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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 andInstitute of Social Sciences.

2005-2010 Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara, Turkey.

1996-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara, Turkey.

1994-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara, Turkey.

1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, BilkentUniversity, Ankara, Turkey.

1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and PublicAdministration, 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 CoreCourse, University of California, Santa Cruz, U. S. A.

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1989 & 1991 Sociology Board, University of California, Summer School, SantaCruz, U. S. A.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

2008-2009 Professor, Columbia University, Institute for Comparative Literatureand Society, New York, NY, U.S.A.

2005 Professor at NOISE Summer School, Organized by Utrecht UniversityWomen’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, NewYork 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 thePostcolonial Representations Group, University of California, SantaCruz, 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, FeministTheory, Middle East Woman, Globalization and Migrancy, Orientalism, Multiculturalism,Postnational Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Secularism and Religious Identityin Geo-Political Transformations, Politics and Sociology of Religion, Postcolonial andTransnational 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 (MetisYayınları, İstanbul) (translation of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Readingof Orientalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Reprinted Chapters from Colonial Fantasies

2008 ‘The Battle of the Veil: Woman Between Orientalism andNationalism,’, in David Lodge with Nigel Wood: Modern Criticismand Theory: A Reader, 3rd Edition (Longman), pp. 706-228.

2003 ‘Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse ofOrientalism,’ in Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds.), FeministPostcolonial Theory: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press, (reprintof chapter 2 from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading ofOrientalism), pp. 542-566.

2002 ‘Sartorial Fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western Feminism,’ inKwok, 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 ofOrientalism,’ in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 96,Juliet Byington (ed.), (Detroit, Michigan: The Gale Group) pp: 242-259 (reprint from Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading ofOrientalism), 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 CarnivalesquePolitics 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 PostcolonialWorld,’ in Matthew Gumpert (ed.) ‘Culture and the Arts’ LectureSeries: Selected Talks: 2003-2005, (Istanbul, Kadir Has UniversityPress), pp. 117-124.

2005 ‘Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World,’ Ethnicand 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 ofGlobalization,’ Postmodern Culture, Vol. 13, No. 2, April.http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/pmc/v13/13.2yegenoglu.html

2003 ‘Öteki Mekanda Olmak: Post-Kolonyal Dünyada Göçmenlik veTurizm,’ Kültür ve İletişim (Culture and Communication), Vol. 6, No.

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2002 ‘Küreselleşen Dünyada Çokkültürcülük ve Konukseverlik,’ Toplum veBilim, No. 92, Bahar 2002 (Multiculturalism and Hospitality in aGlobalizaed World), pp. 120-137.

2001 ‘Mapping the Present: Interview with Gayatri Spivak,’ NewFormations, No. 45, (December), pp: 9-23 (co-authored with MahmutMutman), 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, No75, 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 ofAmerican 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, Winter-Spring.), pp. 78-82.

1995 ‘Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'MonstrousFeminine' in Science Fiction Films,’ Art and Taboos: Proceedings ofthe 2nd International Symposium, Jale Erzen (ed.), Ankara, May, pp.33-46

1995 ‘Tabu, Sanat ve Cinsel Farklılıklar: Bilim-Kurgu Filmlerinde 'CanavarDişi' İmgesi,’ içinde Sanat ve Tabular: 2 Uluslarası SempozyumBildirileri, Jale Erzen (ed), Ankara, 4-6 Mayıs (‘Taboo, Art and SexualDifference: The Representation of the 'Monstrous Feminine' in ScienceFiction Films’, in Art and Taboo: Proceedings of the 2nd InternationalSymposium, 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 andNationalist 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 FeministRepresentations of Muslim Woman,’ Turkish Studies AssociationBulletin, 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 ColonialFantasies: 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. AyhanKaya), Hiperlink, Istanbul, pp. 57-72 (reprint of Avrupa Kimliğininİdeolojik Arkaplanı’ Doğu Batı Dergisi, No. 31, Şubat-Nisan (TheIdeological Background of European Identity), pp. 89-106.

2014 ‘Discourse of Terror, Sovereignty and Domestic Violence’, inViolence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Colour TheorizeTerror (ed. Suvendrini Perera and Sherene Razack). University ofToronto Press.

2012 ‘Cosmopolitanism and Migrants’ in Gerard Delanty (ed.) Handbook ofCosmopolitan Studies, Routledge: New York and London, pp. 414-424.

