KNOWLEDGE and POLITICS in GENDER and WOMEN`S STUDIES

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KNOWLEDGE and POLITICS in GENDER and WOMEN`S STUDIES
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
International Conference on
KNOWLEDGE and POLITICS in GENDER and WOMEN’S STUDIES
9-11 October 2015, METU, Ankara
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9TH OCTOBER, FRIDAY
09:30 - 10:30
OPENING CEREMONY*
CCC HALL - A
Opening Speeches
Prof. Galip Yalman
Prof. Yıldız Ecevit
Prof. Ahmet Acar
H. E. Mr. C. van Rij
President, Turkish Social Sciences Association
Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies, METU
President, METU
Ambassador of Kingdom of Netherlands
METU GWS as a Pioneering Program
Prof. Feride Acar
President of GREVIO / METU
Some Memories and Reflections
Film: A Passage From Our Collective Memory
Plenary Session
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee break, 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 – 13:00
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Emiko Ochiai
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University / Japan
Logics and History of Gender Changes in Asian Modernity: Reconfiguration of the Intimate and Public Spheres
Prof. Nivedita Mennon
Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University / India
Changing Selves and Sexualities: Perspectives From 'Other' Worlds
* Simultaneous translation is provided.
Lunch break, 13:00 - 14:00
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
9TH OCTOBER, FRIDAY
14:00 - 15:30
Experience Sharing Among Generations
(Kuşaklararası Deneyim Paylaşımı)
CCC HALL - B
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - D
Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 1: Everywhere Is Resistance: Feminist Politics
(Her Yer Direniş: Feminist Politika)
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Moderator: Yıldız Ecevit
Moderator: Ayşe Ayata
Moderator: Ayşe Gündüz Hoşgör
Chair: İnci User
Serpil Çakır
Fatmagül Berktay
Gülay Toksöz
Fatma Belkıs Kümbetoğlu
Women in NGOs in the Current Context of Turkey
Şirin Tekeli
Serpil Sancar
Mine Tan
Ezgi Sarıtaş, Yelda Şahin Akıllı
Feminist History of Periods of ‘Stagnation’: Women's Movement in
the 1950s
Yakın Ertürk
Yeşim Arat
Pınar İlkkaracan
Leyla Şimşek-Rathke
Feminist Politics, Women and Social Movements
(in alphabetical order)
(in alphabetical order)
(in alphabetical order)
Özlem İngün Karkış
Women as Subjects of Local Resistance
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is provided.
Coffee break, 15:30-16:00
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
9TH OCTOBER, FRIDAY
16:00 - 17:30
CCC HALL - B
SESSION 2: Reflections on Legal
Status of Women
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - C
SESSION 3: Feminist Politics: Today
and Tomorrow
SESSION 4: Religious
Attributions to Women
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 5: To Know and to Remember: Feminist
Methodology and Epistemology (Bilmek ve
Hatırlamak: Feminist Metodoloji ve Epistemoloji)
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Chair: Gülriz Uygur
Chair: Sedef Arat-Koç
Chair: Ayça Ergun
Chair: Serpil Çakır
Hülya Şimga
Gender Equality and Its Discontents: Can
There Be Justice Without Equality?
Şule Toktaş
‘Project Feminism’ vs. ‘Grassroots
Feminism’: Challenges of Women’s
Movement in Turkey Within the Medium of
Europeanization and Globalization
Omolola Sodunke
The Unspoken Wars on Religious
Gender Inequality in Nigeria
Damla Türkmenoğlu, Tuşen Olgunlu
How Can Feminist Methodology Contribute to
Collective Memory: A Case of Armenian Women
Living in İstanbul
Aylin Akpınar
Divorcees Caught in Patriarchal Family,
Society & State in Turkey
Charlotte Binder, Aslı Polatdemir
Can All Women Fight Together? A
Discussion Between Ideals and Realities:
Alliances and Diversity in Women´s
Movements in Turkey
Cennet Ceren Çavuş
Femininity in Sufism: Ontology of
Sex According to Ibn Arabi
Meral Akbaş, Nihan Bozok
With the Silences, Murmurs, Sighs of Elderly Women:
A Discussion on Feminist Epistemology
Nadire Özdemir
Sue for Love? Liability of Third Party in
Marital Damage
Asuman Özgür Keysan
Discourses of Women Activists in Turkey:
Engendering ‘Civil Society'?
Olena Astapova
Love and Eros in the Old and New
Testament Tradition
Muharrem Açıkgöz
Intersectionality as a Feminist Concept: Possibilities
and Problems
Seldağ Güneş Peschke
The Surname of Turkish Women: A
Question of Identity?
Şehriban Kaya
Young Urban Women and Their Online
Struggle Against the Conservative
Backlash in Turkey
Sibel Kibar
Women Bodies at Trial by Ordeal
Since Christianity to Trier Movies
Cocktail, 18:00 - 19:30
ALUMNI REUNION, 18:00 - 19:30
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is
provided.
