Gender in Turkey and Representations of Gender in New Turkish Cinema

Key information

Date
Time
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
Khalili Lecture Theatre

About this event

Speakers: Izlem Kanli, Hasan Akbulut, Ipek Gurkan, Pelin Agocuk, Hakan Karahasan, Dilan Ciftci - Chair: Izlem Kanli

This panel will consist of four papers:

“A Background on Women and Turkish Cinema” - Izlem Kanli (SOAS & NEU-North Cyprus)

"Desperate men of New Turkish Cinema" - Hasan Akbulut (Istanbul University & UEL)

"Female Voices in Video Essays” - Ipek Gurkan (Istanbul Aydin University & Birkbeck)

“Social Identities and Dimensions of Violence Against Women in New Turkish Cinema” - Pelin Agocuk, Hakan Karahasan, Dilan Ciftci (NEU-North Cyprus)


Speaker bios:

Hasan Akbulut is Professor at the Department of Radio-Television and Cinema, Faculty of Communication, İstanbul University. He graduated from Ankara University. His MA thesis centered upon the persuasiveness in TV advertisements (1999); his Ph.D. dissertation focused upon representation of women in Turkish melodramas (2003). He is a founding member of sinecine: journal of film studies. He teaches film analysis, visual culture, cinema and cultural identity, and cinema spectatorship. He completed a research project on cinema going in Turkey in 60’ and 70’. He is the author of the following books: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sinemasını Okumak: Anlatı, Zaman, Mekan (2005), Kadına Melodram Yakışır: Türk Melodram Sinemasında Kadın İmgesi (2008), Yumurta: Ruha Yolculuk (with S.. Büker, 2009), Yeşilçamdan Yeni Türk Sinemasına Melodramatik İmgelem (2014), Perdeyi Aralamak: Filmlerde Anlatı ve Eleştiri (with S. R. Öztürk, 2018). He has published numerous articles on cinema, drama and critical media literacy. He is currently a visiting researcher in the Moving Image Research Centre (MIRC) at the University of East London and is conducting a TUBİTAK funded research project on transnational film reception. Contact: hasan.akbulut@istanbul.edu.tr

Assist. Prof. Dr. İzlem Kanlı obtained her BA from Ankara University, Faculty of Communication with an honor’s degree in 2002. She later obtained a partial scholarship from the University of East Anglia where she received her MA degree in Cultural Politics from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Political, Social and International Studies, (UEA), UK (2005). Her thesis was titled 'Identity put into question: The Case of Cyprus'. She obtained her PhD degree in Communication Science from the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Marmara University-Istanbul, 2011. Her thesis was titled 'A Cultural-Political Reading of Women’s Representation in Turkish Cinema: (1980-2010)'. She was lecturing at GAU at the Faculty of Communication from 2007-2015 and was the head of the Radio, Television and Cinema Department from 2011 onwards. She was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2013. She started teaching at Near East University, Faculty of Communication from 2015 onwards as a lecturer in the Radio, TV and Cinema Department and is also the head of the Department of Film Making and Broadcasting. Kanli now continues her academic studies at SOAS, University of London in the School of Law and Social Sciences. She is a research associate at the Center for Gender Studies, funded by a European Union short term research scholarship. Her research interests include gender studies, media & cultural studies and cultural politics. Contact: ik12@soas.ac.uk

İpek Gürkan is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Television Reporting and Programming at the Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey. In 2014, she received a master's degree from the Department of Woman Studies at Istanbul University. In 2018, she completed a PhD thesis about child witnesses in Second World War films. Her research focuses on film as philosophy, film history and memory in Second World War films. Currently, she is a visiting researcher in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan Karahasan earned his PhD in Communication and Media Studies from Near East University (NEU). At the moment, he works at NEU in the Department of Film Making and Broadcasting as an instructor. From 2009-2010, he was a guest researcher at the department of Communication Disciplines - Semiotics (now, the Department of Philosophy and Communication) at the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Anna Maria Lorusso. Since 2004, he has been involved in Education for Peace projects with POST Research Institute and took part in analysing history education in the northern part of Cyprus. His studies were mostly published in various journals in Cyprus and in Turkey, including the book that he edited entitled, Past Traumas: The Representation of History and Peace Education, published by POST Research Institute in 2013, and Education in a Multicultural Cyprus, edited by Iacovos Psaltis, Nicos Anastasiou, Hubert Faustmann, Maria Hadjipavlou, Hakan Karahasan, and Marilena Zackheos, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2017. His research interests are philosophy of communication, new capitalism and its relation with communication, Emmanuel Levinas, and history education.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Dilan Ciftci graduated from Middle East Technical University's Political Science and International Relations department with a high honor degree in 2010. In 2011 she was awarded an EU Scholarship for the Turkish Cypriot Community and spent a year at the Graduate School of Communication at the University of Amsterdam. She completed her MSc degree in Communication Sciences: Political Communication. Her thesis was on Peace Journalism and News Coverage on the Annan Plan Referendum: The Role of Framing the Conflict Issues and Negotiation Process, earned her an honor degree. In 2013 she was awarded a PhD scholarship from Dr. Suat Gunsel Foundation and completed her PhD in Media and Communication Studies at the Near East University in 2017. Her PhD thesis was on the Collective Memory and Media: The Case of Missing Persons Issues in Cyprus. In 2018, Ciftci was promoted to Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies. As a full-time lecturer since 2013, she has taught different core courses such as Introduction to Communication, Political Communication and Public Opinion Research and elective courses such as Peace Journalism, Discourse in Media and Popular Culture, at the Faculty of Communication at the Near East University. Ciftci has delivered presentations at various conferences in Cyprus and Turkey. She has published articles in international journals and books in her field. She prefers to work within the framework of war and peace studies on a variety of topics such as collective memory, reconciliation, negotiations, forgiveness and peace journalism.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Pelin Agocuk was born in İstanbul, 13th of March 1982. She completed her primary and secondary education in İstanbul. She began her undergraduate studies at Near East University's Faculty of Communication Radio TV and Cinema Department in 2004 and graduated in 2008. She continued her education by registering in NEU's Media and Communication Studies Postgraduate Programme. That same year, she started work as a research assistant at NEU. She completed her postgraduate programme (2012) with a thesis called “Melodrama in Turkish Cinema: A Research on 1960-75 Periods”. She completed her PhD in 2016 with a thesis called “Representation of Politician in Turkish Cinema (1960-2015)”. From 2006 Agocuk worked at NEU TV as a camerawoman, editing operator, news coordinator and director. She taught classes to undergraduate students about camera, editing and practices of TV studios. She participated in several national and international university activities. Between 2010-2012, Agocuk worked at NEU Hospital's press department as a news camerawoman and news coordinator. In 2009, her short film “Awaking” won the first prize at YÖDAK’s Inter-universities Social Responsibility Project Competition. Agocuk continues her work as a Radio and TV Technologies Upper Secondary Education Department Coordinator. She has participated in several conferences and published articles. Since 2013 she has lectured at NEU Faculty of Communication. Her research fields are: cinema, Turkish cinema, cinema and politics, melodrama.

Organiser: Centre for Gender Studies