Research Talks

 “Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema, and Media: A Celebration and Exploration” ELL Talks at TED University, Ankara, Turkey, January 2025.

 “From Third Cinema to Accented Cinema: Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven.” Guest Lecture at ENGL 215: Global Studies in Race, Culture and Power: Globalization in Literature and Film offered by Dr. Ben Stanley, University of Delaware, March 7, 2024.

“Spinning-Off Contemporary Politics: Mexican Folklore, the Chicano Movement and Nazism in City of Angels.” Association of Adaptation Studies Conference: (In)Visible Adaptation: Diversity and Inclusion. Roundtable: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster. University of Lisbon, Portugal. June 23-25, 2022.

“National Cinemas Under Political Orthodoxies: Remaking Practices of Yeşilçam Cinema.” Reframing the Turkish Film Remake. Academic Symposium. King’s College London, UK. April 11, 2022.

“Absence of Reception in Transnational Film Remakes.” To Be Continued: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations. Panel on Reception. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. September 23-24, 2021.

“Restoration of Memory and Media in Cinema Paradiso and Its TV Adaptation.” Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference: Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth. Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1-4, 2025. (forthcoming)

“Beyond Academia: Leveraging Archives and Digital Humanities in Adaptation Studies for Public Engagement.” 56st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association: (R)EVOLUTION, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA, March 6-9, 2025. (forthcoming)

“From Anti-Aging to Inclusive Narratives: Cross-Cultural Media Practices in Cinema and Beauty Industries.” The Fourth Virtual Joint Conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies: Adaptation and Aging. February 2025. (forthcoming)

“Melting into the Land: Adaptation, Environment, and the Body in Julie Taymor’s The Tempest” Literature/Film Association Annual Conference: Recognition and Empathy, York College of Pennsylvania, September 26-28, 2024.

“Adaptations as Survival Tools Under Political Orthodoxies: Metin Erksan’s Auteur Cinema.” Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts USA. March 14-17, 2024.

“Weimar/Nazi/Post-War German Cinema’s Remaking Practices: Alraune Returns Again and Again.” Literature/Film Association Annual Conference: Work and Play, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. October 20-22, 2022.

“Border Crossing in/of Transnational Film Remakes.” 51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association: Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA, March 5-8, 2020.

“Rethinking Transnational Remakes and Remaking Practices: The Case of Turkish Cinema.” 14th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference: Adaptation and Modernisms: Establishing and Dismantling Borders in Adaptation Practice and Theory, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. September 19-20, 2019.

“Where Did All the Turkish Mockbuster Films Go?” Literature/Film Association Annual Conference: Reboot • Repurpose • Recycle, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. September 12-14, 2019.

“Remaking the Genre: Performance of Space in the Cross-Cultural Adaptations of Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai Films.” Literature/Film Association Annual Conference: Space, Place & Adaptation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. November 29-December 1, 2018.

“A Turkish Young Frankenstein Redefines Politics of Remaking.” 90th South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference: Fighters from the Margins: Socio Political Activists and their Allies, Association of Adaptation Studies Panel, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. November 2-4, 2018.

“Spatial Identities: Urban City as the Modern Anti-Hero in Public Enemy and Scarface.” Film and Media History Conference: Stars and Screen, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA. September 27-29, 2018.

“Materialization of the Immaterial: Screening Nostalgia through Brideshead Revisited.” 12th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference: Returns, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. September 18-19, 2017.

“From Congo to Vietnam: Apocalypse Now as a Contextually Differentiated Adaptation of Heart of Darkness.” 10th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. April 14-16, 2016.

“Late Victorian Juvenile Periodical Girl’s Own Paper as a Fin De Siècle Precursor to Modern Participatory Culture.” Adaptation and Perception: Media Convergence Conference, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany. December 3-5, 2015.

“‘No More Let Life Divide...’: Victorian Metropolitan Confluence in Penny Dreadful.” Co-written with Sinan Akıllı. 10th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference: Adaptations and the Metropolis, University of London, London, UK. September 24-25, 2015.

Öz, Seda. “Analysis of Robinsonades from a ‘Bakhtinian’ Adaptation Studies Perspective: Elizabeth Whittaker’s ‘Robina Crusoe and Her Lonely Island Home.’” 9th International IDEA Conference: “Studies in English,” İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey. April 15-17, 2015.