ASLI DALDAL
Education:
Oct. 2005-April 2006: Columbia University, NY, US, Postdoctoralstudies(as Visiting
Scholar) Center forComparativeLiteratureandSociety
Aug 1996-Feb. 2002: Boğaziçi University, Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations (Combined Ph. and M.A. Degrees admitted due to high GPA and excellence in academic performance)
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “A Comparative Cultural and Socio-Political Analysis of Post-War Italian and Turkish Societies in the Context of Realism in Cinema” Thesis Advisors: Prof. İlkaySunar, Prof. CemTaylan (late)
Oct 98-June 99:DukeUniversity, Durham, US., Visiting Scholar in Literature and Critical Theory, supervised by Prof. Fredric Jameson (fellowship by TürkiyeBilimlerAkademisi-TÜBA)
1994-1996:BoğaziçiUniversity, M.A. in Political Science and International Relations (GPA: 3.75/ 4.00)
1990-1994:BoğaziçiUniversity, B.A. in Political Science and International Relations (GPA: 3.18/ 4.00 with Honors)
July 1993: ErasmusUniversity-Rotterdam, TheNetherlands: “Techniques of
Communication” by AEGEE (Summer School)
1988-1990: BoğaziçiUniversity, Department of Translation and Interpreting
1981-1988:Ankara PrivateTevfikFikretHigh School (French)
Foreign Languages:
English:Proficient
French:Proficient
German:Elementary
WorkExperience:
Jan. 2004-present:Lecturer (affiliated), Boğaziçi University, Dept. of Western LanguagesandLiterature (Courses Taught: CinemaandSocialChange, Film Theory, History of Cinema).
June 2004-present:AssistantProfessor, Yıldız Technical University, Dept. ofPoliticalScience (Courses Taught: ContemporaryPoliticalCulture, CinemaandSocialChange, Vocational English, PoliticalTheory)
Fall 2002: Lecturer(part-time), Dept. of Human andSocialSciences, Istanbul
Technical University (Film Culture), and Galatasaray University (Sociology of Cinema).
Oct 2001-June 2002: Instructor, Dept. ofHistory, Koç University (Courses Taught: History
of World Civilizations).
June 1997-Feb.2000:Instructor in French, School of ForeignLanguages,
Boğaziçi University.
June 1994-June 1997:Teaching Assistant, Dept. ofPoliticalScience International Relations, Boğaziçi University.
Papers Presented at Conferences and Talks:
May, 5-7, 2011 : Gramsci in Turkish Cinema: VedatTürkali’sBus Passengers, New Directions
In Turkish Cinema Conference: Special Focus on Film and Philosophy, Kadir
Has Univ., Faculty of Communications.
Apr. 14-16, 2011: “The Concept of National Cinema and the New Turkish Cinema”, Association
for the Studies of Nationalities (ASN) World Conference 2011, SIPA, Columbia
University, New-York.
May, 6-8, 2010: “Is there a new “Turkish” Cinema?”, paper presentation at the New Directions
In Turkish Cinema Conference, Kadir Has Univ., Faculty of Communications.
Apr. 15-17, 2010: “Ararat Reevaluated”, paper presentation at the ASN 2010 Conference on
“Nations and Nationalism in the Mind and on the Map” SIPA, Columbia
University, New-York.
Sept. 26, 27, 2008: Paper entitled “Two Oriental Images of Istanbul: Grillet’sL’Immortelle and
Erksan’sTime to Love presented at the conference “Orienting Istanbul” held by University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
October 6, 2006: Paper entitled “On EgoyansArarat: Prejudice, Postmemory, Nostalgia”
presented at “Freedom and Prejudice Conference” hosted by Bahçeşehir
University, Dept. of Communication.
October, 2006: Guest Speaker, AçıkRadyo “AksakSekans”.
November, 2005: “An Overview of Italian Neo-Realism”, Guest Speaker to “Film Theory” Class
taught by Stefano Cimmeroni, ColumbiaUniversity, FilmSchool.
August, 2005, “Social Realism in Turkish Cinema: Erksan, Guney and Ceylan”, Guest Speaker
in Turkish Language and Civilization Summer Workshop held by BogaziciUniversity, Dept. of Western Languages and Civilization.
April, 2004: Panellist, “TheItalian Neo-Realism”, Mithat Alam Center, Boğaziçi University.
May, 2004: “The 1960 Coup d’Etat and the Advent of Realism in Turkish Cinema”, Yildiz
TechnicalUniversity, Dept. of Political Science.
April 2002: “A Reevaluation of Marxist Aesthetics: Pierre Bourdieu’s Conception of Art”,
IstanbulTechnicalUniversity, Dept. of Human and Social Sciences.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. Daldal, Aslı, Art, PoliticsandSociety: SocialRealism in ItalianandTurkishCinemas (TheIsisPress, 2003) (YoungSocialScientistAward)
1b. Art, PoliticsandSociety: SocialRealism in ItalianandTurkishCinemasalsopublishedbyGorgiasPress, New Jersey, 2010.
2. Daldal, Aslı, 1960 Darbesi ve Türk Sineması’nda Toplumsal Gerçekçilik(The 1960 Coup
d’EtatandSocialRealism in TurkishCinema) (Istanbul: Homer, 2005).
Chapter in a Book:
Daldal, Aslı, “Zeki Demirkubuz’unYazgı’sı (Zeki Demirkubuz’ Destiny) Samire Ruken Öztürk (ed.) Kader (Destiny) (Ankara: Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, 2006). ReprintedfromYeni Sinema, May-June 2002.
