Nilgün Yelpaze

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

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+49 6421 28-24918 nilguen.yelpaze@staff 1 Deutschhausstraße 12
35032 Marburg
F|14 Institutsgebäude (Raum: 02A22)

  • Curriculum Vitae


    Education 
    2024 - present Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Transcultural Media Studies of the Middle East; Institute for Media Studies and Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), 
    2020-present PhD Candidate at the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg
    2014-2020 M.A. Sociology - European Societies, Free University of Berlin, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Socielogy

    2007-2012

    B.A. Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University,  Istanbul, Turkey

    Further Education:
    2024 - present MARA - University Research Academy - Certificate Program "Designing and Managing Research Projects" (EMF)
    2024 - present  HDM - Certificate "Fundamentals of University Teaching" and Advanced Certificate "Competence for Professional University Teaching" 
    2023 International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies; "Justice after MAss Atrocities: Truth-seeking, Retribution, Reparation" (CFCCS Belgrade)
    2022 Animation Documentary Workshop, bi`bak Berlin
    2021 Summer/Fall School on Intersectionality - The Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey (CEST)
    2017  İf Doc Lab - Documentary Filmmakers Meet up - İf Istanbul Film Festival 

  • Publications

    Forthcoming-Submitted Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey as an Actor Demanding Justice in the Edited Volume at the Conference: Turkey at 100: (dis)continuities and (dis)contents. (eds.), Toktamis. K and David, I. 
    2013 Representation of Kurdish Female Combatans in western Cinema. A Frame Analysis of Fiction Films of Female Combatans in Radicalization and Variations of Violence: New Theoretical Approaches and Original Case Studies (eds.), Beck D. and  Renner-Mguno, J. Springer International Publishing.

  • Teaching

    WiSe 2025/26 BLICK: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Video Activism
    Video activism, which uses cameras as a tool for social justice, has undergone varoius transformations while preserving its core purpose: documentinh injustices, raising awareness of urgent social issues, and advocating for rights across a range of themes. While its often praised for its impact, it has also been critized for potentially reinforcing audience indifference due to overexposure. Focusing on key historical moments - such as the documentation of racist police violence in the 1990s and the visula mobilization in grassroots movements of the 2010s including the "Arab Spring", the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, and mobilizations in Spain and the United States - students will analyze the development of video activism and its shifting aesthetics and strategies. The course will also discuss the challenges the genre faces today.
    SoSe 2025 History of Kurdish Documentary Cinema
    Kurdish cinema is a national cinema that emerged in a transnational space (Kocer, 2012). Developing relatively late - over a century after the invention of cinema (Arslan, 2009). With recurring themes such as memory, space, borders and language (Simsek, 2018). Kurdish cinema offers a unique lens for exploring various sociopolitical and cultural issues, as well as discussions on documentary film theory. 
    WiSe 2024/25

    A Practical Guide to Video Activism
    The objective of this course is to prevent the basics of filming, sound recording, and editing for the purpose of creating short videos that fall under the categoryof video activism. Students are introduced to the history of video-activism, significant case studies and the discussions on the connections between video-making and social justice, positionality and framing. In addition, the course discovers the possibilities of video activism as profession.


  • Invited Engagements

    2025 Turkologentag, Mainz. De-centered claims on truth via artistic interventions and spaces of memory in Turkey in the era of post-truth.
    2025 Urbino, The Populist Screen. The Production and Distribution of Politics in Contemporary European Film and TV. Paper: "I Know Well, But all The Same": Disavowal Misogyny, and the Political Discussions around the series Adolescence"
    2025 Swansea, Narrative Criminology Symposium. Paper: "Analyzing Documentary Films. Anticipating Future: Kurdish Films and the Narrative of Hope."
    2025 Edinburgh, APeCS Conference: Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity. Paper Together with K.Andra Avram: "Futures in Focus: Methodological Approaches to Analizing Narratives in Documentary Films."
    2024 Edinburgh, ASEN Conference Nationalism and Memory. Paper: "Spaces of the Past in Kurdish Documentary Films from Turkey". 
    2024 Sheffield, LSE Kurdish Studies Conference. Paper: Vernacular Imaginations of Justice in Kurdish Documentary Films from Turkey."
    2023 Potsdam, EISA PEC. Paper: "Vernacular Imaginations of Justice in Kurdish Documentary Films"
    2023 Amsterdam, EWIS 10th European Workshops in International Studies. Changing Fabrics: Working Artists in Analyzing World Events. Paper "Bakur (North): challenging the asymetries with strong filmic narratives." 
    2023 Lisbon, Turkey at 100: (dis)continuities and (dis)contents, Orient Institute, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon Portugal Paper: "Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey as an Actor Demanding Justice:"

  • Grants

    2020-2024 Doctoral Scholarship - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 
    2015-2018 International Scholarship - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 

  • Academic Service

    2019-2020 Student Tutor, Department Consensus and Conflict, DEZIM Institute, Berlin
    2016-2018 Student Tutor Interflugs, University of the Arts, Berlin
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