Department of German,Cornell University

HAUD Ph.D. Symposium, Cornell University

Faculti Media Platform. 21 mins.18 March 2024.

Preston Thomas Symposium organized by Maria Gonzalez Pendas

Panelist and workshop participant in University of Leuven, 21-22 November 2023, Leuven, Belgium.

[Earthquake, Religion and State], Keynote lecture in 100 + 100 Yil Ekolojik Notlar Symposium, TED University, 17 November 2023, Ankara, Turkey.

Sharjah Architecture Triennale II, 12 November 2023, Sharjah, UAE.

Keynote lecture in The Republic, Architecture and the City: The Legacy of 100 Years International Symposium, Istanbul Kültür University

Presentation in Cornell-Queen Mary University Transnational Migration Workshop, October 9-10, 2023, Gozo, Malta

Presentation for AURA Book Series, September 27, 2023, Istanbul, Turkey

Presentation in Relics and Resonances – Conference against an identitarian architecture of remembrance, August 26, 2023, Berlin, Germany

Keynote Lecture at Solid Sea Doctoral Symposium at Rice University

panel participant at Sharjah March Meeting and Biennale,March 12, 2023, Sharjah, UAE

lecture at University of Virginia Departmental Lecture series.

paper presentation at DOCOMOMO-SUDAN Inaugural Conference

panel, MESA 2022 Annual Conference, December 2, 2022, Denver, USA

Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Lecture at Program in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University

lecture at University of Cyprus, November 11, 2022, Nicosia, Cyprus.

online lecture at Research Seminar Umeå University, November 10, 2022, Umea, Sweden.

keynote lecture at “The Past and the Present of Modernist Heritage: The Story of Ankara” conference, November 8, 2022, B-TU, Cottbus—Senftenberg, Germany.

lecture at KottiShop, November 7, 2022, Berlin, Germany

online lecture at Warburg Institute, October 19 2022,  London, Britain

paper presentation at “Multiplicity: Five Colleges Symposium” conference organized at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, September 30-October 1, 2022, Amherst.

The Architecture Pedagogy at University of Khartoum. Esra Akcan in Conversation with Adil Mustapha Ahmed,” Organized by Mawane. August 22, 2022, Ithaca and Khartoum.

keynote lecture at Privacy Matters. How Interiors Make and Break Our Cities Conference at The Royal Academy, 20 April 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark

panel participant in Order: Spatial Ideologies of Carbon Modernity Conference at Cooper Union, April 1, 2022, New York, USA

book presentation, 20 April 2022, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

online lecture at AA MA History and Critical Thinking & PhD Debates, 25 March 2022, AA School of Architecture, London, Britain

paper presentation at “Empire’s Province into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire” Symposium. Cornell University-University of Rochester, 14-15 March, 2022, Ithaca-Rochester, USA.

invited lecture, 3 February 2022, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

panelist, Center for Architecture, 10 February 2022, New York, USA.

lecture, 15 November 2021, Near Easter Studies Lecture Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

invited lecture, 20 October 2021, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

keynote lecture at “Approaching Research Practice in Architecture” Conference, 13-14 October 2021, TU Munich, Germany.

keynote lecture at Livein Architecture Conference, September 28, 2021, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, Online.

invited lecture for Turkey Studies Network in Low Countries, ET, Denmark, Netherlands.

keynote lecture for the series June 1, 2021, 12:15 p.m. ET. Berlin Technical University, Berlin, Germany

public lecture at “Istanbul Talks” series May 26, 2021. Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

presentation at Society of Architectural Histories Workshop, May 25, 2021, 12:00—1:30 CDT. Online

public lecture for “Entangled Modernities: Perspectives of a Global History of Architecture” series. May 21, 2021. 10:00 a.m. (ET) Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.

interview by Yağmur Yıldırım, Açık Mimarlık Radio, May 19, 2021 broadcast

paper at “The City: Traces of Urban Memories” Conference,  American Academy in Rome,, Rome, Italy

public lecture at Bilgi University, Department of Architecture, May 7, 2021, 11:00 a.m. EDT, Istanbul, Turkey

(Open Architecture and Justice), public lecture at Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Bölümü, April 21, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.