2012 “Staging Secularism and Fantasies of Islamic Identity in Turkey,” inJack Barbalet, Adam Possamai, and Bryan Turner (eds.) Religion andthe State: A Comparative Sociology, Anthem Press: London and NewYork, 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 aGlobalized World,’ Proceedings of International Conference onStrangeness and Familiarity, Global Unity and Diversity inhumanRights and Democracy, ed. Hans Harbers, FORUM, Institute forMulticultural 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 ofGerman-Turkish Literature,’ in Daniella Merolla and SandraPonzanesi (eds.), Migrant Cartographies: Cultural Travellers andNew Literatures, Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 137-150.

1998 ‘Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?,’ Sosyal Bilimleri YenidenDüşünnmek: Yeni Bir Kavrayışa Doğru, der. Toplum ve Bilim veDefter Dergileri Ortak Çalışma Grubu, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul(‘Does Multiculturalism Mean Interdisciplinarity?,’ in RethinkingSocial Sciences: Towards a New Conception, Toplum ve Bilim andDefter Study Group (ed.) Metis: Istanbul, pp. 287-298.

1996 ‘Giriş: Dünya Nasıl ‘Dünya’ Oldu?,’ (Fuat Keyman ve MahmutMutman ile birlikte) içinde Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark,Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman ve Meyda Yeğenoğlu (der), (İstanbul,İletişim Yayınları). (‘Introduction: How Has the ‘World’ BeenWorlded?,’ in Orientalism, Hegemony and Cultural Difference, FuatKeyman, 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, İletişimYayınları) ‘Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in theDiscourse of Orientalism,’ in Orientalism, Hegemony and CulturalDifference, Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman and Meyda Yeğenoğlu(ed.), İletişim: Istanbul, pp. 107-160.

EDITED BOOKS

1996 Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark (with Fuat Keyman andMahmut Mutman İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları) (Orientalism,Hegemony and Cultural Difference, (co-edited with Fuat Keyman andMahmut 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, Toplumve Bilim, No 75, Winter).

1992 Orientalism and Cultural Difference, Inscriptions, No 6, (co-editedwith Mahmut Mutman), Journal published by the Center for CulturalStudies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES AND INVITED LECTURES

2014 “Inheriting a Genocidal Past: Interdiction on Mourning and theHaunting Ghosts of National Unity,” Paper presented at Remnants ofthe Nation, Symposium at Yaşar University, İzmir, October 30.

2014 “Nations Contaminated: Archives of Citizenship, History andMemory”, Paper presented at the Helsinki Collegium of AdvancedStudies: 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, PaperPresented at University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic StudiesSeminar, UK, March 13, UK

2013 “Reclaiming the City: Resistance to Islamization of Bodies and SpacesThrough Carnivalesque Politics in Istanbul,” Center for MetropolitanStudies, Berlin, November 5”, Germany

2012 “Colonial Spectrality, European Sovereignty and Hospitality”, Paperpresented at the symposium Oecumene: Citizenship AfterOrientalism, London, UK, November.

2012 ‘Discourse of Terror, Sovereignty and Domestic Violence’, Paperpresented at Violence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Colour

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Theorize Terror, Workshop Organized by OISE, University OfToronto, Canada, May.

2010 ‘Secularism, Islam and Migrancy in Europe’ Lecture delivered atRoskilde University, CKMM and ISG Research Group Politics,Culture and Global Change, Roskilde, Denmark, March.

2009 ‘Feminist Perspectives on Neo-Orientalism’, Paper presented for theInauguration of the Frankfurt Research Center for PostcolonialStudies, Frankfurt, Germany, November.

2009 ‘Sacralized Secularism and Hostile Hospitality in Europe,’ ColumbiaUniversity, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, NewYork, U.S.A, March.

2009 ‘Contradictions of Secularism in Europe: Civil Society,’ Publicnessand the Headscarf Dispute,’ London School of Economics, UnitedKingdom, 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.AOctober.

2008 ‘Islam in the New European Imaginary and the Discourse of CulturalDifference,’ Lecture presented at the Birkbeck Institute for theHumanities, University of London, London, United Kingdom,February.

2008 ‘Islam in Europe,’ Lecture presented at the Institute for ComparativeLiterature and Society, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A,February.

2008 ‘Veiled Threats: Religion, Visibility and the Limits of LiberalTolerance,’ Lecture presented at The Gaze and The Veil: Surveillanceand the Legacies of Orientalism conference at Dartmouth College,Hanover, U.S.A, February.

2008 ‘Veiled Threats and Islam in Europe,’ Lecture presented at the LSEForum on Religion Seminar Series, The London School of Economicsand Political Science, London, United Kingdom, February.

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2008 Spaces of Migrancy and Tourism,’ Lecture presented at the Universityof Wales Institute, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff, UnitedKingdom, February.

