Prof. Dr. MEYDA YEĞENOĞLU
BIOGRAPHY
Meyda Yegenoglu is professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology. She has held visiting
appointments at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Rutgers University, New York
University, University of Vienna and Oxford University. She is the author of Colonial
Fantasies; Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge University Press,1998). She
has numerous essays published in various journals and edited volumes such as Feminist
Postcolonial Theory; Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse; Nineteenth Centruy
Literature Criticism; Philosophy and Social Criticism; Postmodern Culture; Race and Ethnic
Relations; Culture and Religion; Inscriptions; Religion and Gender; Handbook of
Contemporary Social and Political Theory; State, Religion and Secularization; Feminism
and Hospitality; Violence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Colour Theorize Terror;
Toplum ve Bilim; Defter; and Doğu-Batı. Her book on Islam, Migrancy and Hospitality in
Europe has been published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2012.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Section A: Personal Record……………………………………….4
Section B: Research and academic/professional standing………... 6
Section C: Teaching……………………………………………… 18
Section D: Academic Leadership and Management……………… 20
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A. PERSONAL RECORD
Title: Prof. Dr.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1993
PhD in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
1998
MA in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
1985
MS in Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
1981
BS in Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
POSITIONS HELD AND WORK EXPERIENCE
2011-2017
Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Program in Cultural Studies and
Institute of Social Sciences.
2005-2010
Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey.
1996-2005
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey.
1994-1996
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey.
1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey.
1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public
Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
1993
Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, Oberlin College, U.S. A.
1992
Instructor, Center for Cultural Studies and Oakes College Core
Course, University of California, Santa Cruz, U. S. A.
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1989 & 1991
Sociology Board, University of California, Summer School, Santa
Cruz, U. S. A.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
2008-2009
Professor, Columbia University, Institute for Comparative Literature
and Society, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2005
Professor at NOISE Summer School, Organized by Utrecht University
Women’s Studies, Linkoping, Sweden (September).
2005
Senior Associate Member, Oxford University, U.K, (April-June).
2003
Associate Professor, Free University, Berlin, Germany (Spring).
2002
Associate Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Vienna, Austria, (Spring).
1999-2000
Associate Professor, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New
York University, U.S.A.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2008-2009
Fulbright Fellowship.
2003-2005
Outstanding Faculty, top 20% among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Middle East Technical University.
1999
Outstanding Faculty, top 20% among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Middle East Technical University.
1992-1993
American Association of University Women International Fellowship.
1989
Center for Cultural Studies, Graduate Student Researcher for the
Postcolonial Representations Group, University of California, Santa
Cruz, Fall.
1990-1991
Feminist Studies Organized Research Activity, Research Grant,
University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 1992, Winter 1991,
Summer 1991, Summer 1990.
1988-1993
University of California, Santa Cruz, Non-resident PhD Fellowship
1987-1988
Fulbright Ph D Scholarship.
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B. RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL STANDING
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist
Theory, Middle East Woman, Globalization and Migrancy, Orientalism, Multiculturalism,
Postnational Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Secularism and Religious Identity
in Geo-Political Transformations, Politics and Sociology of Religion, Postcolonial and
Transnational Feminism.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2012
Islam, Migrancy and Hospitality in Europe, Palgrave-Macmillan: New
York.
1998
Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism,
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press).
Turkish translation:
2003 Sömürgeci Fanteziler: Oryantalist Söylemde Kültürel ve Cinsel Fark (Metis
Yayınları, İstanbul) (translation of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading
of Orientalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Reprinted Chapters from Colonial Fantasies
2008
‘The Battle of the Veil: Woman Between Orientalism and
Nationalism,’, in David Lodge with Nigel Wood: Modern Criticism
and Theory: A Reader, 3rd Edition (Longman), pp. 706-228.
2003
‘Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of
Orientalism,’ in Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds.), Feminist
Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press, (reprint
of chapter 2 from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of
Orientalism), pp. 542-566.
2002
‘Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism,’ in
Kwok, Pui-lan and Donaldson E. Laura (eds.), Postcolonialism,
Feminism and Religious Discourse, (New York and London:
Routledge), pp: 82-99 (reprint of chapter 4 from Colonial Fantasies:
Towards a Feminist Reading from Orientalism), pp. 82-99.
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2001
‘Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of
Orientalism,’ in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 96,
Juliet Byington (ed.), (Detroit, Michigan: The Gale Group) pp: 242259 (reprint from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of
Orientalism), 242-259.
