Talks & Events
Decolonial Perspectives on Identity and Archaeology: A View from Within Türkiye · Lecture at the Leicester University Wednesday Seminar Series (with Emma Baysal).
More than just “pretty things”: Body adornment and identity construction in prehistoric Anatolia · Talk at the ARWA Lecture Series: Anatolian Identities.
Memory of the Matter. Justice Atlas Podcast · A podcast conversation on material culture, memory, archaeology, and the ways objects carry traces of human lives. The episode was later published in a book by İletişim Yayınları.
Bodies, Beads and Identities: Changing Attitudes towards the Display of Identities at Neolithic Aşıklı Höyük · Lecture at the Moving Bodies Workshop organised by IFEA & University of Bordeaux.
#onliNEOLITHIC: Reading the Western Asian Neolithic through Differences · Online lecture series organised during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Güneş Duru, Mihriban Özbaşaran & Melis Uzdurum. The series brought together 25 speakers and around 400 attendees, creating an accessible international platform for discussing new approaches to early farming societies. The lectures are available on YouTube, making the series an ongoing resource for anyone interested in the Neolithic of Western Asia.
Kimlikler / Identities: 3rd Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group-Turkey · An online conference, organised with Melis Uzdurum, Ece Sezgin & Dilara Çolak. With 10 sessions and 52 speakers, we brought together researchers working on identity and archaeological theory. Papers were later published in the co-edited volume Arkeolojide Kimlikler / Identities in Archaeology (Ege Yayınları, 2023). Talks are available on YouTube
Embodied Identities: Unravelling Symbolic Threads through Ornaments, Garments, and Portable Objects · Workshop organised with Emma Baysal, Aldona Kurzawska, Mattia Cartolano & Iwona Sobkowiak, at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting in Rome, Italy, in 2024.
Dr. Sera Yelözer'le Neolitik Dönemde Süs Eşyaları: Aşıklı Höyük Örneği · Public talk at Kültür Bilincini Geliştirme Vakfı in Istanbul.
Kazı izleri seminer serisi: bilim ve sanat · Panel talk at Postane Istanbul on the dialogues between art and archaeology as part of the 'Lines of Site' exhibition.
Selected Lectures (* = invited)
2026. From Artefacts to Narratives: How Prehistory is Written in Textbooks. History Textbook Workshop, Off University. (*)
2025. A posthumanist feminist approach to the apotropaic power of the gorgon in the ancient Mediterranean. 31st EAA Annual Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia (co-author, with Eloise Jones).
2025. Bodies in transition: diversity and multiplicity of identities in Neolithic central Anatolia. SIMEP Conference: Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory, Barcelona, Spain.
2024. Beads and identities at Aşıklı Höyük: a network of relationships. 30th EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy (with Daniel Pereira, Solange Rigaud and Güneş Duru).
2023. Merging narratives, unravelling identities: an intersectional approach to architecture, mortuary customs and body adornment at the dawn of sedentism. 13th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Untelling the Neolithic of Southwest Asia workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark. (*)
2022. Searching the light: characterising Neolithic polishing techniques of butterfly beads in northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia. PPN10: Advancing Current Methods in Lithics Analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark (co-author, with Hala Alarashi).
2022. Transformation and conservation: learning and memory at the Epipalaeolithic/Neolithic transition in Turkey. 28th EAA Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary (co-author, with Emma Baysal).
2022. Becoming Someone? Personhood, Materiality and Social Age during the Early Neolithic. Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group.
2019. Detecting individual and collective identities: gender, age, crafts, and the intersectionality of identities at Aşıklı Höyük. University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology Seminar Series, Edinburgh, UK. (*)
2019. Entangled at death: beads, gender, and the dead at early Neolithic Aşıklı Höyük. Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East-GeMANE3 Workshop, Ghent, Belgium.
2018. Original versus the imitated: a diachronic view of the red deer canine pendants and their skeuomorphs. Accessing the Inaccessible: 6th Annual Koç University Archaeology & History of Art Graduate Research Symposium, Istanbul, Türkiye.
2015. Continuity and change through personal ornaments: Aşıklı Höyük, central Anatolia, Turkey. Routes de l’Orient International Conference: From the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula: Studying Domestic Spaces in the Neolithic, Paris, France.
Science Communication
2025. Home-making at ANAMED: The joy and frustration of making, unmaking, and remaking “a room of one’s own” - Koç University ANAMED blog · A reflective piece on space, belonging, academic life, and the making of a room of one’s own. Read here
2023-2024. Small Things, Big Stories project blog · Regular posts from the “Small Things, Big Stories” project, including the 2024 recap and “Delving into the Magnificent World of the Beads.” Read here
2021. Adımları atlamak: Türkiye’de arkeolojiyi feminizmle buluşturmakta neden “geç kaldık"? - 5Harfliler · An opinion piece on archaeology, feminist activism, and the delayed encounter between archaeology and feminist thought in Türkiye. Read here
2021. Interview on gender archaeology with Arkeofili. Read here
2020. “Üzgünüm, buraya yemek yapmaya değil, kazı yapmaya geldim!” : Cinsiyetçilik, erkek egemen mitler ve feminist arkeoloji - 5Harfliler · Brief overview of the emergence of feminist archaeology and its contributions to addressing gender bias in archaeology. Read here