27 April 2017
10:00 – Opening by representative of Yeditepe University
10:30 – Welcome by AESC President
11:00 – Academic Workshop No. 1: The Changing Regional Geographies in Europe and its Eastern Neighbours
- The Black Sea Cooperation in the Context of Sub-regionalism and Inter-regionalism (Mukhtar Hajizada (Khazar University, Department of Political Science and International Relations)
- The Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation: Opportunities and Limits in Three Decade (Itir Toksöz Bullens (Dogus University, Department of International Relations)
- Turkey and the Union for Mediterranean (Armağan Gözkaman (Beykent University, Department of International Relations)
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Workshop (continued)
- Turkey’s Black Sea Policy and the EU (Filiz Tutku Aydin (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
- Tatarstan: A Meeting Point of Russian and Turkic Worlds (Aleksandra Yatsyk (Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna)
- People or Territories: The Geo-/ Biopolitical Dilemmas for Georgia and Ukraine (Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies)
16:00 – End of day one
28 April 2017
10:00 – Academic Workshop No. 2: Foreign and Security Policy Implications of Europeanisation in the Caucasus
- Securitization of Economic Integration Decisions: Armenia and the Eurasian Economic Union (Seyit Ali Avcu (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University)
- Europeanisation of Georgia: Security Concerns (Gvantsa Davitashvili (Caucasus School of Law)
- The ENI in the Caucasus and Cooperation Opportunities with Turkey (Damla Cihangir (Sabanci University)
- With Turkey against Russia? European Common Energy Policy (Seda Hanegelioğlu (Yeditepe University)
13:00 – Lunch break
14:30 – Special Panel 1: China and Central Asia in the Caucasus Region
- (Re-) evaluating European Union – Central Asian Relations: An Integration Perspective (Akbota Zholdasbekova (Faculty of International Relations, Gumilyev Eurasian National University)
- (Re-) Assessing the New Silk Road for an Integrated Europe-Asia (Punit Gaur and Aigerim Ospanov (Gumilev Eurasian National University)
- Chinese One Belt One Road Project and the Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean (Seyit Ali Avcu (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University)
14:30 – Special Panel 2: Georgia
- The Parliamentary Election in Georgia 2016: A Policy Analysis Perspective (Oliver Reisner (Ilia State University)
- Georgia and the Issue of Turkey’s Membership in the EU (Maia Manchkhashvili (Tbilisi State University)
17:00 – General Assembly AESC
18:00 – End of day two