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
9TH OCTOBER, FRIDAY
16:00 - 17:30
CCC HALL - G
CCC HALL - F
CCC HALL - E
CCC HALL - H
SESSION 6: The Portrayal of
Women’s Labour
SESSION 7: What We Resist:
Violence Against Women
SESSION 8: Another Brick in the
Wall: Media and Representation
SESSION 9: Literature: In and Outside the
Circle
Chair: Emel Memiş
Chair: Yakın Ertürk
Chair: Çiler Dursun
Chair: Margaret J. M. Sönmez
İpek İlkkaracan, Tolga Kaya, Kijong Kim,
Investing in Social Care Services: A
Strategy for Inclusive Growth
Dilek Cindoğlu
Wars and Brides
Meltem Ağduk
Gender of the Newsroom: Being Woman in
the Journalistic Field
Funda Civelekoğlu
Gender and Cultural Criticism in Ian McEwan's
The Cement Garden
Esra Sarıoğlu
Global Economy and New Gender
Identities: A Study of Saleswomen in
Turkey
Elif Gazioğlu Terzi
Bride Kidnapping and Elopement in
Violence Against Women Context: The
Case of Ardahan
Ayşe Nahide Yılmaz
Bitter Reality of Surrealism: Women
Against Misogynist Imagination
Meryem Senem Sarıkaya
Augustine: The Resistance of Rebellious Hysteric
to Patriarchy
Bojana Jovanovska
Appearance as Reference: Women and
Lookism in the Labour Market
Ibtesam Al-Atiyat
Writing the Lives of Jordanian Women:
Memoirs and Memoir Writers on
Honour Crimes
Özlem Akkaya
Women and News in Turkey: "Walking on
a Tightrope"
Zuhal Yeniçeri, Leman Korkmaz, Doğan
Kökdemir
An Existential Alliance of Byronic and “Lilithic”
Heroes
Rana Çavuşoğlu
Education and Experience in Nursing: A
Comparison Between Vocational School
and University Graduates
Selda Tuncer
Going Public: Women’s Narratives of
Everyday Gendered Violence in Turkey
Carla Donoso Orellana
The Cultural Construction of Female Aging
in Chile: An Analysis of the Politics of Mass
Media Politics of Representation
Mehmet Erguvan
Talking Gender and Sexuality Through Literature:
A Comparative Analysis of The Vagina
Monologues and İşte Böyle Güzelim as a Case in
Point
Cocktail, 18:00 - 19:30
ALUMNI REUNION, 18:00 - 19:30
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH
CCC HALL - E
CCC HALL - H
CCC HALL - F
OCTOBER, SATURDAY
09:00 - 10:30
CCC HALL - B
SESSION 10: ‘Write! Writing is for
You!’: Women’s Literature
SESSION 11: Institutionalization of
Gender and Women’s Studies
SESSION 12: That We Exist:
Women’s History
SESSION 13: Traces of Violence Against
Women
Chair: Dürrin Alpakın Martinez-Caro
Chair: Sevgi Uçan Çubukçu
Chair: Birten Çelik
Chair: Alanur Çavlin
Twinkle Suri
Women Writing the Self to Emerge From
the Shadows
David Mokam
Gender and Women’s Studies in State
Universities and State Feminism in
Cameroon From 1984 to 2013
Gülhan Balsoy
Historical Perspectives to Gender and
Migration: The Case of the Widow’s
House or the Kırmızı Kışla
Ishrat Khan Barsha
Engendering Health Information System (HIS):
Locating Health Care Needs of Violence Victims
in Bangladesh
Hatice Eşberk
Gender Performatives and the Key to a
Locked Room: Angela Carter’s The Bloody
Chamber
Nafisa Tanjeem, Aditi Sabur
Academy-Industrial Complex and the
Future of Women’s and Gender Studies in
Bangladesh
Füsun Çoban Döşkaya, Ahmet Aksın
Prostitutes in Ottoman Archival Sources
Mozharul Islam
The Perception of the Middle Class on Domestic
Violence Against Women and Laws Regarding
Punishment: A Comparative Study at the City of
Sylhet in Bangladesh
Serpil Yavuz Özkaya
The Usages of Gender and Sex Terms in
Two Turkish Translations of Virginia
Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary
Münevver Tekcan
Women’s Studies Inside and Outside the
Middle East
Esra Abaoğlu
Women in the Nineteenth Century
Ottoman Historiography: From the
Perspective of Tarih-i Cevdet and Tezakir
Minakshi Buragohain
The ‘State of Exceptions’ in Laws: Sexual
Violence Against Women in India
Inez Baranay
Old Women in Fiction: The Novel as
Research
Husnia Al-Kadri, Bilkis Zabara
The Success and Challenges in
Institutionalization of Women’s/Gender
Studies at Sana’a University-Yemen
Aysel Arslan
Look Beyond What You See:
Engendering Central Anatolian Prehistory
Ayşe Çetinkaya Aydın
Solidarity Problems in Domestic Violence
Against Women
Berna Ekal
Rethinking Politics of Women’s Shelters in
Turkey
Coffee break, 10:30 - 10:45
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - G
OCTOBER, SATURDAY
09:00 - 10:30
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 14: Different Aspects of
Gender and Politics
SESSION 15: Gendered Concepts:
War, Peace, Development, Public
Opinion
SESSION 16: Literature as an
Epiphany of Real Life
SESSION 17: The Colors of Gender Discrimination:
Blue and White Collars, Professionals, and ‘Others’
(Toplumsal Cinsiyet Ayrımcılığının Renkleri: Mavi ve
Beyaz Yakalılar, Profesyoneller, ‘Ötekiler’)
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Chair: Şule Toktaş
Chair: Aslı Çırakman Deveci
Chair: Güzin Yamaner
Chair: Nurcan Özkaplan
Eda Acara
Mahalle/Neighbourhood: As an Extension of
Ethnic and Gender Segregation
Hilal Alkan
Gendered Truths: Of War, of Peace and
of Peace-Making
Hatice Palaz Erdemir, İlkay Şahin
Woman Images in Comedies of
Aristophanes
Elif Ekin Akşit-Vural
Publishing and Public Lives
Efser Rana Coşkun
Approaching Bosnian War in Light of
‘Violence Against Women’ and
‘Gendered Violence’
K. Zeynep Sarıaslan
Feminists’ Engagements in
Development: An Anthropological
Investigation of Perceptions and
Experiences of Gender-Balanced
Development in Southeast Anatolia.
Gitta Hilke Glüpker-Kesebir
Women and Public Support for EU
Membership: Sweden and Turkey
Anita Oğurlu
Lilo Linke: A Spirit of Insubordination
Aysun Öner
Workplace Discrimination Against White-Collar
Lesbians and Gays and Their Coping Strategies in
Turkey
Gül Özsan
Female Shopkeepers and Gendering Urban Space:
Female Shopkeeping in Caferağa Neighborhood,
Kadıköy
Leyla Bulut, Pınar Börü
The Role of Workplace Clothing in Creating Social
Identity: A Case Study With Professional
Women in İstanbul and İzmir
Daria Goryacheva, Anna Sanina
Value Orientations of Women Local
Administration in Russia
Senem Ertan
Confusion of Terminology on Policies for
Gender Equality
Peyman Eshaghi
Nobility, Cult of Saints and Gendered Piety:
Royal Women and Politics of Religious
Endowments (WAQF) of Pilgrimage in Iran
C. Akça Ataç
Women in Pursuit of the Truth: How to
Deal With a Big ‘Fat’ Lie in Public Sphere
Anupama Vohra
Culture, Conflict and Evolving Gender
Identities in Sharmishtha Koul’s Endless
Longings
Gökşen Aras
Susan Rawlings’ Enclosed Freedom and
Eventual Estrangement in To Room
Nineteen by Doris Lessing
Sernaz Arslan
A Gendered Approach to Citizenship: A
Critical Reading of Lying Down to Die
and Write Long Letters to Me
Sinem Hun, Nihan Erdoğan
Trans Sex Workers in the Axis of Violence, Justice
and Gender Identity
Derya Güler Aydın, Bahar Araz Takay
The Alienation Problem of the ‘Women’ in the Market
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is
provided.
Coffee break, 10:30 - 10:45
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
10:45 - 12:15
CCC HALL - B
SESSION 18: Operationalization of
Feminist Theories and Perspectives
SESSION 19: Media: A Strategy for
Women’s (Mis)Representation
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 20: Lives of Women Squeezed Into
Structures (Yapılara Sıkıştırılmış Kadın Yaşamları)
Moderator: Olcay İmamoğlu
Chair: Nurten Birlik
Chair: Simten Coşar
Chair: Ruken Öztürk
Smita Tewari Jassal
Interrogating Western Feminist
Paradigms: India as an Example
of the Non-West
M. Isabel Garrido Gómez
Discursive Perspectives in the Feminist
Theory
Esin Berktaş
How Do We Visualize Women in War
Propaganda Posters: Soldiers, Mothers and
Families
Esra Gedik
Trapped in Between State, Market and Family:
Experiences of Moderately Educated Divorced and
Widow Women
Nigar Shiralizade
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Post-Colonial
Feminist View on International Relations
Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos
Female Action Hero vs. Male Dominance:
Female Representation in Mad Max: Fury
Road
Ayşe Yıldırım
From Arranged Marriages to Marriage Brokers:
Reconstruction of Tradition in Border Regions
Berrin Oktay Yılmaz, Ayşe Öztürk,
Egemen Kepekçi
A Different Approach to Feminist
Standpoint Theory: Kathi Weeks’ View on
Women’s ‘Labour’ Practices
Zehra Çiftci
Experiences That Matter: Narratives of
Women Struggling Against Masculine
Authority
Duygu Öztaş, Esma Kabasakal
A Public Health Problem: Syrian Women Refugees
Pınar Yanardağ
Feminist Perspectives on Gerontology and
Aging Studies
Görkem Kutluer
A Powerful Tool for Female Struggle:
Feminist Art
Gülser Öztunalı Kayır
Women Murders Are Political Issues and
What Should Be Done to Prevent FemicideFeminicide?
Guest Speakers
Sedef Arat-Koç
Ambiguity and Silence on Social
Reproduction: Turkish Feminist
Research and Politics in a Context
of Rising Conservatism
CCC HALL - F
CCC HALL - E
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Seda Öz Yıldız
Woman Trouble of the Police: A Study on Gender
Equality Awareness of Turkish National Police
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is
provided.
Lunch break, 12:15 - 13:15
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
10:45 - 12:15
CCC HALL - H
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - G
SESSION 21: Feminism(s) in the
World
SESSION 22: Our Past, Present and
Future: Education
SESSION 23: What We Also
Care for: Masculinities
SESSION 24: Gendered Roles: The Iceberg of
Construction
Chair: Meliha Altunışık
Chair: Mine Tan
Chair: Arda Arıkan
Chair: Birsen Talay Keşoğlu
Diana Elena Neaga
Consolidating Feminisms – Tips and Tricks
From the Romanian Experience
Oana Gui
Women in STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics): A View
From Inside
Çağrı Yılmaz, Kübra Özdemir
Reproduction of Masculine
Language Through Caps
Cristiana Ottaviano
Motherhood: (Still) Women's Destiny?
