Research Experience
This page currently features abstracts, full texts, and video links to conference presentations, talks, and workshops. For other research experience such as research assistantships, see my CV.
Presentations
Engaging Foucault’s Biopolitics: Implications for a Materialist Intersectional Politics of Disability.
Annual Meeting of The Canadian Philosophical Association, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, Canada. 1-4 June 2025.
Introduction to MarxoFoucauldian CripAnimal Studies.
Papers in Progress Session (W13). The 121st Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, New York City, NY, US. 8-11 January, 2025.
A Prelude to a Philosophy of the Margin: Foucault and Marx on Disability and Animality.
The Social Justice Centre Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminar Series, Concordia University, Montréal. Hybrid, 13 May, 2022. View abstract of talk. Watch full talk on YouTube:
Rendering Surplus, Rendering Flesh: Capitalism, Animals, Disability.
Research Group in Environmental and Animal ethics (GRÉEA), Montreal. Online, 25 May, 2022. View abstract of talk. Watch full talk on YouTube:
Exploitation That Doesn’t Look Like Exploitation: Superfluity, Disability, Animality.
12th Braga Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy (The Workings of Capital: Perspectives on Exploitation in Law, Labor, and Distribution), University of Minho, Braga – Portugal. Online, 15-17 July 2021. Conference Program.
Access & Excess: Queering & Cripping Towards Pervtopia.
Looking Forward in Hope and Despair: Critical Approaches to Utopia and Dystopia in Philosophy and the Arts Conference, Centre for Ethics, Pardubice University, Czech Republic. Online, 14-16 April 2021. Download conference program with abstracts below:
Watch full talk on YouTube:
Complicating Global North Disability Models: Disability Experience in Turkey.
Alternative Explanations: Disability Research in the Global South Postgraduate Webinar, Disability and Inclusion Africa Network. Online, 6 November 2020. View abstract or download pdf below.
Triaj Etiğinde Yaşlı ve Engelli Ayrımcılığı: Faydacılığın Ötesinde Bir Alternatif [Ageism and Ableism in Triage Ethics: An Alternative Beyond Utilitarianism].
2nd International Conference on Discrimination, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (AMER). Online, 31 October 2020. View conference proceedings with full papers in Turkish or download pdf below.
Watch full talk on YouTube:
Marx ve Spinoza’da Yabancılaşma ve Hayvanlar [Alienation and Animals in Marx and Spinoza].
1. Pratik Felsefe Lisansüstü Araştırmacı Konferansı [1st Practical Philosophy Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Conference], Society for Practical Philosophy, Turkey. Online, 7-8 August 2020.
View conference proceedings with abstracts. Watch full talk on YouTube:
Special Needs as Radical Needs: Towards A Revolutionary Theory of Need that Centralizes Disability and Dependency.
International Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (AMER), Novotel, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-16 December 2018. View abstract in English or download as pdf below.
Read full paper in Turkish in conference proceedings:
Engellilik Çalışmaları ve Felsefe Neden ve Nasıl Bir Araya Gelmeli [How and Why Should Disability Studies and Philosophy Come Together]
Disability Studies Conference: Disability From Past to Present, Istanbul University, Turkey. 15-16 November 2018. View conference proceedings with abstracts or download as pdf below:
Autism as a Prelude Rather Than a Post-Script: Towards a Phenomenology of Difference.
Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 13-17 August 2018. (4 ECT credits and Certificate Awarded). View conference program. View abstract of talk or download as pdf below.
Understanding Oppression and Exploitation Through Disability: Intersectionality, Surplus Populations, and Radical Needs (Summary presentation of MA research in Turkish)
Autumn School in Disability Studies, Boğaziçi University Social Politics Forum & Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Istanbul, Turkey. 20-22 September 2018. (Certificate Awarded.)
Research abstracts submitted to the Autumn School:
INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Speaker, Co-facilitator. “Access & Excess” Workshop for Moving Across Thresholds. Socratic method of questioning and creative exercises combined to engage with the concept of access following a 20-minute presentation on the Social Model of Disability. Online, 12 December 2020.
Guest lecturer. “What is Oppression?”. PHIL 543: Philosophical Approaches to Issues in Feminism. Department of Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 26 March, 2019. (Instructor: Yıldız Silier). Text of full talk as pdf below: