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Conference Papers Presented

11/2023“Renovated Façades: Layers of Production, Effacement and Branding” Panel co-chair: In/Visible Accumulations: Spatial Production and the Erosion of National(ist) Mythologies. Middle East Studies Association. Montreal, Canada.
10/2023“Across the Worlds of Islam” A Conference at Kenyon College
12/2022“Listening (Imp)Acts: Sound, Trauma and the ‘Bellephonic.” Panel: Care Work and Healing Practices. Middle East Studies Association. Denver, Colorado.
01/2022“Welcome to MashJar” video-poem. Panel: Race, Ethnicity, Resilience and Activism. 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative, IAANI. Digital Proceedings (p 82-87).
03/2018“Rhythm-analysis, Neoliberal Place-making Processes and Memor(ial)ization in Ankara. METU Sociology Days, organized by the METU Sociology Association. March 2018.  
10/2014“God, Catastrophe, Land and Memory: Identity and the Palestinian Nakba.” CULTHIST’14 Symbols, Representation, Expression in the History of Culture: Cultural History and Anthropology Conference Proceedings. DAKAM. Istanbul.  
05/2014“God, Catastrophe, Land and Memory” Continuity and Change in the Middle East International Symposium, Kirikkale University. Kirikkale, Turkey; May 2014.  
04/2012“Pluralism, Secularism, and Islam.” Program in Islamic Civilization and Cultures Conference at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.  
04/2011“Egyptianity: Pharonism, Sufism and Coptic Interplay in Shaping Egyptian Identity” Program in Islamic Civilization and Cultures Conference. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.  

Poster Presentations

01/2017Tess Waggoner, Esin Kotan, Murat Gunduz, “Altinkoy (Golden Village) Open Air Museum: The Commodification and Objectification of ‘Village.’” Sociology of the Museum and Museology Seminar Open House. Middle East Technical University.  

Invited Panels and Presentations

09/2018“The Role of English Teaching Assistants at Universities: ETA Alumni Panel” Orientation Meeting Programs for U.S. ETA Grantees. Turkish Fulbright Commission. Ankara, Turkey.  
09/2018“Sociocultural Adjustment and Emotional Well-being: Strategies and Suggestions” Orientation Meeting Programs for U.S. Grantees. Turkish Fulbright Commission. Ankara, Turkey.  
10/2017“Bir Yabanci Olarak Turkiye’de Okumak, Okutmak (Studying and Teaching as a Foreigner in Turkey)” at Workshop on Fostering Academic Exchange Between the United States and Turkey. Turkish Fulbright Commission. Ankara, Turkey.  
09/2017“Sociocultural Adjustment and Emotional Well-being: Strategies and Suggestions” Orientation Meeting Programs for U.S. Grantees. Turkish Fulbright Commission. Ankara, Turkey.  
05/2015“Ortadoğu Kadınlardaki Statüsü: Gözlemler ve Engeller.” Kirikkale University International Relations Society’s Academic Youth Workshop). Kirikkale University. Kirikkale, Turkey.  

Mikhail Memorial Lecture Series