The Global Humanities Initiative at Sabanci University is embedded within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Sabanci is internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and research-oriented universities in Turkey. FASS has multiple graduate programs in economics, psychology, political science, conflict analysis and resolution and European studies, visual arts and communications design, history, cultural studies, and gender studies. Pre-existing cooperation schemes with EU-funded projects allow significant research collaboration with multiple international partners and different stakeholders. FASS conducts highly competitive graduate student training and public outreach in multiple disciplines in social sciences and is a visible actor in social sciences and humanities nationally and internationally. FASS faculty members and graduate students working in political science, international relations, history, literature and cultural studies actively participate in all the activities of the Global Humanities Initiative.