, Queen University of Belfast, June, 2012.
• “Philosophy vs. Politics: Reconsidering Socratic Philosophy in Global Times.” Paper presented at Twenty First World Congress of Political Science, Universidad de Chile, July, 2009.
• “Political (or) Philosophy? A Critical Account of Leo Strauss’s Response to the Crisis of Modernity.” Paper presented at Twenty Second World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, August, 2008.
• “Leo Strauss’s ‘Jerusalem and Athens:’ Modernity-Philosophy and Revelation.” Paper presented at Configurations of the Third: 1800 to the Present, University of Cambridge, August 2005.
• “Strauss and Derrida on Carl Schmitt: An Unexpected Affinity?” Paper presented at Sixth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, University of Essex, May 2005.
• “Philosophy versus Politics: Ideas of Good Life in the Works of Strauss and Arendt.” Paper presented at Politics and Ethics Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, March, 2005.
• “The Leviathan and the Contours of Conservative Imagination: The Role of Thomas Hobbes in the Works of Schmitt, Strauss and Oakeshott.” Paper presented at Seventy Sixth Annual Meeting of Canadian Political Science Association, June, 2004.