Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum, in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Gender Club, hosted a lecture by Jack Halberstam, a leader in queer theory.  Jack Halberstam spoke on his book Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at the Karaköy Minerva Palas.

Sabancı University faculty member and photography artist Murat Germen published his monograph.  Murathan Mungan contributed a review piece to Murat Germen’s book.

Founded by Sabancı University and the Advertising Foundation, the Brand Practices Platform continues to have discussions on the important aspects of marketing.

On Monday, May 5, 2014, the “Middle Classes: The New Marketing Favorites” lecture was held at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum.

Wednesday Talks with Nesrin Balkan

Ayşe Kadıoğlu: Music is where I go beyond myself a little.  You know how reason contradicts love; reason is all about weighing and measuring…  It is more coolheaded, whereas love is all about losing yourself, it is free of bounds.  Music is love for me. 

Wednesday talks with Nesrin Balkan 

The work of art commissioned in 2011 by the Sabancı family to Kutluğ Ataman for the 10th anniversary of Sakıp Sabancı’s parting from us has opened to public viewing at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum on April 29.

Fuat Keyman, Director of Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University, spoke at a high level German Foreign Ministry panel on Improving German Foreign Policy in Berlin on May 20, 2014. 

Ersin Bayramkaya, one of the Clinical Psychologists from CIAD, has joined the team of five specialists from Turkish Psychologists Association Trauma Unit who have volunteered to provide psychosocial support for the miners, families and students who have been effected by the sorrowful incidence in Soma, Kırkağaç and Savaştepe.

Sabancı Univesity Offtown Festival'14 which was planned to happen on 23rd and 24th May, 2014 is postponed to a later date. We are saddened to receive the news of the coal mine blast in Soma on 13th May which has claimed so many lives. Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims and with many miners still trapped inside.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of lives and the present entrapment of many of our miners due to the accident in the coal mines in Soma.

We send our heartfelt condolences to all the relatives who have incurred a loss.

We are anxiously waiting for news of the rescue of our entrapped miners and for the recovery of the wounded.

Nihat Berker
Rector