Presentations
Mustafa Berk Alkoç
“Travels Through the Arcades: Spatiotemporal Politics of Arcades in Contemporary Turkey,” the 2nd “Travelling, Transmission and Transgression” International Interdisciplinary Conference, Inmind Support, January 21, 2022
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“From Emaciated Orphans to an Army of Robust Children: Physical Culture, Theatre, and the National Utopia in Turkey,” the Physical Cultures of the Body Conference, H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, University of Texas at Austin, January 14, 2022.
Gamze Tosun
“Performing the Divine Scenarios: Neoliberal Formations and Transformations of Islamic Theatre in Turkey,” 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“The Stereotypical Accents of Underrepresented Subjects: The Ottoman Armenian Accent on Contemporary Turkish Stage,” 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
Gamze Tosun
“The Limits of Countering Ethnic Abjection: Performing Kurdish Collective Memory of Political Violence in Turkey,” 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Intersecting Abjections: Jewish Theatre in Turkey,” 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Intersecting Abjections: Jewish Theatre in Turkey,” 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
İlhan Çamiçi
“ ‘That Silence Again!’: The Politics of Silence and Representation in Turkish-Jewish Theatre,” Silence – Catastrophe: Crisis A Graduate Symposium, Münster, Germany, December 2-3, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Performing Turkish Childhoods After the Empire: The Politics and Aesthetics of the Army of Robust Children,” Performing Childhoods Conference, University of Otago, Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, November 24-26, 2021.
Ahmet Berkem Yanıkcan
“Trans Autobiographical Performance from Turkey,” Performing Childhoods Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 24-26, 2021.
Gamze Tosun
Staging Piety: Is Islamic Theatre Popular in Turkey?,” POP-UP Academic Conference on Popular Culture, Lone Star College, Online, October 28-29, 2021.
Ahmet Berkem Yanıkcan
“Queering the Administration Crisis at Boğaziçi University: Sexual Politics and the Public University in Turkey,”, European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA) Workshop 2021: Futures beyond Crises, September 17, 2021.
Rüya Kalıntaş
“Staging Traumatic Pasts: The Politics and Aesthetics of Alevi Theatre,” Memory, Trauma and Recovery International Interdiciplinary Conference on September 16-17, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Vulnerable Selves, Monstrous Others: Queer Ultranationalism in Turkish Opera,” Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University, UK, September 6-10, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“Theatre Historiography and Post-Genocide Memory Work: Armenian Heritage and Genocide Denialism in Turkish Theatre,” the 2021 Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference, the Theatre History and Historiography Working Group, Liverpool Hope University, September 6-10, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Resurrecting Heroes, Summoning Monsters: The Oghuz Khagan Epic in Turkish Opera,” isaSCIENCE 2021 Conference “Heroes, Canons, Cults: Critical Inquiries,” the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, August 11-15, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Discursive Humor of Fiddler on the Roof and its Comedic Affect in Turkey,” in Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Forum, the ATHE 2021 Conference, August 5, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Ghastly Pasts, Ultranationalist Desires: The Politics of Queer Historiography in Turkish Opera,” Australasian Association for European History 27th Biennial Conference, Australian National University, July 6, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Myth-(Un)Making In Jewish Theatre Of Turkey: Politics Of Truth In Beki L. Bahar’s Senyora,” Theatre & Performance in the Age of Conspiracy Online Postgraduate Symposium, Theatre and Performance Research Association and The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments, June 25, 2021.
Gamze Tosun
“The Never-Ending February 28th: Islamic Theatre, Post-modern Coup, and Conspiracy in Turkey,” Theatre and Performance Research in an Age of Conspiracy Online Postgraduate Symposium, Theatre and Performance Research Association and The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments, June 25, 2021.