Murat Yazar, Esra Akcan, Peter Christensen in conversation on "The Architecture of Destruction," Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor. April 19, 2021 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm, Online, USA

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2021, Online. USA.

invited departmental lecture at Texas Tech College of Architecture, March 10, 2021. Lubbock, USA.

invited departmental lecture at UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, February 25, 2021. San Antonio, USA.

invited speaker and discussant in Theorizing Global History Conference. Organized by GAHTC. January 16, January 30, 2021. Online.

discussant. January 25, 2021.  Online

Webinar in Ecoweek 2021. January 16, 2021, Rome, Italy.

Red Vienna-Red Berlin: Rent Policies, Migration and Social Housing Symposium, University of Bologna, December 1, 2020

invited lecture at Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, March 18, 2020, Philadelphia, USA. (Postponed to October 5 due to Covid-19)

Session “Transnational Refugee Practices and Discourses: Berlin, Istanbul, and the Urban Assemblages in Between” by Baris Ulker and Nell Gabiam German Studies Association Annual Meeting, September 30-October 4, 2020. Online

invited lecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, March 30, 2020, Urbana, USA. (Postponed to September 21 due to Covid-19)

Murat Yazar, Esra Akcan, Peter Christensen in conversation on "The Architecture of Destruction," Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor.April 19, 2021 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm, Online, USA

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2021, Online. USA.

presentation at Cornell University Migrations Forum, March 18, 2021. Ithaca, USA.

invited departmental lecture at Texas Tech College of Architecture, March 10, 2021. Lubbock, USA.

invited speaker and discussant in Theorizing Global History Conference. Organized by GAHTC. January 16, January 30, 2021. Online.

discussant. January 25, 2021.  Online

Webinar in Ecoweek 2021. January 16, 2021, Rome, Italy.

Red Vienna-Red Berlin: Rent Policies, Migration and Social Housing Symposium, University of Bologna, December 1, 2020

invited lecture at Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, March 18, 2020, Philadelphia, USA. (Postponed to October 5 due to Covid-19).

Transnational Refugee Practices and Discourses: Berlin, Istanbul, and the Urban Assemblages in Between” by Baris Ulker and Nell Gabiam German Studies Association Annual Meeting, September 30-October 4, 2020. Online

invited lecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, March 30, 2020, Urbana, USA. (Postponed to September 21 due to Covid-19)

presentation in panel, Cornell University, September 19, 2020. Cornell University. Sponsored by Institute for European Studies and CNY Humanities Corridor.

presentation in panel, Columbia University, September 18, 2020

interview by Aylin Tekiner for SanatPolitik, August 16, 2020. Online

presentation at Racism and the Future of Memorials Webinar, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, July 14, 2020, Ithaca, USA.

Webinar, Einaudi Center for International Studies Summer Passport Series, Cornell University, June 25, 2020, Ithaca, USA.

invited lecture at MIT-HTC program, April 14, 2020, Boston, USA. (Postponed due to Covid-19)

invited lecture at Yale Law School, Yale's Schell Center for International Human Rights, April 13, 2020, New Haven, USA.   (Postponed due to Covid-19)

invited keynote address in Rice Architecture Dissertation Colloquium, Rice University, March 27-28, 2020, Houston, USA. (Postponed due to Covid-19)

invited lecture at GSAS Graduate Student Center, Harvard University, March 9, 2020, Boston, USA.

Discussant at “Architecture against Democracy: Aesthetics, Nationalism, and Power” workshop organized by Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, March 6-7, 2020, New York, USA.

Fellow Presentation at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, February 19, 2020, Boston, USA

CAA 108th Annual Conference, February 12–15, 2020, Chicago, USA.

invoted keynote for “Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State” conference organized by Jaap Bakema Study Centre and University of Delft. Also includes a Panel Discussion on “Architecture and Democracy as a Research Program,”

invited lecture at MACRO ASILO Museum, November 16, 2019, Rome, Italy.

speaker at 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. Conference theme: “The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art” November 9-12, 2019, Doha, Qatar

invited keynote lecture at “Spaces of Unnationalism” conference organized by Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient(ZMO), Berlin and Society of Architectural and Urban Historians - Asia(SAUH-Asia), November 8, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Speaker at “Trauma” Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment, Princeton University, October 8, 2019, Princeton, USA

invited lecture, NYIT, October 7, 2019, New York, USA.

invited lecture at Canadian Center for Architecture, August 15, 2019, Montreal, Canada.

invited lecture at AEDES Gallery, August 12, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Conference and Workshop. ETH, May 17, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.

invited lecture, ETH, May 16, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.

