Women and Gender Studies

The Center has placed a special focus on gender issues through a collaboration with the Center for the Study of Social Difference on its flagship global initiative, Women Creating Change and the Women Mobilizing Memory working group at Columbia. Through a series of programs and events, the Istanbul Center brought together a diverse network of scholars, students, practitioners, and socially engaged artists to address the global issues affecting women and explore how women can create change in their own societies.

Videos from our Women and Gender Studies Programs

Panel 1: Creating Alternative Archives- Part of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Panel 2: Art, Performance and Memory- Part of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Panel 3: Gender, Memory, Activism- Part of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Judith Butler's Istanbul Lecture: ‘Freedom of Assembly, or Who are the People?’
Women and Media: Gender Equality with Vuslat Dogan Sabanci

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January 31, 2022

Interview with Emeritus Professor Deniz Kandiyoti on Gender and Politics

Emeritus professor Deniz Kandiyoti has been researching and teaching gender and development studies for over 50 years, as well as working with the UN system. In advance of her Kapuscinski Development Lecture on “How did gender move to the center of democratic struggles?”, she spoke on the intersections of gender and politics and the changes she’s seen. 

January 05, 2021

Women and the Return to Poverty

While women's rights are already suppressed across the world, the pandemic has exacerbated these situations in the region during lockdowns and in an absence of adequate response. From this stems a need to host a discussion on the measures to address the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown, which has put women and girls in more vulnerable positions and let them slide into poverty further.

January 25, 2018

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! 2018 Reframing Gendered Violence Workshop Series

2018 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul is pleased to invite undergraduate students in their senior year and graduate students to an interactive workshop series to be held as part of the Reframing Gendered Violence Project. The application deadline is February 1!

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