Institute of International and Security Studies invites to participate in an open lecture titled ‘Liminal Minorities. Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies’ which will be given by Günes Murat Tezcür from Arizona State University-ASU (USA). Professor Güneş Murat Tezcür was invited as part of the Competition to support the arrival of visiting professors for long visits, which is part of the Excellence Initiative – Research University programme.
Günes Murat Tezcür is a director of the School of Politics and Global Studies in Arizona State University. As a researcher of comparative politics, he deals with the topic of political violence and identity politics, mostly focusing on Iran, Kurdish, and Turkish human geography. His works made an appearance in many leading scientific journals. Liminal Minorities: Religion and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press, 2024) is his lates book. Moreover, he is an editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2021). Before he joined Arizona State University in 2023, he had been a director of Jalal Talabani Endowed and was a head of the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (University of Central Florida).
Translated by Zuzanna Zapora (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
