Student Activities
PUBLICATIONS
- Cenk Özbay and İlkan Can İpekçi (2024) “State-led Anti-Gender Politics, Islamism, and University: Experiences of Gender Studies Scholars in Turkey.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 20 (1): 89–110.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2024) “Ekranlarda İnci Taneleri: Kadınların Gerçeği Bu Değil.” Bianet.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2024) “A Non-Anthropocentric and Non-Heteronormative Reading of Female Sexuality and Desire in Julia Ducournau’s Raw,” International Gender for Excellence in Research Conference Proceedings, Lund University Media-Tryck.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2023) “Scriptural Contentions: Challenging the Heteronormative Translational Hermeneutics of the Qur’an through the Voices of Queer* Muslim in Turkey,” In Indivisible: Social Responsibility in the Age of Entropocene, edited by M. Blaszkowska-Nawrocka, M. Rozalska, & A. Treska-Siwon, Krakow: AT.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2023) “Unruly Bodies: Reading Mobility through Trans-corporeal Becoming [Review of the book Salt Fish Girl, by L. Lai]”, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 13(3).
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2023) “A Review of Gut Feminism.” Feminist Pedagogy 3 (5): 1–3.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2021) “The Vegetarian: Reading Abject as a Site of Agency Through a Gothic Ecocritical Lens”, Gothic Nature Journal. https://gothicnaturejournal.com/the-vegetarian/
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2021) “The Lived Experiences of Turkish Queer* English Teachers within the Scope of Institutionalized Heteronormativity,” Inter Alia: A Journal of Queer Studies 16 (1): 140–154.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2021) “Artistic Masculinities: The Role of the Arts in Cosmopolitan Remaking of Masculinities and Alternative Gender Expressions in the Creative Minds,” In Beyond Identities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender, edited by E. Dominguez-Rue, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.
PRESENTATIONS
- Zeren Sevim Sipahioğlu Arkın and Ayşecan Terzioğlu (2025) Bodies, Texts and Contexts, The 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Rovaniemi University, Finland.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2024) Beyond the Victimhood and Agency Dichotomy of Konsomatris Women: The Reproduction of Ankara Pavyons from the Early Republican Era to the Present, The Center for Comparative Research on Democracy at Humboldt University.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2024) Ankara Pavyonlarında Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Cinselliğin Kuruluşu: Konsomatris Kadınların Cinsel Emeği ile Ankara Pavyonlarının Yeniden Üretimi, Sociology Conference, Mimar Sinan Fine Art University.
- Zeren Sevim Sipahioğlu Arkın (2024) (Self)Disciplining the Body: An Analysis of Visual Culture and Its Link to Eating Disorders in Turkey, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2024) Arabization of Beyoğlu's Nightlife through the Interplay of Gender and Migration Dynamics in the Case of Arabic Clubs, BROAD-ER International Winter School 2024, Amsterdam University.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2023) Matters that Matter (No More?): Neoliberal Transformation of Gender Studies Academia in Turkey and the Intersectional Politics of Epistemic Justice, ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference, Birmingham University, UK.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2023) Re-envisioning Commons in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain: A Postcolonial Appropriation of the Nature-Culture Divide. ASLE + AESS Conference, Portland, Oregon.
- İlkan Can İpekçi and A. Altan-Atalay (2023) The Association between Minority Stress and Psychological Distress: The Moderator Role of Self-Compassion, STAR Society Conference, University of Algarve, Portugal.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2023) A Non-Anthropocentric and Non-Heteronormative Reading of Female Sexuality and Desire in Julia Ducournau’s Raw. GenderEX Conference, Kadir Has University, Istanbul.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2023) Gender and Sexuality Outside the Clinic: A Psychosocial Politics of Queer Trauma and LGBTQIA2S+ Mental Health in Turkey, Sabancı University Graduate Students Conference.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2023) Imagining a Queer Dys(u)topia: An Ecogothic Reading of the Female Body in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. QueerFemSEE II Conference, Athens, Greece.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2023) The Unholy Trinity of the Gendered Self: Body, Mind, and Desire in Trans-Exclusionary ‘Radical Feminists’ Online Discourse, Entropocene Conference, Krakow, Poland.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2023) Tracing the Footprints of Top-Down Modernization in the Early Republic Era through Entertainment Culture: The Past and Present of Ankara Pavyons, Republicanism Workshop, Sabancı University.
- Gizem Damla Çakmak (2023) Antroposende Grotesk ve İğrenç Bedenler: Han Kang’ın The Vegetarian Romanının Gotik Ekoeleştirel İncelemesi. POEDAT Konferansı, Istanbul.
- Alperen Narmanlı (2022) Gender-Based Violence and Harassment against Men in the Workplace: The Case of West Africa, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France.
- İlkan Can İpekçi and Şener, G., Boluvat, M. F. (2022) Saldırganlık: Aciliyet Hissi, Sıkıntıya Dayanma ve Öfkeye İlişkin Derin Düşünme Üzerinden İncelenmesi, 21st National Psychology Conference, Istanbul.
- Alperen Narmanlı (2022) Intergenerational Solidarity, Creating a World for All Ages, UN Women International Youth Day.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2022) Queer and Muslim?: Challenging the Heteronormative Translational Hermeneutics of the Qur’an in Turkey, Queering the Middle East Conference, University of Texas at Austin.
- Alperen Narmanlı (2022) On Ecofeminism, 66th Commission on the Status of Women Side Event, Bahai International Community.
- Tuğçe Kaban (2021) 1970’lerden Günümüze Mülkiye’de Kadın Olma Deneyimleri, Mülkiyeliler Birliği.
- İlkan Can İpekçi (2021) Oceans Away from the Wakeful Day: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” Cultural Studies ’22 Conference.