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Hilmi Ozan Ozavci

Address: Samuel Alexander Building, Room SG17, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, M13 9PL.

Telephone: 0161 275 8595

Email: hilmi.ozavci@manchester.ac.uk

PhD title: Individualism and Collectivism: A Study of A.Agaoglu, 1869-1939
 
Main Discipline areas: Intellectual History, Political Theory, Social Theory, Sociology of Ideas

Research specialism: My main research specialisation is the reception of modern Western ideas in Turkish social and political thought and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. I am particularly interested in the appearance and appropriation of liberal, nationalist and positivist thought in Turkey, and their impacts on Turkish political history with especial reference to their interplay with the idea of the 'individual'. My current research project explores the tangential relations between the ideas of nationalism, positivism and individualism as they appeared in the writings of in particular Prince Sabahaddin, M. Cavid Bey and A. Aaolu and their intellectual sources (Le Play, Durkheim, Kropotkin, Spencer, et al.), and in general, of other contemporary Turkish intellectuals. Tracing ideas to their European sources, the project aims also to throw light upon comparative intellectual history involving Turkey, on the one hand, and France, Germany, Russia and Britain, on the other.

Recent Academic Publications:

• "Prens Sabahaddin'in Fikri Kaynaklari: Le Play ve Toplum Bilim," Dou Bat1, No: 41, (July 2007), pp. 231-254.

Conference Presentations:

• "The French Revolution from Turkish Perspective: Ahmet Aaolu and High Individualism," Historicising the French Revolution, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, November, 15-16 2007.
• "The Social and Political Thought of Prince Sabahaddin," Faiths and Ideologies, the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, July, 3 2006
• "Social Mobilization and Intellectual Cleavages in the late Ottoman Empire," The Sixth Global Leadership Forum, International Institute of Leadership and Public Affairs, Istanbul, June, 24 2004.

Conference Organisation:

The Third Global Leadership Forum, International Institute of Leadership and Public Affairs, Istanbul, 2003.

Membership of Professional Organisations
Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester

Professional biography:

I received my BSc degree(s) at the University of Bahçesehir, Istanbul, in political science and international relations (valedictorian) and European Union relations, and my MA degree at the University of Manchester, where I am currently pursuing my PhD study. My studies (leading towards these degrees) have so far been funded by the University of Bahçesehir, Istanbul, and the University of Manchester, at which I work as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. Moreover, I was awarded a study grant by the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) for research in Turkey in the summer of 2007.