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Ilker Hepkaner
New York University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Email: [email protected]
50 Washington Square South
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Dept New York University
New York NY 10012
United States
ABOUT
Ilker Hepkaner is a doctoral student on the culture and representation track of New York University's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department. His dissertation research focuses on the identification of Jews from Turkey in Israel through the lens of politics of space, heritage, and visual culture. He is also working on the historiography, and visual representation of religious minorities in Turkey. He received his BA in International Relations from Galatasaray University, and his MA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona. Ilker is also a literary translator and he has co-translated Sabahattin Ali’s “The Madonna in the Fur Coat” from the Turkish with David Gramling.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Identity/Representation
Israel Studies
Minorities
Theory
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Turkey
Languages
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Turkish (native)
Hebrew (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2013 | Middle Eastern and North African Studies | University of Arizona
BA | 2010 | International Relations | Galatasaray University
Abstracts
Yilmaz Guney’s Cinema: A minority in which sense? “Who is the Woman in Furs?”: Reading Ali’s “Madonna in the Fur Coat” and Sacher-Masoch’s “Venus in Furs” Together The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul: "Narrative of Rescue" at Display Following Atatürk in Israel: Public Spaces dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Israel and the possibility of “Turkish-Jews”