Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik

WWU fellow (Wintersemester 2018/19)

RESEARCH SPECIALTIES

  • Specialization in Folklore and Anthropology
    Comparative Perspectives in Folkloristics, History of Folklore, Anthropology, and Ethnology in Turkey, History of ideas in anthropology and folklore, nationalism,  world anthropologies, performance theory, structuralism. Fieldwork methodology in anthropology/social sciences.
  • Topics:
    Gender, feminist theory; ethnicity and women, Alevis in Germany, transnational migration and integration, urban anthropology. Political anthropology, migration and transnationalism. feminist theory and method, masculinity studies.
  • Genres:
    Female artistic performances, Turkish culture and literature, oral history, memory, narrative and space, material culture. Turkish cinema, Turkish Cinema in Europe, Migration literature.
  • Regions/Periods:
    Interactions between Turkish Social Sciences and German-speaking scholarship. Europe, Central Asia, Modern Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Late Ottoman - early modern Turkish Republican period social sciences.

RESEARCH/RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • WS 2018-2019. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster - Fellow
    Seminar für Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie
    Research Project: “Andreas David Mordtmann and the 19th Century-Ethnology in Turkey: Reassessing the History of Anthropology before the Volkskunde-Völkerkunde-Division.”
  • Summer 2017. DAAD-Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists
    Encounters with the German Volkskunde, Europäische Ethnologie and Ethnologie: Traveling Theories of ‘Volk,’ ‘Kultur,’ and ‘Rasse’ in the Turkish Ethnological Habitus 1850-1940. Additional support from the Stiftung zur Förderung der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen der Goethe-Universität.
    Various in-depth interviews with expert anthropologists, ethnologists in Germany and Austria. Funded by DAAD.
  • 2016-2018. (in intervals) „Als Familien wir sind stark.” Lernmobil e.V and Hessenstiftung.
    Fieldwork with refugee families in Hessen for a family program on parenting in migratory contexts.
  • 2016-2018. Fieldwork with Alevi women - Germany
    Interviews and expert interviews with Alevi women
  • 2014-2015. Fachhochschule Frankfurt- Research Fellow (TÜBİTAK Project)
    Narrating Transnational Fatherhood: Three Generation of Turkish Fathers with Migration History and Their Shifting Perspectives and Experiences in Germany. Fieldwork
  • 2010-2014 (in intervals). Fieldwork - Germany
    “Alevi Women in Germany: Political Mobilization, Ethnic Differentiation, or Gender Negotiation?” Pilot Project.
  • Summer 2007. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Göttingen.
    Typen Türkischer Volksmärchen. Enzyklopädie des Märchens –Georg August Universität - Göttingen
  • 2007-2008. Fieldwork.
    Istanbul. Alevi women’s networks in Istanbul, with Dr. Erdoğan Gedik
  • 2006. Fieldwork.
    Female Alevi Minstrels, Urfa and Mersin - Turkey.
  • 2003-2007 (in intervals). Fieldwork - Germany
    Alevi Women in Germany: Life Stories and Experiences. Frankfurt, Rüsselsheim, Mainz, and Hildesheim - Germany
  • 2004, 2005. Fieldwork – Varto, Turkey
    Alevi-Kurdish women’s life histories
  • 2003. Library Research. J. W. Goethe Universität.
    Instituts für vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Frankfurt a/M.
  • 2002. Georg-August-Universität. Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Göttingen.
    Library Research
  • 2000-2002. Oral History Project.
    Migration, Remembering, and Landscape in Imbroz, Turkey.

TALKS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, PANELS, AND PANEL CHAIRING (SINCE 2010)

