Upcoming Presentations

“Projecting Whiteness: Educational Films and the Erasure of Diversity in Modern Turkey.” Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program’s Annual Conference, “Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed.” Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. 2024.

“US Government Film Programing in Turkey: 1949-1989.” International Communication Association (ICA). Gold Coast, Australia. 2024. 

“Screens & Statecraft: USIS Film Diplomacy in Cold War Turkey.” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). İzmir, Turkey. 2024. 

“Science Education and Diplomacy: How Physics Films Shaped the US-Turkey Alliance.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Boston, MA. 2024.

Conference Presentations

  • “Educational Media Connects Worlds.” International Communication Association (ICA). Paris, France. 2022 (Online).

  • “Diplomacy with the Lights Off.” International Studies Association (ISA). Online, 2021.​

  • “Missionaries’ Use of Film Technologies in Turkey,” International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 2020 (Converted from Australia to virtual due to COVID-19).

  • “After Diplomacy, What’s Next?: Incomplete Archives of Turkey’s Educational Film Center,” Middle East Studies Association (MESA), New Orleans, LA, 2019.

  • “A History of Educational Film Center in Turkey,”  International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, DC, 2019 (Top Student Paper Award from the Communication History Division)

  • “The Act of Clicking: Institutional Authorship in UNICEF’s Multi-Media Projects about Syrian Refugee Children,” International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, DC, 2019.

  • “Film Diplomacy in the U.S.-Turkey Communication Network,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Seattle, WA, 2019 (Chair).

  • “Documentary Cultures of the United States Information Agency in Asia: USIS Facilitation of Multimedia Networks between Turkey and the U.S.,” Visible Evidence XXV Conference, Bloomington, IN, 2018.

  • “Exploring Syrian Refugees in Turkey through Multi- and Hidden-Cameras,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, 2017.

  • “Intersections Between Ottoman, Turkish and Italian Identities,” Italy in Transition Symposium at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2017.

  • “Beyond the Lazy Eye: Normalizing Death and Suffering of Refugees’ Route to Lampedusa,” Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema, Indiana University, 2017.

  • “Methods for Studying Non-U.S. Television,” Flow Conference, A Critical Discussion of Television and New Media, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2016.

  • “Transformation of Space and Identity in Ferzan Özpetek’s Harem Suare,” Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema, Indiana University, 2016.

  • “Documents, Maps, Newspapers and Meetings in Ferzan Özpetek’s Film Hamam,” Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema, Indiana University, 2015.

  • “Mistificazione della Realtà in un Sogno Personale ne Il Conformista,” UCLA Graduate Conference on Italy and Conflict, The University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2015.

  • “US Government-Sponsored Audience Reception Research in Turkey and Modernization through Educational Films.” International Communication Association. Online, 2021.