Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Deniz Yüret, Erdem Yörük, Çağrı Yoltar, Burak Gürel, Fırat Durusan, Osman Mutlu, “Lab on ProtestNews: Extracting Protests from News.” In Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), Lugano, Switzerland, September 9-12, 2019 (Forthcoming).
Arda Akdemir, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Erdem Yörük, Burak Gürel, Çağrı Yoltar, Deniz Yüret, “Towards generalizable place name recognition systems: Analysis and enhancement of NER systems on English news from India.” In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, November 6, 2018, Seattle (https://doi.org/10.1145/3281354.3281363)
Murat Koyuncu, Erdem Yörük, and Burak Gürel, “Welfare as counter-insurgency in contemporary India.” In the 76th AnnualMidwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 6, 2018.
Erdem Yörük, Ali Bargu, and Burak Gürel, “Social assistance as a counter-insurgency strategy in contemporary China.” In the 76th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 8, 2018.
Burak Gürel, Bermal Küçük, and Sercan Taş, “Rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey.” In Confronting Authoritarian Populism: Resistances and Alternatives in Rural Contexts, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, March 17-18, 2018.
Burak Gürel and Erdem Yörük, “The politics of social assistance in contemporary Asia: Comparative analysis of China, India, and Turkey.” In Whither West Asia, University of Sussex Asia Center, May 16, 2017.
Burak Gürel, “The Syrian civil war and Turkey’s transformation into the world’s biggest refugee camp.” In Crises and Victims: A Workshop on Refugees, Migrants and Anti- Refugee Discourses in a New Way, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Warsaw, Karl Polanyi Center for Global Social Studies, and Eszmélet Journal, Budapest, February 27, 2016.
Burak Gürel, “The role of labor mobilization in the divergence of the rural economies of China and India (1947-1992).” In East Asian Studies Spring 2014 Student Symposium: Transforming East Asia, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 11, 2014.
Burak Gürel, “Landownership and capitalist agriculture in China.” In Agrarian Development in China: Legacies and Prospects, The Arrighi Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, November 1, 2013.
Burak Gürel, “Changing relations of production in Chinese agriculture from decollectivization to agrarian capitalism.” In 21st Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 10-11, 2012.
Burak Gürel, “Peasant struggles over land in Turkey (1960-1980).” In Historical Social Science-Graduate Student Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 28-29, 2007.
Burak Gürel, “Land occupation as a form of peasant resistance in Turkey (1968-1980).” In The Political Economy of the Middle East in the Age of Empire: Historical, Theoretical, and Political Reflections, York University, Toronto, March 23-24, 2006.
Burak Gürel, Speech at “Plenary 1: Authoritarian populism: Rural roots and consequences.” In Confronting Authoritarian Populism: Resistances and Alternatives in Rural Contexts, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, March 17, 2018.
Burak Gürel, “The role of labor mobilization in the divergence of the rural economies of China and India (1950-1980).” In Social Science Seminars, Koç University, İstanbul, February 20, 2014.
Burak Gürel, “The role of labor mobilization in the divergence of the rural economies of China and India (1947-1992).” In Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, March 22, 2013.
Invited Lectures
Burak Gürel, "State capacity, mass mobilization and economic development in China since 1949." In Economy and Politics in Asia: Towards an Asian Community (EC 429), Kadir Has University,İstanbul, November 8, 2019 (Funded by One Asia Foundation).