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
2014
‘Sovereignty Renounced: Autoimmunizing and Democratizing Europe’
Philosophy and Social Criticism, 40 (4-5), pp. 459-468 .
2013
‘Smells Like Gezi Spirit: Democratic Sensibilities and Carnivalesque
Politics in Turkey, Radical Philosophy, 182, November-December, pp.
2-4.
2013
‘İslamcı Siyasetin Dünü Bugünü Yarını,’ Dipnot, No. 11-12, pp. 1-15.
2007
‘Sacralization of Secularism in Turkey,’ Radical Philosophy, No. 145
(September/October), pp. 2-5.
2006
‘Inscribing the Other Body,’ Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Women,
Gender and Research), Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.
2006
‘The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and Its Others,’
Culture and Religion Vol. 7, No. 3, (November), pp. 245-261.
2006
‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Postcolonial
World,’ in Matthew Gumpert (ed.) ‘Culture and the Arts’ Lecture
Series: Selected Talks: 2003-2005, (Istanbul, Kadir Has University
Press), pp. 117-124.
2005
‘Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World,’ Ethnic
and Racial Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, January, pp. 103-131.
2005
‘Avrupa Kimliğinin İdeolojik Arkaplanı’ Doğu Batı Dergisi, No. 31,
Şubat-Nisan (The Ideological Background of European Identity), pp.
89-106.
2003
‘Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of
Globalization,’ Postmodern Culture, Vol. 13, No. 2, April.
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2003
‘Öteki Mekanda Olmak: Post-Kolonyal Dünyada Göçmenlik ve
Turizm,’ Kültür ve İletişim (Culture and Communication), Vol. 6, No.
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2. (Inhabiting Other Spaces: Migrancy and Tourism in the Postcolonial
World), pp. 53-72.
2002
‘Küreselleşen Dünyada Çokkültürcülük ve Konukseverlik,’ Toplum ve
Bilim, No. 92, Bahar 2002 (Multiculturalism and Hospitality in a
Globalizaed World), pp. 120-137.
2001
‘Mapping the Present: Interview with Gayatri Spivak,’ New
Formations, No. 45, (December), pp: 9-23 (co-authored with Mahmut
Mutman), pp. 9-23.
2001
‘Küreselleşme ile Postkolonyallik Arasında,’ DOMUS M, No. 9,
Şubat-Mart 2001.(Between Globalization and Postcoloniality’,
DOMUS M , No. 9 February-March, pp. 2-5.
2001
‘Orient: Site of Sexuality, Dream and Fantasy,’ The Perfumed Garden:
An Indeterminable Oscillation Between Orient & Occident,
Publication of the Turkish Pavillion, 49th Venice Biennale, pp. 3-4.
1997
‘Emperyal Özne ve Feminist Söylem,’ Toplum ve Bilim, No 75, Kış.
(‘Imperial Subject and Feminist Discourse’, Science and Society, No
75, pp. 7-33.
1997
Winter)‘Orlan: Gövdenin Dili,’ Toplum ve Bilim, No. 75, Kış (‘Orlan.
The Language of the Body’, Science and Society, No. 75, Winter), pp.
190-195.
1996
‘Cultural Studies in the United States and Multiculturalism,’ Journal of
American Studies of Turkey, No3, Spring, pp. 13-21.
1995
‘Sömürge Sonrası Dünyada Göçmen Kimliği,’ Mürekkep, Kış--Bahar
(‘Migrant Identity in the Post-Colonial World,’ Mürekkep, WinterSpring.), pp. 78-82.
1995
‘Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'Monstrous
Feminine' in Science Fiction Films,’ Art and Taboos: Proceedings of
the 2nd International Symposium, Jale Erzen (ed.), Ankara, May, pp.
33-46
1995
‘Tabu, Sanat ve Cinsel Farklılıklar: Bilim-Kurgu Filmlerinde 'Canavar
Dişi' İmgesi,’ içinde Sanat ve Tabular: 2 Uluslarası Sempozyum
Bildirileri, Jale Erzen (ed), Ankara, 4-6 Mayıs (‘Taboo, Art and Sexual
Difference: The Representation of the 'Monstrous Feminine' in Science
Fiction Films’, in Art and Taboo: Proceedings of the 2nd International
Symposium, Jale Erzen (ed.), May, pp. 33-46.
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1995
‘Oryantalizm ve Milliyetçi Söylem Arasında Kadın ve Peçe Savaşı,’
Toplum ve Bilim, No 66, Bahar (‘Woman Between Orientalism and
Nationalist Discourse: The Battle of the Veil, Science and Society, No.