Keynote address for 2019 Buell Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, May 3-4, 2019, New York, USA.

invited presentation, Ph.D. Dialogues, Yale School of Architecture, April 18, 2019, New Haven, USA.

George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857, Memorial Lecture in Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, April 18, 2019, New Haven, USA.

invited lecture, Al Nahrein University, December 26, 2018, Baghdad, Iraq.

December 18, 2018, Association of Architects, Ankara, Turkey.

invited keynote address at Mimarlık Öğrencilerine Tarih Öğretmek II Symposium, December 17, 2018, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

invited presentation, Jansen and Ankara Conference, December 13-14, 2018, Ankara, Turkey.

Presenter and workshop participant, invited presentation, Cornell University, November 8-9, 2018, Ithaca, USA.

Response “Alexander Kluge: New Perspectives on Creative Arts and Critical Practice” Conference, invited presentation, October 11-13, 2018, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

“Open Architecture” and “Intertwined Histories,” invited lecture and seminar, October 5-8, 2018, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, China.

invited lecture, Boston University, September 13, 2018, Boston, USA.

Presentation of Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87. June 11, 2018, Technical University, Munich; June 19 2018, Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Berlin; June 27, 2018, AAP-NYC Cornell University, New York; September 10, 2018, AAP-Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

Presentation in “Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Emergency Powers,” invited presentation, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, April 14, 2018, New York, USA.

invited lecture, COMSATS University, April 4, 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan.

“Art, Aesthetics and Architecture: A Conversation with Sonal Khullar and Esra Akcan. Moderated by Iftikhar Dadi,” invited presentation, LUMS University, April 3, 2018, Lahore, Pakistan.

invited lecture at Lahore Biennale, March 31, 2018, Lahore, Pakistan. (post-lecture discussion at Institute for Planners of Pakistan, April 1,2018, Lahore, Pakistan.

keynote lecture in 41st Annual Graduate Student Symposium “Tracing Erasure,” Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, March 9, 2018, Vancouver, Canada.

invited lecture at Center for Comparative Modernities (ICM) at Cornell University, October 19, 2017, Ithaca, USA.

“Open Architecture,” invited lecture and masterclass workshop at Graduate School for Social Science, Sociology Department and Critical Urbanism Institute at University of Basel, September, 25-27, 2017, Basel, Switzerland

Presentation in “Junior Faculty Manuscript Spotlight,” Middlebury College, April 28, 2017, Middlebury, USA

invited presentation in “Restless Matters: the Socio-Political Lives of Historical Sites and Objects in the Middle East,” Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, April 14, 2017, Washington, USA

invited presentation in Canadian Center for Architecture

Presentation in “Finding Refuge: Istanbul, Berlin” Harvard-Mellon Initiative Symposium, Harvard University

Harvard University, 2-3 March 2017, Cambridge, USA.

invited lecture at Universität Duisburg-Essen, December 14, 2016, Essen, Germany.

invited lecture at Technische Universität München, December 8, 2016 Munich, Germany

invited lecture at Royal Institute of Art, December 6, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

invited presentation at Berlin-Istanbul Lecture Series on Urban Space and Refugees, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, November 26, 2016, Berlin, Germany

invited presentation at Cranemere Senior Advisor Network Meeting, November 22, 2016, Berlin, Germany

invited lecture and workshop at ICI-Berlin, October 10-11, 2016, Berlin, Germany.

“Buildings that die more than once in Berlin-Kreuzberg,” invited lecture at the American Academy in Berlin, September 22, 2016, Berlin, Germany.

“Absence and Transverse: Translations across time, space and medium in Istanbul,” invited lecture at the Graham Foundation, June 30, 2016, Chicago, USA.

Keynote Speaker and discussant at “Urban and Architectural Translations in Modern Asia” graduate student conference, University of Hong Kong, 27-28 May, 2016, Hong Kong, China.

Presentation at “Future Fields: Global Methodologies and Art of the Middle East” symposium, Smith College, March 31-April 2, 2016, Northampton, USA

“Open Architecture, Rightlessness and Citizens-to-come,” invited speaker for “Race and Modern Architecture,” GSAPP, Columbia University, February 26-27, 2016, New York, USA.

invited speaker at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning,” University of Michigan, February 24, 2016, Ann Arbor, USA

invited keynote speaker for the “Human Migrations and Borders” symposium, organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Binghamton University, November 13, 2015, Binghamton, USA.