2007 ‘Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of LiberalTolerance,’ Keynote Speech delivered at the R.A.C.E conference onTransnational Racism and he Right to Have Rights: organized by theOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,Canada, May.

2007 ‘Muslim Europeans, European Imaginary and the Limits of LiberalTolerance,’ Keynote speech delivered at Communication in Peace andConflict in Communication: organized by Eastern MediterraneanUniversity, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Famagusta,North Cyprus, May.

2006 ‘How Does the Third World Become Invisible? The Ethics ofSubaltern in Cultural Studies,’ Lecture presented at the Cardiff Schoolof Social Sciences, Seminar Series, Cardiff University, UnitedKingdom, October .

2006 ‘Imperialism and Feminism: Saving Women from Islam,’ Lecturepresented 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 forInformation 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, Universityof 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: DifferentCultures or Different Religions?’ Lecture presented at the CultureForum at Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, April.

2006 ‘Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: DifferentCultures or Different Religions?,’ Lecture presented at the GraduateSeminar at the Napoli Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy,March.

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2004 ‘The Becoming European of an Islamic Other: Turkey in the EuropeanUnion,’ 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,’ Lecturepresented at the Edward Said: Critical Perspectives, Symposiumorganized by the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December.

2003 ‘The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures orDifferent Religions?,’ Lecture presented at Religion as ColonialCommodity Conference, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.,September.

2003 ‘Feminism and Orientalism: Why Save Women from Islam,’ Lecturepresented the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,University of Bergen, Norway, September.

2001 ‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the PostcolonialWorld,’ Beyond Dichotomies: Transgressive Identities andTopographies 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 SexualDifference,’ Lecture presented at the Reconsidering Multiculturalism:Feminist Perspectives of Plurality conference, University of Vienna,Austria, June.

2001 ‘Postkolonyal Dünyada Turistik Mekan: Emperyal Nostalji veOtantisite Söylemi,’ Hacettepe University, Lecture presented at theDepartment of Art History, Ankara, Turkey, May.

2001 ‘Respondent on Craig Calhoun’s ‘Cosmopolitanism is not Enough:Nationalism, the Public Sphere and Social Solidarity’, Nira Yuval-Davis’s ‘Identity, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging’ andPartha Chatterjee’s ‘The Nation in Heterogeneous Time,’ at theNationalism in the 21st Century conference, Bilgi University, İstanbul,Turkey, May.

2000 ‘Orientalism Unveiled,’ Lecture presented at the Luncheon SeminarKevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University,U.S.A, March

2000 ‘Colonial Fantasies,’ Presentation and discussion of ColonialFantasies: 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 EuropeanStudies, New York University (discussion on ‘Steam, the TurkishBath’), U.S.A, March.

1999 ‘Respondent on ‘Splitting Desire: A Conversation About Sexuality andRepression,’ at Women’s Project and Productions, New York, USA,October.

1999 ‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-ColonialWorld,’ Lecture presented at Colloquium organized by the EnglishDepartment, 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-ColonialWorld,’) Lecture presented at the Architecture Association, Ankara,Turkey, May.

1993 ‘The Battle of the Veil: Women Between Orientalism andNationalism,’ Lecture presented at the Department of SociologyColloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A, May.

1992 ‘Images of the Veil in Western Literature and Arts,’ Lecture presentedat the Southern Exposure Art Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A, May.

1992 ‘Veiled Fantasies: Culture and Gender in the Discourse ofOrientalism,’ 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-to-Come”, Paper Presented at University of Warwick, The Crisis ofEuropean Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Austerity, December 9-11,UK.

2013 “Muslim Immigrants and National Identity in Europe,” Paperpresented at ESA Annual Conference, Torino, Italy, August.

2012 “European Memory, Colonialism and Postcolonial Migrants,” paperpresented 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 ESARN 34 Sociology of Religion-Midterm Conference 3-, Postdam,Germany, September.

2011 ‘Becoming an Enemy of the East for the West: Islam and MuslimImmigrants in Europe’ Paper presented at the Fourth InternationalConference on Global Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July.

2011 ‘Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: EurovisionSong Contest, Turkey and The Idea of Europeanization” Paperpresented at the conference on Eurovision and the New Europeorganized by University of Warrick, Venice, Italy, October.

2010 ‘Imperial Tourists and Abject Strangers in a Globalized World’ Paperpresented at Strangeness and Familiarity: Global Unity and Diveristyin Human Rights and Democracy, Conference organized by Institutefor Multicultural Affairs, Groningen, The Netherlands, October.

