Back	The Ottoman Bank Museum opens 2005 with its continuing Voyvoda Street Lecture Series Cultural Globalization in Turkey: Actors, Discourses and Strategies Prof. Fuat Keyman, from the Department of International Relations at Koç University/ Istanbul, will be our first guest speaker for 2005, at the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures, with a presentation titled, "Cultural Globalization in Turkey", scheduled for Wednesday, January 5, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Pointing out that from the 1980s on, Turkey has increasingly opened itself to the world economy and adapted to globalization, Fuat Keyman will address in his lecture, the institutional structure of Turkey's economic relationships and their connection to culture and politics, and examine the relationship between the Turkish economy and globalization from the perspective of such institutions as TUSİAD (Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association), MÜSİAD (Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) and SİAD (Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association). A faculty member of the Department of International Relations at Koç University, Keyman has conducted research on democratization, globalization, international relations and the relationship between state and society in Turkey. Prof. Keyman is the author of a number of articles and books published both in Turkey and abroad including, Türkiye ve Radikal Demokrasi (Turkey and Radical Democracy) Alfa, İstanbul, 2001, Türkiye'de Devlet Sorunu: Küreselleşme, Modernleşme, Demokratikleşme (The State Problem in Turkey: Globalization, Modernization, Democratization) Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2005 and Değişen Türkiye (The Transformation of Turkey) Lexington, Oxford.