Conference Papers Presented
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
01/2017 | Tess 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
- 2021 – Introducing Noura Erakat
- 2020 – Introducing Laila Lalami
- 2019 – Introducing Phyllis Bennis
- 2018 – Introducing Mohja Kahf
- 2014 – Introducing Lila Abu-Lughod
- 2004 – “I Remember” a poem, introducing Naomi Shihab Nye