A Century of Gender Equality Struggles in Turkey: Feminist History Revisited

WORKSHOP PROGRAM Day 1 09:30-10:00 Introduction 10:00-12.30, Panel I. Rethinking Early Republican Feminism in Turkey Akile Zorlu Durukan (METU North Cyprus), Gökten Doğangün (METU, Ankara): The Intellectual Lenses of Nezihe Muhiddin and Şükûfe Nihal: Key Concepts in Inventing and Discussing the Turkish Republican Woman Gülşah Şenkol (Koç University, Istanbul): Diverging Genealogies and Conflicting Trajectories of Feminism in Egypt and Turkey, 1923–1935 Sevil Çakır Kılınçoğlu (Georg-August University Göttingen): Reconceptualizing Women’s Agency in Iran and Turkey at the Turn of the 20th Century Chair: Serena Tolino (University of Bern) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-16:45, Panel II. Rights, Representation, and Modernity in the Postwar Decades Ezgi Sarıtaş (Ankara University), Yelda Şahin Akıllı (Ankara University): The Women’s Rights Movement of Mid-Twentieth Century Turkey Umut Azak (Istanbul Okan University): Framing Women's Activism in Turkey in between the ‘Waves’: The Case of a Campaign for the ‘Struggle Against Çarşaf’, 1960 16:00-16:45 Sercan Çınar (Central European University Vienna): A Transnational History of Left Feminism in Turkey, 1974–1985 Chair: Selin Çağatay (Central European University Vienna) 18:30 Conference Dinner Day 2 09:30-11:00, Panel III. Conceptual and Methodological Discussions on Women’s History Gül Şen (University of Heidelberg): Gender Agency: Civil Society as a Space of Female Political Participation Elif Ekin Akşit (Ankara University): Women's History at the Crossroads: Quantification of Qualitative Data and Literature Chair: Elife Biçer-Deveci (ETH Zurich) 11:30-13:00, Panel IV. New Perspectives on Current Debates: Activism, Violence, Religion Aslı Karaca (Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem): Dissent, Divisions, and Disruptive Repertoires of Contention within Women’s Islamic Movements in Turkey, 2008–2016 Merve Akyel (Istanbul Bilgi University): Caring Kind: Exploring Gender-based Violence through Artworks by Women in Turkey from the 1980s Onwards Chair: Ali Sonay (University of Bern) 14:00-14:30 Closing Discussion