(Open Architecture and Statelessness), invited lecture at TED University, October 30, 2015, Ankara, Turkey.

(Architectural Intention and Archeology), invited speaker at SALT Institute, October 24, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

Left Forum, 31 May 2015, New York, USA

invited lecture at University of Sydney, May 22, 2015, Sydney, Australia.

Participation in the Panel organized by Buell/NMPH at the Society of Architectural Historians, April 17, 2015, Chicago, USA.

invited lecture at Princeton University, April 2, 2015, Princeton, USA

invited lecture at Rochester University, February 17, 2015, Rochester, USA.

invited lecture at series ‘Islamic’ Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, January 29, 2015, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University, New York, USA.

City Planning Lecture Series, November 21, 2014, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

invited speaker at conference, Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Field of Turkish Studies, October 10-11, 2014, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

Presentation at Left Forum. Panel: “Gezi Resistance,” May 30-31, 2014, New York, USA.

invited speaker at conference Contemporary Architecture, Lebanese American University, April 24, 2014, Beirut, Lebanon

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 9-12, 2014, Austin, USA.

invited lecture at Brown University, February 26, 2014, USA

invited speaker at conference Talk Turkey: Life After Gezi, October 4-5, 2014, New School, New York, USA.

invited speaker at symposium Henry van de Velde and the Total Work of Art--12th International Bauhaus Colloquium, April 4-7, 2013, Weimar, Germany.

invited speaker at Collins/Kauffman Forum, Columbia University, 27 March 2013, New York, USA.

invited speaker at symposium Achtung Berlin. Yale School of Architecture, 14-16 February 2013, New Haven, USA.

invited lecture at Graham Foundation, January 16, 2012, Chicago, USA.

invited lecture at Oberlin University, November 19, 2012, Ohio, USA.

invited speaker at symposium Strangers in Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement, organized by Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti (UCLA). UCLA Hammer Museum, November 8-9, 2012, Los Angeles, USA.

invited lecture at Kadir Has University, October 8, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited speaker at symposium Re-ACT (Re-reading Architecture as Cultural Transformation / Kültürün İzlerini Mimarlık Üzerinden (Yeniden) Okumak), TSMD, June 14, 2012, Ankara, Turkey.

invited lecture at UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, May 7, 2012, Los Angeles, USA.

Graduate Student Conference, GSAPP, Columbia University, May 5, 2012, New York, USA.

paper at CAA 100th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2012, Los Angeles, USA.

invited lecture at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Humboldt University, January 23, 2012, Berlin, Germany.

Invited speaker at PROGRAM: Artifacts and Interaction: 200+ Years of German-Turkish Interactions in Material Culture, January 16, 2012, Berlin, Germany.

Invited participant in Clark Workshop International Initiatives and Regional Collaboration, Clark Institute, 2-3 November 2012, Williamstown, USA

invited speaker at symposium Centenary of Journey to the East, The role of travelling in architects’ formation, Le Corbusier Foundation and Bilgi University, 7-8 October, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited lecture at Clark Art Institute, September 27, 2011, Williamstown, USA.

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 13-17 2011, New Orleans, USA.

Invited speaker in The Future of History A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, April 1-2, 2011, Ann Arbor, USA.

invited lecture at Northwestern University, February 17, 2011, Chicago, USA.

invited speaker at symposium 50 Jahre türkısche Arbeitsmigration in Deutschland, organized by Şeyda Özil and Yasemin Dayıoğlu Yücel, Istanbul University, 12-14 October, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited speaker at symposium Osmanlı Başkentinden Küreselleşen İstanbul'a: Mimarlık ve Kent, Istanbul Technical University, 15-16 October, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited lecture at Munich Technical University, July 20, 2010, Munich, Germany.

invited Rudolf Arnheim Professor Lecture at Humboldt University, July 14, 2010, Berlin, Germany.

invited speaker at symposium Zoom Out. Making and Unmaking of Orientalism through Photography, Getty Research Institute, May 6-7, 2010, Los Angeles, USA.

