During the Canadian Sociological Association's annual convention, Assistant Professor of Sociology Yesim Bayar presented her paper titled Citizenship and Recognition of Difference, based on her research on the Armenian community in Canada.
She also presented her paper, Ties That Bind: Accommodation, Difference and Nation Talk, at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Bayar’s work spans a variety of interrelated issues including nationalism, ethnic and religious minorities, citizenship, constitution-writing, and language policies. Her work has appeared in several journals and her book The Formation of the Turkish Nation-State, 1920-1938, was published in 2014.