I am giving a presentation at the annual conference of the European International Studies Association that will take place in Lille (France) in late August.
I wrote with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay a chapter of the catalog of the “Arabo Futurs” exhibition that is taking place at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (23/04/2024 - 27/10/2024)
Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji’s Using Life.
Together with Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun, Emrah Atasoy, we co-edited a Critical Forum conceptions of utopianism and representations of speculative fiction in the Mediterranean.
Co-organised with Müge Özoğlu, title “Bodies in Crises, Crises as Bodies in the Middle East and North Africa”.
I am presenting at the Workshop “Conceptual Approaches to the Late Ottoman-Turkish Literary Field” taking place at the University of Bologna on February 29-March 1, 2024.
Once Upon a Time in the Anthropocene: Myths, Legends, and Futurity in Turkish Climate Fiction.
I am in the organizing committee of the SFRA 2022 conference that takes place at the University of Oslo (27 June – 1 July, 2022).