The Women\u2019s Day Symposium titled \u201cEchoing Her: (Re)Narrating Women\u2019s History\u201d took place on March 7, at Bilkent. Organized by the Bilkent Historical Society, the Department of History and the Halil \u0130nalc\u0131k Center for Ottoman Studies, the symposium brought together scholars and students to reflect on women\u2019s voices, experiences and roles in shaping historical narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opening remarks by \u00d6yk\u00fc Demir emphasized that women\u2019s history is not simply about adding women to existing narratives, but about reconsidering how history itself has been written. By revisiting archives and overlooked sources, historians continue to highlight women\u2019s active roles in shaping intellectual life, print culture and public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first session, \u201cWomen in Print Culture,\u201d featured Prof. Seda Erko\u00e7 Yeni (Social Sciences University of Ankara) and Professor Bilge Mutluay \u00c7etinta\u015f (Hacettepe University). Prof. Erko\u00e7 Yeni\u2019s talk, \u201cMarketing Female Conduct: Male Rivalry and Print Culture in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England,\u201d explored how the commodification of women was reflected in print culture in early modern England. Prof. Mutluay \u00c7etinta\u015f presented \u201cAnger as a Radical Force: Language in Women\u2019s Liberation Manifestos in the USA during the 1960s,\u201d examining how feminist manifestos used language as a political tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second session, \u201cWomen in the Public Sphere,\u201d featured Professor Nil Tekg\u00fcl (Bilkent University) and Professor Berrak Bur\u00e7ak (Bilkent University). Professor Tekg\u00fcl\u2019s presentation, \u201cSwaying Through the Streets: Early Modern Ottoman Women\u2019s Struggle for Visibility and Mobility in the Public Sphere,\u201d reconsidered the role of women\u2019s presence in the context of the fluidity between the public and private spheres in Ottoman society. Professor Bur\u00e7ak\u2019s talk, \u201cFatma Aliye Han\u0131m and the Nisvan-\u0131 Osmaniye \u0130mdad Cemiyeti,\u201d examined women\u2019s associations during the late Ottoman period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final panel, \u201cWomen in Academia & History,\u201d featured Professor Birten \u00c7elik and Professor Seven A\u011f\u0131r (Middle East Technical University). Their discussion addressed gender dynamics within academia and highlighted women\u2019s roles as active participants in social, legal and economic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The symposium concluded with closing remarks by Esra Zeynep I\u015f\u0131k, thanking the speakers and participants and emphasizing the importance of continuing to question whose voices are heard in history. The event aimed to create a space for reflecting on women\u2019s presence and agency in both historical narratives and the discipline of history itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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