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IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative

The Return of the Future and the Last Man: Politics of Demographic Imagination

2025 Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Ivan Krastev was hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University and gave a seminar titled “The Return of the Future and the Last Man: The Politics of Demographic Imagination,” moderated by Meltem Müftüler- Baç, Dean of the FASS at Sabancı University, on October 14, 2025.

Meltem Müftüler Baç

Meltem Müftüler Baç

Meltem Müftüler-Baç is a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center, Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

muftuler@sabanciuniv.edu
Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna.