Ayşe Saktanber Delivers the Keynote Speech at the 4th International Gender Studies in Turkey Conference

SU Gender is organizing the 4th International Gender Studies in Turkey Conference on December 5–6, 2026 in Istanbul. The conference will take place over two days at Sabancı Center in 4. Levent, Istanbul. The program will include an opening speech, a roundtable session, parallel sessions, workshops and award sessions.

The opening speech will be delivered on Saturday, December 5 at 10:45 a.m. by Prof. Dr. Ayşe Saktanber from the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University, under the title “Hope, All Over Again”. The speech will be moderated by Cenk Özbay, Faculty Member at Sabancı University.

You can find further information about the conference on the conference website.

• There is no registration fee for participation. You can register online to attend the conference.

• Simultaneous translation will be provided in Turkish and English on the first day of the conference (Saturday, December 5).

• For further questions, please email genderconf@sabanciuniv.edu.

   

  Biography

  Prof. Dr. Ayşe Saktanber is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University. She completed her undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies at Middle East Technical University. Her academic work focuses on the sociology of culture, sociology of media, gender and women's studies, space and gender, Islam in everyday life, and patriarchal structures in Turkey and the Middle East.

  Her book Living Islam: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey (2018) explores the relationships between women, religion and the politicization of culture in Turkey. She is also one of the editors of Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey. She has also served as a board member of the International Sociological Association (ISA).