./independent scholars is a loose network of scholars from various disciplines within Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts. We are a dynamic group of scholars who come together to pursue projects independent of the various universities with which we might be affiliated.

./independent scholars aim to organize international conferences, in said areas, with a view to publishing edited conference presentations. We also want to enrich our conferences with side events like screenings, exhibitions and performances, when relevant.

./independent scholars is based in Istanbul and aim to turn Istanbul into a centre of attraction for international conferences. However we are open to anyone who might like to organize an international conference on a specific academic topic in Istanbul or would like to be on the academic committee of an international conference that is in its initial stages of planning.

For inquiries and proposed joint projects please contact us.


30/6/2008

Leyla Gediz and Derya Demir will curate the fetish exhibition at Karsi Sanat gallery, which is being organized in conjunction with the conference on fetishism.

2/5/2008

Kim Akass will deliver the Key Note Address for the conference "It Has Happened Before, It Will Happen Again: The 'Third' Golden Age of Television Fiction.

31/3/2008

Independentscholars is organising an exhibition at Karsi Sanat Gallery. The exhibition is to be held between the 19th of November and the 6th of December and will be concurrent with the upcoming conference on fetishism.

20/2/2008

./independent scholars will be one of the organisers of the Visible Evidence Conference to be held at Istanbul in 2010. Visible Evidence is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary conference on documentary that began at Duke University in 1993 and has traveled to places like Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles (2002), Bristol (2003), Montreal (2005), Sao Paulo (2006).

1/1/2007

Cynthia O’Malley will be co-editing the Buffy Hereafter Book with Tuna Erdem.

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