2010 ‘The Becoming Enemy of the East for the West: Islam and MuslimImmigrants in Europe’ paper presented at the Asian Conference onArts and Humanities, Osaka, Japan, June.

2010 ‘Malefic Doubling of the Internal Enemy: The Ghost of Islam isHaunting Europe”, Rennes Workshop, France.

2009 ‘Foreigners Within versus Imperial Tourists’ Paper presented at theSeventh International Conference on the Humanities, Beijing, China,June.

2008 ‘Response Paper presented at the Workshop on the History andPolitics of Secularism at Comparative Secularisms: Religion, Politics,,Gender, Istanbul, Turkey.

2007 ‘Clash of Secularity and Religiosity: The Staging of Secularism andIslam in Turkey”, Paper presented at the conference on New Faultlinesorganized by the Institute for Cultural and Regional Studies,University of Copenhagen, Denmark, January.

2007 ‘Foreigners Within versus Imperial Toruists’ Paper presented at theAmerican Comparative Literature Association Meeting on Trans, Pan,Inter: Cultures in Contact conference, Puebla, Mexico, April.

2006 ‘The Return of the Religious: Revisiting European Orientalism,’ Paperpresented at the In Memory of Edward Said. Symposium onOrientalism, 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, SouthAfrica, July.

2006 ‘The Metaphor of the Authentic: Travel from Colonialism toAnthropology and Ethnic Tourism,’ Paper presented at the WorldCongress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July.

2006 ‘Turkey as the Islamic Other in the European Union: DifferentCultures or Different Religions?,’ Paper presented at the Crossroads inCultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July

2003 ‘The Islamic Other in the European Union: Different Cultures orDifferent Religions,’ Paper presented at the Alterity and theExperience of Limits Conference, organized by ISIH Internationalconferences, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, December.

2003 ‘Postcolonial Migrants and Imperial Tourists,’ Paper presented at theCultural Studies in the World Today: The 9th International ‘Cultureand Power Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, November.

2002 ‘Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality,’ TranslatingClass: Altering Hospitality, conference organized by Congress AHRBCentre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, Leeds University,United Kingdom, June.

2001 Respondent on the panel on ‘Reorienting Female Gaze,’ ModernLanguage Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, U.S.A,December.

2001 Comments on Robert Young’s ‘Derrida in Algeria: Deconstruction atthe Edge of Empire’ and Ato Quayson’s ‘Social Imaginaries inTransition: The Culture Hero in African Literature and Politics,’ at theKaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Journeys in Culture conference,Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February.

2001 ‘From the Guest-Worker to the Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themesof German-Turkish Literature,’ Writing Europe 2001: MigrantCartographies, Cultural Travellers and New Literatures, LeidenUniversity and Amsterdam University, Holland, March.

2001 Participant in Workshop on “Reconsidering Multiculturalism: AFeminist 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 StudiesConference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, June.

2000 ‘Displaced Borders of Postcoloniality,’ Paper presented at the 24th

annual meeting of International Association of Philosophy andLiterature, City University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A, May.

1999 ‘Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in the Post-ColonialWorld,’ Paper presented at the New World (dis)Orders: Culture,Globalization and Identity, Conference organized by RutgersUniversity, New Brunswick, U.S.A, February.

1998 ‘Towards a Feminist Reading of Developmentalism,’ Paper presentedas the Annual Convention of the American Sociological Association,San Francisco, U.S.A., August.

1998 ‘Çokkültürlülük Disiplinlerarasılık mıdır?,’ (‘Does InterdisciplinarityMean Multiculturalism,’ paper presented at the Rethinking SocialSciences: Towards a New Conception conference organized by theToplum ve Bilim and Defter Journals Working Group, Istanbul,Turkey, February.

1996 ‘Islam and Modernity in Turkey: Redefining Tradition ThroughVeiling,’ (co-authored with Sharon Bastug), Paper presented at theMiddle East Studies Association Annual conference, Providence,Rhode Island, U.S.A., November.

1995 ‘Dangerous Border of the Post-Colonial Space: The Migrant, TheAbject and The Third Term,’ Paper presented at the Theatres ofDecolonization: Architecture, Urbanism and Agency conference,Chandigarh, India, January.

1995 ‘Emperyal Feminizm ve Kültürel Fark: Postmodern Antropolojide EtikSorunu,’ (‘Imperial Feminism and Cultural Difference’) Paperpresented at the 4th Social Sciences Congress, Ankara, Turkey,November.

1995 ‘Reflections on Cultural Studies in the United States,’ Paper presentedat the Conference organized by the American Studies Association ofTurkey, Antalya, Turkey, November.

