Selected Talks and Conferences
• Dec 2025 — “Intimacy and Lethal Violence in Germany in the 20th Century,” Current Research on Violence against Women in the 20th Century, Workshop, University of Darmstadt (Dec 12, 2025).
• Nov 2025 — “Women on the Move. Political Spaces of Migrant Women in West Berlin (1961-1989),” Book Release, Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin (Nov 19, 2025).
• Sep 2025 — Discussant, “How Do We Write Migration History? Interpretive Power and Participation in Historical Knowledge Production,” 55th German Historians’ Conference (Historikertag), Bonn (Sept 17, 2025).
• Jun 2025 — “Between State Control and Agency: Migration and the Politicization of the Private Sphere in West Germany (1960s–1980s),” Behind Closed Doors: State Interventions into Muslim Intimacy in 20th-Century France and Germany, 3rd Workshop “Islam – Migration – Gender,” Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (June 23, 2025).
• May 2025 — “Women in Motion: Migration, Gender, and Political Spaces between West Berlin and Turkey (1961–1989),” Modern History Colloquium, Chair of 19th–21st Century History (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Lingelbach), Kiel University (May 19, 2025).
• Oct 2024 — “Negotiating Intimate Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, and Migration in 1960s West Germany,” Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration—Transatlantic and Global Perspectives, German Historical Institute Washington / Pacific Office, UC Berkeley (Oct 21–22, 2024).
• Jul 2024 — “Topographies of Arrival: Tempelhof Airport and Migration (1964–1975),” Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (July 17, 2024).
• Jul 2024 — “Migrant Women in Motion: Negotiating Spaces of the Private and the Political between West Berlin and Turkey (1961–1990),” Colloquium “New Research in Contemporary History,” Chair of Contemporary History (Prof. Dr. Isabel Heinemann), University of Bayreuth (July 3, 2024).
• Dec 2023 — “Gendered Archives of Migration: Rethinking the Private and the Political in Contemporary Migration History,” Cultures in Motion, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Dec 1–2, 2023).
• Jun 2023 — “Turkish Women’s Associations in West Germany (1975–1990): Migrant Self-Organization and Gender from a Social History Perspective,” New Perspectives on Social and Economic History of Modern Turkey, University of Duisburg-Essen (June 22–23, 2023).
• Oct 2022 — “Politicizing the Private: Counseling Centers for Turkish Women as Contested Feminist Spaces in 1980s West Berlin,” GenderSpaces: Perspectives of Contemporary History, ZZF Potsdam (Oct 6–7, 2022).
• Sep 2022 — “Turkish Women’s Associations as Sites of Local Self-Organization and Transnational Mobilization,” Migrant Mobilizations in Comparison, Institute for Social Movements, Bochum (Sept 22–23, 2022).
• May 2022 — “Demanding Democracy from Abroad: Transnational Socialist Movements in the 1970s between Turkey and West Germany,” International workshop, HISDEMAB, Leibniz Center for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin (May 23–25, 2022).
