Talks

Merve Tabur (2024). “Urban Futures in Arabic Speculative Fiction”. The 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France.

Merve Tabur (2024). “Decolonizing Futures”. INVITED TALK, And then what? From Narratives and Scenarios to Climate Action 2024 Workshop, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Merve Tabur, Müge Özoğlu (2024). “Bodies in Crises, Crises as Bodies in the Middle East and North Africa”. SEMINAR, American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal, Canada.

Merve Tabur (2024). “Ends of Language in the Anthropocene”. INVITED TALK, Georgia State University, GA, USA.

Merve Tabur (2024). “Planetary Perspectives on Nature and Utopia in a Nineteenth Century 2024 Ottoman-Turkish Manuscript”. Workshop, University of Bologna, Italy.

Merve Tabur (2024). “The Aesthetics of Extraction and Planetary Futures in Arabic Climate Fiction”. Aesthetics of Geopower, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Merve Tabur (2024). “Embodying Climate Change: Planetary Aesthetics and Ecological Modernity in Turkish Climate Fiction”. American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal, Canada.

Merve Tabur (2022). Walking Seminar. INVITED TALK, Paviljong Våtmark and The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Oslo, Norway.

Merve Tabur (2022). “Arabic Science Fiction and Planetary Aesthetics: A Historical Approach to Genre”. INVITED TALK, University of Oslo, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Oslo, Norway.

Merve Tabur (2022). “Spekülatif Kurgu ve Ekoloji”. INVITED TALK, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Kadın Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey.

Video

Merve Tabur (2022). “The Future of Stories: Hassan Blasim’s Speculative Ecologies and Arab Futurisms”. European Association for Modern Arabic Literature, Online.

Merve Tabur (2021). “Envisioning Middle Eastern Futures”. INVITED TALK, University of Oslo and the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University.

Merve Tabur (2021). “Ends of Language in the Anthropocene”. INVITED TALK, The College of New Jersey, NJ, USA.

Merve Tabur (2021). “Bad Environmentalism’ in Contemporary Arabic Fiction”. Modern Language Association, Online.

Merve Tabur (2020). “Urban Ecology and Literary Form in Ahmed Naji’s Using Life”. Middle East Studies Association, Online.

Merve Tabur (2020). “Conceptualizing the Anthropocene in Arabic Speculative Fiction”. Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, USA.

Merve Tabur (2019). “Ecological Futures and Biopolitics in Iraq+100”. Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Merve Tabur (2019). “Seeking to Lose Oneself: Disappearance and Immanence in Hasan Ali Toptaş’s Gölgesizler”. Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, USA.

Merve Tabur (2019). “Narratives of Occupation: Palestine, Iraq, Syria” (Roundtable). Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, USA.

Merve Tabur (2018). “Reading Baudrillard in Istanbul: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in Murat Menteş’s Dublörün Dilemması”. Middle East Studies Association, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Merve Tabur (2018). “Amnesiac Futures: Environmental Destruction and Dehumanization in Iraqi Speculative Fiction”. Northeast Modern Languages Association, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Merve Tabur (2018). “Utopian Impulses and Artistic Agency in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s Poet on the Moon”. Modern Language Association, New York City, NY, USA.

Merve Tabur (2017). “On Self, Seeds, and Specters: Poetics of Potentiality and Female Diasporic Subjectivities in Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light”. Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, USA.

Merve Tabur (2016). “Autopsy of a Landscape: Politics of Visibility and Ethics of Narration in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”. American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Merve Tabur (2015). “Inscribing Women into Time: Sevim Burak’s Yanık Saraylar as a Counter-discursive History of Turkish Modernity”. American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA, USA.