66, Spring), pp. 168-193.
1993
‘Lifting the Veil: The Discourse of Modernism in Western Feminist
Representations of Muslim Woman,’ Turkish Studies Association
Bulletin, Vol. 17, No.1, April, pp. 152-157.
1993
‘Milliyetçiliğin Sorunsalı: Üçüncü Dünyada İdeoloji ve Çelişki,’
Toplum ve Bilim, No 62, Güz-Yaz (The Problematic of Nationalism:
Ideology and Ambivalence in the Third World’, Science and Society,
No 62, Spring-Summer), pp. 184-190.
1992
‘Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,’
Inscriptions, No.6, 1992 (an earlier print of chapter 3 of Colonial
Fantasies: Towards a Feminist reading of Orientalism), pp. 45-81.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2014
“Avrupa Kimliğinin İdeolojik Arkaplanı”, in Fraklılıkların Birlikteliği:
Türkiye ve Avrupa’da Birarada Yaşama Tartışmaları, (ed. Ayhan
Kaya), Hiperlink, Istanbul, pp. 57-72 (reprint of Avrupa Kimliğinin
İdeolojik Arkaplanı’ Doğu Batı Dergisi, No. 31, Şubat-Nisan (The
Ideological Background of European Identity), pp. 89-106.
2014
‘Discourse of Terror, Sovereignty and Domestic Violence’, in
Violence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Colour Theorize
Terror (ed. Suvendrini Perera and Sherene Razack). University of
Toronto Press.
2012
‘Cosmopolitanism and Migrants’ in Gerard Delanty (ed.) Handbook of
Cosmopolitan Studies, Routledge: New York and London, pp. 414424.
2012
“Staging Secularism and Fantasies of Islamic Identity in Turkey,” in
Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai, and Bryan Turner (eds.) Religion and
the State: A Comparative Sociology, Anthem Press: London and New
York, 225-244.
2011
‘Rights and Hospitality,’ in Gerard Delanty and Stephen Turner (eds.)
Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, Routledge:
New York and London, pp. 450-459.
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2010
‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Imperial Tourists and Abject Strangers in a
Globalized World,’ Proceedings of International Conference on
Strangeness and Familiarity, Global Unity and Diversity inhuman
Rights and Democracy, ed. Hans Harbers, FORUM, Institute for
Multicultural Affairs, Faculty of Philosophy: Gronngen University, pp.
172-185.
2010
‘Hospitality and European Muslims,” in Maurice Haminton (ed.)
Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship,
Lexington Books:Lanham, Maryland, pp. 163-186.
2005
‘From Guest-Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of
German-Turkish Literature,’ in Daniella Merolla and Sandra
Ponzanesi (eds.), Migrant Cartographies: Cultural Travellers and
New Literatures, Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 137-150.
1998
‘Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?,’ Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden
Düşünnmek: Yeni Bir Kavrayışa Doğru, der. Toplum ve Bilim ve
Defter Dergileri Ortak Çalışma Grubu, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul
(‘Does Multiculturalism Mean Interdisciplinarity?,’ in Rethinking
Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception, Toplum ve Bilim and
Defter Study Group (ed.) Metis: Istanbul, pp. 287-298.
1996
‘Giriş: Dünya Nasıl ‘Dünya’ Oldu?,’ (Fuat Keyman ve Mahmut
Mutman ile birlikte) içinde Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark,
Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman ve Meyda Yeğenoğlu (der), (İstanbul,
İletişim Yayınları). (‘Introduction: How Has the ‘World’ Been
Worlded?,’ in Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural Difference, Fuat
Keyman, Mahmut Mutman and Meyda Yeğenoğlu (ed.), İletişim:
Istanbul, pp7-24.
1996
‘Peçeli Fantaziler: Oryantalist Söylemde Kültürel ve Cinsel Fark,’
içinde Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark, Fuat Keyman,
Mahmut Mutman ve Meyda Yeğenoğlu (der), (İstanbul, İletişim
Yayınları) ‘Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the
Discourse of Orientalism,’ in Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural
Difference, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman and Meyda Yeğenoğlu
(ed.), İletişim: Istanbul, pp. 107-160.
EDITED BOOKS
1996
Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark (with Fuat Keyman and
Mahmut Mutman İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları) (Orientalism,
Hegemony and Cultural Difference, (co-edited with Fuat Keyman and
Mahmut Mutman, İletişim: Istanbul).
