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Mohammad Monirul Islam Consul General of Bangladesh

Starting from the 1860’s, the source of inspiration of the Ottoman Orientalist taste has been focused on so-called “Moorish” style, North African and Spanish Muslim elements as seen in the Pertevnyial Valide Sultan Camii (1872) and Çırağan Palace (1872), reflecting clearly the

Hong Kong and Taipei embraced global city formation in the late 1990s as part of their socio-spatial ‘repositioning’ amidst the rise of China and transformations in global capitalism. How is space produced in Hong Kong and Taipei, two Asian global cities? This question constitu

KUASIA Webinar Series for the Fall 2020 semester has continued with Burcu Ermeydan’s talk today. We thank her for the insightful talk on East Asian regionalism and the participants for their interesting questions.

KUASIA Webinar Series for the Fall 2020 semester has continued with Altay Atlı’s talk today. We thank Dr. Atlı for his detailed and insightful talk on Türkiye, China and the Belt and Road Initiative and the participants for their thought-provoking questions.

KUASIA Webinar Series for the Fall 2020 semester has started with Veysel Tekdal’s talk today. We thank him for his insightful talk on diverging local development paths and performances in Western China and the participants for their thought-provoking questions.

We are sorry to announce that, in response to Koç University guidance on COVID-19, all KUASIA seminars until April 30, 2020, are canceled.

Over the twentieth century, Japan had transformed from an overpopulated, “Yellow Peril” in the world to a depopulated, “Declining Empire.” This talk introduces the historical, social, and geopolitical background that led to this swift demographic transition—a process that occur