PAPERS . TALKS . LECTURES
talk
March 18, 2025
Architecture of Convalescence:
Mapping Turkey's Sanatorium Heritage
İyileş(tir)menin Mimarisi: Türkiye’nin Sanatoryum Mirasının Haritalandırılması
Mimarlar Derneği 1927
Architects’ Association 1927
Ankara
November 11–16, 2024
conference paper
Decay and Regeneration:
Narratives on Primary School Buildings in 1930s Turkey
MESA Annual Meeting
Middle East Studies Association
58th annual meeting, online
conference paper
October 12–13, 2023
Hygienic Design of Schools as a Medium for Negotiating Modernity and Preventive Medicine in the 1930s Turkey
“The Republic, Architecture and the City:
The Legacy of 100 Years”
International Symposium
Istanbul Kültür University
conference paper
September 21–23, 2023
Tuberculosis and the 'Intangible Microbes of Melancholy':
The Banning of Kafes in the 1930s Turkey
Türkologentag
The Fourth European Convention on Turkic,
Ottoman and Turkish Studies
University of Vienna
workshop paper
July 4–5, 2023
‘Hygienic Houses’ for the Rural Population of Early Republican Turkey
“Providing and Prescribing the Domestic Space. Actors of Welfare and Housing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, 19th-21st c.”
COST Action - “Who Cares in Europe?”
CETOBaC (EHESS), Paris
guest lecture
May, 2023
Modern Architecture and Healthy Houses: From Global to Local
Izmir University of Economics
Department of Interior Architecture and
Environmental Design
(organized by Deniz Avci)
talk
December, 2022
Istanbul - Heybeliada Sanatoryumu
docomomo_tr
Açık kapı
conference paper
November 2–4, 2022
The Politics of Cutting and Gluing:
Architectural Models as Propaganda in Early Republican Turkey
“Are You a Model?”
on an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration International Conference
Technical University of Darmstadt
October 22, 2022
seminar paper
Prescribed Modernity:
Health, Hygiene and Architecture for Children in Early Republican Turkey
“PhD Colloquium #2”
TUM Chair of History of Architecture
and Curatorial Practice
workshop paper
October 14-15, 2022
The Architecture of Prevention:
Healthy Housing of the Rural Population in Early RepublicanTurkey
“Welfare and the Domestic Space. Housing and Health in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean”
COST Action - “Who Cares in Europe?”
Institut français d’études anatoliennes, Istanbul.
conference paper
September 8–10, 2022
Transient yet Settled:
The Rooms for Tuberculosis Patients in Turkish Sanatoria
“Design & Transience”
Design History Society Annual Conference
Izmir Institute of Technology
workshop paper
June 15, 2022
‘How to Keep Turkish Child Alive’
Puericulture, Architecture, and Emergence of a Nation State
“Architectural Histories Editorial Workshop”
EAHN 2022 Madrid Conference
conference paper
April 27–29, 2022
Serving the Nation on a Recliner:
Public Sanatoria of Early Republican Istanbul
“Architecture for Health, Resting
and Well-being (1914-1975)”
The History of Modern Spanish Architecture
13th International Congress
Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
seminar paper
December 7, 2021
Prescribed Modernity:
Health, Hygiene, and Architecture in Early Republican Turkey (1923-1950)
“DocTalks”
gta
ETH Zurich
seminar paper
September 15, 2021
Healthy Homes:
Hygiene, Disease Prevention, and Domesticity During the 1930s in Turkey
“Voices of Emerging Scholars”
Webinar Series
Columbia Global Centers - Istanbul
conference paper
May 26–28, 2021
The Foundation and Development of Heybeliada Sanatorium and the Modernization of Turkey
“Space and the Hospital”
13th Conference – International Network
for the History of Hospitals
December 9, 2020
guest lecture
Electrical Illumination and Modern Space in the Republican Period Turkish Architecture: 1930-1940
Design Culture International Lecture Series
Department of Interior Architecture
Istanbul Technical University
conference paper
June 15–16, 2020
Illuminating the Modern Home:
A Study on Artificial Lighting Design in Early Republican Turkey
Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türkiye’sinde Yapay Aydınlatma Tasarımının Yeri
Üzerine Bir İnceleme
“Modern Interiors in Turkey”
docomomo_tr Interior Design Committee
National Symposium
Özyeğin University, online
conference paper
June 13–14, 2020
Air, Sun, and Germs:
Tuberculosis and Debates on Hygienic Houses in the First Years of the Republic
Hava, Güneş ve Mikrop:
Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında Verem Mücadelesi ve Sıhhi Ev Tartışmaları
“Modern Interiors in Turkey 2”
docomomo_tr Interior Design Committee
National Symposium
Yaşar University, Izmir & online
talk
July 11, 2019
The Impact of Health and Hygiene Concerns on Turkish Architecture During the Early Republican Era
Graduate Seminar
Institute of Near and Middle East Studies
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
conference paper
December, 2015
The Emergence of Florya Beach as the Holiday Resort of Istanbul
“Spaces/Times/Peoples: Nostalgia and
Architectural History”
METU Architectural History
Graduate Researchers Symposium, Ankara