Teaching Assistantship

• 2009/2010 – A History of Art and Visual Culture (VAH 1040), Dept. of Visual Arts, Western University
• 2008/2009 – Gender and Sexuality (Film 2255) Dept. of Film Studies, Western University
• 2007/2008 – Introduction to Film Studies (Film 020E), Dept. of Film Studies, Western University
• 2006/2007 – Introduction to Film Studies (Film 020E), Dept. of Film Studies, Western University
• 2006 Spring – Writing Skills (MED 252), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems; Visual Culture (ADV 204), Dept. of Advertising, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2005 Fall – Reading Skills (MED 251), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems; Visual Communication (TVJ 201), Dept. of Television Journalism, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2005 Spring – Writing Skills (MED 252), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems; Art History II (HUM 108, Humanities), Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2004 Fall – Reading Skills (MED 251), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems; Visual Communication (TVJ 201), Dept. of Television Journalism, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2004 Spring – Writing Skills (MED 252), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2003 Fall – Reading Skills (MED 251), Women, Feminism and Writing (MED 421), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems, Istanbul Bilgi University
• 2003 Spring – Writing Skills (MED 252), Dept. of Media and Communication Systems, Istanbul Bilgi University

Academic and Administrative Experience

2008 – 2009 Chief Steward (Arts & Humanities), The Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Union

2007 – 2008 Steward, The Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Union

2007 Conference Organizer, Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities, Western University

July 2006 Research Assistant, Getty Summer Institute in Istanbul, “Constructing the Past in the Middle East,” the Getty Foundation and the University of Washington

Conference Presentations

“Photography as a Collective Act of Resistance,” paper presented at the 5^th International Conference of Photography & Theory, Photographies and Conflict: Archiving & Consuming Images of Strife, organized by the International Association of Photography and Theory, Nicosia, Nov. 22-24, 2018.

“Neighborhood Forums and Squatter Neighborhoods During the Gezi Uprising,” paper presented at the International UnConference Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities: The Right to the City and the Common Space, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, May 31 – June 3, 2018.

“Gezi Park Protests in Turkey as a Response to Authoritarian Curbing of Public Spheres: Clampdowns on the Flow of Information and Citizens’ Strategies,” paper presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Media Studies Association (GfM), Erlangen, October 4-7, 2017.

“Son Dönem Türkiye Sinemasında Gerçekçilik ve Sinemada Masalın Kullanılması,” [“Realism and the Use of Fairy Tales in the Recent Cinema of Turkey”] paper presented at the 1^st Cinema Congress at the International Golden Boll, Adana, September 21-4, 2011.

“Commercialization of Public Sight and Playful Responses,” paper presented at the 1^st International Symposium on Visual Culture: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, May 20-1, 2011.

“Filozofların Mağarasından Günümüz Türkiye Sinemasına,” [“From the Philosophers’s Cave to Contemporary Cinema of Turkey”] paper presented at the conference on Cinema and Philosophy: 12^th Conference of New Directions in Turkish Film Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, May 5-7, 2011.

“The Mythology of the Veil,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics and Contemporary Society, Department of Political Science, York University, and Department of Mid-East Studies, University of Toronto, June 3-5, 2010.

“The Psychoanalytic Conception of Memory and the Functioning of Cultural Mementos,” paper presented at the conference Memory as Medium: Experience, Exchange, Representation, Carleton University, Ottawa, March 13-4, 2008.

“The Return of the Repressed and the Functioning of Memory in Psychoanalysis,” paper presented at the 10^th Annual Conference in Comparative Literature, Theory, and Spanish: Repetition and Return, UWO, London, Ontario, March 6-8, 2008.

“The Unconscious as the Site of Resistance and the Possibilities of a Political Psychoanalysis,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference on Theory & Criticism: Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities, UWO, London, Ontario, October 12-3, 2007.