“Contested Borders and Sovereignty at the Margins of Turkey", Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, February 2020 [available at here]
“Rethinking the Kurdish Conflict at the Local Level,” Ban Righ Women Center, Queen’s University, Canada, 2017
Presentations
“Borderland Dynamics: Ambiguities of Control and Conflict at the Edges of Turkey’s War,” Presenter at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Fall 2020
“A Micro-Study of Territorial Control in Turkey: Rethinking the Kurdish Case at the Local Level,” Presenter at the Complex Governance Research Cluster, American University, Fall 2020
“Territorial Encounters: Rights, Conflict and Compromises in Contested Borderlands” in the panel titled, “Comparative Borders and Borderlands in the MENA,” Social Science History Association (SSHA): Washington, DC., Fall 2020
“Ambiguous Geographies of Violence, Control and Peace in Turkey: Revisiting the Kurdish Case at the Local Level,” J. Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Cornell University: Ithaca, Fall 2019
“Even our dogs are in exile”:Control and Resistance in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands,” International Kurdish Conference, OISE, University of Toronto: Toronto, October 2018
“Mechanisms and Narratives of Territorial Control in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands,” Interdisciplinary Conference on Kurdish Politics and Societies, Yale University: New Heaven, April 2018
“From the Geopolitics of Violence to Actors at the Borders: Rethinking the Kurdish Conflict at the Local Level,” Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Comparative Politics, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University: Chicago, November 2016
“Minority Language and Territory in Turkey and Spain: State Language Policies in Comparative Perspective”, with Remi J. Carbonneau, IPSA Annual Meeting: Poland, July 2016
“Rethinking the Kurdish Conflict at the Local Level” Presenter and Chair, The Political Studies Graduate Student Association presents the conference called “The politics of borders and belonging at home and abroad” Queen’s University: Kingston, May 2016
“Political Actors, Uncertainty and Self-Determination in Syria”, CIDEP UQAM: Montreal, March 2016.
"The Law of State, the Law of Men: Multiple Experiences of Kurdish Women", Van Bar Association, Van: Turkey. 2014 (organizer and keynote speaker).
International Media Coverage*
"The Trials of Betrayal", (co-authored with Professor Uriel Abulof), The Jerusalem Post, Israel, November 2019
(*) The list excludes archived articles, published in Daily News, Turkey, July-August 2008
“At the urban epicenter of Kurdish pain,” August 2008
“Memories behind postum (Armenian drink) in cookbook", July 2008
“Observational style used to present real stories-What a beautiful democracy!”, July 2008
Miscellaneous (projects, memberships, discussant, and reviews)
Professional Memberships: American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), Middle East Studies Association (MESA), and International Studies Association (ISA) Event/Discussion Organization: School of International Service, Islamic and Middle East Studies, American University, 2020-21 & Political Science, Queens University (pre-2019) Founding member: Kurdish Women's Studies Network (KWSN), 2020-2021 Referee Services in Academic Journals:Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Kurdish Studies (Since 2019) Interdisciplinary Project: “A Gendered Perspective on music entertainment nights (‘sira gecesi’ in Turkish) in Urfa”, with Professor Ece Algan, California State University, Summer 2018 Discussant: Association for the Study of Nationalities, Panel on Cyprus, Annual Meeting, Columbia University: NY. 2012 Book Review(s): (1)Hardi, Choman. Gendered Experiences of Genocide. London: Ashgate, 2011& (2) Ozar, Semsa, Handan Caglayan and Ayse Tepe. Ne Degisti? Kurt Kadinlarinin Zorunlu Goc Deneyimi (What Changed? Experiences of Kurdish Women on Forced Migration - in English). Ankara: Ayizi Kitap, 2011