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SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED
1997
Feminist Kuram: Bilgi ve Iktidar, Toplum ve Bilim özel sayısı, No.75,
Kış (Special issue on Feminist Theory: Knowledge and Power, Toplum
ve Bilim, No 75, Winter).
1992
Orientalism and Cultural Difference, Inscriptions, No 6, (co-edited
with Mahmut Mutman), Journal published by the Center for Cultural
Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.
KEYNOTE SPEECHES AND INVITED LECTURES
2014
“Inheriting a Genocidal Past: Interdiction on Mourning and the
Haunting Ghosts of National Unity,” Paper presented at Remnants of
the Nation, Symposium at Yaşar University, İzmir, October 30.
2014
“Nations Contaminated: Archives of Citizenship, History and
Memory”, Paper presented at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced
Studies: Symposium on Citizenship and Migration, Helsinki, Finland,
October 24.
2014
“Islam is Haunting Europe”, Paper presented at University of Kent,
Postcolonial Seminar, UK, December 5.
2013
“Islam is Haunting Europe”, Paper presented at Goldsmiths College,
Postcolonial Seminar Series, London, March 15.
2013
“Islam in Europe: Hospitality, Migrancy and Sovereignty, Paper
Presented at University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Seminar, UK, March 13, UK
2013
“Reclaiming the City: Resistance to Islamization of Bodies and Spaces
Through Carnivalesque Politics in Istanbul,” Center for Metropolitan
Studies, Berlin, November 5”, Germany
2012
“Colonial Spectrality, European Sovereignty and Hospitality”, Paper
presented at the symposium Oecumene: Citizenship After
Orientalism, London, UK, November.
2012
‘Discourse of Terror, Sovereignty and Domestic Violence’, Paper
presented at Violence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Colour
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Theorize Terror, Workshop Organized by OISE, University Of
Toronto, Canada, May.
2010
‘Secularism, Islam and Migrancy in Europe’ Lecture delivered at
Roskilde University, CKMM and ISG Research Group Politics,
Culture and Global Change, Roskilde, Denmark, March.
2009
‘Feminist Perspectives on Neo-Orientalism’, Paper presented for the
Inauguration of the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial
Studies, Frankfurt, Germany, November.
2009
‘Sacralized Secularism and Hostile Hospitality in Europe,’ Columbia
University, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, New
York, U.S.A, March.
2009
‘Contradictions of Secularism in Europe: Civil Society,’ Publicness
and the Headscarf Dispute,’ London School of Economics, United
Kingdom, February.
2009
‘Europe’s Impossible Relation with Islam,’ George Mason University,
Department of Cultural Studies, Washington D.C, U.S.A, February.
2008
‘Migrants, Headscarf and Islam in Europe,’ Dartmouth College,
Women and Gender Studies Program, New Hampshire, U.S.A
October.
2008
‘Islam in the New European Imaginary and the Discourse of Cultural
Difference,’ Lecture presented at the Birkbeck Institute for the
Humanities, University of London, London, United Kingdom,
February.
2008
‘Islam in Europe,’ Lecture presented at the Institute for Comparative
Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A,
February.
2008
‘Veiled Threats: Religion, Visibility and the Limits of Liberal
Tolerance,’ Lecture presented at The Gaze and The Veil: Surveillance
and the Legacies of Orientalism conference at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, U.S.A, February.
2008
‘Veiled Threats and Islam in Europe,’ Lecture presented at the LSE
Forum on Religion Seminar Series, The London School of Economics
and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, February.
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2008
Spaces of Migrancy and Tourism,’ Lecture presented at the University
of Wales Institute, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff, United
Kingdom, February.
2007
‘Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of Liberal
Tolerance,’ Keynote Speech delivered at the R.A.C.E conference on
Transnational Racism and he Right to Have Rights: organized by the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,
Canada, May.
2007
‘Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of Liberal
Tolerance,’ Keynote speech delivered at Communication in Peace and
Conflict in Communication: organized by Eastern Mediterranean
University, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Famagusta,
North Cyprus, May.
2006
‘How Does the Third World Become Invisible? The Ethics of
Subaltern in Cultural Studies,’ Lecture presented at the Cardiff School
of Social Sciences, Seminar Series, Cardiff University, United
Kingdom, October .
2006
‘Imperialism and Feminism: Saving Women from Islam,’ Lecture
presented at the Gender and Sexualities Group, Cardiff University,
United Kingdom, October.
2006
‘Feminism and Orientalism,’ Lecture presented at the conference on
‘New Images of Women of the Middle East’, Danish Center for
Information on Women and Gender, September, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
2006
‘The Return of the Religious: Revisiting Europe and its Islamic Other,’
Lecture presented at Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University
of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, April.