  • 2019. “Transformations of Gender Regimes in Turkey under State of Emergency.“  Implications of a "National" Theme in Transnational Space. Public Evening Lecture at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics".
  • 2019. EUARE. European Academy of Religion. Convener. Panel: Diversifying Gender and Islam: Perspectives from Law, Culture and Politics. (with Erdoğan Gedik and Barbara Lorenz, JUFA -Graz).
  • 2019. EUARE. European Academy of Religion. Convener. Panel:  Teaching and Learning on Islam at the German-Speaking Universities.  With Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Fischer.
  • 2019. EUARE. European Academy of Religion. “Alevism in Turkey and in Transnational Space: Negotiated Identities between Religion, Culture and Politics” (Together with Adelaide Madera,  Università degli Studi di Messina and Erdogan Gedik Goethe Universität – Frankfurt am Main). At the Panel: The Atlas for Religious Minorities Rights one year after. Org. Silvio Ferrari, Università di Milano.
  • 2019. SIEF. Panel co-Convener. Tracing/Tracking/Transforming Histories of Ethnology/Folklore. Toward Critical Methodologies [SIEF Working Group on Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis] [P+R].   With Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik.
  • 2018. “Frauenrechte und Gleichberechtigung in der Türkei.“  Begleitprogramm zu der Ausstellung "Mütter des Grundgesetzes." AWO Offenbach-Land, gefördert von der Partnerschaft für Demokratie Offenbach am Main im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms »Demokratie leben!« (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend in Kooperation mit dem Hessischen Ministerium des Innern und für Sport), Frauenbüro Offenbach, Haus der Stadtgeschichte.
  • 2018. EASA Conference - Stockholm. Making Knowledge Mobile: Knowledge Production and Transfer in/to/across/between Anthropology's Actors, Locations, and Performances. Main convenor.
  • 2018 EASA Conference - Stockholm. 'Peripheral' Anthropologies of Europe. Their histories and intellectual genealogies [Europeanist network].  “From the Empire with Love: Andreas David Mordtmann, Traveling Theory, and the Tale of Turkish Ethnology.”
  • 2017. Leibnitz-Schloss Seggau. Bibeldialoge – christlich-jüdische Studienwoche im Gespräch mit dem Islam „Frieden und Konflikt. „Sozialer Friede durch Geschlechterdemokratie. Zur derzeitigen Problematik in muslimischen Gesellschaften?“ Invited Speaker. „Islam und Geschlechterdemokratie – am Beispiel der heutigen Türkei.“
  • 2017. Karl-Franzens-Universität–Graz. Invited speaker at the Gender Colloquium. May. „Geschlechterordnung in der (neuen) Türkei: Transnationale Auswirkungen eines lokalen Themas.“ Presented at the Flucht - Asyl - Integration“: Integration – eine Aufgabe für uns und die Flüchtlinge. Genderspezifische Aspekte.
  • 2017. SIEF (Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore), Göttingen.  Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft – Creativity. “Ways of Dwelling as Fathers and as Men: The First Generation Turkish Guest Workers Narrate their Stories.” Paper presented at the Gendered ways of dwelling: masculinities, bodies and affects in neoliberal times. 26-30 March.
  • 2017. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Invited Speaker at the World Café Series. “On Refugee Lives, or A Note on Human Condition.” 15 February.
  • 2016. Women’s Museums: Center of Social Memory and Place of Social Inclusion. Istanbul – Turkey. Invited keynote and moderated dialogue with scholars and feminist activists. 20 - 22 October.
  • 2016. Masculinity and Fatherhood Among Men with Turkish Migration History in Germany.  Karl-Franzens-Unviversität–Graz. Invited Aigner-Rollet-Gastprofessur Lecture. Opening by the Vice Rector of the University. 7 June.
  • 2016. Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle/Saale). Invitation by Dr. Lale Yalçın-Heckmann (Coordinator REALEURASIA). “Towards an Understanding of Turkish Anthropology: Changing Paradigms, Changing Issues?” 2 November.
  • 2016. IUAES. Panel Convener. World Anthropologies in/of Southern Europe: Ethics, Epistemologies and Responsibilities for Anthropologists. Dubrovnik – Croatia; 4-9 May. With Dr. Erdoğan Gedik.
  • 2016. IUAES. “World Anthropologies: Rethinking the Anthropological Praxis in Turkey.” Paper presented at the IUAES Panel on World anthropologies, Their Limits, and Perspectives. Dubrovnik – Croatia; 4-9 May.
  • 2016. EASA. “Rethinking the Anthropological Landscape in Turkey: Intersecting Anthropologies, Establishing Disciplinary Dialogues.” Paper presented: Themes in the history of anthropology and ethnology in Europe [Europeanist network]. Milano - Italy. 20-23 July.
  • 2015. “Partial Accounts? Masculinity and Fatherhood among Men with Turkish Migration History in Germany.” Invited by the Cornelia-Goethe-Zentrum. Frankfurt Goethe Universität. Franfkurt a.M. Presented at a Roundtable: Changing Fatherhood(s), Changing Masculinity(ies).
  • 2015. “Anthropology and the Commons”: A Conference celebrating 10 years of the Konitsa Summer School. “Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders: Fatherhood and Masculinity among people from Turkey in Germany.” With Erdogan Gedik.
  • 2015. "Fairy Tales and Winter Entertainments in Anatolia/Turkey." Invited by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn, der Vorsitzender der Stiftung zur Förderung der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen der Goethe Universität. 10 December.
  • 2014. “Gender Regimes in Turkey:  A Retrospect.” Invited. Seminar given at the Frankfurter Forschungszentrums globaler Islam (FFGI) Goethe Universität- Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2010. Konitsa Summer School. Gender and Genre in Comparative Perspectives: Festival, State, and Folklore Texts and Performances. Invited. Konitsa – Greece.
  • 2010. “Reconsidering Folktale Studies in the Context of Post-1950 Folkloristics in Turkey.”  Volos Folklore Conference- Greece. Invited. Volos-Greece.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volumes

