5 November 2026 – Thursday
5 November 2026 – Thursday

When Caravaggio Leaves: Can a Masterpiece Change a City? 

Monday Briefing 02/11/2026

Who Owns the Cities?

Europe’s Champion Dilemma

So, Where Are You From?

Perché abbiamo ancora bisogno dei classici greci

egemen.aray@studbocconi.it | + posts

I am an Istanbulite trying to adapt to life in Milan. I study political science here at Bocconi, and it is my first year. My interests include politics, the environment, culture, and society. I feel like it is my job to stay up to date about pop culture and socio-political events happening all around the world, and I see myself on a mission to create a better everyday life for people and the planet.

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It takes a crossing to call Istanbul home

I didn’t know what I would do or how I would do it, I just had the conviction that, whatever future I wanted to build, the answer was always Istanbul. And, I somehow convinced my parents that sending their 13-year-old kid to Istanbul alone was a good idea.
A movie that I watched recently, Crossing, reminded me of the place that Istanbul holds in my life and in the lives of many others. Crossing, as the name suggests, is a story of relocation and reinvention. At the…
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Whoever Wins Istanbul, Wins Turkey 

In a 2019 live television interview, the then-leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP (Republican People’s Party), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was laughed at by the moderator when he claimed that his party would win control of Turkey’s five largest…
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Scholarly Crossroads – The Dilemma of Universities in Wartime

Should universities take a stance on geopolitical issues of global relevance, such as the Israelo-Palestinian war? In this collaborative piece, we try to explore both sides of a debate that is increasingly relevant in the academic world and not…
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Covid-19 and Democratic Backsliding: A Tale of Two Different Pandemics 

The post-pandemic era has introduced us to brand-new problems: there is a war in Europe, inflation is still an issue, and autocrats continue to pose a threat to our democracy. Turkey under Erdogan and Hungary under Orban are two…