I presented my research findings at the Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice: Videography in the Hands of the People conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 5 to 7 Octobre 2022. The presentation, which was titled ” Video Activism in Exile: An Ethnographic Study ” , concentrated on the ways in which exile...
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Şirin presented her paper “Experiences of Migration from Turkey to Germany: The Female Guest Worker in Contemporary Documentaries” on a panel titled “Claiming History through the Voices of Women: Documentary and Archival Practices by Women in Turkey” at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference, held in Gdansk from 10 to 14 August, 2022. The presentation explored two documentaries...
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The program for the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference 2022 has been announced! The conference, which will be held in Gdansk, Poland, on 10-14 August 2022 will be the fourth conference presentation for the project VIDEOACT. The conference’s theme this year is “Images of History” and Şirin will be presenting a paper called “Experiences of...
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Şirin presented her paper “Playful Activism of Online Mash-up Videos: Political Critique through Satire” on a panel focusing on Online Activism at the NECS conference, this year held in Bucharest from 22 to 26 June, 2022. The presentation explored the political mash-up videos of Barbar and how satire is employed to put forward a...
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The third presentation for the project VIDEOACT will take place at the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, taking place 22-26 June 2022 in Bucharest, Romania. Şirin’s presentation is titled “Playful Activism of Online Mash-Up Videos: Political Critique through Satire”, and will examine the online political mash-up videos of a new wave migrant from...
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The Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving panel workshop took place at the HAU am Ufer in Berlin on 20 May 2022. It was part of the Re/assembling Antiracist Struggles Assembly. How can we collect recorded moments of oppression and resistance, provide them with context and an identity, and use them as a resource...
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The program of the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Alternatives: Outlawed Images Conference (Colloque Alternatives cinématographiques et audiovisuelles: Images Hors-la-loi) has been announced. The conference will take place between 1-3 June 2022 in Nice, France. The conference language will be in French. I will present work related to VIDEOACT’s context – the tightening grip on film...
...READ MOREEvent: Collect, Archive and Activate Anti-Racist Struggles
A panel entitled Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving will be held at the Hau Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin in the context of the Re/assembling Antiracist Struggles Assembly. The event to be held on May 20th, 2022, from 15:00-17:00 will host four speakers who will introduce their respective activist video archival projects. Registration is required...
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How does video activism challenge dominant power structures? The latest episode of the podcast Dritte Klappe looks at the use of video as an activist tool by practitioners from Turkey who moved to Germany after the Gezi Park protests. Dr. Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF since September...
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Şirin presented the initial findings and observations of her fieldwork for VIDEOACT at the international online conference “Activating Attention: Political Videos on Social Media”, which took place on 20-21 January 2022. Şirin’s panel titled “Videos in Current Protests Movements” included scholars and activists working on protests movements in Syria, Belarus and Palestine. ...
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The schedule for the Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media International Online Conference to be held 20-21 January 2022 has been announced! The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web,” Germany, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation: Jens Eder (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Tobias...
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Image Credits: Tom Hilton (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en); Original File: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFO_Protest_(31755404714). Speakers: Tina Askanius, Marcus Bösch, Yves Citton, Tom Divon, Şirin Erensoy, Aslı Kotaman, Sandra Ristovska, Sophija Savtchouk, Kerstin Schankweiler, Josepha Wessels, and others. The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on...
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Two Fellows from Turkey at the Film University (in German)......
...READ MORE2021 European Researchers’ Night
Şirin participated in the 2021 European Researchers’ Night, held Europe-wide on November 24, 2021. The European Researchers’ Night is a Europe-wide public event, which displays the diversity of science and its impact on citizens’ daily lives in fun, inspiring ways. Şirin was part of a speed searching event which entailed meeting different groups of...
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