Fatima Taourite
The Impact of Colonization on Feminism:
The Case of French Colonization in Algeria
Jhuma Sen
Towards a Feminist Pedagogy of Clinical
Legal Education: Challenges and the
Possibilities of Transformative Learning
Defne Erzene Bürgin, Selin Bengi
Gümrükçü
How Do Male University Students
Perceive Women?
Hande Eslen-Ziya, Umut Korkut
The Construction of Gender Roles in Turkish Mosque
Sermons
Züleyha İzin
Islamic Feminism in a European Context:
The Case of Spain
Nesrin Akıncı Çötok, Selcen Vodinalı
An Interactivity and Knowledge Sharing
Ambiance: East Marmara Region Woman
Academy Project
Souzeina Mushtaq
Against All Odds: Transgender
Community in India
Luisa Miniati
Fathers Finding Themselves: New Symmetries and
Different Models
Kawkab Al-Thaibani
Feminism in Yemen: Uneasy Path for
Women
Brikena (Buda) Dhuli, Kseanela
Sotirofski
The Impact of Educated Women in Child
Education
Sayed Md Saikh Imtiaz
The Making of BraveMen: Boys,
Construction of Masculinities and a
VAW & G Prevention Campaign in
Schools in the Northern Bangladesh
Anju Thappa
Cultural Practices and Depiction of Gender Roles in
Society and Literature
Lunch break, 12:15 - 13:15
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
13:15 - 14:45
Experience Sharing Among Generations
(Kuşaklararası Deneyim Paylaşımı)
CCC HALL - B
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - F
Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
SESSION 25: This Is the Beginning, We Will
Keep Fighting: Political Activism
Moderator: Mehmet Ecevit
Moderator: Canan Aslan-Akman
Moderator: Ayşe Saktanber
Chair: Yeşim Arat
Fatma Belkıs Kümbetoğlu
Aksu Bora
Aslı Davaz
Zeynep Gülru Göker
Gender and Political Action: The Case of the Gezi
Resistance in Turkey
Ayşe N. Durakbaşa
Hürcan Aslı Aksoy
Gendering Democratic Policy Making in Turkey:
Kemalist Women’s Activism in the Justice and
Development Party (AKP) Era
Will Day and Dilan Ateş
Gender and Radical Democracy: Reflections on the
Emerging Kurdish Experiment in Turkey
Eser Köker
Alev Özkazanç
Gülnur Savran
Güzin Yamaner
Dilek Cindoğlu
(in alphabetical order)
(in alphabetical order)
(in alphabetical order)
Coffee break, 14:45 - 15:00
Sevil Çakır Kılınçoğlu
Women in the Radical Leftist Organizations in Iran
and Turkey in the 1970s
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
13:15 - 14:45
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 26: In Between Fact and Fiction:
Gender, Femininities, and Sexism (Gerçek ve
Kurgu Arasında: Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Kadınlık
Durumları ve Cinsiyetçilik)
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Chair: Nilay Çabuk Kaya
Çilem Tuğba Akdağ, Mehmet Köprü
Mapping the Myth of Femininity Over Two Provocative
Directors of Extremism: Anti-Christ and Anatomy of Hell
Fatmagül Demirel
The Analysis of Women Reader Letters in the Early
Republican Era
Alev Önder
Gender in the Short Story Collection Kızıl Kale
Gülcan Çolak
Gender in Turkish Words
Sezer Ayan, Veda Bilican Gökkaya
Sexism: Ambivalent Sexism
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is
provided.
Coffee break, 14:45 - 15:00
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
15:00 - 16:30
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - B
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 27: Depiction of Gender
SESSION 28: What One Dies of and
Ideology, Heteronormativity and Sexism for: Family & Marriage
SESSION 29: Collecting Memoirs:
Women’s History
SESSION 30: We Were, Are and Will Be: Women’s
Education (Vardık, Varız, Var Olacağız: Kadınların
Eğitimi)
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
Chair: Betül Yarar
Chair: Aytül Kasapoğlu
Chair: Füsun Çoban Döşkaya
Chair: Funda Şenol Cantek
İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu, Eva Bernhardt
Gender Ideology, Education, and Religious
Practice in Turkey
Ayşe Nilüfer Durakbaşa
Intricacies of Social Class in the Domestic
Sphere: The Case of ‘Evlatlık’s in Turkey
Aslı Davaz
Women-Centered Archives
Birsen Talay Keşoğlu
The Ottoman Empire’s First Private Women
Courses (Bilgi Yurdu Dersanesi) and Its Periodical
Bilgi Yurdu Işığı
Canan Şahin
Masculine Performatives of Female Body:
Queering the Hegemonic?
Neharica Subhash
Social Space and Identity in Inter-Religious
Marriages: A Case Study of Jammu City
Erman Örsan Yetiş
The Feminist History in the Pursuit of
Fatma Aliye
Aylin Çakıroğlu Çevik, Ayşe Gündüz Hoşgör
Women in Higher Education in Turkey: What Has
Changed in 100 Years?