2006
‘Inscribing the Other Body,’ Keynote speech delivered at the ‘Gender,
Body and Sexuality’ conference, Women’s Studies Department,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, April.
2006
‘Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different
Cultures or Different Religions?’ Lecture presented at the Culture
Forum at Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, April.
2006
‘Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different
Cultures or Different Religions?,’ Lecture presented at the Graduate
Seminar at the Napoli Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy,
March.
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2004
‘The Becoming European of an Islamic Other: Turkey in the European
Union,’ Lecture presented at the Centre for Cultural Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A., November.
2003
‘Reading Said without Domesticating the Force of Criticism,’ Lecture
presented at the Edward Said: Critical Perspectives, Symposium
organized by the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December.
2003
‘The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or
Different Religions?,’ Lecture presented at Religion as Colonial
Commodity Conference, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.,
September.
2003
‘Feminism and Orientalism: Why Save Women from Islam,’ Lecture
presented the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
University of Bergen, Norway, September.
2001
‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Postcolonial
World,’ Beyond Dichotomies: Transgressive Identities and
Topographies of In-Between Spaces (Jenseits der Dichotomien?:
Transgressive Identitäten und Topographien der Zwischenräume)
conference, University of Trier, Germany, October.
2001
‘Multiculturalism, Ethics of Hospitality and the Question of Sexual
Difference,’ Lecture presented at the Reconsidering Multiculturalism:
Feminist Perspectives of Plurality conference, University of Vienna,
Austria, June.
2001
‘Postkolonyal Dünyada Turistik Mekan: Emperyal Nostalji ve
Otantisite Söylemi,’ Hacettepe University, Lecture presented at the
Department of Art History, Ankara, Turkey, May.
2001
‘Respondent on Craig Calhoun’s ‘Cosmopolitanism is not Enough:
Nationalism, the Public Sphere and Social Solidarity’, Nira YuvalDavis’s ‘Identity, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging’ and
Partha Chatterjee’s ‘The Nation in Heterogeneous Time,’ at the
Nationalism in the 21 st Century conference, Bilgi University, İstanbul,
Turkey, May.
2000
‘Orientalism Unveiled,’ Lecture presented at the Luncheon Seminar
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University,
U.S.A, March
2000
‘Colonial Fantasies,’ Presentation and discussion of Colonial
Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, at the
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Colloquium organized Asia Program, Washington State University,
U.S.A, March.
2000
‘Respondent on the exhibition ‘Immigration, Beyond the Passage:
Issues in Ethnicity and Cultural Integration,’ Center for European
Studies, New York University (discussion on ‘Steam, the Turkish
Bath’), U.S.A, March.
1999
‘Respondent on ‘Splitting Desire: A Conversation About Sexuality and
Repression,’ at Women’s Project and Productions, New York, USA,
October.
1999
‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-Colonial
World,’ Lecture presented at Colloquium organized by the English
Department, Wayne State University, U.S.A, February.
1998
‘Turistik Mekan: Post-Kolonyal Dünyada Yolculuk ve Başkalaşma,’
(‘Touristic Space: Travel and Becoming Different in the Post-Colonial
World,’) Lecture presented at the Architecture Association, Ankara,
Turkey, May.
1993
‘The Battle of the Veil: Women Between Orientalism and
Nationalism,’ Lecture presented at the Department of Sociology
Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A, May.
1992
‘Images of the Veil in Western Literature and Arts,’ Lecture presented
at the Southern Exposure Art Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A, May.
1992
‘Veiled Fantasies: Culture and Gender in the Discourse of
Orientalism,’ Lecture presented at the Women's Studies Program,
Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A, April.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2013
“Colonial Memory, Postcolonial Migrancy and the New Europe-toCome”, Paper Presented at University of Warwick, The Crisis of
European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Austerity, December 9-11,
UK.
2013
“Muslim Immigrants and National Identity in Europe,” Paper
presented at ESA Annual Conference, Torino, Italy, August.
2012
“European Memory, Colonialism and Postcolonial Migrants,” paper
presented at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Rome,
Italy, 29 October- 1 November.
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2012
“Islam Haunting European Modernity, ” Paper presented at the ESA
RN 34 Sociology of Religion-Midterm Conference 3-, Postdam,
Germany, September.
2011
‘Becoming an Enemy of the East for the West: Islam and Muslim
Immigrants in Europe’ Paper presented at the Fourth International
Conference on Global Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July.
