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)

Doktora (Ph.D.)

Lancaster University
Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi
Sosyoloji Bölümü, 2011

Lisans (B.A.)

Boğaziçi University
İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi
Ekonomi Bölümü, 1996