İrem İnceoğlu
Gendering Football Stadia: A Critical Look Into
Women’s Presence in Tribunes in Turkey
Neerja Ahlawat
Marriage Norms, Notion of Honour and
Choices in Haryana, India
Eylem Nazlı Taşdemir
Suat Derviş (1905-1972): A Friend of
the Soviet Union (The Experience of a
Woman in the Turkish Left in the 20th
Century)
Ayşenur Erkol, Gülcan Sarıkaya, Pelin
Yalçınoğlu
Primary School Students’ Experience With
Scientists: Who Is Our Madam Curie?
Nilüfer Ercan, Özden Melis Uluğ
“You See That Driver? I Bet That’s a Woman!”:
A Social Psychological Approach to
Understand Sexism in Traffic
Pınar Eke
Wedding Photos and Zeitgeist: A Reading
on Femininity, Masculinity, Love and
Marriage
Zahra Ganji
Feminism in the Communist State:
Alexandra Kollontai and the Failure of
Soviet Utopia in Women’s
Emancipation
Hatice Köroğlu Türközü
Women's Status in Korean Society
Gabriela Pavlova
Demographic Change in Europe: Fertility,
Child-Friendly Policies, and Their
Implementation
Coffee break, 16:30 - 16:45
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English
is provided.
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
15:00 - 16:30
CCC HALL - F
CCC HALL - G
CCC HALL - E
CCC HALL - H
SESSION 31: The Sights of
Women’s Labour
SESSION 32: Feminist Politics in
Turkey
SESSION 33: Women’s
Organizations and the State
Chair: İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu
Chair: F. Umut Beşpınar
Chair: Ayşegül Aydıngün
SESSION 34: The Haze of Gender in
Literature
Chair: Nadide Karkıner
Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan, Ayşe Gündüz
Hoşgör
Daughters’ Involvement in Patriarchal
Bargaining in Rural Turkey: The Case of
Avanos
Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz
Turkey: On Women’s Bodies and
Insecurities
Serap Suğur, İncilay Cangöz, Temmuz
Gönç, Hatice Yeşildal
Blurring the Boundaries Between the State
and Autonomy: The Case of Women’s
Organizations in Eskişehir
Nawel Zbidi
Negotiating Gendered Liminal Identities at the
Borderland in Arab American Women
Literature: Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan
as a Case in Point
F. Kemal Kızılca
Booze and Women: Gendered Labour
Market Outcomes of Secular
Consumption in a Muslim Society
Ayşegül Gökalp Kutlu
A Discourse Analysis on Turkey’s Justice
and Development Party Government on the
Human Rights of Women
Betül Ekşi
Women's Movements/Groups and the
State: Three Patterns of Engagement
Gülben Salman Shores
Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries: Being
Trapped in the Dilemma Between Traditional
and Modern
Ayşe Arslan
Unpaid Women Workers in the Family:
Women's Reproductive Labour
Fulya Pınar
Women’s Reproductive Rights in Turkey and
Studies of Women on Web
Berrin Koyuncu, Aylin Özman
Reflections on Women’s Associations’
Interface With the State in Turkey in the
Third AKP Rule
Ferah İncesu
Blur on Gender and Its Relevancies in
Symons' Poem "White Heliotrope"
Meltem Yılmaz Şener
Can Women Have Gold-Collars: Work
Life for Educated Women in Turkey
Fethiye Beşir
A Discourse Analysis of Peoples' Democratic
Party (HDP): Agonistic Politics With a
Feminist Perspective
Çağla Diner, Catherine A. Long
Appropriation of Social Representation in
Turkey: The Turkish State, Women’s Civil
Society Organizations and Business
Associations
Zehra Aydın
The Anxiety of Female Authorship in J.M.
Coetzee’s Foe
Coffee break, 16:30 - 16:45
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH
OCTOBER, SATURDAY
16:45 - 18:15
CCC HALL - A
CCC HALL - F
CCC HALL - B
CCC HALL - D
SESSION 35: The Path for Praxis:
Academy and Civil Society (Praksise
Giden Yol: Akademi ve Sivil Toplum)
SESSION 36: Feminist Epistemology
and Method
SESSION 37: Gender, Care and
Employment in the 2000s in
Turkey
SESSION 38: Women’s Knowledge in
Women’s Labour
Chair: Hülya Demirdirek
Chair: Mehmet Ecevit
Chair: Feride Acar
Chair: Sibel Kalaycıoğlu
Gökçe Bayrakçeken Tüzel
Is Knowing Changing: Political
Observations From Gender and Human
Rights-Based Monitoring
E. Burcu G. Marshall
Women’s Bodies as First Colony: A Study
in the Hybrid Feminist Personal
Saniye Dedeoğlu
Female Employment Policies and
Gender Regime in Turkey
Ayşe Abbasoglu Özgören, Banu Ergöçmen,
Aysıt Tansel
Women’s Employment and Fertility: Event-History
Analyses of Turkey
Nisan Kuyucu
Transgressing the Borders: An Example of
the Unification of Academia and Activism
Şeyda Başlı
Feminist Epistemology and Literature:
‘Relationality’ as a Valid Epistemological
Source
Melda Yaman
Decoding the Tendencies of Female
Employment in Turkey’s Industrial
Strategy
Eser Selen, Mary Lou O'Neil Şimşek
Reviving the Ghosts: An Oral History With the
Women Workers of Cibali Tobacco Factory
Ayça Kurtoğlu
A Call for Transversal Politics in the Field
of Rights in Turkey
Nezihe Başak Ergin, Esin İleri
Emotions With/Without Women: Why?