2011
‘Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Eurovision
Song Contest, Turkey and The Idea of Europeanization” Paper
presented at the conference on Eurovision and the New Europe
organized by University of Warrick, Venice, Italy, October.
2010
‘Imperial Tourists and Abject Strangers in a Globalized World’ Paper
presented at Strangeness and Familiarity: Global Unity and Diveristy
in Human Rights and Democracy, Conference organized by Institute
for Multicultural Affairs, Groningen, The Netherlands, October.
‘The Becoming Enemy of the East for the West: Islam and Muslim
Immigrants in Europe’ paper presented at the Asian Conference on
Arts and Humanities, Osaka, Japan, June.
2010
2010
‘Malefic Doubling of the Internal Enemy: The Ghost of Islam is
Haunting Europe”, Rennes Workshop, France.
2009
‘Foreigners Within versus Imperial Tourists’ Paper presented at the
Seventh International Conference on the Humanities, Beijing, China,
June.
2008
‘Response Paper presented at the Workshop on the History and
Politics of Secularism at Comparative Secularisms: Religion, Politics,,
Gender, Istanbul, Turkey.
2007
‘Clash of Secularity and Religiosity: The Staging of Secularism and
Islam in Turkey”, Paper presented at the conference on New Faultlines
organized by the Institute for Cultural and Regional Studies,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, January.
2007
‘Foreigners Within versus Imperial Toruists’ Paper presented at the
American Comparative Literature Association Meeting on Trans, Pan,
Inter: Cultures in Contact conference, Puebla, Mexico, April.
2006
‘The Return of the Religious: Revisiting European Orientalism,’ Paper
presented at the In Memory of Edward Said. Symposium on
Orientalism, İstanbul Turkey, December.
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2006
‘The Idea of Europe: Christianity, Civilization and the Islamic Other,’
Paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South
Africa, July.
2006
‘The Metaphor of the Authentic: Travel from Colonialism to
Anthropology and Ethnic Tourism,’ Paper presented at the World
Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July.
2006
‘Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: Different
Cultures or Different Religions?,’ Paper presented at the Crossroads in
Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July
2003
‘The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures or
Different Religions,’ Paper presented at the Alterity and the
Experience of Limits Conference, organized by ISIH International
conferences, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, December.
2003
‘Postcolonial Migrants and Imperial Tourists,’ Paper presented at the
Cultural Studies in the World Today: The 9 th International ‘Culture
and Power Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, November.
2002
‘Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality,’ Translating
Class: Altering Hospitality, conference organized by Congress AHRB
Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, Leeds University,
United Kingdom, June.
2001
Respondent on the panel on ‘Reorienting Female Gaze,’ Modern
Language Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, U.S.A,
December.
2001
Comments on Robert Young’s ‘Derrida in Algeria: Deconstruction at
the Edge of Empire’ and Ato Quayson’s ‘Social Imaginaries in
Transition: The Culture Hero in African Literature and Politics,’ at the
Kaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Journeys in Culture conference,
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February.
2001
‘From the Guest-Worker to the Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes
of German-Turkish Literature,’ Writing Europe 2001: Migrant
Cartographies, Cultural Travellers and New Literatures, Leiden
University and Amsterdam University, Holland, March.
2001
Participant in Workshop on “Reconsidering Multiculturalism: A
Feminist Perspective on Plurality” Vienna, Austria, June.
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2000
‘Postcolonial Nostalgias: Myths of Homeland and Authenticity,’
Paper presented at the 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies
Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, June.
2000
‘Displaced Borders of Postcoloniality,’ Paper presented at the 24 th
annual meeting of International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, City University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A, May.
1999
‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-Colonial
World,’ Paper presented at the New World (dis)Orders: Culture,
Globalization and Identity, Conference organized by Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, U.S.A, February.
1998
‘Towards a Feminist Reading of Developmentalism,’ Paper presented
as the Annual Convention of the American Sociological Association,
San Francisco, U.S.A., August.
1998
‘Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?,’ (‘Does Interdisciplinarity
Mean Multiculturalism,’ paper presented at the Rethinking Social
Sciences: Towards a New Conception conference organized by the
Toplum ve Bilim and Defter Journals Working Group, Istanbul,
Turkey, February.
1996
‘Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Redefining Tradition Through
Veiling,’ (co-authored with Sharon Bastug), Paper presented at the
Middle East Studies Association Annual conference, Providence,
Rhode Island, U.S.A., November.
1995
‘Dangerous Border of the Post-Colonial Space: The Migrant, The
Abject and The Third Term,’ Paper presented at the Theatres of
Decolonization: Architecture, Urbanism and Agency conference,
Chandigarh, India, January.
