Research Conference Presentations 

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  1. ​A social reproduction perspective on living wage as a feminist claim: Political agenda alternative to respond Turkey’s overlapping crises, IIPPE (International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy) Annual Congress Proceedings, September 4-7, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Disaster Capitalism meets Authoritarian Urbanism: Post-disaster urban redevelopment planning in Hatay, Turkey, AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) Annual Conference Proceedings, Vol. 36, July 8-12, 2024, Paris, France.

  • Care-Full Municipalisms to Mitigate the Social Reproduction Crisis at the Urban Scale, Historical Materialism, April 5-7, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Decommodification of housing and commoning care: Potential of collective property in mitigating the care gap, Annual Conference of PLPR (International Association of Planning Law and Property Rights), 18-22 March 2024, Munich, Germany
  • “Is strong sustainability an impossible balancing act? Governance of urban densification and housing affordability” SGM (Swiss Geosciences Meeting) Annual Conference. Mendrisio, Switzerland. 17-18 November 2023. 
  • “Care circles? Entrepreneurial land policy instrument for age-appropriate housing provision in densification projects” AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) Annual Conference, Lodz, Poland, July 2023.
  • “A conceptual step towards “commoning care” as a pathway for urban postgrowth” IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons) Biannual Conference. Nairobi, Kenya. 19 - 24 June 2023.
  • “Municipal childcare centers: Analyzing the care regime at the intersection of urban policy and social policy,” TSBD (Turkish Social Sciences Association) Biannual Conference, Ankara, Turkey, February 2023. 
  • “Waiting for Transformation: Politics of waiting as a mode of governance in protracted urban renewal projects,” RC21 (International Sociological Association, Research Committee Urban and Regional Development) Annual Conference, Athens, Greece, August 2022.
  • “How to plan for care-full densification? Social sustainability of densification where social policy meets land-use planning”, PLPR (International Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights) Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium, July 2022.
  • “Formalizing or normalizing informality? A neo-institutionalist analysis of zoning amnesty as a land-use policy”, AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) Annual Conference, Tartu, Estonia, July 2022.
  • “Politics of Urban Detransformation: Precarious Spaces and the Institutional Bottlenecks for State-led Urban Renewal,” ACSP (American Collegiate Schools of Planning) Conference, November 2020. 
  • “Transnational City Networks: Immigration Policymaking and Knowledge Exchanges,” Workshop: Cities and the global governance of migration, Migration Policy Centre- European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 2019.
  • “City Networks and Local Immigrant Integration: Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange,” Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Immigration and Minorities (BIRMM) Research Day, Brussels, Belgium, April 2019.
  • “(De)Centralization of Planning Authority and Uneven Community Responses to State-led Redevelopment: An Analysis of Three Urban Renewal Projects in Turkey,” AESOP Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2018. 
  • “Mitigating Risk in the Risk Society: An Unconventional Megaproject for the Aspiring Global City Istanbul,” ACSP Conference, Portland, OR, November 2016.
  • Is it Possible to Plan Urban Renewal that does not Cause Displacement? A Comparative Analysis of National Urban Renewal Program in Turkey, International Sociological Association RC 43 Housing and the Build Environment, Chicago, IL, September 2015. 
  • Invented Spaces of Activism: Gezi Park and Performative Practices of Citizenship, Association of American Geographers (AGG) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2015.
  • Practices of Citizenship: Gezi Park, with Faranak Miraftab, American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014.
  • Emerging Model for Disaster Mitigation in Istanbul: How is the World Bank Project Assembled through Policy Mutation?, ACSP Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014.
  • Commodification of Risk through a Transnational Megaproject in the “Emerging Global City” of Istanbul, Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics Conference, SASE, Chicago, IL, July 2014.
  • South- South Knowledge Exchange: An International Market for Development Ideas, Applied Economics, Regional and Urban Studies Midwest Graduate Student Summit, AERUS, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 2014.
  • Understanding the Relevant City Characteristics in Countrywide Urban Renewal Planning: State-led Urban Renewal in the Context of Disaster Mitigation in Turkey, Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, Dublin, July 2013.
  • Forced Migration and Involuntary Resettlement as a By-Product of Regional Development Projects, North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, NARSC, Miami, FL, November 2011.
  • Internal Displacement: A By-product of Regional Development Projects, European Regional Science Conference, ERSA, Barcelona, Spain, September 2011. 
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