BİLGİ – BONN History Graduate Conference
Date: May 15-16, 2026
Place: santralistanbul Campus
The third BILGI-BONN History Graduate Conference is organized by graduate students from Istanbul Bilgi University History Department and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies and supported by Tarih Vakfı. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students and young academics from different disciplines to present their research. Beyond academic presentations, the conference aims to provide and foster an environment of intellectual exchange and solidarity through engagement of the participants with each other’s research and experiences. The conference is planned to be held at Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus between May 15 and 16, 2026.
Organization Committee
Aylin Aktaş
Sosin Aslan
Aylin Babaoğlu
Nurcan Bayram
Lütfiye Çetin
Ayşin Hızal
Yağmur Civan Uyanık
Yonca Sarsılmaz
Advisory Board
- Abdülhamit Kırmızı, Marmara University
- Başak Tuğ, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Bülent Bilmez, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Cihangir Gündoğdu, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Ebru Aykut, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Erol Ülker, Işık University
- Fatih Artvinli, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
- Fatma Öncel, Bahçeşehir University
- Fırat Genç, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Gülhan Balsoy, İstanbul Bilgi University
- İpek Hüner, Boğaziçi University
- Mehmet Kalpaklı, Bilkent University
- Murat Dağlı, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Nazan Maksudyan, Freie University Berlin
- Ömer Turan, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Şeyma Afacan, Kırklareli University
- Ümit Kurt, University of Newcastle
- Veruschka Wagner, University of Bonn
- Zozan Pehlivan - Minnesota University
Application Deadline
March 16, 2026 – 23:59
Submission & Application Requirements
We welcome submissions from graduate students at any point in their studies. Recent graduates are also welcome to submit their research. Applicants should submit (1) a single PDF document titled "Lastname_Title" containing a 350-word proposal and (2) Curriculum Vitae to historygraduateconference2026@bilgi.edu.tr.
Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 16 March 2026, 23:59
Announcement of accepted abstracts: 1 April 2026, 23:59
Conference dates: 15-16 May 2026
- Depending on the number of applicants, we intend to have 3-4 presentations for each panel, and each panelist will have 15 minutes to present their research. After each panel, there will be a 15- minute Q&A session.
- The conference program includes panels in English and Turkish. There will be no simultaneous translation during the conference.
- There will not be any online Zoom broadcast.
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