How?
Reyhan Atasü Topçuoğlu
Who Is Supposed to Care? Discussing
Gender Roles and Commodification of
Care in and out of Turkish Welfare
State
Karolina Thel
Professional Activity of Elderly Women in the
Context of Intergenerational Perspective in
Women’s Knowledge Analyses
Nadide Karkıner
Feminist Method: The Personal History of
Experiences in Feminist Research
Gülbanu Altunok
Female Subjectivity, Sovereign and
Biopower: Neoconservatism in Turkish
Context
Bermal Küçük
Women’s Knowledge in Natural Food Production
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to
English is provided.
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
10TH OCTOBER, SATURDAY
16:45 - 18:15
CCC HALL - G
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - H
CCC HALL - E
SESSION 39: High Hurdles of the
Mind: Gendered Roles
SESSION 40: The Growing Side of
the Medallion: Masculinities
SESSION 41: The Sound of Silence:
Migration
SESSION 42: From Micro to Macro
Entities: Literature
Chair: Serap Suğur
Chair :Serkan Ertin
Chair: Helga Rittersberger-Tılıç
Chair :Funda Civelekoğlu
Shu-Chuan Lai
Textile Weaving Technique and Social
Memory for Tayal Women in Taiwan
Maral Erol
No Andropause for Gay Men? Aging and
Sexuality in İstanbul
Tuba Demirci Yılmaz
Prospects and Boundaries of Gender
Mainstreaming in Flight Migration: Syrian
Refugee Women’s Experiences in İstanbul
Zöhre Baş
Does Euripides Want His Readers to
Sympathise With Medea?
İnci User
Gender and Trauma: A Critical Review
Cenk Özbay
A Self-Vigilant Subject: Drawn Stories,
Neoliberal Culture and Masculinities in
Turkey
Cemile Gizem Dinçer
Being T/Here: Experiences of Women
Migrant Domestic Workers From Georgia
in Turkey
Gökçem Menekşe Gökçen
Fresh Air of Eyes: The New Story of Ammu’s
Body in The God of Small Things
Özümcan Demir, Pınar Kaygan
Fountain Pens: Gender Asymmetries in
Managerial Careers
Mehmet Bozok
How Should We Deal With Men and
Masculinities? The History of Critical
Studies on Men and Masculinities in the
West and in Turkey
Özge Kaytan
Understanding Migration: BulgarianTurkish Migrant Women's Narratives
Cristina Chifane
Women (Re)Discovering Their Identity in Nick
Hornby’s How to Be Good (2001) and Juliet,
Naked (2009)
Asena Altın Gülova, Deniz İspirli, İnan
Eryılmaz
The Use of Power Within Organizations: A
Gender-Based Research
Uğur Çalışkan, Çimen Günay-Erkol
Crisis of Islamist Masculinities in 1968:
Literature and Masquerade
Selin Akyüz
Governing Gendered Map of Forced
Migration: The Interplay of Macro
Structures and Micro Experiences
Gönül Bakay
Fraye Stark: A Life of Challenges
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
11TH OCTOBER, SUNDAY
09:00 - 10:30
CCC HALL - C
SESSION 43: Layers of Women’s
Labour
CCC HALL - H
SESSION 44: Depictions of Women’s
Representations in Media
CCC HALL - B
SESSION 45: Body Politics: Our Bodies,
Ourselves!
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 46: Migration: Time’s Travel
Through Hurdles
Chair: Meltem Dayıoğlu
Chair: Hanife Aliefendioğlu
Chair: Asuman Göksel
Chair: Reyhan Atasü Topçuoğlu
Sangeeta Goel
Unleashing Stress for Equitable Growth: A
Case for Policy to Remove Obstacles From
Full Participation of Working Women
Özge Güven Akdoğan
Women in Modern Turkish Comedy Films
Mine Egbatan
Creating Shadows out of Sex Workers in
Public Space: Mobility and Visibility in
Ulus/Ankara
Muhammed Wajid Tahir
High Female Enrolment at Universities but
Low Participation in Labour Force Market
in Pakistan: A Sociocultural and Political
Analysis of Paradox
Çiğdem Akanyıldız
Popular Feminism and the Contemporary
Construction of Femininity in Popular
Women’s Magazines in Turkey in the 1990s
Tuğba Özcan
The Ambivalent Political Agency of Intellectual
Religious Women in Turkey: A Case Study of
the Abortion Debate in 2012
Elise Rondelez, Sarah Bracke, Griet
Roets, Piet Bracke
The Other Subject of Mental Health: A
Theoretical Exploration of the
Underrepresentation of Migrant Muslims
With Mental Health Issues in Belgium
Hilal Kara
A Female Domestic Worker’s Travel and
Urban Story: Understanding ‘Urban’ in Her
Eyes
Masreka Khan, Ekrem Erdem
A Feminist Inquiry on Women
Entrepreneurs in Selective Muslim
Countries
Ayşe Savaş
Women's Representation in Media: From the
Housewife to the Sex Object
Yasemin Güniz Sertel
Who Is the Owner of My Body: Woman, Body
Politics and Eating Disorders
Fatma Özlem Tezcek, Özlem Polat
Home-Based Working Women Within the
Context of Recent Developments in the
Social Reproduction Theory: The Turkish
Case
Merve Aydın
The Representation of Women in
International Media During Gezi Park
Protests
Elena Bogomiagkova, Marina Lomonosova
Role of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in
the Production of New Forms of Social Control
and Discrimination
Nihan Aytekin
Body, Emotions and Power: Communicating
Gender in the Advertisements of Body Hair
Removal Products
Ebru Eren
Becoming a Gendered Body: Feminist
Analysis of Gender and Power Relations
Coffee break, 10:30 - 10:45
Zarina Muminova
Male Labour Migration: How Does the
Absence of Husbands Shape Women
Structured Identity and Role in a Tajik
Patriarchal Society?
