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Sharon Begley
Senior editor at Newsweek magazine, Begley is widely known for her ability to write complex scientific theories in a comprehensive language. She is rewarded by NYABJ and The Genesis Award for Outstanding Written Word with her essays “How Your Brain Looks at Race”, and “The Extinction Trade”. She is also rewarded by the National Magazine Award in Public Interest category in 2009 with her essay, “We Fought Cancer and Cancer Won”. She is also the author of three books called The Mind and the Brain, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain and The Plastic Mind: New science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves.  |
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Nihal Bengisu Karaca
After her graduation from Kayseri Religious Vocational High School and Marmara University Faculty of Law, she launched her career as a journalist at Aksiyon Magazine. She is now continuing as a journalist/columnist at Habertürk. She wrote a book called Yanardağda Pişirilir, Totemle Servis Yapılır. Her columns “Bir Mütesettirin Tatil Güncesi” in 2007 at Radikal, and “Maktulün Bir Femme Fatale Olarak Portresi” at Habertürk in 2009 both evoked wide acclaim. |
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J.Sakiya Sandifer
“I don’t recommend you think ‘outside the box’. Create your own box!”
With his first book Think Think Think and Think Again, he expressed an original and creative approach that helped him attract the masses. Sakiya is also the pioneer at the “The Think Movement”. Sakiya’s second book Thank You And You're Welcome, co-authored with Kanye West, has drawn worldwide attention. Sakiya is currently working on his third book. |
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Babar Luck
Babar Luck is a British musician, soloist notable with his different costumes and religious identity. He is widely known with his recordings with the famous British music group Suicide Bid and his independent works. Born in Pakistan and raised in a strict Muslim environment, the musician came to London at the age of 8, and created a safe living sphere with his music where he felt as a ‘stranger’.
He performs around the globe and is moving beyond tolerance’s limits in terms of humanity and kinds of music. Babar Luck’s music can be found here. |
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Arun Kundnani
The editor of ‘Race&Class’ journal, Kundnani is one of the leading commentators on racism, migration, and multiculturalism.
In his book called The end of tolerance’ Racism in 21st Century Britain, questioning the policies fostering racism, forced emigration, global terrorism and social discrimination, Kundnani explains what can be done to prevent racism. |
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Sevan Nişanyan
He studied history, philosophy, and South American political systems at Yale and Columbia Universities. In 1998 he published The Little Hotel Book, which played an important role in directing Turkish tourism to a path apart from mass tourism. He is also the author of the first comprehensive scientific study in depth on the etymology of Turkish, Sözlerin Soyağacı: Çağdaş Türkçenin Etimolojik Sözlüğü. |
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Lone Frank
A journalist and author, Frank is a former researcher, and has a Ph. D. in neurobiology. She is one of Denmark's most famous science authors; she often plays a leading role in her society on debates about science and technology. Her book The New Life, Cloned Tigers and The Fifth Revolution has drawn world attention. She is the first author to write on the topic of neurocentrism. Since 2007, Dr. Frank is also the broadcaster of TV programs with scientific content for Danish television. |
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Ann Pellegrini
An associate professor at NYU, Pellegrini completed her doctorate in 1994 at Harvard University on cultural studies. Her major areas of interest are religion, gender, feminist theory, Jewish cultural studies, psychoanalysis and culture, psychoanalysis and race, cultures of childhood, secularism, and trauma studies. Pellegrini is also one of the editors of the book Sexual Cultures: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. |
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Janet Jakobsen
Professor Jakobsen, has a Ph D. in ethics and society, and is an academician focused on feminist and queer theories, religion, gender and sexuality in American public life. Before entering the academy, she was a policy analyst and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Currently working on a book project called, The Value of Ethics: Sex, Secularism and Social Movements in a Global Economy, Jacobsen is Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Interim Associate Dean of Barnard College, Faculty of Diversity. Some of her previous books are Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limit of Religious Tolerance and Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics. |
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Sertab Erener & Demir Demirkan / Painted on Water Live Performance
Sertab, a pop music singer, has been producing without a pause since 1990. She has had numerous hit songs, winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 representing Turkey. Demir, known as the man behind many of the albums within the Turkish music scene, is a versatile artist. He is the composer, song writer of the Turkish Eurovision winning song, "Every Way That I Can".
Sertab and Demir will perform live within TEDxIstanbul with a marbling (ebru) artist. |
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Michel Bourse
At a time when conflicts of ethnic identity and nationalist movements cause people and everything peculiar to people to be forgotten, the praise of hybridity reminds us a very basic thing: there is no such thing as "natural identity"; by chance our origins are from here or there, all our identity is nothing else, but a cultural, political and ideological fiction that is based on mutual exchange. He had his doctorate of philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1975. In 1988, he has undertaken the responsibility for the scientific and cultural relations with Romania at University of Rectorate Nanter; and has contributed to the establishment of the Faculty of Journalism and Faculty of Applied Foreign Languages in Cluj, Romania. Between 1990-2000, he managed a group of European research group executing research at the French-German Office (OFAJ) on intercultures. From 2001 to 2004, he was a member of Galatasaray University Communication Faculty, where he framed up and edited an international academical magazine in cooperation with Turkish, French, Bulgarian, and Romanian Universities. Currently, Michael Bourse is an assistant professor at Nantes University where he’s facilitating seminars on intercultural communication. He has many papers, essays and books published on communication theories and techniques, intercultural communication challenges. |
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Özlem Altıparmak
Attorney; Chair Person, Amnesty International Branch of Turkey
Graduated from Izmir Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law, Özlem Altıparmak is working as an independent registered attorney at İzmir Bar Association. She has worked as a professional and volunteer in various non-governmental organizations operating on Rights. Since 2006, she is the General Coordinator of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and also Chair Person of Amnesty International Branch of Turkey. |
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