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Visiting researcher to the Department of Study of Religions and the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre, as part of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Program
Kerem Görkem Arslan is a lecturer in the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Strasbourg, an associate researcher at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, and a PhD candidate in political sciences at the Droit, Religion, Entreprise et Société Research Unit (UMR 7354 DRES, jointly supervised by CNRS and the University of Strasbourg).
His research explores the development and recognition of heterodox religiosities in contemporary Turkey, with a comparative perspective on European contexts. His areas of expertise include new religious movements, the anthropology and philosophy of myths, the anthropology of religion, and the dynamics of neopagan identification and marginalization.
With a background in social and cultural anthropology, he also leads an ethnographic project focused on Alsatian populations of Turkish origin.