  • 2018. (In print). Co-edited with Erdoğan Gedik, Brigitta Eckert and Gerd Baltes. „Als Familien wir sind Stark.” With Lernmobil e.V and Hessenstifftung.
  • 2013. Editor. Sınırlar, İmajlar, Kültürler: Antropolojik Açıdan Avrupalılığı Yeniden Düşünmek. (Borders, Images, Cultures:  Rethinking Europeanness from an Anthropological Perspective). Ankara: Dipnot.
  • 2012. Co-Editor. Bölgesel Alanda Kadın Çalıştayı. (Workshop on Women in Rural Sphere). Ankara: Ministry of Agriculture.
  • 2005. (co-ed., with Belkıs Kümbetoğlu). Gelenekten Geleceğe Antropoloji. (Anthropology From the Past to the Future). İstanbul: Epsilon.
  • 2000. Guest Editor, Folklor/Edebiyat Halkbilim Özel Sayısı, (Folklore Special Issue), no: 24.

Articles as Book Chapters - Selected

  • 2018. In-print. “Curious Travels of German Ethnology to Turkey: Anthropology, Ethnology, and Folklore in the 1920s-1930s.” Forthcoming at Waxmann (Münster).
  • 2018. In-print. “Über das Leben von Geflüchteten, oder Eine Notiz zur conditio humana.” In Diaspora – Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften. Karlsruhe: Karslruher Institut für Technologie, ZAK und Ifa.
  • 2018. In-print. “The Role of Female Minstrels in the Transmission of Alevi Ritual Knowledge: Two Aşıks from Kısas.” In Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Vorderen Orients: Heidelberger Studien by Peter Lang.
  • 2013. “Türkiye’de Antropolojilerin Kesişmesi: Avrupa Etnolojisi ve Amerikan Antropolojisi.” (Intersecting Anthropologies in Turkey:  European Ethnology and American Anthropology). In Sınırlar, İmajlar, Kültürler: Antropolojik Açıdan Avrupalılığı Yeniden Düşünmek. Hande Birkalan-Gedik (ed). Ankara: Dipnot.  Pp: 173-235.
  • 2013. “Alan Araştırmasında Ötekiliğin Sınırları: Coğrafya, Mitoloji ve Tarih Arasında Imroz’u Anlatmak.” (The Limits of Otherness: Narrating Imbros in Geography, Mythology, and History). In A Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu for her 60th Birthday. Istanbul: Korpus, pp: 237-258.
  • 2011. “Feminist Hareketler.” (Feminist Movements). IN Yeni Toplumsal Hareketler. (New Social Movements). Bilhan Doyuran-Kartal and Belkıs Kümbetoğlu (editors), pp: 104-132. Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi.
  • 2005. “Özgün ve Özgür Bir Antropolojiye Doğru,” (Towards a Liberated and Unique Anthropology). IN Gelenekten Geleceğe Antropoloji. (Anthropology from the Past to the Future). (Belkıs Kümbetoğlu and Hande Birkalan Gedik, Eds.), pp: 73-89. İstanbul: Epsilon.
  • 2005. “Gelenekten Geleceğe Antropoloji: Değişen Konular, Bakış Açıları ve Yaklaşımlar,” (Anthropology from the Past to the Future: Changing Themes, Perspectives and Approaches). IN Gelenekten Geleceğe Antropoloji (Anthropology From the Past to the Future) (co-author, Belkıs Kümbetoğlu), pp: 17-33.  Istanbul: Epsilon.
  • 2004. “Gecekondu Entdecken: Menschen, Geschichte, Orte.” Call me ISTANBUL/ist mein Name. Kunst und urbane Visionen einer Metropolis. Roger Conover, Eda Čufer, Peter Weibel (eds), pp: 57-65. Karlsruhe: Germany.

Articles in Journals - Selected

  • 2019. Forthcoming. Muslim. Martyr. Masculine: On Religious Nationalism in Turkey.” LIMINA – Grazer theologische Perspektiven. Schwerpunktthema Heft 2 (Frühjahr 2019). Neue Nationalismen und die Vision der einen Menschheit.
  • 2018. “World Anthropologies:  Anthropology in Turkey.” International Encylopedia of Anthropology, v: 11, pp: 6620-6239. Wiley-Blackwell. Gen. Ed. Hilary Callan.
  • 2017. “Intersectionality and Difference: Women’s Movement(s) and Feminist Theory in Post 1990s in Turkey.”/“Kesişimsellik ve Farklılık: Türkiye’de 1990 Sonrası Kadın Hareketi ve Feminist Teori.” In: Women’s Museums: Center of Social Memory and Place of Inclusion. Istanbul: ATV and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
  • 2016. “Turkish Folktales.” Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from Around the World. Ed. Anne E. Duggan and Donald Haase, with Helen Callow. Westport: Greenwood Press.1056-1060. With the second edition of:  Pertev Naili Boratav, Gilgamesh, Context, Performance, Women (published in 2008).
  • 2016. (co-authored with Erdogan Gedik). “Sevguli’nin Hikayesini Dinlemek: Sübjektivite, Anlatilabilirlik ve Feminist Epistemology.” (Listening to Sevguli’s Story: Subjectivity, Narrativity and Feminist Epistemology.” In: Writing Women's Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography International Symposium. Ed. By Birsen Talay Keşoğlu and Leyla Şimşek-Rathke. E-Book, pp: 531-546.
  • 2014. “Politik Bir Alan Olarak Babalık:  Almanya’da Türkiyeli Babaların Deneyimleri.” (Fatherhood as Politics: Experiences of Fathers in Germany with a Migration Background)” In Başka Bir Aile Anlayışı Mümkün mü? Istanbul: Heinrich Böll, pp: 263-275.
  • 2011. “Kesişimsellik: Türkiye’de Antropoloji ve Feminizm arasında 2000’li Yıllarda Farklı Toplumsal Cinsiyet Kimlikleri ve Yönetimi.” (Intersectionality:  Management of Different Sexual Identities between Anthropology and Feminism). Cogito: Cinsel Kimlik Özel Sayısı (65-66): 340-352.
  • 2011. “Anthropological Writings on Turkey: A Historical Overview.” Urban Anthropology. (39/3-4): 1-66.
  • 2009. “Türkiye’de Feminizmi ve Antropolojiyi Yeniden Düşünmek: Feminist Antropoloji Üzerine Bir Deneme.” (Thinking About Feminism and Anthropology in Turkey: An Essay on Feminist Anthropology) Cogito Feminism Special Issue. (58): 285-338.
  • 2005. Typen Türkischen Volksmärchen (Wolfram Eberhard und Pertev Naili Boratav, eds.). Cahiers de Litterature Orale (57-58): 317-328.
  • 2004. “The Arabian Nights in Turkish: Translations, Reception, Issues in Turkish Literature.” FABULA (45/3-4): 221-236.
  • 2001. “Pertev Naili Boratav, Turkish Politics and the University Events.” The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin (25/1): 39-60.

Translations

  • 2013. Michael Herzfeld. “Avrupa ve Değerin Global Hiyerarşisi: Coğrafyalar ve Kültürel Otoritenin Dinamikleri.” (org: Europe and the Global Hierarchy of Value: Geographies and Dynamics of Cultural Authority). In Sınırlar, İmajlar, Kültürler: Antropolojik Açıdan Avrupalılığı Yeniden Düşünmek. (Hande Birkalan-Gedik, ed). Ankara: Dipnot. Pp: 144-164.
  • 2013. Barbro Klein. “Antropoloji, Etnoloji ve Avrupa’nın Disipliner Manzarası” (org: Anthropology, Ethnology, and the European Disciplinary Landscape). In Sınırlar, İmajlar, Kültürler: Antropolojik Açıdan Avrupalılığı Yeniden Düşünmek. (Hande Birkalan-Gedik, ed). Ankara: Dipnot. Pp: 122-143.
  • 2013. Ulf Hannerz Değişen Avrupa, Değişen Antropoloji (org: Changing Europe, Changing Anthropology). In Sınırlar, İmajlar, Kültürler: Antropolojik Açıdan Avrupalılığı Yeniden Düşünmek. (Hande Birkalan-Gedik, ed). Ankara: Dipnot. Pp: 104-121.

Book Reviews (selected)

  • 2018. Forthcoming at the American Ethnologist. “European Anthropologies.” Ed. by Andrés Barrera-González, Monica Heintz and Anna Horolets. Oxford: Berghahn.
  • 2018. Forthcoming at the Journal of Folklore Research. “The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia.” Joseph Grim Feinberg. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • 2018. Forthcoming at the Journal of Folklore Research. “Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions: Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia.” By James R. Dow.
  • 2017. “Coming of Age in Chicago:  The 1893 World’s Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology.” In Journal of Folklore Research.  http://www.indiana.edu/~jfr/review.php?id=1967. [April 12, 2017].
  • 2011. İlhan Başgöz. “Hikâye:  Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art.” Western Folklore 69 (1/2): 282-284.
  • 2009. James R. Dow and Olaf Bockhorn. “The Study of European Ethnology in Austria.” Journal of American Folklore (122): 233-234.
  • 2007. Hasan El-Shamy. “A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights,” Journal of Folklore Research. [September 12, 2007].
  • 2007. Hasan El-Shamy. “Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index.” Journal of Folklore Research. [September 12, 2007].
  • 2006. Donald Haase. “Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches,” Journal of Folklore Research [Review length: 1004 words. [October 10, 2006].

PROFESSORSHIP

Since 2014   Part-time teaching
                         o Philipps-Universität Marburg
                         o Goethe Universität– Frankfurt am Main
                         o Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
                         o Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

1999-2016   Yeditepe University, Istanbul – Turkey | Professor of Anthropology, Folklore, and Gender Studies
2010               Full Professor.
2004               Venia Legendi. Associate Prof. Dr. (Anthropology)
2000               Assistant Prof. Dr.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

  • Since WS 2016. Goethe Universität– Frankfurt am Main
    Guest Researcher, Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
  • SoSe 2016. Aigner-Rollet Guest Professor, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz-Austria.
    islamische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung.  Institut für Religionswissenschaft
  • 10/2014-4/2017 Visiting Professor – Johann Wolfgang-Goethe Universität
    Institut für Soziologie-und Cornelia Goethe Centrum für Frauenstudien und die Erforschung der Geschlechterverhältnisse
  • 5/2016. Erasmus Faculty, Leopold-Franzens-Universität – Innsbruck.
    Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie
  • 10/2008. Erasmus Faculty, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
    Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie.
  • 1997 - 1999 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
    Indiana University- Purdue University, USA
  • 1997 Indiana University- Purdue University - POLIS Center, USA
    Ethnographer, Urban Tapestry Project
  • 1993 - 1998 Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
    Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Central Eurasian Studies, Turkish Studies .Research Assistant, Prof. Dr. Henry Glassie, Prof. İlhan Başgöz.

VITA

  • 1999. Ph.D.:  Indiana University – Bloomington, IN
    Folklore, Cultural Anthropology, and Gender Studies,
    1996. High Pass - Doctoral Qualifying Exams
    Dissertation: Homemaking and Story Telling in a Gecekondu in Istanbul.
  • 1998. M.A.:  Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies
    1996. M.A.: Indiana University Folklore Institute
    M.A. Thesis: Pertev Naili Boratav and His Contributions to Turkish Folklore.
  • 1990. B.A.: Boğaziçi University Turkish Language and Literature
    B.A. Thesis: A Comparison of Sea Themes in Old man and the Sea and Aganta Burina Burinata.