Dr Şima İmşir’s new article, ‘Being-Extremely-Online: The Modernist Telephony in Contemporary Fiction,’ has been published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. The article is available open access via the following link: https://t.co/Ob3i84hpE4
Dr Nazmi Ağıl’s chapter, ‘Visual Arts in Füruzan’s Short Stories,’ is published as part of the edited volume, Readings on Füruzan: Comparative and Thematic Analyses (eds. Işıl Özcan and Ece Saatçıoğlu, Kriter).
Dr Benoît Ellerbach’s new article, ‘Heiner Müller’s Die Kanakenrepublik (1987): Satire of a Right-Wing Extremist Neocolonial Utopia,’ is now out in the new issue of Forum Modernes Theater (36/1–2). Link for the article: https://t.co/lnsimB8zNi
Dr Meliz Ergin will present her paper, titled “Interspecies Poetics and Humanimal Embodiment in Contemporary Turkish Poetry” at #EASLCE2026 (Utrecht University, 14–17 April).
Dr C. Ceyhun Arslan will be presenting at the symposium Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions (13-15 April).
His paper is titled ‘Nationalism and the Mediterranean: Malta, Exile, and Arabic Language.’
‘Weaving Wounds’: A conversation on trauma, the body & art at Koç University. Evan Alterman & Gülşah Şenkol in conversation with Meltem Şahin. Join us @kocuniversity
Dr Jasmine Erdener and Dr Şima İmşir will present at the British Society for Literature and Science 2026 Conference (Strathclyde, 9–11 April):
“When the Monster Wants Love: AI and Affective Labour in Del Toro’s Frankenstein”
Konuşma serimizin yeni konuğu değerli edebiyat araştırmacısı Nedret Öztokat Kılıçeri.
"Gerçeküstücü Şiirden Direniş Şirine: Louis Aragon" Koç Üniversitesi - SNA 156
7 Nisan (Salı) 17:30
‘Weaving Wounds’: A conversation on trauma, the body & art at Koç University. Evan Alterman & Gülşah Şenkol in conversation with Meltem Şahin. Join us @kocuniversity
Call for Papers: Covid Legacies: Long-Term Social and Cultural Effects
Istanbul, 9–11 Oct 2026 (ANAMED & Minerva Han)
Co-organised by Şima İmşir & Ayşecan Terzioğlu
Deadline: 30 June 2026
https://t.co/nxADY9cMNa
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nün Pazartesi Konuşmaları’nda Meliz Ergin, 30 Mart’ta saat 17.00’de Natuk Birkan Binası Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Seminer Odası’nda ‘Varoluşun Türlü Halleri: Çağdaş Şiirde Hayvan ve Ötesi’ başlıklı bir konuşma yapacak. 📚
The event is part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Conflits de cultures – Cultures de conflit,” organised within the Franco-German doctoral college jointly run by Aix-Marseille Université, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
Dr. Benoît Ellerbach will give a talk titled “Habiter les arts : figures tutélaires, nomadisme littéraire et appartenance chez Emine Sevgi Özdamar” on 19 March 2026 at the Maison de la Recherche in Aix-en-Provence.
Yazmak Atölyesi’nde, Gonca Özmen ve Nazmi Ağıl, Emily Dickinson’ın şiir dünyasını tartışıyor. 1 Mart Pazar günü gerçekleşecek etkinliğe katılım için rezervasyon: 0530 118 50 21 .
Our Comparative Literature community at ACLA 2026 (Feb 27–28, 2026):
Feb 27: Our former graduate Enver A. Akova (Stanford) organises & presents “Yakup Kadri’s Comparative Homeric Poetics” in Modernism Otherwise: Global Modernisms Across Asia and Beyond.