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Sabancı University Gender and Women Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) has started accepting applications for the 2022 Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award.

Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award Program is organized by SU Gender with the support of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in memory of our beloved colleague, friend, and sociologist Dicle Koğacıoğlu, who tragically passed away in 2009.

13 this year.the Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award, which will be awarded, aims to support gender-oriented research on Turkey and encourage young researchers in this regard.

Friday March 11, 2022, an event called “Social Services in the Fight against Violence against Women” will be organized by the Çankaya University Gender and Women’s Studies Student Community as part of March 8, International Women’s Day. Our member Gökçe Bayrakçeken Legal Entity will participate in the event as a speaker on behalf of TOCIKAD.

Within the framework of the cooperation between Ankara University Continuing Education Center (ANKÜSEM) and Women’s Problems Research and Application Center (KASAUM), the “Gender Equality Certificate Program” is being organized.

Please see  http://ankusem.ankara.edu.tr/2022/02/08/toplumsal-cinsiyet-esitligi-sertifika-programi/ for more details.

The 8th International Gender Studies Conference, which has been held regularly by Eastern Mediterranean University since 2004, will be held on May 12-14, 2022, within the framework of “GENDER & ART and Other Gender Studies”.

Sabancı University Center of Excellence for Gender and Women’s Studies (SU Gender) hosted the 11th Dicle Koğacıoğlu Paper Award Conference and Award Ceremony. This year, the articles of Biray Anıl Bir, Şeyma Gümüş and Burcu Hatipoğlu qualified for the award.

Nermin Abadan Unat Gender Studies Award

On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of our esteemed teacher Nermin Abadan, a pioneering women leader to have contributed to the development of the struggle for gender equality with her works, the Nermin Abadan Unat Gender Studies Award will be offered to undergraduate students of the Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences by the Graduate Students’ Union (Mülkiyeliler Birliği).

Şirin Tekeli 2021 Research Award

The Şirin Tekeli Research Award aims to support and encourage gender-oriented research in Turkey. The award is open to doctoral students and all researchers who have completed their doctoral degrees for a maximum of 15 years. The submitted research proposals are evaluated by an interuniversity selection committee based on international academic criteria. The amount of the award will be determined by the selection committee depending on the total number of research awarded.

Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award

Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Award is given by SU Gender with the support of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in memory of our beloved colleague, friend, and sociologist Dicle Koğacıoğlu, who tragically passed away in 2009.

Ferhunde Özbay Article Award

Ferhunde Özbay Article Award, which has been given for more than a decade now, aims to encourage gender-oriented research on Turkey and to encourage young researchers. The award is open to graduate and doctoral students and researchers who have received their master’s degree in the last two years. Submitted articles are evaluated anonymously by an interuniversity selection committee. The awards are announced to the public at a conference, followed by an award ceremony held in December of each year.

The Ferhunde Özbay Article Award, the first of which was awarded to Leyla Bektaş Ata for her work titled “Continuous Immigration Conditions in Slums” in 2018, is given by the Population Science Association, where Özbay was also founded.

Detailed information can be found on the website of the Population Science Association (http://www.nd.org.tr /) is reachable.

I would like to mention two complementary projects that I have designed to contribute to the advancement of women, gender and sexuality studies in the Near East, especially in Turkey: the “Mapping Gender in the Near East” workshop and the K24 File.

You may access the Gender and Women’s Studies Master’s and Doctoral Programs from the “Programs and Centers” menu.