I am an architect and researcher from Istanbul who has a research focus on city, mobility, belonging, disabilities and feminist-queer geographies. I am interested in the local and global dynamics that are changing the cities, and how migrants neglect, understand, and appropriate the city itself.
– Feminist and Queer Geographies
– Geographies of Migration
– Geographies of Disability
2024
– Doktorandin am Institut für Geographie, Universität Hamburg
2020 – 2021
-Gastwissenschaftlerin an der HafenCity Universität
2019 – 2021
– Doktorandin am Institut für Urbanistik der Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (unterbrochen)
2014
– Master of Science in Architektur, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
Titel der Dissertation: An Analyze of The Tarlabasi’s Public Space: Before and After The Tarlabaşı Renewal Project Keywords: public space, tarlabasi, gentrification, third spaces
2008
– Bachelor of Arts in Architektur, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
- Feminist Geographies 2022 Conference: Feminist Data Visualisation Session, 2022
“Can digital migration studies help us to reveal the invisible: Mapping migrant nannies in Istanbul”
- Feminist Geographies 2022 Conference: “Mapping Stories”, Poster-Präsentation, 2022
(with Hilal Dalka and Sena Karahan)
- RC21 Conference Paper Sessions: S7: “Shaping the city through migration industries”, 2021; “Mapping Migration Nannies and Migration Industries in Istanbul”
- Migration processes and information and communication technologies in Turkey, 2021 “Mapping Immigrant Nannies in Istanbul by Using ICTs”
https://nccr-onthemove.ch/events/migration-processes-and-information-and communication-technologies-in-turkey/
- Akademide Aktivizm (Activism in Academy), 2020
“Le Guin’in Çuvalı”
- Humboldt University, 2020
“A Pursue For The Different Meanings of Home Within The Texts Of Ursula K. Le Guin, Tezer Özlü, and Patti Smith”
https://coworkingsquares.de//Content/UploadPhoto/StaticPicture%5CPoster Melis.001-768×1024.jpeg
- İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi II. Göç Çalışmaları Lisansüstü Öğrenci Konferansı (Istanbul Bilgi University 2nd Congress of Graduated Migration Studies), 2020
“Mapping Immigrant Nannies in Istanbul”
https://goc.bilgi.edu.tr/tr/haberler-ve-etkinlikler/231/goc-calismalari-lisansustu-ogrenci konferansi-ii/
- Ulusal Lisansüstü Mekânsal Çalışmalar Sempozyumu (Symposium of National Spatial Researches), 2020
“Thinking Globalisation From Below: Immigrant Nannies in Istanbul”
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Nf1eDmK0B1M&list=PLQFP4oYg-4EmFNtV1BG4ZgoqXz-BO3_q8&index=2
- METU Sociology Days 2020
“An Analyze on the Spatial Changes in Kadıköy After 2013 Gezi Protests: Case Study Yogurtcu Park in the Means of Counter and Public Spaces”
- 2nd International Congress on Women and Politics in a Global World, 2020
“Thinking Globalisation From Below: Mapping Immigrant Nannies in Istanbul” (Vom Wissenschaftsausschuss angenommen, aber aufgrund von Covid-19 auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt verschoben)
