Orient-Institut Istanbul (OII) and Sabanci Univ. Gender and Women’s Studies (SU Gender), in collaboration with Koç Univ.’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) (Web)
Time: 09.-10.12.2020
Venue: virtual space
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, this workshop will establish, consolidate and sustain a network of academics who share an interest in women’s and gender studies with regard to the Ottoman world and modern Turkey. Leading scholars across several major fields – including history, literature, and interdisciplinary studies – will examine recent theoretical discourses and challenges in the area of women’s and gender studies and contribute to steering the field in innovative directions.
This workshop is designed to address two problems in women’s and gender studies: the lack of transnational and comparative scholarship, as well as the dearth of interdisciplinary collaboration. This workshop responds to the fact that the scholarly literatures in women’s and gender studies in the Ottoman-Turkish milieu and in the Arab and Balkan world have been, on the whole, kept tightly segregated from each other. Consequently, the four panels of the workshop are centered around key approaches that would benefit from being in dialogue. … Read more (Web).
Four roundtable panels:
- Mapping the Field: Literary Approaches to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Turkey and the Near East.
- Mapping the Field: Historicizing Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Turkey and the Near East.
- Mapping the Field: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on the Region.
- New Directions: The Academy, Solidarity, and Public Outreach.
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