Došancan Özsel, MA, Political science
dogancan_ozsel@yahoo.com
Tel: +420 775 353 336

Conference Presentations

Intervention, Politics, and Ideals: Conservatism as a non-Conservative Ideology

Name of the Event: Ideology and Policy Conference

Host: University of Nottingham, Nottingham

Date: January, 2009

Challenging the Conservative Exceptionalism

Name of the Event: New Conservatisms and New Approaches Conference

Host: Anglo-American University, Prague

Date: May, 2009

Visiting Lectureships

Schmitt, Strauss, and the Neoconservatives: A Critique of Liberalism

Host: Anglo American University, Prague

Date: March, 2009

Theme: This lecture focused on a genre of critique of the liberal parliamentary systems. It began by the presentation of Carl Schmitt's critiques against liberalism, then turned to Leo Strauss' concerns about the liberal culture in USA and offered to read these concerns in close relation with Schmittian thinking. In the last part of the lecture, the neoconservative outlook is also presented and the commonalities between neoconservatism and the Schmittian-Straussian line of thought was underlined.

An Introduction to Marxism

Host: Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Date: April, 2008

Theme: A three-hours introductory course on Marxism. The lecture covered a wide scope of subjects ranging from Marxism's philosophical roots in the Enlightenment thinking to Neo and Post Marxist ideas and the critique of Marxism.