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1991'den bu yana katıldığı konferanslar:
"Nationalizing the Modern: discourses of context, culture and heritage in early republican Turkish architecture", SAH New England Chapter lecture, GSD Harvard University, 7 November 2002

"National Landscapes: Turkish Modernity and the Taming of Nature", Lecture Series of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 4 April 2002

"Architecture and National Identity in Modern Turkey", lecture series titled Turkey Unveiled, The Darien Community Association, Connecticut, 10 January 2002

"Observations on Ottomania in post-Kemalist Turkish culture", presentation for the Modern Turkey Study Group, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 7 November 2001

"Between Islam and the West: Architecture and Competing Visions of Modern Turkish Identity" and "Modern Architecture and National Expression". Two lectures for the spring lecture series of the University of Puerto Rico, School of Architecture, 17-18 April 2001

"Republican Visions and Current Revisions: Modern Architecture and National Identity in Turkey", Annual Campagna-Kervan Lectures, Boston University, 13 October 1998

"Between Empire and the Republic: The First Moderns in Turkish Architecture", keynote talk for the Interdisciplinary Conference Ottoman Empire and the Coming of the Modern State in Turkey, Jackson School of International Studies and the Middle East Center, University of Washington, Seattle, 9-10 May 1998

"From Empire to Republic: the Making of a National Style in Turkish Architecture", invited lecture for Akos Moravanzsky's course on Architecture and Identity, ETH, Zurich, 5 November 1997

"Modern House as National Ideal: Women, Architecture and Politics in Early Republican Turkey", Ph.D. Program lecture series, Princeton University, 28 April 1997

"Art, Architecture and Identity in the Making of Modern Turkey", lecture at Fairfield College, Connecticut, 21 April 1997

"Architecture and Nation-Building in Early Republican Turkey", public lecture for the Middle East Center, University of Washington, 13 January 1994 and for RPI School of Architecture, 14 October 1993

"Reflections on Glass as a Metaphor for Modernity", lecture for the Ph.D. Program, University of Pennsylvania, 9 April 1992 and Department lecture at MIT, spring 1992

Diğer Etkinlikler:
Conference co-chair: ACSA International Conference, "Orient-Occident: Identity, Geography, Space", İstanbul, 15-19 June 2001

Invited paper presenter: "Architecture and the Aesthetization of Technology: from Mechanical to Biological Metaphors", SANART International Symposium on Art and Science, Ankara, 1-3 June, 2000

Invited paper presenter: "İstanbul 1900: Ferry Landings as Markers of Urban Modernity", Architecture Culture 1900, International Conference, Buenos Aires, 1-3 September 1999

Invited paper presenter: "Nationalizing the Modern House: Regionalism Debates and Émigré Architects in Early Republican Turkey", Architecture and Exile 1933-1945: The Emigration of German Speaking Architects and the Transformation of Modernism, International Conference, Berlin Technical University, 29 October-2 November 1998 (conference organizer: B.Nicolai)

Panel organizer and chair: "Arab or Mediterranean? The Politics of Architecture in the Making of the Modern Middle East", MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 32nd Annual Conference, 3-6 December 1998, Chicago

Plenary session organizer and paper presenter: "Post-Colonial Challenges to Architectural Education", Forum II: Architectural Education for the Third Millennium, International Conference organized by Eastern Mediterranean University and İstanbul Technical University, 22-24 April, 1998, Northern Cyprus

Invited paper presenter: "Modern Movement and National Identity: The Predicament of the Cubic House in Turkey in the 1930s", Universality and Heterogeneity, DOCOMOMO International Conference, Bratislava-Sliac, Slovakia, September 1996

Invited paper presenter: "Nationalism and the Idea of Type in Sedad Hakki Eldem's Early Career", International Conference Mediterraneo: Il Contaminazione, Venice, 8-9 May, 1995 (conference organizer: Guiseppe Semerani)

Paper presenter: "Politics of Vernacular: Nationalism, Postmodernism and the Turkish House", 83rd Annual ACSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, 18-21 March 1995

Paper presenter: "Architecture in the Making of the Modern Middle East: the Case of the Ottoman/ Turkish National Style", MESA 28th Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 19-22 November, 1994

Conference organizer and paper presenter: "Rethinking the Project of Modernity in Turkey", MIT, 10-13 March 1994 (with Resat Kasaba)

Paper presenter: "Modern Architecture and Cultural Politics in Early Republican Turkey", MESA 27th Annual Conference, Research Park Triangle, NC, 11-14 November 1993

Invited Paper presenter: "Hygiene, Comfort and Function: Discourses of Modernity and Domesticity in Turkey in the 1930s", International Congress of the Turkish Economic and Social History Foundation, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 24-26 May, 1993

Panel organizer: "History and Theory across Cultural Boundaries" and paper presenter: "Modern Architecture and the Project of Cultural De-colonization", ACSA 81st Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, 13-17 March, 1993 (HTC session chaired by Stanford Anderson)

Invited paper presenter: "Modern Architecture and Cultural Politics of Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey", Kunstlericher Austauch/ Artistic Exchange, 28th International Congress of the History of Art, Berlin, July 1992 (panel chair: Renata Holod)

Panel organizer: "Modernity in the Margins" and paper presenter: "Images and Ideas of the Modern House in Early Republican Turkey" (with Gulsum Baydar Nalbantoglu), SAH Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1-5 April, 1992

Paper presenter: "Reflections on Glass", 9th Annual ACSA Technology Conference, Boston, 14-16 February 1991 (panel chair: Peter McCleary)

Paper presenter: "Metropolis and Modernity: 3rd Year Design Studio" (with Peter Parsons), NE regional ACSA Conference, Princeton, October 1990

Paper presenter: "Reflections on an Agenda for Non-Western Technologies", 7th Annual ACSA Technology Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, 2-4 February 1989

Paper presenter: "The Rise of the Architectural Profession in Chicago 1871-1909", SAH Annual Meeting, Chicago, 13-17 April 1988 (panel chair: Sharon Irish)

Paper presenter: "The Ambiguity of High-Tech: A Philosophical Questioning", 6th Annual ACSA Technology Conference, San Francisco, 6-7 February 1988

Paper presenter: Beyond East-West Problematique: Towards a Politics and Architectonics of Secular Interpretation", 5th Annual ACSA Technology Conference, Washington DC, 1-2 December 1986 (panel chair: Tom Peters)

Paper presenter: "Rationalism and Empiricism in Relation to Technology", Conference on Rationalism and Empiricism, Architectural Association, London, 27-28 February 1985 (conference organizer: Roy Landau)