Bahar Taşeli
Narratives of Turkish Migrant Women in
Cyprus
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
11TH OCTOBER, SUNDAY
09:00 - 10:30
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - F
CCC HALL - G
CCC HALL - E
SESSION 47: Women’s Political
Representation
SESSION 48: ‘Love Your Mother
Earth’: Eco-Feminism
SESSION 49: That We Are Able:
Technology
SESSION 50: What We Were Born Into:
Norms, Role Models, Cultural Practices
Chair: A. İdil Aybars
Chair: Nahide Konak
Chair: Berna Zengin
Chair: Katharina Bodirsky
Bahar Taner, Esra A. Kösele, Nilay
Hoşaf
The Long Journey of Women Into Politics
in Turkey: Will It Ever Be Possible to
Reverse the Bad Fortune?
Şenay Eray
Public Policy on Gender Equality in Turkey:
Political Representation
Sengül Kılınç
The Critique of Essentialism and
Reconstruction of Dualist Hierarchy in
Eco-Feminism
Ece Öztan, Setenay Nil Doğan
Gendering the Innovator: The Case of R&D
in Turkey
Anita Misra Shukla
Changing Normative Pattern in an Urban
Setting: A Study With Special Reference to
Gender Relations in Indian Society
Nilgün Okay, N. Fandoğlu,
İ. İlkkaracan, A. Akalın
Gender Sensitive Disaster Risk
Management and Dissemination
Lejla Music
Postmodern Eco-Feminist Theories and
Politics
Hasan Tınmaz, İlker Yakın
Technologic or Technophobic Youth:
Preliminary Survey on Gender
Anke Reichenbach
Gender, Nationality and Public Space: The
Case of Emirati Women in Dubai
Ezgi Pehlivanlı Kadayıfçı
Gendered Construction of Engineering
Culture in Turkey: Construction and
Transformation
Kerimcan Kavaklı, Öykü Uluçay
Does Exposure to Female Role Models
Increase Leadership Aspirations: A Randomized
Experiment in Civic Involvement Projects
Gaye Tuncer, Elvan Şahin
Sustainability Is What My Mom Says!
Malgorzata Radkiewicz
Visual Technology and the Emancipation of
Women at the End of 19th and Beginning of
the 20th Century in the Polish Galicia
Sinem Güdüm
Women in Technology: Google Women
Tech-Makers Case
Ebru Karayiğit
Gendered Fields in Women's Leisure Time
Experiences: A Study on 'Gün' Meetings in
Ankara
Nigar Değirmenci
Female MPs, Party Quotas and Feminist
Institutionalism: A Case Study of the
Parties in the 24th Term of Turkish
Parliament
Burcu Nur Binbuğa
Examining Pro-Kurdish Parties From
Women Representation
Jasbir Singh
“Mute Spectator?” Influence of Politics
Proxy on Women’s Identity: A Case Study
of Socio-Cultural Dimension in India
Coffee break, 10:30 - 10:45
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
11TH OCTOBER, SUNDAY
10:45 - 12:15
CCC HALL - H
CCC HALL - G
CCC HALL - E
CCC HALL - F
SESSION 51: Religious Practices of
Women in Turkey
SESSION 52: That We Are
Everywhere: Women’s Activism
SESSION 53: Making Feminist
Research and Methodology
SESSION 54: What We Experience: The
Personal Is Political
Chair: Aylin Akpınar
Chair: Ayça Kurtoğlu
Chair: Banu Ergöçmen
Chair: Smita Tewari Jassal
Fatma Zehra Fidan, Nuran Erol Işık
Unmasking the Tension Between
Modernization and Gendered Piety: An
Ethnographic Research on Women and
Religion in Urban Turkey
Marina Lourenço-Yılmaz
Gender Matters: International Mobilisation
for the Protection of Women Human Rights
Defenders
Hilal Arslan
Gender Based Happiness Inequality: As
an Alternative Measure for Women’s
Well-Being
Emine Geçgil
Moderation vs. Militancy: The Rhetoric of
American Suffrage Movement
Petek Onur
From Orientalism to Cultural Relativism: A
Critical Discourse Analysis of Field Studies
and Ethnographies on Women and Islam in
Turkey
Berrin Koyuncu Lorasdağı, Ahu Sumbas
Considering Women’s Experiences as
Female Mayors in Combating Violence
Against Women in Turkey: The Cases of
2004 and 2009 Local Elections
Billur Dokur
Culinary Apprenticeship: Reflecting on
Women’s Knowledge and Feminist
Research
Sima Nabizadeh, Türkan Ulusu Uraz
The Active Agency of Iranian Women in PostRevolutionary Era
Halide Velioğlu
Mukabele Gatherings and Koran Courses
in Safranbolu: Intimate, Aesthetic and
Gendered Registers of Belief
İpek Bozkurt
Women Homicides in Turkey: The Seek for
Justice Before Death
Özge Yaka
The Use of Feminist Methodologies in
Social Movement Research: The Case of
Community Resistances Against
Hydroelectric Power Plants in Turkey’s
