The University of Western Ontario

Graduate Student, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism

Thesis Title: Photographic Transferences in the Trajectory of Barthes's Palinode

About

Education:

PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario; dissertation project “Photographic Transferences in the Trajectory of Barthes's Palinode.”

MA in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University; dissertation title “Europe Unveiling: The Muslim Presence and the 'Myth' of Headscarf in Europe.”

MA in Philosophy, Bogazici University; courses completed.

BA in Philosophy, Bogazici University, Istanbul.


Conference Presentations:

"Filozofların Mağarasından Günümüz Türkiye Sinemasına," paper presented at the 12th Conference of New Directions in Turkish Film Studies on the annual theme of Cinema and Philosophy, Kadir Has University, May 5-7, 2011, http://sites.khas.edu.tr/tfa/

“The Mythology of the Veil,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference "Veiled Constellations: : The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society," Department of Political Science, York University, and Department of Mid-East Studies, University of Toronto, June 3-5, 2010, http://ccges.apps01.yorku.ca/wp/events/conference-veiled-constellations/

“The Psychoanalytic Conception of Memory and the Functioning of Cultural Mementos,” paper presented at the conference "Memory as Medium: Experience, Exchange, Representation," Carleton University, March 13-4, 2008.

“The Return of the Repressed and the Functioning of Memory in Psychoanalysis,” paper presented at the at the 10th Annual Conference in Comparative Literature, Theory, and Spanish, "Repetition and Return," UWO, October 6-8, 2008.

“The Unconscious as the Site of Resistance and the Possibilities of a Political Psychoanalysis,” paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference in Theory & Criticism, "Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities," UWO, October 12-3, 2007, http://www.uwo.ca/theory/Events/Resistance/Home.html