CONFERENCES
“Summoning Monsters for a Utopian Audience: Rıza Nur and the Dissident Politics of Turkish Opera”
Event: American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference
Location: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Dates: November 7-10, 2019
“Notes on (Not) Reading Rıza Nur: A Queer Turkish Politician’s Archive and Its Entangled Histories of Censorship”
Event: Nihil Obstat: Reading and Circulation of Texts After Censorship Conference
Location: NYU Global Studies Center, Prague, Czech Republic
Dates: October 17-19, 2019
“Queer Marxist Feminism on the Kemalist Stage: The Politics of Female Masculinity in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Kadın Erkekleşince [When Woman Becomes Masculine]”
Event: 2nd International Symposium on Men and Masculinities
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Dates: September 12-14, 2019
“Queer Ultra-Nationalist Memory Work and Its Afterlives: Notes on (Not) Reading Rıza Nur”
Event: 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Location: Toronto, Canada
Dates: January 7-10, 2021
At the panel “Bad Memories” at the 126th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, organized by Professor Michael Rothberg and sponsored by the Memory Studies Forum,
LECTURES
“Queer Ultra-Nationalist Utopianism in Turkish Opera: Rıza Nur’s Historical Horror Libretto Cehennemde Bir Celse [A Session in Hell]”
Location: Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
Date: November 19, 2019
“Queer Archives in the Middle East”
Location: John Jay College, New York, NY, USA
Date: November 5, 2019
“A Queer Ultra-Nationalist Opera from a Utopian Archive: Rıza Nur’s Historical Horror Libretto Cehennemde Bir Celse [A Session in Hell]”
Location: Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
Date: October 30, 2019
“Queer Historiography and the Politics of Ambivalence in the Works of Reşad Ekrem Koçu”
Location: Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
Date: September 26, 2019
“Staging Queer Marxism in the Age of State Feminism: Gender, Sexuality, and the Nation in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Kadın Erkekleşince [When Woman Becomes Masculine]”
Launch panel for the “Performing Turkishness: Theater and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas” Special Issue of Comparative Drama.
Location: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: July 9, 2019
“The Politics of Queer Historiography and Archives in Turkey,”
Launch panel for the “Performing Turkishness: Theater and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas” Special Issue of Comparative Drama.
Location: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: June 19, 2019
WORKSHOPS
“Film Reading”, Purple Certificate Teacher Training Program
Location:Sabancı University
Date: Summer 2019
“European Grants and Application Strategies”
Location: New York University
Date: Fall 2019
ACHIEVEMENTS
ERC Starting Grant
Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas
EU FP (Horizon 2020) Success Awards
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Success Awards for the MSCA-IF fellowship, Imperial Queers, Republican Subjects: The Politics of Queer Historiography in Turkey.
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Success Awards for the ERC Starting Grant, Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas.
Transfer Award
Transfer Award, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas.
Young Scientist Award (BAGEP)
Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), Science Academy of Turkey.
Young Science Academy Membership
John Jay College Summer Visiting Fellowship
(postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.)