Events, Workshops, Projects

Here you will find all the free and open-to-all events, workshops, talks, and webinars I co/organized.

‘Harbiye, Aralık 2018‘ photo by IS

Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group (founder) A virtual, free, open to all literary group that host translators and writers. Sponsored by Texas Language Center. 2020-present

Transgender Feminisms Monthly Reading Group (co-moderator) University of Texas at Austin, Dept of Women’s and Gender Studies. 2021-Present

–Queer Teori ve Müphem Türkçe Edebiyat Semineri (lecturer) (Queer Turkish Literature Seminars II) Moda Sahnesi, Istanbul, June-July 2021

–Queer Türkçe Edebiyat Semineri (lecturer) (Queer Turkish Literature Seminars I) Moda Sahnesi, June-July 2020, Istanbul (virtual)

–Queer Teori Yaz Seminerleri (Queer Theory Summer Seminars)(lecturer & moderator). Social Policies, Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPOD), Istanbul, July 2019

–Looking at Turkish Literature via Queer Theory Seminars. SPOD, Istanbul. Dec 2018-June 2019

–SU Gender Mor Sertifika Edebiyat Dosyasi (Purple Certificate-Literature Dossier) Co-edited in coll. with Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence, Istanbul. August 2019

–“Istanbul from the eyes of Mediterranean Writers” Literary Talks Series (co-organizer) Istanbul Research Institute, in coll. with Koc University and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, June 2018

1st meeting: From Barcelona to Istanbul: An Exiliado’s Impressions on Istanbul: Juan Goytisolo

2nd meeting: The Carnavalesque Istanbul Narratives of a Flaneur from Eyüp: Pierre Loti and Aziyade

3rd meeting: Istanbul in the Early-Modern Turkish Feminist Writing: Halide Edip’s Sinekli Bakkal Istanbul Reading Club (founder) (2017-2019)