CLEF 2019 – Call for Lab Participations!

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2019, which is to be held between 9 – 12 September 2019 at Lugano, Switzerland, is calling for lab participations. As the EMW Project, we will be participating in the CLEF 2019 as the holder of one of the nine Labs, ProtestNews:...

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Workshop at EUI Political Science Department

Our team has been invited to EUI Political Science Department. Erdem Yörük and Ali Hürriyetoğlu participated in a workshop organized by Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi, who is the principal investigator of PolCon ERC project. Both teams discussed their articifical intelligence methoda to create protest events datasets for Europe and emerging markets...

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CLEF Protest News 2019

Our lab proposal -prepared and led by our postdoc researcher Ali Hürriyetoğlu- was accepted to be organized in Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2019 (http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/). The CLEF initiative is a self-organized body whose main goal is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with...

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We are at the ISA Conference

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük presented four papers –titled The Politics of Social Assistance in South Africa,Social Assistance as Political Containment in Contemporary China, Four Worlds of Global Welfare, andThe Politics of Social Assistance in Contemporary Asia: Comparative Analysis of China, India, and Turkey—  at the XIX ISA...

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The NoPSA Conference 2017

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük presented a paper, titled “New Global Welfare Regime Cluster Structure,” at the Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA) Conference which took place at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 8-11 August 2017.

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