SETA PUBLIC LECTURE  By Joshua W. Walker Transatlantic Academy / Princeton University Date: October 22, 2009 Thursday Time: 17.00 – 18.30 Venue: SETA, Ankara  RSVP: Umare Yazar, Tel: 405 61 51 * 207 P.S.: The language of the lecture will be English.  No translation services will be provided.

Joshua W. Walker is currently a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in the German Marshall Fund of Washington DC. Concurrently he is a PhD candidate in Politics and Public Policy at Princeton University focusing on international relations and security studies. Walker’s dissertation focuses on the role of historical memories in post-imperial successor states’ domestic and foreign policies with particular focus on Turkey and Japan. Walker is a former fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy and at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the co-founder of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations at Princeton and the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy in New York. Prior to Princeton, Walker completed a Master’s from Yale University in International Relations and received two graduate certificates in International Security and Middle East studies. Walker completed a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship in Ankara, Turkey where he researched this country’s foreign and security policy, particularly its European Union aspirations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership, in relation to questions about its national and cultural identity. Beyond the academy he has had the privilege of working for the US State Department both at the Embassy in Ankara and in Washington, and for GE Financial Assurances. Walker has published in Insight, International Affairs, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Washington Quarterly along with Foreign Policy, LA Times, and the Washington Times. Walker is a frequent contributor to Turkish newspapers and commentator on television programs.