Nilgün Yelpaze

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

Kontaktdaten

+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), Marburg University, Marburg, Germany
    2020-present PhD Candidate at the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany
    2014-2020 M.A. Sociology - European Societies, Free University of Berlin, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Berlin, Germany

    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, Turkey

  • 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.), K. Toktamis and I, David. 
    2026 "Reparations: Part I-II-III of a Roundtable on Repairing the Irreparable after the Earthquake" with M. Bedir, E. Çaylı and N. Tümerdem. Jadaliyya.
    2023 "Representation of Kurdish Female Combatans in Western Cinema. A Frame Analysis of Fiction Films of Female Combatans in Radicalization and Variations of Violence"in New Theoretical Approaches and Original Case Studies (eds.), D. Beck and J. Renner-Mguno, Springer International Publishing.

  • Teaching

    SoSe 2026 Conflict in Graphic Novels from Middle East and Beyond (in English)
    This course explores how graphic novels and comic books from the Middle East and beyond narrate conflict, memory, and identity through visual-literary and autobiographical storytelling tools of the medium. Through close readings of both renowned and lesser-known works, students examine how this artistic medium contributes to discussions in conflict studies, transitional justice, and cultural memory.
    SoSe 2026 Seeing Justice: Confllict and Social Transformation in Cinema from Turkey (in English)
    This course examines how cinema in and from Turkey engages with themes of conflict, justice, and social transformation within the context of the country’s screen politics. Through film analysis and critical readings, students explore how cinematic form responds to issues such as nation-building, Kurdish politics, gender, migration, religion, diaspora, and minority rights.
    WiSe 2025/26 A Practical Guide to Contemporary Video Activism (in English)
    Focusing on key historical moments - such as the documentation of racist police violence in the 1990s and the visual mobilization in grassroots movements of the 2010s including the "Arab Spring", the Gezi Park protests in Turkey; students analyze the development of video activism and its shifting aesthetics, strategies and challenges that genre faces. (This course is part of the Student Conference "BLICK" program.)
    SoSe 2025 History of Kurdish Documentary Cinema (in English)
    Kurdish cinema is a national cinema that emerged in a transnational space. Developing relatively late (over a century after the invention of cinema) and with recurring themes such as memory, space, borders and language; 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 (in English)
    The objective of this course is to present the basics of filming, sound recording, and editing for the purpose of creating short videos that fall under the category of video activism. Through historical examples, case studies and discussions on social justice, framing, and positionality; students explore video activism as both a tool for advocacy and potential professional practice.


  • Conference Presentations

    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

    Advising:
    Bachelor Thesis - FB09 Institut für Medienwissenschaft

    Dilara Erdoğu - "Verkörperte Affekte: Zur Inszenierung des säkular-konservativen Konflikts in türkischen Serien am Beispiel von Kızılcık Şerbeti (2022)"

    Rana Erkan - "Inszenierung traditioneller Weiblichkeit und Sehnsucht nach Sicherheit und Nationalismus in Deutschland"

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