SOYSAL, Levent

Current activities : Assistant professor, Faculty of communication, Kadir Has University. Advisory Board Member for Project “Migration”, carried out by Kolnischer Kunst Verein and Insitut fur Kulturanthropoligie und Europaische Ethnologie , Universitat Frankfurt am Main. Leader of the research project “World City Berlin and the Spectacles of Identity: Public Events, Immigrants, and the Politics of Performance”. Research key words : Contemporary urban spaces, youth cultures, transnational movements of peoples, cultures, and goods Main publications : “Rap, Hiphop, Kreuzberg:Scripts of/for Migrant Youth Culture in the WorldCity Berlin,” in Multicultural Germany: Arts, Media, and Performance, Special Issue, edited by Barbara Wolbert and Deniz Göktürk, New German Critique 92 (Spring-Summer 2004): 62-81. “Labor to Culture: Writing Turkish Migration to Europe,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 102(2/3) Spring/Summer 2003 (Special Issue on Turkey, edited by Sibel Irzik and Güven Güzeldereli). Forty Years of Turkish Migration to Germany: Issues, Reflections, and Futures, Co-editor (with Ayşe Çağlar), Special Issue, New Perspectives on Turkey, No: 28-29, Spring-Fall 2003. Levent Soysal has extensive experience in immigration research and fieldwork (since 1990), particularly focusing on the contemporary urban spaces and youth cultures (Berlin, London, New York, Istanbul), and transnational movements of peoples, cultures, and goods. Levent  Soysal has carried out two major research projects under the titles of Projects of Culture: Migrant Youth and the Making of the WorldCity Berlin and WorldCity Berlin and the Spectacles of Identity: Public Events, Immigrants, and the Politics of Performance, funded by, among others, Center for European Studies (Harvard University), Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies (Free University-Berlin), Social Science Research Foundation (New York), and Thyssen Foundation (Germany).  Levent Soysal’s contribution to the TIES RTN will include providing expertise in migrant youth research and issues related to Turks and Muslims in Europe and Turkey, as well as fieldwork and qualitative methods. He has supervised graduate research on lifecourse and cultures of migrant youth. He has been on the Advisory Board of Projekt Migration, carried out by Kölnischer Kunst Verein and Insitut für Kulturanthropoligie und Europäische Ethnologie, Goethe University-Frankfurt and Mıgration Letters.