"Hommage à Gérard Groc - De la Provence aux rives du Bosphore" organised by IREMAM (presentations by Dilek Yankaya and Aude Signoles)

Tuesday 6 May | 9h45-17h | MMSH (salle Duby)

IREMAM invites you to a day of tribute to Gérard Groc, who died on 3 August 2023.

Hybrid format: please contact Myriam Laakili, myriam.laakili[at]univ-amu.fr

Programme

09.45 - Coffee reception

10.00-10.30 - Opening of the day 

Vincent GEISSER, CNRS research fellow, Director of IREMAM (CNRS, AMU) and Myriam LAAKILI, D. in sociology from IREMAM (AMU, CNRS).

10.30-11.30 - Political issues in contemporary Turkey and the present day

Ahmet INSEL, political scientist and economist, former professor at Galatasaray University.

Sümbül KAYA, Senior Lecturer at the School of Sustainable Territorial Development, former Director of the Contemporary Studies Department at the IFEA in Istanbul.

Jean MARCOU, University Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble.

11.30-12.30 - Turkey/Armenia, bridges and dialogue

Stéphane CERMAKIAN, Armenian language and civilisation (AMU, IREMAM).

Patrick DONADÉBIAN, Emeritus Researcher in History of Art and Medieval Archaeology (LA3M), HDR Lecturer in Armenian Studies (AMU).

12.30pm: friendly buffet

14h00-15h00 - Turkey and the Arab world 

Thomas PIERRET, CNRS research fellow, IREMAM (CNRS, AMU).

Dilek YANKAYA,a lecturer at Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS.

Vincent GEISSER, CNRS research fellow, IREMAM (CNRS, AMU).

15h00-16h30 - Gérard Groc: the researcher, the teacher, the friend

Aude SIGNOLES, a senior lecturer at Sciences Po Aix, MESOPOLHIS.

Jean-Robert HENRY, former CNRS research director, IREMAM.

Esra SERIM, associate researcher at the University of Bordeaux.

Gérard GROC in pictures - Distribution of The AKP Government« conference», OBTIC & CERI in Paris, 11-12 February 2010.

More details on the event here.