18 May 2025 Prof. Dr. Dawn Mannay
Building Bridges: Exploring how visual and creative methods can engender connections, overcome barriers and construct understandings
Dawn Mannay is Professor of Creative Research Methodologies at Cardiff University. Dawn has interests in education, inequalities, identities, and children and young people. Dawn’s most recent books on visual and creative approaches are The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis (Policy Press 2024) with Helen Kara and Alastair Roy and Sandboxing in Practice: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects and Figures (Policy Press 2025) with Victoria Timperley. Dawn is committed to working creatively with communities to produce multimodal data and disseminate the messages from research findings in innovative and accessible ways to increase the potential for social, educational and policy change and support informed practice.
19 May 2025 Prof. Dr. Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu (Emeritus)
Building Visual Bridges: Interdisciplinary Pathways in Research
Yasemin İnceoğlu was born in 1961 in Istanbul to law professor İsmet Giritli and attorney Suna Giritli. She began her education in Istanbul and continued her studies in the U.S. and Scotland due to her father’s academic assignments abroad. She graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in English Language and Literature and conducted research in Italian literature in Italy with a scholarship from the Vatican Embassy. Between 1984 and 2004, she served at Marmara University’s Faculty of Communication, where she earned her M.A., Ph.D., and later her associate and full professorships. Since 2004, she has been a faculty member at Galatasaray University, where she served as dean between 2015 and 2016. She has participated as an expert in Council of Europe meetings and has been invited as a visiting scholar at institutions such as Columbia University and the Salzburg Seminars. A founding member of the Media Watch Platform, she is actively involved in various NGOs and editorial boards. She speaks English, Italian, and French.
20 May 2025 Prof. Dr. Nermin Saybaşılı (Mimar Sinan University)
The Artist and/or The Magician: The Public Nature of Art in the Age of Neo-Despotism
Nermin Saybaşılı is Professor in the Department of Art History at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Saybaşılı received her doctorate in visual culture from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She worked at the School of Arts, Columbia University as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Her research interests include contemporary art practices and critical theory with a particular emphasis on ‘visibilities’ and ‘invisibilities’ in the regime of vision; the use of sound and voice in installation work and video art; mobility and counter-geographies; urban space and migration in the networked culture. Her articles have been published internationally in journals and books, catalogues and magazines. Saybaşılı is the author of three books in Turkish: Borders and Ghosts: Migratory Hauntings in Visual Culture (Metis, 2011), Art on Site: Ethnographic Knowledge in Visual Culture Studies (Metis, 2017), and Magnet-Sound: Resonance and the Politics of Art (Metis, 2020).