ZOOM EVENT: WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025, 17:00 CET
The advent of cutting-edge technologies offers unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize research methods in international studies. At our online seminar, we will explore how these technological advancements are reshaping the research methods landscape and how international studies scholars can leverage these innovations to their advantage. From data analytics to machine learning, this seminar will illuminate the limitless potential of technology to enhance research methodologies in the field of international studies. Join us to stay at the forefront of these revolutionary developments, unlocking new dimensions in your research methods that will shape the future of international studies scholarship.
Speakers
- Akın Ünver,
Ozyegin University
Akın Ünver is an associate professor of International Relations at Ozyegin University, specializing in conflict research, computational methods and digital crisis communication. Since 2024, he is coordinating DE-CONSPIRATOR, a large HorizonEU project with 15 European universities and research labs, tackling foreign information manipulation across Europe. He is a fellow of Carnegie Endowment’s Digital Democracy Network and serves as a member of TikTok’s MENA-T Security Advisory Council. Previously he served as a Research Associate at the Center for Technology and Global Affairs, Oxford University and a Senior Research Fellow at GUARD (Global Urban Analytics for Resilient Defence) at the Alan Turing Institute. He is the author of ‘Defining Turkey’s Kurdish Question: Discourse and Politics Since 1990’ (Routledge Series in Middle Eastern Politics). He is the Istanbul organizer of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the founder of the Istanbul Twitter Developers’ Community.