Gamze Tosun
“The Limits of Performing History: Remembering the 1980s Turkish Military Coup in Kurdish Theatre,” 13th Annual Northern Illinois University History Graduate Student Association Conference, April 9, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Gendered Narration of Jewish Migration to the Ottoman Empire: Gender and Migration in Beki L. Bahar’s Senyora (Grasya-Nasi),” Conference on Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: Issues, Facts and Approaches, Altınbaş University, Istanbul, March 11-12, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Myth-(Un)Making In Jewish Theatre Of Turkey: Politics Of Truth In Beki L. Bahar’s Senyora,” Theatre & Performance in the Age of Conspiracy Online Postgraduate Symposium, Tapra and SCUDD, June 25, 2021.
Gamze Tosun
“The Never-Ending February 28th: Islamic Theatre, Post-modern Coup, and Conspiracy in Turkey,” Theatre and Performance Research in an Age of Conspiracy, TaPRA-SCUDD 2021 Postgraduate Symposium, June 25, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Queer Sonorities and the Politics of Temporality: Disidentificatory Desires in Digital Performance from Turkey,” 2nd International Conference on Sonorities Research, Online, June 9-11, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“Restoring the Ottoman Theatre History Towards the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide: Ambivalences of Confrontation in Şark Dişçisi (2011),” Convergences Conference, Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times, York University of Toronto, April 28-30, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“Decolonizing the Public Theatre Repertoire? : Mainstream Adaptations of Ottoman Armenian Plays in Contemporary Turkey, ” Spring Symposium on Heritage Justice: Decolonizing Heritage, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS),April 29, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“Theatre as the Political Arena of the Ottoman Armenian Modernization: The Armenian Constitutional Movement in Hagop Baronian’s Adamnapuyjın Aravelyan,” the 26th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student History Conference, Temple University, April 9-10, 2021.
Gamze Tosun
“The Limits of Performing History: Remembering the 1980s Turkish Military Coup in Kurdish Theatre”, 13th Annual Northern Illinois University History Graduate Student Association Conference, April 9, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“Uncovering the Margin/Silencing the Abject: The Ottoman Armenian Drama on Contemporary Turkish Stage,” the 55th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts, California State University, April 7-8, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Gendered Narration of Jewish Migration to the Ottoman Empire: Gender and Migration in Beki L. Bahar’s Senyora (Grasya-Nasi),” Conference on Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: Issues, Facts and Approaches, Altınbaş University, Istanbul, March 11-12, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Islamicate Queer Utopianism in Interwar Turkey Fascist Historiography and the Politics of Futurity in Rıza Nur’s Dramatic Texts,” Apocalypse and Utopia, 1914-1945 Symposium, Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Bedford, UK, February 18, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Sisters-in-Law, Sisters in Love: Lesbianism and the Politics of Family in Late Ottoman Dramatic Literature,” Siblings on Stage, Page and Screen Virtual Conference, University of Chester and University of Worchester, UK, January 16, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Jewish Body in Adaptation: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof in Turkey,” Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, January 13, 2021.
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım
“From ‘the Children of Armenia’ to ‘the Son of the Ottoman’: The Adaptation of Hagop Baronian’s Adamnapuyjın Aravelyan by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres,” Theater and Performance Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, January 13, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Jewish Body in Adaptation: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof in Turkey,” Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, January 13, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Three Patients in Search of an Ob/Gyn: Feminist Epistemology in Beki Bahar’s Experimental Play Sıradan Bir Şey [Something Ordinary],” 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, January 7-10, 2021.
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
“Queer Ultra-Nationalist Memory Work and Its Afterlives: Notes on (Not) Reading Rıza Nur,” 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, January 7-10, 2021.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Performing Popular Jewishness in Turkey: Negotiating Adaptation, Identity, and the Nation in Damdaki Kemancı,” IV. International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies, Selçuk University, Konya, December 10, 2020.
İlyas Deniz Çınar
“Custodians of a New Era: Examining Memory Work in Video Games,” Dean Hopper Conference, Drew University, New Jersey, November 6, 2020.