SU Gender is organizing the 2nd International Gender Studies in Turkey Conference on December 7-8, 2024 in İstanbul. The conference will be held for the second time this year, and it aims to create a platform where current research on Turkey and gender studies in Turkey will be presented, discussed and researchers will meet at regular intervals.
The conference will take place between 09.00-18.30 (UTC+3) for two days at Minerva Han in Karaköy, Istanbul. Welcome and opening speeches, parallel sessions, workshops and award sessions will be held. The conference, which will start with the parallel sessions will continue with welcome speech given by Zeynep Gülru Göker on behalf of Sabancı University and SU Gender, and the keynote speech given by Ayşe Kadıoğlu. In the parallel sessions to be held afterwards, topics such as body, health, medicine, literature, migration, politics, arts, violence, sexualities, resistance, motherhood, psychology, innovative research approaches, and provincializing gender will be discussed. In the last session of both days, the panel and award ceremonies of the awards organized by SU Gender will take place. This year's Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award will find its owners in the session that will start at 17.00 on Saturday, December 7th, and the Şirin Tekeli Research Award will find its owners in the session that will start at 17.00 on Sunday, December 8th.
The conference aims to address the leading issues of gender studies on an interdisciplinary and intersectional basis and to make visible the contribution of feminist and queer perspectives, theories and methodologies and policy production in today's world where social inequalities are increasing.
For detailed information you can visit the conference web site.
Date : December, 7-8 2024
Venue: Minerva Han/ Karaköy, İstanbul
Program
December 7, Saturday
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-10.30 Parallel sessions
10.45-12.15 Welcome Speech/ Zeynep Gülru Göker, Keynote Speech/ Ayşe Kadıoğlu
13.30-16.45 Parallel Sessions
17.00- 18.30 Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award Panel & Ceremony
December 8, Sunday
09.00-16.45 Parallel Sessions
17.00- 18.30 Şirin Tekeli Research Award Panel & Ceremony
* Please visit the web site to see the conference program.
* There is no registration fee for participation. Please fill out the online form for the conference registration.
* Simultaneous translation will be provided in the first day of the Conference (December 7, Saturday) only on the ground floor in Turkish and English.
* For further questions please email to genderconf@sabanciuniv.edu