1995
‘Emperyal Feminizm ve Kültürel Fark: Postmodern Antropolojide Etik
Sorunu,’ (‘Imperial Feminism and Cultural Difference’) Paper
presented at the 4th Social Sciences Congress, Ankara, Turkey,
November.
1995
‘Reflections on Cultural Studies in the United States,’ Paper presented
at the Conference organized by the American Studies Association of
Turkey, Antalya, Turkey, November.
1995
‘Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'Monstrous
Feminine' in Science Fiction Films,’ Paper presented at the Art and
Taboos 2nd International Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, May.
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1994
‘Globalization, Migrancy, Abjection,’ Paper presented at the
Colloquim organized by the Department of Sociology and Political
Science, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
1993
‘The Other in the Field of Modern Vision,’ Paper presented at the
Annual Convention of the International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, Pittsburgh, U.S.A, May.
1993
‘Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme,’ Paper presented at
the Practicing Postmodernisms conference, University of Oregon,
Eugene, U.S.A, May.
1992
‘Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme,’ Paper presented at
the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities conference, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A, November.
1992
‘The Discourse of Modernism in Western Feminist Representations of
Muslim Women,’ Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the
Middle East Studies Association, Portland, U.S.A, October.
1992
‘Lifting the Veil: Western Feminist Discourse and the Project of
Enlightenment,’ Paper presented at the Academic Knowledge and
Political Power conference, University of Maryland, College Park,
U.S.A, November.
1992
‘Desiring the Orient: Representations of the Veil and Oriental
Woman,’ Paper presented at the Theory, Culture and Society's 10th
Anniversary Conference, Pittsburgh, U.S.A, August.
1992
‘Representing the Veiled Other,’ Paper presented at the Annual
Convention of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh,
U.S.A, August.
1992
‘Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,’
Paper presented at the Nationalisms, Sexualities and the Politics of
Identity Conference organized by the Feminist Studies Center,
University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A, May.
1992
‘Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,’
Paper presented at the Public Culture conference organized by the
Institute on Culture and Society, Pittsburgh, U.S.A, June.
1992
‘Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem,’
Paper presented at the What is Modern? conference organized by the
English Department of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
U.S.A, October.
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1992
‘Desiring the Orient: Representations of the Veil in Orientalist
Discourse,’ Paper presented at the Colloquium organized by the
Feminist Studies Research Activities, University of California, Santa
Cruz, U.S.A, February.
1991
‘Veiled Fantasies,’ Paper presented at the Culture and Politics of
Excess conference organized by the Institute on Culture and Society,
Eugene, U.S.A, June.
1991
‘Knowing the Orient, Unveiling the Women,’ Paper presented at The
Strategies of Critique VI conference organized by the Department of
Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, April.
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TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT
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Racism, Nationalism, and Postcolonialism (upper division undergraduate course)
Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (graduate seminar)
Religion, Globalization and Culture (graduate seminar)
Religion in Society (upper division undergraduate course)
Contemporary Social Theory (upper division undergraduate course)
Culture, Identity and Postcolonial theory (upper division undergraduate course)
Culture, Literature and Society (upper division undergraduate course)
Sociological Theory II (graduate seminar)
Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction and Feminist Theory (graduate seminar)
Middle East Women, Feminism and Orientalism (graduate seminar)
Current Issues in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (graduate seminar)
Globalization and Diasporas (graduate seminar)
Feminist Theory (graduate seminar)
Gender, Race and Class (undergraduate course)
Orientalism and Feminism (graduate seminar)
PH.D. DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
-A Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Formation of Life Sciences and the NationBuilding Project in Turkey (completed December 2000).
MASTER’S THESIS SUPERVISED
-Becoming-European, Becoming-Enemy: The Quest to Find a Permanent Place for Islam and
Mosque Conflicts in Europe (completed January 2011)
-Europe and Muslim Immigrants at the Intersection of Secularism, Religion and Racism
(completed January 2011)
-Israel and Palestine Face2Face (completed August 2009)
-An Analysis of Developmental Governmentality in the Cold War Period (completed
December 2006).
-Entrepreneurial Practices of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin (completed July 2004).
-Evaluating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: A Case Study of Turkish Top
Managers in a Multinational Corporation (completed July 2004).
-Social Distinction and Symbolic Boundaries in a Globalized Context: Leisure Spaces in
İstanbul (completed December 2003).
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-Marketing Demographics, Advertising Semiotics: The Case of Akşam Newspaper’
(completed December 2003).
