As a part of its International Relations / Political Science Colloquium Series, the Department of Political Science/International Relations is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor H. Zeynep Bulutgil, who will give a presentation entitled Failure to Launch: The Origins of Legal Secularization.

H. Zeynep Bulutgil is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at University College London. Her general research interests focus on political violence, the relationship between religious and political institutions, as well as inequality and ethnic politics.

Her recent project, The Origins of Legal Secularization, explores the conditions under which the legal structures of countries become divorced from religious actors and regulations. To explore this question, she has compiled a historical-cross-national dataset on institutional secularization that covers the post-1850 period. Her work-in-progress uses this dataset along with historical case studies from Europe and the Middle East to analyze the conditions under which countries adopt secular legal systems.

All talks will be followed by a discussion. Please direct all enquiries to: Eliza Urwin, Colloquium Coordinator, IR/PS Department.