Black Sea Region
Parveen Kumari, Anupama Vohra
Silence to Speaking: Women Articulating New
Identities Through Dalit Life Narrative
Gökçen Beyinli
Contesting National Identities in Religious
Spaces: Tangible Reconstruction of ‘Shrine
Visit Tradition’ in Modern Turkey
Aida Abzhaparova
International Norms, Local Activism, and
Identity of Women: Investigating National
Anti-FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
Campaigns From the Perspective of
Affected Communities in Bristol, UK
Lunch break, 12:15 - 13:15
Atilla Barutçu, Figen Uzar Özdemir
Media Coverage of International Women’s Day
Demonstrations in Turkey After 2002
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
11TH OCTOBER, SUNDAY
10:45 - 12:15
CCC HALL - B
CCC HALL - D
CCC HALL - C
CCC HALL - A
SESSION 55: To Be and to Remain:
Women’s Politics
SESSION 56: Doing Gender and
Women’s Studies
Session 57: Where We (F)are Well:
Migration to Turkey
SESSION 58: Why We Struggle: Gender
Equality, Mainstreaming and
Empowerment
Chair: Ceylan Tokluoğlu
Chair: Ayşe Gündüz Hoşgör
Chair: Demet Varoğlu
Chair: Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Raniero Speelman-Özkan
Atatürk and the Turkish Women's
Revolution as Seen Through Italian Eyes
Birten Çelik
The Importance of Interdisciplinary Studies
for the Development of Gender Studies in
Turkey
Wenchi Tsai Olcel
How I Met Your Father (and Married Him
and Live in Turkey): Chinese Women
Immigrants in Turkey
Meneviş Uzbay Pirili, Derya Altun Erdem,
Merve Pirili
Gender Equality Capacity Assessment: A
Case Study at İstanbul and İzmir Municipalities
Naseraddin Alizadeh, Robabeh
Taghizadehzonuz
A Horizontal View Toward the Gender
Revolution in Modern Turkey: The Turkish
Modern Women in the Eyes of Iranian
Nationalists
Suzanna Eddyono
Gendered Identity in Narratives of the
Nation and the Ideal Citizen in PostSuharto Indonesia
Pınar Ezgi Burç
Women and Gender Studies: Insiders’
View
Ayşen Üstübici
Gendering Migrant Illegality in Turkey
Nurdan Z. Atalay Güneş
Understanding Gender Mainstreaming
Projects: A Field Study of Women’s NGOs in
Mardin, Turkey
Aditi Sabur
Women and Gender Studies in
Bangladesh: Emergence, Struggles and
Trajectories
Meriç Çağlar, Seçil Paçacı Elitok
From Lives in Transit to Irregularity:
Intersectional Discrimination Against
African Migrant Women in Istanbul
Avneet Kaur
Gender Perspective in Electronic Governance
Initiative in India: Use of ICT for Women
Empowerment
Zahida Suleman
Muslim Women's Role in Colonial Punjab:
A Case Study of Jahanara Shah Nawaz
Özlem Ezer
Feminism, Mon Amour: A Cross-Cultural
and Personal Analysis of "Doing Women
and Gender Studies"
Sharmin Rashid
Begging, Vulnerability and Governmentality
Cansu Dayan
Gender and Women’s Studies Between
Academia and Feminism: Academic
Otherness
Lunch break, 12:15 - 13:15
Rahima Noori
Gender Equality Required in Afghanistan
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
11TH OCTOBER, SUNDAY
13:15 - 14:45
FINAL SESSION
*Turkish Session/Türkçe Oturum
CCC HALL - A
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut/USA
Challenges for Feminist Theory and Politics: Struggling for Gender Equality or Empowerment?
Wrap-Up
Yıldız Ecevit, Serpil Sancar
** Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English is provided.
METU GWS CONFERENCE 2015
FINAL PROGRAM
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
09th OCTOBER, FRIDAY
Dance Installation
“Sharing Identities” by Özgür Adam İnanç & Güzin Yamaner
09:00-09:30
Foyer area, CCC
Art Exhibition
Red Art Initiative
09:00
Foyer area, CCC
Cocktail
18:00-19:30
Foyer area, CCC
Alumni Reunion
18:00-19:30
Foyer area, CCC
Photo Exibition by Aysun Öner
‘Translife’
Opening 18:00
Exhibition Center, CCC
18:00-18:50
Foyer area, CCC
10th OCTOBER, SATURDAY
Modern Dance Performance-Discussion
“Complexion” by Özgür Adam İnanç & Güzin Yamaner
Round Table
12:15-13:15
“Feminist Publishing Facilitators” by Elif Ekin Akşit-Vural & Eda Acara
Commemoration Ceremony
“Prof. Ferhunde Özbay”
11th OCTOBER, SUNDAY
City Tour
Only for registered participants
Exhibition Hall, CCC
To be announced on the notice board at CCC
13:15-15:45
Parking Area, CCC

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