2023
29/5/2023 — Turin, Italy, La Stampa Interview
27/5/2023 — London, UK, BBC World Service, Losers of History
14/5/2023 — London, UK, BBC Radio Four, The World This Weekend
18/5/2023 — New York, USA, The New Yorker Interview
15/5/2023 — New York, USA, Democracy Now! Interview
10/5/2023 — Turin, Italy, La Stampa Q&A
3/4/2023 — London, UK, London Review Bookshop, Readings for Turkey and Syria
12/3/2023 — London, UK, BBC World Service, guest of the two-hour long BBC Weekend programme (with Matina Stevis-Gridness)
18/2/2023 — London, UK, BBC World Service, On Turkey’s Anger
2022
2/10/2022 — Ferrara, Italy, Internazionale a Ferrara, Ridotto del Teatro Comunale, Il leone e l’usignolo
12/6/2022 – London, UK, BBC World Service, Rebranding Turkey
19-23/5/2022 – Turin, Italy, Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, Il leone e l’usignolo
2021
13/12/2021 – London, UK, Index on Censorship, Winter 2021 Launch Party
9/12/2021 – Los Angeles, USA, Los Angeles Review of Books, LARB’s 10th Birthday & Anthology Release Party
26/11/2021 – Istanbul, Turkey, Medyascope, Islamic Tariqas on Social Media
September 2021 – Santa Maddalena Fellow, Donnini, Italy, Santa Maddalena Foundation
24/6/2021 – London, UK, BBC World Service, The Food Chain
17/3/2021 – Manchester, UK, Greater Manchester Humanists, Talk: The New Young Turks: How Occupy Gezi Transformed Secularism in Turkey
18/1/2021 – Punjab, Pakistan, University of Central Punjab, Seminar on The Lion and the Nightingale
2020
17/10/2020 – Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurt Book Fair Program, Istanbul: A City of Escape
6/9/2020 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literature Festival, Turkey: Between Fact and Fiction
28/6/2020 – London, UK, Trafika Europe, On Turkish Literature
12/5/2020 – London, UK, Bloomsbury Academic Podcast, Writing The Lion and the Nightingale
12/3/2020 – London, UK, Bloomsbury Institute, A Journey Through Modern Turkey with Kaya Genç
6/3/2020 – London, UK, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Seminar on The Lion and the Nightingale
23/2/2020 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literary Festival, Global Retreat From Multilateralism – with Vali Nasr, Maleeha Lodhi, Zahid Hussain
22/2/2020 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literary Festival, Book Launch: The Lion and the Nightingale – with Osama Siddique
21/2/2020 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literary Festival, Islamic Empires – with Justin Marozzi, Audrey Truschke
2019
21/10/2019 – London, UK, Free Word Center
6/4/19 – Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
2018
October 2018 – Santa Maddalena Fellow, Donnini, Italy, Santa Maddalena Foundation
24/2/18 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literary Festival, Writing of Nationhood in an Age of Rage – with Mohsin Hamid and Nadifa Mohamed
24/2/18 – Lahore, Pakistan, Lahore Literary Festival, The Magnificence of Istanbul – with Christopher de Bellaigue, Sinan Antoon and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
26/1/18 – Jaipur, India, Jaipur Literature Festival, Under the Shadow – with Suzy Hansen, Basharat Peer, Christopher de Bellaigue
27/1/18 – Jaipur, India, Jaipur Literature Festival, The Future of New Writing – with Joshua Ferris, John Freeman, Nadifa Mohamed, Jeet Thayil, Charmaine Craig
2017
19/8/17 – Edinburgh International Book Festival, Garden Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16.00, Under the Shadow Scotland Launch
9/7/17 – Dartington Hall, Ways with Words Festival, Devon, England, 12.45, Under the Shadow
June 2017 – Santa Maddalena Fellow, Donnini, Italy, Santa Maddalena Foundation
22/4/17 – BBC, London, 11.25, BBC Radio Four, The Cultural Frontline
17/4/17 – BBC, London, 18.00, BBC Radio Four, World Have Your Say
9/3/17 – Theatre by the Lake, Derwentwater, Keswick, Cumbria, 12.45, Words by the Water Festival
6/2/17 – University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 16.30, Under the Shadow
2/2/17 – POWERHOUSE Arena, New York, 19.00, Under the Shadow New York Launch with Molly Crabapple
1/02/17 – WNYC, New York, 12.00-12.40, Leonard Lopate Show: On ‘Under the Shadow’
30/1/17 – BBC, London, 9.00, BBC Radio Four, Start the Week
18/1/17 – Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 18.30, Lecture on Under the Shadow
2016
4/10/16 – Yaşar University Campus, İzmir, 11.35, Walking Cities Panel
25/9/16 – TRT World, Showcase, Interview on ‘Under the Shadow’
15/9/16 – London Review Bookshop, London, 19.00, The State of Turkey
12/9/16 – Asia House, London, 19.00, Turkey Beyond the Headlines
24/5/16 – TRT World, Showcase, Madonna in a Fur Coat
18/3/16 – RTÉ Radio 1, Drivetime, The strange case of Fadi Mansour
2015
14/11/15 – SALT Galata, Sansür Atölyesi: Kelimeler Olmadan Yazmak
2/11/15 – BBC, London, 11.30, BBC World Service, Newshour
4/9/15 – SALT Beyoğlu, Headless (with Maria Lind, Övül Durmuşoğlu, İsmail Ertürk)
12/6/15 – BBC, London, 8.30, BBC World Service, Newshour Extra: Turkey’s Election Aftermath
6/3/15 – BBC, London, 16.00, BBC Four, Last Word: Yaşar Kemal’s Legacy
2014
18/12/14 – Index on Censorship, Video interview about article in the Winter 2014 issue of the magazine
18/11/14 & 18/12/14 – SALT Galata, Ben, sen, o: Yazı atölyesi (Marquez, Salinger, Auster)
6/5/14 & 16/5/14 – SALT Galata, Ben, sen, o: Yazı atölyesi (Woolf, Tanpınar, Auster)
6/2/14 – Monocle – The Urbanist, Cities and religion
2013
1/11/13 – Grand Cevahir Hotel, 9.45, International Authors Forum, Opening Speech
4/6/13 – BBC, London, 8.50, BBC Four, The Today Programme
3/6/13 – BBC, London, 14.30, BBC World Service, World Update
19/4/13 – London Review Bookshop, London, 19.00, Kaya Genç in conversation with Maureen Freely (listen here)
2012
30/9/12 – BBC, London, 12.00, BBC World Service, Newshour: AKP’s decade in power
2011
18/11/11 – BBC, London, 22.00, BBC Four, “The World Tonight Programme”
(Related: “After dictatorship, what next?” – Robin Lustig on the ‘Turkish model’ for the BBC News web site)
11/6/11 – BBC, London, 10.30, BBC Four, “The Today Programme: Should Turkey Look East or West?” with Dr. Gülnur Aybet
21/5/11 – Skopje, Macedonia, 10.00-18.00, “A new image for the Balkans? On the bombing of Belgrade in Underground”, New Images – New Balkans conference, organized by the International PEN
30/4/11 – Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Koç University ANAMED, 16.00, “Blogging: Genre and Practice,” with Elif Batuman
2010
25-26-27/11/10 – Hilton Convention Center, Istanbul, Speaker in European Writers’ Parliament
15-16/4/10 – Istanbul University, Beyazıt, “Two journeys on the River Thames: Utopia and Horror, Horror” / 1st International Akşit Göktürk Conference on English Literature
2009
2-3/11/09 – Dutch Consulate, İstiklâl Street / Hollanda Konsolosluğu, İstiklâl Caddesi, “Literature and Engagement”, Winternachten Istanbul
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