-The Vigorous Local: Spaces of Entertainment, Hip-Hop Music and the Politics of
Resistance in the Age of Globalization (completed September 2003).
-Orientalism from Travel Literature to the Discourse of Tourism (completed 1998).
-The Literary Representation of Hybrid Identities: The Case of German-Turks (completed
1998).
-The Constitutive Role of German National Identity Formation in the Turkish Migrant’s
Perception of Self and Other (completed December 2001).
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D. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND MANEGEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES, BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND REFEREEING
Member of the Thematic Network of Women’s Studies in Europe (ATHENA) for the
Socrates Programme of the Europen Commission of the European Union (since 2004).
2004-2006 Member of the Working Group (under Athena Thematic Network Group)
POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE: GENDER, ETHNICITY AND MIGRATION .
http://www.athena2.org/postcolonialeurope
EDITORIAL and OTHER BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Advisory Board Member for the Project Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism, European
Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and Behaviour ERAG-SH2). Run by the Open University, UK.
Member of the ‘Postcolonial Europe’ group: Advanced Thematic Network in European
Women's studies—ATHENA (2004-2010).
The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Editorial Board member (2001-2011).
Feminist Europa, Editorial Board member (Since 2003).
Westview Press: Politics and Culture series, Editorial Board member (Since 2004).
REFEREEING FOR RESEARCH GRANTS
Referee for Individiaul Marie Sklodowska Curie (Horizon 2020) ITN, June 2014.
Referee for Individiaul Marie Sklodowska Curie RISE (Horizon 2020), June 2014.
Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF European
Commission, October 2013.
Referee for the 7th Framework, Career Integration Grants, European Commission, 2012.
Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF European
Commission, 2012.
Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF European
Commission, 2011.
Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF European
Commission, 2010.
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Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF European
Commission, 2008.
Referee for the 7th Framework, IAPP Fellowships, European Commission, 2008
Referee for the 7th Framework, ITN Fellowships, European Commission, 2008
Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF and IIF, European
Commission, 2007.
Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences and
Humanities Project, December 2006.
Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences and
Humanities Project, August 2006.
Referee for the 6th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowship, Conferences and Training,
European Commission, 2006.
Referee for the 6th Framework, New and Emerging Science and Technology, European
Commission, 2006.
Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge, European
Commission, 2006.
Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IIF, and OIF Fellowships,
European Commission, 2006.
Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IIF, and OIF Fellowships,
European Commission, 2005.
Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge, European
Commission, 2005.
Referee for the 6th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, Conferences and Training,
European Commission, 2005.
Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Excellence Chairs and Awards
European Commission, 2005.
19. Referee for the 6 th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge
Fellowships, European Commission, 2004.
20. Referee for the 6 th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IIF, and OIF Fellowships,
European Commission, 2004.
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Referee for the 6th Framework, Integrated Projects, European Commission, 2004.
REFEREEING FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES
Millenium (2009), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2008), Signs (2006), Signs
(2004), Angelaki (2002), ARIEL (2000), Interventions (2000), Interventions (1998).
BOOK REFEREEING FOR PRESSES
Cambridge University Press (1998), University of Toronto Press (2006).
WORKSHOP, SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Co-Organizer of lecture series ‘Kaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Journeys in Culture’,
Speakers invited for 1998 academic year: Stephen Heath and Mark Cousins; Sponsored by
the Representation of the European Commission to Turkey and the Middle East Technical
University, December 1998.
Co-Organizer of lecture series ‘Kaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Journeys in Culture’,
Speakers invited for 2001 academic year Robert Young, Ato Quayson and Sabine Strasser;
Sponsored by the Representation of the European Commission to Turkey, February 2001 and
May 2001.
Organizer, of a lecture on Migrant Identities and Hybridity, Invited speaker Sabine Strasser,
University of Vienna, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 1999.
Co-Organizer and participant of a lecture series on Space and Identity (Discussions on
Space), Ankara, Mimarlar Dernegi (Architects Association) February-May 1998, Ankara,
Co-organizer of the conference ‘Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Yeni bir Kavrayışa
Doğru’ (Rethinking Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception), İstanbul Universitesi,
February 1998, Istanbul.
Organizer of lectures ‘On Deconstruction and Feminist Theory’, Speakers invited Gerald
MacLean and Donna Landry, Middle East Technical University, May 1995.
Co-Organizer of the conference on ‘Rethinking the Political’, Speakers invited Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffee, Andrew Ross, Fred Dallmayer,
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 1989
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