CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Haksöz, C. (2019) Conflict Avoidance or Sustaining Peace? Minority Urban Peripheries in Bulgaria, “PACSA 2019 Conference: Creativity, Resistance and Hope: Towards an Anthropology of Peace,” Queen's University, Belfast October 3-5, 2019.
“Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals Conference,” Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, November 1-2, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Commemorative Fountains as Transborder Memoryscapes: The Türkan Çeşme Fountains in Bulgaria and Turkey, “Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals Conference,” Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, November 1-2, 2018.
Haksöz, C. with Sarı, R. and Kılıç, Ç. (2018) Gender Inequality in Energy Transition in Turkey, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, August 28-31, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Representing Cultures in Peripheral Museums in Bulgaria: World, National, and Local Cultures in Ethnographic and Regional History Museums, 14th EASA Biannual Conference, Stockholm, August 14-17, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2018) Politics and Culture of (In)Visibilities in Turkey: Practices, Regulations and Discourses Around Alcohol Consumption since the 2000s, International Workshop “The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey,” Center of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, February 14-16, 2018.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Conflict Avoidance as a Post-Conflict Strategy in Minority Urban Spaces of Bulgaria, AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 29 November-3 December 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Re-opening of the Border and Re-invention of “No-pork” Food in the Bulgarian-Greek Borderlands in a workshop Alternative Food Supply Networks in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards New Grounds for Interpretation and Collaboration, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, October 13-14, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Shifting Muslim Identity Boundaries in the Post-Ottoman Bulgarian-Greek Borderlands in a workshop Multiplicity of Divisions: Boundaries and Borders of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires in the 19th –early 20th Century, Center for Interethnic Research in Eastern Europe, at the School of History, Hryhoriy Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Ukraine, September 28-29, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Expressing Domination and Existence through Urban Landscape in Post-Socialist Bulgarian Minority Cities, in a workshop Dialoguing 'Between the Posts: Post-socialist and post-/decolonial perspectives on domination, hierarchy and resistance in South-Eastern Europe, Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, Belgrade, September 22-23, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2017) Post-socialist Urban Landscapes and Politics of (In)visibilities in Three Turkish-Muslim Minority Cities in Post-Socialist Bulgaria, “City, Community and the Transformation of Space in Post-Eastern Bloc Societies,” Lazarski University, Warsaw, June 24, 2017.
Haksöz, C. (2016) “He Is One of Us!:” Conducting Transnational and Multi-sited Research in Peripheral Bulgaria, AAA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 16-20 November 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2016) Strategizing Urban Landscapes in Peripheral Minority Cities in Bulgaria: The Examples of Kardzhali, Razgrad, and Smolyan, “Beyond the Borders,” The 10th Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars, Sofia, June 27-29, 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2016) Who is Dominant and Who is Subordinated? Use of Landscapes in Minority Cities in Bulgaria, “Insiders and Outsiders: Belonging and Identity in Eastern Europe,” The 13th Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 18-20, 2016.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Post-Socialism with an EU Face: Comparing Citizenship and Migration Policies of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, “From the integration to the Integration: Political Changes on the Balkans and their way to the European Union,” Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, December 11-12, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Immobilizing the Violence: “Yeryüzü Iftarları” as a Performance during the Istanbul Gezi Park Protests, “Move on! Mobility Meets (little) Resistances,” Graduate Conference of the interdisciplinary research platform “Mobile Cultures & Societies Interdisciplinary Studies on Transnational Formations,” University of Vienna, Austria, November 26-28, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2015) Narratives, Practices, and Performances in/around Religioscapes: the Cases of Two Peripheral Cities in Post-socialist Bulgaria, “Religion and the Public from 1989/1991” Workshop, Justus-Liebig Universitaet Giessen, Germany, January 27-28, 2015.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Negotiating (in)Visibilities to the EU: Muslim Memoryscapes in Post-socialist Bulgaria and Macedonia, 2014 Graduate Research Workshop Conference on the European Union, The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 15-16, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2014) How “Nationalist” Memoryscapes Were “Socialist” and Later Became “Post-Socialist”?: Politics of Memorizations in Post-Socialist Sofia, Capitals, (ACLA) American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, March 21-22, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2014) Food in #Gezi Park Protests: From Ideology and Solidarity to Resistance, Resurrections, (CES) Council of European Studies, the 21 International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., March 14-16, 2014.
Haksöz, C. (2013) (Re)construction of Memory in “Mixed” Cities in Bulgaria: Memoryscapes in Smolyan, Kardzhali and Razgrad, Revolution, the 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, MA, November 21-24, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2013) Politics and Practices of Memorialization in Socialist and Post-Socialist Memoryscapes in Bulgaria, Re-thinking the Central and Eastern Europe Totalitarianisms: Challenges, Entanglements and Reassessments, 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Totalitarianism for PhD Students, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, October 17-18, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2013) Contestation over Memoryscapes: Examples from Post-socialist Bulgaria, Culture and Memory: Turkish Cultural Studies Association VIIth International Cultural Studies Symposium, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, September 5-7, 2013.
Haksöz, C. (2012) Contesting Borders via Contesting Boundaries: Examples of the Torbeshis of Macedonia and the Pomaks of the Rhodopes and Western Thrace, Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing, the 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, LA, November 15-18, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2012) Killing for Existence: Sacrifice Gatherings at the Demir Baba and the Yenihan Baba Shrines in Bulgaria, Pray, Kill, Eat: Relating to Animals across Religious Traditions, Department of Religion Annual Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 20, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2012) A De-compartmentalized Approach to Post-Socialist Studies: Cases from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, The 50th Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 30, 2012 – April 1, 2012.
Haksöz, C. (2011) From Religious to Nationalistic Shrine?: The Yenihan Baba Shrine In Southern Bulgaria, Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexistence in Cyprus and Elsewhere Conference, The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and PRIO Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, October 14-15, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2011) Religious and Nationalistic Contestation at a Saint's Shrine in Bulgaria, Twenty Years after 1991: The Reshaping of Space and Identity, Joint Conference of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAN (Moscow), Centre d’études franco-russe (Moscow), Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, September 29 – October 1, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2011) Language as a 'Symbol of Existence': Turkish Minority Language in Bulgaria, The 34th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York, NY: La Guardia Community College CUNY, March 26, 2011.
Haksöz, C. (2010) Contestation over Space, Time and Meaning: The Demir Baba Tekke in Northeastern Bulgaria, The 33rd Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College, March 20, 2010.
Haksöz, C. (2008) Physical and Symbolic Relations Among the Shrine of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli and the Temple of Augustus Echoing in the Practices of Visitors, Social Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium: Perceptions and Practices around the Temple of Augustus and the Hacı Bayram Mosque, Ankara: Middle East Technical University, June 3, 2008.
Haksöz, C. (2005) Since the Mass Exodus of 1989; Migration Process of Turks of Bulgaria to Turkey, The 3rd Graduate Students Conference of Turkish Political Science Association, Ankara: Hacettepe University Department of Public Administration, November 12, 2005.
Haksöz, C. (2004) Bulgaria On The Road of the EU: Integration and Migration Patterns of the Turkish Minority, The 3rd Joint German–Turkish Seminar: Globalization: Impacts and Responses in Different Contexts: Germany and Turkey Compared: Berlin and Ankara: Middle East Technical University-Ankara, Department of Sociology and Free University of Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, June – July 2004.