Ebru Çiğdem Thwaıtes Diken

Areas of Interest

• Film and Social Theory
• Gender and Female Subjectivity
• Director’s Ethics
• Scandinavian Cinema
• Digital Visual Cultures

Rewards and Achievements

• BAP, İstanbul Bilgi University Research Fund: ‘Algorithm and Visual Culture’ (2020 – 2021)
• TÜBİTAK, 2232, Repatriation Scientist Support Fund (2014-2016) - Project: ‘Politics, Theology and the New Turkish Cinema in the Society of Spectacle’
• British Federation of Women Graduates, PhD Grant (2006-2007)

Publications

International Books

• Sezen, Çiçekoğlu, Thwaites Diken, Tunç (eds, 2021) Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2018). The Spectacle of Politics and Religion in Contemporary Turkish Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

International Indexed Journals

• Erdede, R.; Thwaites Diken, Ebru (2022, in progress) Scaling Intimacies in Apithatpong Weerasethhakul’s Tropical Malady. Kritika Kultura. Issue 39, August
• Türe Can; Thwaites Diken (2020) ‘Cinema and Digital Platforms: Post-Pandemic Configurations of Text, Context and Technology’. Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography
• Thwaites Diken, E.C.; Erdede, Ruken Doğu (2020) ‘Touch Me Not: The Ethics of Intimacy’. Journal for Cultural Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/147975...
• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2019). ‘An Ethnography of Filmscapes: Borders of the Legal and the Legitimate’. Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography. Vol 9. Supplement 2. April.
• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2017). ‘The Relationship of Cinema to Philosophical Thought: Badiou and Deleuze’. Sine Cine: Journal of Film Studies. 8 (1). 
• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2015) Ulak (The Messenger): A Mystic Fable of Islamic Messianism, Journal for Cultural Research, Lancaster, UK (DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2015.1084817)
• Thwaites, E.C. (2014) ‘Foucault and the Event of God’ (book review), David Galston, Foucault Studies, Copenhagen

International Book Chapters

• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2020). ‘Introduction’ in Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television (eds Sezen, Çiçekoğlu, Thwaites Diken, Tunç). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 
• Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2020). Gendering Inside / Outside in Susanne Bier’s Films: Brothers, In a Better World and Bird Box’ in Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television (eds Sezen, Çiçekoğlu, Thwaites Diken, Tunç). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 
• Atalay, N. & Thwaites Diken, E.C. (2018) ‘Gerçekliğin İmalatı: Hakikat Sonrası ve Sosyal Medya’ in ‘Gerçeklik, Arzu ve Göçebelik Üzerine’ (eds Zülküf Kara) Konya: Çizgi Yayınları

National Peer-Review Journals

• Thwaites Diken, E. C. (2017). ‘Dijital Gözetim ve Yeni Medya Toplumsallığı: Oyun (Game), Büyülenme (Captivation) and Birey-Kaçlık (Dividuality)’. Sosyoloji Divanı. 9. Sayı. Nobel Publications.

Chapters in Peer- Reviewed Books (national)

• Thwaites, E.C. (2014)   ‘İmparatorluğun Siyasi Coğrafyası: Oryantalizm ve Bölgeselleştirme Ekseninde Türkiye ve Arap İsyanları, içinde ‘Türkiye’nin Coğrafi Dünyası: Hayali Coğrafyalar,  Çarpışan Anlatılar’ Yeşiltaş, M; Durgun, S. (eds), Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul 
• Thwaites, E.C. (2012)   ‘İktidar, Haz ve Hınç: Kadınlar ve Despotlar’, ‘Sinemanın Diğer Disiplinlerle  İlişkisi’ Yaşartürk, G. (eds.), Doruk Yayınları, Ankara
• Thwaites, E.C. (2012)   ‘Çoğunluk’, ‘Bir Kapıdan Gireceksin’ icinde (eds) Arslan, T., Metis Yayınları, İstanbul 
• Thwaites, E. C. (2007) ‘Politics and Practise in Economic Geography’ (book review) Tickell, Sheppard, Peck and Barnes (eds), Sage Publications, London (2007) in www.econgeog.org.uk

Conference Proceedings

• Ertürk, Devrim; Thwaites Diken, Ebru (2016) ’Ritual, Culture and Power: A Socological Analysis of Camel Wrestling in the Context of the Film `Çökertme’’ First International Selçuk-Ephesus Symposium on the Culture of Camel Dealing and Camel Wrestling’. İzmir 

Courses

• Film Cultures
• Film and Ideology
• Film and Society
• Cinema and Senses
• Visuality, Politics and Culture (MA Course)
• MA Colloquium

Selected Conferences

• Thwaites, E.C. ‘Touch Me Not: Body, Sexuality and Intimacy’ Media, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Europe: Resistances and Redefinitions through Performances, Productions and Consumption. University of Padua. Padua, Italy (2019)
• Thwaites, E.C. ‘The New Wave of Screen Dystopias: Comparative Analysis of The Handmaids Tale and Power’ Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change: The 20^th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society. Monash University. Tuscany, Italy (2019)
• Thwaites, E.C. (with Nurdan Atalay) ‘Toz Bezi: Karşılaşmalar, Çatışmalar, İşbirlikleri’ IX Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi. Ankara (2019)
• Thwaites, E.C. ‘Gendering Home (Oikos) and Abroad (Polis) in Susanne Bier’s Films: Brothers, In a Better World’. Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television. İstanbul (2019)
• Thwaites, E.C. ‘Street Art and the European Dream: İstanbul, Lisbon and Athens’. European Sociological Association, 19^th Conference. Athens (2017)
• Thwaites, E. C. (co-authored with Nurdan Atalay) ‘Selfie Bize Ne Söylüyor:    Bakarken Bakılmak’. Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (2016)
• Thwaites, E.C. (co-authored with Atalay, N.) ‘Taşrada Üniversite: Alanda Yeni  Aktör’ Pierre Bourdieu Sempozyumu, Akdeniz University, Antalya (2016)