At Galatasaray University, Münevver salonu
Register here before 18/06/2026 at 1pm
Main event organisers:
– Mouloud Adel (GSÜ)
– Burak Parlak (GSÜ)
– Marie Hélène Sauner Leroy (GSÜ)
Workshop organiser:
– Elena Astafieva (IFEA, EHESS)
– Bager Akbay (artist) as speaker
– Emine Öztaner (Ibn Haldun University) as moderator
Bio:
Bager Akbay: Artist, Designer, Educator. Storyteller of Robot Poet Deniz Yilmaz. Bager’s artworks are exhibited in Ars Electronica, Todays Art and Transmediale festivals. He is the co-author of Programming Scratch for Kids, co-founder of Iskele47 Studio and co-curator of Istanbul Maker Faire. Bager is currently on the board of Amber Platform which hosts art and technology festivals since 2007 and Baska Bir Okul Mumkun NGO which works in the democratic school movement. Currently teaching Todays Art History at Istanbul Mimar Sinan University, Marmara University, Nesin Art Village, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and Programming for Puppeteers at Berlin Ernst Busch University and running an “Art Talk Show” at FLU TV.
Emine Öztaner: She is a faculty member in the Department of History at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. She received her PhD from the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University in 2025 with a dissertation focusing on the socio-spatial transformation of early modern Üsküdar through the case of Nurbanu Sultan’s waqf neighborhood. Her research brings together Ottoman urban history, waqf studies, spatial history, and digital humanities. She has also conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current teaching and research interests include early modern Ottoman history, comparative urban history, digital methods in historical inquiry, and the critical use of artificial intelligence in the humanities.