Panel: Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways
Presentation Title : Navigating Invisibility: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Contemporary Pagan Movements in Turkey within a Transnational Framework
September 20-25, 2026
Bucharest
Panel: 'I have chosen my religion.': Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion
Presentation Title : Exiting Islam: Conversion to New Religiosities as a Process of Negotiation
September 20-25, 2026
Bucharest
Presentation Title : The British Matrix of Contemporary Paganism: Observing Turkey's Heterodox Religiosities from the United Kingdom
June 25, 2026
Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford
Held as part of the Nuit de la MFO
Presentation Title : Neopaganism, Nationalism, and Witchcraft: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of New Religiosities in Turkey
May 12, 2026
University of Fribourg
Panel: INOPS panel
Presentation Title : Tengrism, Nationalism, and Secularisation Dynamics in Turkey's Modern Transformation
April 17, 2026
Bratislava
Presentation Title : New Religiosities at the Margins of Dominant Religions: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Contemporary Pagan Movements in a Transnational Context
March 20, 2026
French School at Athens
Presentation Title : Influence of European Neopaganisms on Movements in Turkey
March 6, 2026
University of Strasbourg
Presentation Title : The Making of a Divided Island in the Eastern Mediterranean: Turkish, Greek and Cypriot Perspectives on the Cyprus Conflict
December 15-16, 2025
Maison française d'Oxford, Oxford
Presentation Title : 'Baptized Atheists': The Recognition of Religions in Contemporary Turkey in the Face of Political-Religious Tensions
September 11-12, 2025
Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sociology, University of Bratislava
Presentation Title : 'I Put a Spell on You': New Magical Ritual Forms in Heterodox Religiosities in Turkey
September 10-13, 2025
Galatasaray University, Istanbul
IUAES Commission on Anthropology of the Middle East
Panel: Green, Spiritual and Politically Aware: On (Eco)Spiritualities, Ideologies and Radical Political Activities
Presentation Title : New Actors in Turkey's Religious Landscape: Neo-Pagan Movements as Reactions to State Policies, Social Issues, and the Migration Crisis
August 24-30, 2025
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Presentation Title : Crafting Secularized Religious and Spiritual Identities in the Turkish Context
28.06.2025 09:00-11:00
Vilnius University
Organized by ESSWE
Presentation Title : Why Paganism in the Contemporary Era? The Construction of Neopagan Identities Under the Influence of Islamo-Conservatism
28.06.2025 09:00-11:00
University of Strasbourg
Organized by GIS MOMM
Presentation Title : Le cas des Turcs en Alsace Rites, religion, and diaspora: The case of Turkish Muslims in Alsace
28.06.2025 16:30-18:30
University of Strasbourg
Organized by GIS MOMM
Presentation Title : Ergenekon et le Néotengrisme : Réflexions sur une révision idéologique et symbolique autour du Nevruz (Ergenekon and Neotengrism: Reflections on an Ideological and Symbolic Revision of Nevruz)
20.03.2025 09:00-13:00
University of Strasbourg
Organized by the Departments of Persian and Turkish Studies
Presentation Title : The Ontology of Religious Objects in Neo-Pagan Movements: From Productive Effort to Rapid Consumption as a Mode of Transmission, Kerem Görkem Arslan, Université de Strasbourg
25.02.2025 13:45-18:15
University of Strasbourg
Palais universitaire Room 33
Organisation: Christophe Monnot and Benjamin Gagné
Presentation Title : How to Uprise Against Religious Politics in the Contemporary World: The Case of Turkey’s Emerging Heterodox Religiosities
05.02.2025 18:00-19:00
University College Cork
Chairman: James Kapaló
Presentation Title : Beliefs on the Margins: Neopagan Expressions in Contemporary Turkey
28.01.2025 18:00-19:00
IFEA, CETOBaC
Chairperson: Yohanan Benhaïm
Presentation Title : Dynamiques migratoires et heritages culturels : l’empreinte turque en Alsace (Migration Dynamics and Cultural Heritage: The Turkish Imprint in Alsace
January 20 and 21, 2025 – Paris and Aubervilliers
INALCO
Presentation Title : Des temples glorieux au cœur du foyer: la centralité des autels dans les cultes néopaïens (From Glorious Temples to the Heart of the Home: The Centrality of Altars in Neopagan Worship)
Octobre 30 and 31, 2024.
ITI HiSAAR, University of Strasbourg
Presentation Title : Diaspora turque en Alsace : Analyse des parcours migratoires et dynamiques identitaires des Turcs d’Alsace (Turkish Diaspora in Alsace: Analysis of Migration Paths and Identity Dynamics of Turks in Alsace)
Octobre 15, 2024.
Sciences Po Grenoble, University Grenoble Alpes
Presentation Title : Neo-Witchcraft in Turkey: Tracing Emerging Trends through a Neopagan Lens
September 17, 2024
Ascona
Presentation Title : From Steppes to Anatolia: The Ever-changing Tapestry of Turkic Shamanism and the Reactivation of Tengrism
June 5-8, 2024
University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome
ISARS International Congress
Presentation Title : Witches, Pagans, Tengrists, and Beyond: Seekers of Ancient Ways in Contemporary Turkey
April 23, 2024
Uppsala University
Presentation Title : Détrônement du récit dominant : une nouvelle perspective sur les politiques religieuses en Turquie
November 9, 2023
Institute of Islamology of Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg
With the Department of Turkish Studies and the DIslaTurk project
Presentation Title : Journey Through Tengrism: Understanding Its Roots and Transformations
October 18, 2023
Strasbourg
Syracuse University
Panel: The search of origins in the contemporary Turkish society: Turanism, Islamism, and Anatolianism (organized by Samim Akgönül)
Presentation Title : The 'new ancient': Neo-pagan religiosities in contemporary Turkey: the example of Hekate worship
September 21-23, 2023
Vienna
Panel: Social Developments and Political Participation
Presentation Title : Why the ancient becomes 'modern'? Contemporary 'story' of Tengrism in Turkey (with Samim Akgönül)
June 22-24, 2023
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen
Presentation Title : Identification et pratiques néopaïennes : un phénomène syncrétique quasi invisible en Turquie
May 4-5, 2023
ITI HiSAAR, University of Strasbourg
