The
International Gender Studies in Turkey Conference will take place on December 9-10, 2023 in İstanbul, Minerva Han, Karaköy between 09.00-18.30 (UTC+3). The conference will be held for the first time this year, and it aims to create a platform where current research on Turkey and gender studies in Turkey will be presented, discussed and researchers will meet at regular intervals.
Following the welcome and keynote speeches, parallel sessions and award sessions will be held. The conference will start with the welcome speeches and will continue with the keynote speech given by Feride Acar. In 3 parallel sessions to be held afterwards, topics such as body and technology, work and labor, literature, migration, politics, arts, law, youth, advocacy and solidarity, ecology, masculinities, emotions and affect, religion, sexualities, resistance, city and space, reproductive politics and motherhood will be discussed. In the last session of both days, the panel and award ceremonies of the awards organized by SU Gender will take place. This year's Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award will find its owners in the session that will start at 17.00 on Saturday, December 9th, and the Şirin Tekeli Research Award will find its owners in the session that will start at 17.00 on Sunday, December 10th.
The conference aims to address the leading issues of gender studies on an interdisciplinary and intersectional basis and to make visible the contribution of feminist and queer perspectives, theories and methodologies and policy production in today's world where social inequalities are increasing.
Program
December 9, Saturday
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.30 Welcome Speeches/ Fuat Keyman, Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Zeynep Gülru Göker
09.30-10.30 Keynote Speech/ Feride Acar
10.45-16.45 Parallel Sessions
17.00- 18.30 Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award Panel & Ceremony
December 10, Sunday
09.00-16.45 Parallel Sessions
17.00-18.30 Şirin Tekeli Research Award Panel & Ceremony
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