Tuna Taşan-Kok

Invited advisory board member for PLOT (Pilots for transforming the transport sector through energy efficient buildings) Research Project, Lunds University, Malmo University, Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden — 2020-2021.

Invited Keynote Talk • Quiet revolution: New state-market-citizen relations and changing role of urban planning, Israel Planners Association Conference, Sderot, Israel — 5 March 2020.

Invited Keynote Talk • Rethinking the Role of Urban Planning in New State Market-Citizen Relations at the 5th Dortmund Conference on Rethinking Spaces – Planning in a Changing World, Dortmund, Germany — 17 February 2020

Invited panel member • Karlskrona UNESCO world heritage day, Karlskrona, Sweden — July 2018.

Invited Expert • NWO (Dutch Scientific Council) Research Talent Commission, The Hague, The Netherlands — 2016-2017.

Invited keynote speaker • Utilising urban diversity in a changing policy context through local policy initiatives, European Week of Cities & Regions, Regional Studies Association Session on Regional and urban leadership in an era of globalisation and de-globalisation, Brussels, Belgium — October 2017.

Invited keynote lecture • New approaches in urban planning: Understanding urban hyper-diversity, International PhD School on Decolonizing Urbanism: Transformative Perspectives, University of Trier, Germany — June 2017.

Opening speech • DIVERCITIES Final Conference: Governing Urban Diversity, Rotterdam, the Netherlands — February 2017.

Invited Scientific Expert • Israel Science Foundation (ISF) — 2014-2017.

Invited keynote lecture • Governing and Planning Urban Diversity. ARL International Summer School, Unpacking Spatial Planning as the Governance of Place. Stockholm, Sweden — September 2016.

Invited keynote speaker • NCRP Public Forum ‘Toronto’s Hyper-diversity: Opportunity or Challenge: How do we build cities where we aren’t just living in the same space, but living together?’. Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada — May 2016.

Invited keynote speaker • KU Leuven Friction Spaces Talks, ‘Political nature of diversity planning in the neoliberal era in Toronto’. Leuven, Belgium — May 2016

Invited keynote speaker • Planning for diversity: Urban planning as a tool to deal with complexifying urban diversity. Social Planning Department of Municipality of Antwerp, Belgium — April 2016.

Invited keynote speaker • Nordregio Forum 2015: Nordic City Regions in a Global Environment, ‘How can Nordic cities profit from diversity of their population?
A hyper-diversity perspective’, Helsingor, Sweden — November 2015.

Invited speaker • De Staat van de Stad: Living with Diversity in Urban Neighbourhoods, ‘Living with Diversity in Toronto: Learning from Jane Finch Residents’. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam — November 2015.

Invited speaker • European Commission, Workshop on Migration, ‘Creating social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyper-diversified cities’. Brussels, Belgium — September 2015.

Invited Scientific Commission Member • NWO (Dutch Scientific Council), Trans Atlantic Platform Commission, Ottawa, Canada — May 2015.

Invited keynote speaker • WG2 COST Action End Conference, Milano, ‘Governing diversity in Toronto: Power of community-based planning & policy making’. Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy — November 2014.

Invited keynote speaker • Onassis Foundation Cultural Centre: Urban Regeneration without Losers? ‘Urban redevelopment for the public interest?’ Onassis Foundation, Athens — May 2014.

Invited Scientific Evaluator • University of Copenhagen, Department of Human Geography — March 2014

Invited Scientific Commission Member • NWO (Dutch Scientific Council). Joint commission with FAPESP (Brazilian Scientific Council) and ESRC (British Scientific Council) for Sustainable Urban Development, Sao Paulo, Brazil — February 2014.

Invited keynote speaker • ReNewTown Final Conference, ‘From post-socialism towards post-neoliberalism? Challenges and contradictions of planning and governance in new neoliberal cities’, Ljubljana, Slovenia — February 2014.

PhD Selection Committee • University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Invited speaker • Kenniscafe Turkije (LeescafeLive), a live TV show organised by Zeeuwse Library, Middelburg — September 2013.

Local Scientific Committee Member, AESOP Congress 2014 Utrecht-Delft.

Invited Expert • Belgian representation to European Commission for Multi-Level Governance Strategy, Ministry of Big Cities Policy, POD, Belgium — 2010-2011.

Invited Scientific Committee Member • Joint Programming Initiative (JPI)-Urban Europe, NWO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — February 2011.

Invited Expert • Belgian representation to European Commission) for Multi-Level Governance Strategy, (Ministry of Big Cities Policy, POD) Belgium — 2010-2011.

Invited Scientific Committee • Member of Joint Programming Initiative (JPI)-Urban Europe, NWO, Amsterdam, the Netherlands — February 2011.

Invited keynote moderator • Multi-level Urban Governance Conference organised by Grotestedenbeleid, POD, EU Trio, Liege, Belgium — December 2010.

Invited speaker • Territorial Governance in Europe:  Convergence, Divergence or Constancy? Expert Workshop (organised by Dominic Stead) at Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany — June 2010.

Invited Member • COST Action A26 (Cities between cohesion and competitiveness), Member of Belgian representation — 2007-2009.

Invited keynote speaker • Izmir City Congress (organised by the Association of Architects and Urban Planners) — May 2007.

Invited guest speaker • University of Groningen, Department of Geography, Groningen, The Netherlands — December 2006.

Invited guest speaker • PRATT Institute workshop, New York, USA — October 2006.