About the Event: The lecture examines an important topic of international investment law and state-investor disputes: expropriation, including types of expropriation, direct and indirect expropriation, lawful expropriation, BIT definitions and the most recent approaches of various ICSD and NAFTA tribunals toward the issue.   About the Speaker: Marlen Smbatyan is an experienced attorney-at-law and legal […]

About the Event:   This panel, featuring work primarily in the visual arts, explores the possibilities afforded by visual representations of subjects that otherwise hide, slip away, or fall off into forgetfulness or into the void—into folds, interstices, voicelessness, or effacement. The forgotten, the overlooked, the antiquated, or unpreserved that might otherwise meet with erasure […]

About the Event:   This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To address these questions, the book looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational […]