06/01/2014
Established by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum in memory of academic and activist Dicle Koğacıoğlu, this year’s awards were presented on Saturday, December 28 at a ceremony following a student conference at the Minerva Palas in Karaköy.
First prize went to Pınar Ensari from Sabancı University, second prize to Nihan Bozok from Middle East Technical University (METU) and third prize to Ayşen Üstübici from Koç University. The Honorable Mention, given for the first time this year, was awarded toMehtap Tosun from METU.
Established by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum, the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards were presented on Saturday, December 28 at a ceremony following a student conference at the Minerva Palas.
The conference began with introductory remarks by Boğaziçi University Department of Sociology professor Ferhunde Özbay. Özbay discussed the work of Dicle Koğacıoğlu and her contributions to academic studies.
Following introductory remarks was a panel discussion moderated by Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Ayşe Öncü. Speakers were first prize winner Pınar Ensari (Sabancı University) with “Like a Rescued Kurd”: Rethinking the Relationship of Kurdish Women in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia with Education; second prize winner Nihan Bozok (METU) with Building Subjectivities As Stories Are Told: Mom, Dorm, Razor and third prize winner Ayşe Üstübici (Koç University) with Gender implications of irregular immigration: Risks, Integration(?), Legal Status and Access to Protection.
In the second panel discussion moderated by Begüm Başdaş of Istanbul Bilgi University, select student essays were presented. Mehtap Tosun (METU), winner of the Honorable Mention awarded for the first time this year, presented her essay A Cross Section of the Physical and Social Invisibility of Labor: The Informal Positioning of Women’s Labor in Dersim. Also presenting papers were Dilara Çalışkan (Sabancı University) with "Trans* Sex Worker Mothers and Their Daughters: The Role of Passing on Memory in the Struggle of the Trans* Community in Istanbul against Systematic Police Violence" and Ozan Soybakış (EHESS- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) with A Game of Hide and Seek in the Public Sphere: «Some Other» Men Suffering from Gender.
Dicle Koğacıoğlu Awards aim to support gender-focused studies on the society and culture in Turkey and to encourage young researchers. Also attending the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Awards Ceremony were Dicle Koğacıoğlu’s family, friends, colleagues and students.