1995 ‘Taboo, Art and Sexual Difference: The Image of the 'MonstrousFeminine' in Science Fiction Films,’ Paper presented at the Art andTaboos 2nd International Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, May.

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1994 ‘Globalization, Migrancy, Abjection,’ Paper presented at theColloquim organized by the Department of Sociology and PoliticalScience, METU, Ankara, Turkey.

1993 ‘The Other in the Field of Modern Vision,’ Paper presented at theAnnual Convention of the International Association of Philosophy andLiterature, Pittsburgh, U.S.A, May.

1993 ‘Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme,’ Paper presented atthe Practicing Postmodernisms conference, University of Oregon,Eugene, U.S.A, May.

1992 ‘Feminist Discourse and the Colonial Episteme,’ Paper presented atthe New World Order: Crises and Possibilities conference, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A, November.

1992 ‘The Discourse of Modernism in Western Feminist Representations ofMuslim Women,’ Paper presented at the Annual Convention of theMiddle East Studies Association, Portland, U.S.A, October.

1992 ‘Lifting the Veil: Western Feminist Discourse and the Project ofEnlightenment,’ Paper presented at the Academic Knowledge andPolitical Power conference, University of Maryland, College Park,U.S.A, November.

1992 ‘Desiring the Orient: Representations of the Veil and OrientalWoman,’ Paper presented at the Theory, Culture and Society's 10thAnniversary Conference, Pittsburgh, U.S.A, August.

1992 ‘Representing the Veiled Other,’ Paper presented at the AnnualConvention 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 ofIdentity 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 theInstitute 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 theEnglish 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 OrientalistDiscourse,’ Paper presented at the Colloquium organized by theFeminist Studies Research Activities, University of California, SantaCruz, U.S.A, February.

1991 ‘Veiled Fantasies,’ Paper presented at the Culture and Politics ofExcess conference organized by the Institute on Culture and Society,Eugene, U.S.A, June.

1991 ‘Knowing the Orient, Unveiling the Women,’ Paper presented at TheStrategies of Critique VI conference organized by the Department ofSocial and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada, April.

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TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT

- 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 Nation-Building Project in Turkey (completed December 2000).

MASTER’S THESIS SUPERVISED

-Becoming-European, Becoming-Enemy: The Quest to Find a Permanent Place for Islam andMosque 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 (completedDecember 2006).

-Entrepreneurial Practices of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin (completed July 2004).

-Evaluating Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: A Case Study of Turkish TopManagers in a Multinational Corporation (completed July 2004).

-Social Distinction and Symbolic Boundaries in a Globalized Context: Leisure Spaces inİstanbul (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 ofResistance 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 (completed1998).

-The Constitutive Role of German National Identity Formation in the Turkish Migrant’sPerception 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 theSocrates 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, EuropeanResearch Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and Behaviour ER-AG-SH2). Run by the Open University, UK.

Member of the ‘Postcolonial Europe’ group: Advanced Thematic Network in EuropeanWomen'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 EuropeanCommission, October 2013.

Referee for the 7th Framework, Career Integration Grants, European Commission, 2012.

Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF EuropeanCommission, 2012.

Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF EuropeanCommission, 2011.

Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF EuropeanCommission, 2010.

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Referee for the 7th Framework, Marie Curie Fellowships, IEF, IOF, IIF EuropeanCommission, 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, EuropeanCommission, 2007.

Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences andHumanities Project, December 2006.

Referee for Tubitak, (Turkish National Science Foundation) for Social Sciences andHumanities 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, EuropeanCommission, 2006.

Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of Knowledge, EuropeanCommission, 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, EuropeanCommission, 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 AwardsEuropean Commission, 2005.

19. Referee for the 6th Framework Marie Curie Fellowships, Transfer of KnowledgeFellowships, 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 bythe Representation of the European Commission to Turkey and the Middle East TechnicalUniversity, 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 andMay 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 onSpace), Ankara, Mimarlar Dernegi (Architects Association) February-May 1998, Ankara,

Co-organizer of the conference ‘Sosyal Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Yeni bir KavrayışaDoğru’ (Rethinking Social Sciences: Towards a New Conception), İstanbul Universitesi,February 1998, Istanbul.

Organizer of lectures ‘On Deconstruction and Feminist Theory’, Speakers invited GeraldMacLean and Donna Landry, Middle East Technical University, May 1995.

Co-Organizer of the conference on ‘Rethinking the Political’, Speakers invited GayatriChakravorty Spivak, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffee, Andrew Ross, Fred Dallmayer,Douglas Kellner, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 1989