Only sessions defined as open to public will be available for public attendance. All the other sessions will be closed.
September 8th Friday
9:00-9:30 Welcoming remarks / KHas Galata Salon
9:30-10:45 Keynote session
John Postill
KHas Galata Salon (Open to public)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Workshop session: Emotions, vulnerabilities, and fieldwork
Ergin Bulut, “Revealing Emotions of Game Developers at Work: Towards a Non-Media Centric Media Ethnography through Photo Elicitation and Preliminary Thoughts on a Materialist Media Studies”
Sahana Udupa, “Securing ethnographic ‘home’ in the digital age”
Mutlu Binark, “Experiences from the Unwritten Field and Traces Left Behind: Lack of words left to the researcher from immigrants of Turkey living in Denmark and from their use of media”
Discussant: Zeynep D. Gürsel
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Industry Keynote session
Can Ertuna, News Media in Turkey: Issues and Contexts
KHas Galata Salon (Open to public)
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:15 Workshop session: Conflicts, communities, and media
Elisabetta Costa, “Social Media Makes Us Relatives”
Kevin Smets, “The media use of Syrian refugees in Turkey: understanding “connected refugees” through a non-media-centric and local approach”
Çağrı Yalkın “De-Sanitizing Netnography: Toward Real Critical Stance”
Discussants: Chris Kelty, Zeynep D. Gürsel, John Postill
September 9th Saturday
9:30-10:45 Industry Keynote session
Yamaç Okur, Dynamics of Creative Industries in Turkey: TV Series
KHas Cinema A (Open to public)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break / Haliç Salon
11:00-12:30 Workshop session: Producers, Audiences, and Performances
Feyza Akınerdem, “Rethinking the Audience between Global Flows and State Interventions in Turkey”
Halide Velioğlu, “Aesthetic and Political Life of Anonymity in Turkey”
Omar Al Ghazzi, “The Syrian-Turkish drama: Sovereignty, masculinity & soap operas”
Burak Özçetin, “Historical TV Dramas and Their Audiences: Diriliş Ertuğrul”
Discussant: Chris Kelty
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Keynote session
Chris Kelty
KHas Cinema A (Open to public)
14:45-15:00 Coffee break / Haliç Salon
15:00-16:15 Workshop session: Censorship and Limitations in Media Industries
Suncem Koçer, “Transpolitics of Kurdish Media: The Discourses of a National Cinema in Transnational Media Worlds”
Josh Carney, “Theaters of inhibition and cinemas of strategy: film festivals and the sites of struggle over censorship in Turkey”
Ozan Aşık, “Rethinking the producer-recipient duality in journalism from an ethnographic perspective through the current media landscape in Turkey”
Discussant: John Postill
September 10th, Sunday
10:00-10:45 Keynote session, Zeynep D. Gürsel
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Workshop session: Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Closing remarks