Invited participant in Islamic Art. Its Place in Europe – Past and Present. Symposium organized by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, March 4-6, 2010, Dresden, Germany.

paper at CAA Annual Conference, February 11, 2010, Chicago, USA.

Invited participant in EUWOL Anthology Meeting, 16-17 January, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.

invited lecture at McGill University, November 13, 2009, Montreal Canada.

invited lecture at Canadian Centre for Architecture, August 13, 2009, Montreal, Canada.

invited lecture at University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace and Justice Theater, May 6, 2009, San Diego, USA

invited lecture at Getty Research Institute, May 3, 2009, Los Angeles, USA.

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 1-5, 2009, Pasadena, USA.

Invited participant in Art and Transnationalism Forum, Art Journal Forum at CAA, February 26, 2009, Los Angeles, USA.

invited speaker at Clark-Getty Conference on Art History and Environment, October 10-11, Williamstown, USA; February 29-21, 2009, Los Angeles, USA

invited speaker at HTC Conference at Department of Architecture, Florida International University, November 21, 2008, Miami, USA.

Paper presentation and round table participation in EUWOL Symposium, January 23-26, 2008, Tours, France.

invited keynote address at Middle East Technical University Doctoral Research Symposium, December 24, 2007, Ankara, Turkey.

invited speaker at symposium Cold War Culture, Columbia University, May 4-5, 2007, New York, USA.

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 26-29, 2006, Savannah USA.

invited speaker at World Literature Today, Puterbaugh Conferences, University of Oklohoma, April 18-22, 2006, Norman, USA.

invited lecture at Berkeley University, February 27, 2006, Berkeley, USA.

invited speaker at symposium and panel discussion at 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals, November 4-7, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited speaker at panel discussion at the National Arts Club, with Michael Sorkin, Andrew Zago, Joshua Bolchover, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. Moderated by Kyong Park and Peter Lang, September 16, 2005, New York, USA.

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 6-10, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.

invited lecture at Bryn Mawr College, March 31, 2005, Philadelphia, USA.

Invited speaker in Debate: Beyond “non-Western.” Rethinking the Professional Curriculum with Anthony Vidler, Gayatri Spivak, Sandhya Shukla, Hosted by Reinhold Martin, Columbia University Lecture Series, February 7, 2005, New York, USA.

invited lecture at University of Pennsylvania, January 24, 2005, Philadelphia, USA.

invited presentation at Center for Architecture, March 10, 2004, New York, and at Columbia University, April 9, 2004, New York USA.

invited speaker at ARC Lecture Series at Berkeley University, February 25, 2004, Berkeley, USA.

paper at CAA 92nd Annual Conference, February 18-21, 2004, Seattle, USA.

invited speaker at symposium Urban Flashes – Istanbul, September 6-11, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.

invited lecture at Columbia University, GSAPP, July 9, 2002, New York, USA.

paper at ACSA International Conference, June 15-19, 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.

paper at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 18-22, 2001, Toronto, Canada.

Invited round table speaker in “Globalization – Trends in International Real Estate Investment and Development,” Director: Michael Buckley, The Columbia Real Estate Round Table, March 20, 2001, Columbia University, New York, USA.

paper at 2000 ACSA National Meeting, Los Angeles, March 11-14, 2000. Also accepted for ACSA International Meeting in Hong Kong, June 11-14, 2000.

Nominated and chosen as representative of ACSA Regional Meetings in 2000 ACSA National Meeting, March 11-14, 2000, Los Angeles, USA

Originally presented in: 1999 ACSA West Central Regional Meeting, Fargo, September 24-26, 1999.

“La Turquie Kemaliste” State, Architecture and Publicity,” paper at MESA 99 Annual Meeting, November 19-21, 1999, Washington, USA.

paper at Design Thinking Research Symposium at MIT, April 23-25, 1999, Boston, USA.

paper at Hypothesis 3, Symposium at Princeton University, February 12-13, 1999, Princeton, USA.

“Promoting Orientalism in the Orient. Contemporary Tourism (Entertainment?) in Turkey,” invited Lecture at Columbia University, April 17, 1997, New York, USA.

(Deconstruction and Architecture), invited speaker at lecture series 70 Sonrası Mimarlık - Tartışmalar (Post -70 Architecture - Discussions), Architects’ Association, March 29, 1995, Ankara, Turkey.