Daldal, Aslı,“Tanzimat’tan Yön’e Osmanlı’nın Çöküş Hikayesi: Harem’de Dört Kadın”,
(TheDeclineStory of TheOttomanEmpirefromTanzimat toYön: FourWomen in the
Harem)Halit Refiğ (Ankara International Film Fest. Publ., 2003) ReprintedfromTARİH
VE TOPLUM, November 2002 (specialissue on Film andHistory).
PublishedTalks:
Daldal, Aslı, “Italian Neo-Realism” in Yamaç Okur (ed.) Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Mithat Alam Film Merkezi Söyleşi, Panel ve Sunum Yıllığı 2004 (Boğaziçi University Publications, 2006).
EditorialContribution:
“İstanbul ve Müzik” (Special Issue) İSTANBUL, April 2003.
Articles:
21. Daldal, Aslı, “Yeni Sinemamızda Siyasi Alegori Olarak Ebeveyni Öldürmek” (Patricide as a
PoliticalAllegory in Our New Cinema)HÜRRİYET GÖSTERİ, No: 305, Oct-December,
2011.
20. Daldal, Aslı, “Gramsci Türk Sineması’nda: Vedat Türkali’nin Otobüs Yolcuları” (Gramsci in
TurkishCinema: Türkali’sBusPassengers)TOPLUMSAL TARİH, No: 21 October, 2011.
19. Daldal, Aslı, “Bir Mega-Proje olarak Av Mevsimi” (TheHuntingSeason as a Mega-Project)
Yeni Film, Feb-April, 2011.
18. Daldal, Aslı, “Yeni Türk Sineması’nda İki Orta Sınıf Temsili: Kavşak ve Çoğunluk” (Two
Representations of “middleclass in TurkishCinema: CrossroadsandMajority)
HÜRRİYET GÖSTERİ, No: 302, Winter 2010.
17.Daldal, Aslı, “Ulusal Sinema Kavramı ve “Yeni Türk Sineması Üzerine”(TheConcept of
NationalCinemaandthe “New TurkishCinema”)BİRİKİM, July, 2010.
16. Daldal, Aslı, “Istanbul’un İki Oryantal İmgesi: Robbe-Grillet’nin Ölümsüz Kadın’ı ve
Erksan’ın Sevmek Zamanı”(TwoOrientalImages of İstanbul: Grillet’sL’Immortelle
andErksan’sTime toLove) TOPLUMSAL TARİH, No, 192, December 2009.
15. Daldal Aslı, “AraratandthePolitics of “Preserving” Denial, PATTERNS OF
PREJUDICE (Indexed in ArtsandHumanitiesCitation Index), Vol 41, No: 5
December 2007.
14. Daldal Aslı, “PierPaoloPasolini”, VARLIK, April , 2007.
13. Daldal Aslı, “İki Süper İlk Film” (TwoMarvelous “First Films”), HÜRRİYET
GÖSTERİ, January, 2007
12. Daldal, Aslı, “Ararat Üstüne” (On Ararat), EVRENSEL KÜLTÜR, August, 2006.
11. Daldal Aslı, “The New Middle Class as a Progressive Urban Coalition: The 1960
Coupd’Etat in Turkey”, TURKISH STUDIES (Frank CassPubl.) Vol: 5, No: 3,
2004.
10. Daldal, Aslı, “Kracauer, Basit Anlatı ve Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sineması” (Kracauer, Slight
NarrativeandtheFilms of Nuri Bilge Ceylan), DOĞU-BATI, No: 25, Winter 2003.
9. Daldal, Aslı, “Daima Lilya” (Lilya, Forever), Yeni Film, Oct-Dec. 2003.
8. Daldal, Aslı, “Türk Sinemasında Toplumsal Gerçekçilik: Bir Tanım Denemesi”, (A
Tentative Definition of SocialRealism in TurkishCinema)BİRİKİM, August 2003.
7. Daldal, Aslı, “Toplumsal Gerçekçiliğe Doğru: 1950’lerin Sinema Ortamı” (TowardsSocial
Realism, The 1950s), YeniFilm, April-June 2003.
6. Daldal, Aslı,“Tanzimat’tan Yön’e Osmanlı’nın Çöküş Hikayesi: Harem’de Dört Kadın”
(TheDeclineStory of TheOttomanEmpirefromTanzimat toYön: FourWomen in the
Harem), TARİH VE TOPLUM, November 2002 (specialissue on Film andHistory).
5. Daldal, Aslı, “Fuat Köprülü, Afet İnan ve Birinci Türk Tarih Kongresi’nde
Tartışmalar” (Fuat Köprülü, Afet İnan andDebates in The First TurkishCongress of History), TOPLUM VE BİLİM, Spring 2002.
4. Daldal, Aslı, “Zeki Demirkubuz’un “Yazgı”sı” (Zeki Demirkubuz’ “Destiny”), Yeni
Sinema, May-June 2002.
3. Daldal, Aslı,“Geleneksel Türk Solunun Kadın Temsilleri: Karanlıkta Uyananlar”,
(TheTraditionalTurkishLeft’sRepresentation of Women: Awakening in The
Darkness)TOPLUMBİLİM (specialissue on Feminist Criticism) May 2002.
2. Daldal, Aslı, “Mustafa Kemal Kültünün Toplumsal ve Ruhbilimsel Temelleri Üzerine Bir
Ön Çalışma”, (A Preliminary Analysis of thePsychologicalandSocialBases of theCult
of Mustafa Kemal), BİRİKİM, Jan-Feb.1998.
1. Daldal, Aslı, “Sanat ve Siyaset Üzerine: RobertoRossellini: Mussolini’den De Gasperi’ye”
(On Art andPolitics: RobertoRossellini: FromMussolinito De Gasperi), 25. Kare, Jan-
March 1998.
Translations:
4. Wallerstein, Immanuel, “Gözümüzün Önünde Bir Sistem Çökmekte” translatedfrom
French by Aslı Daldal, BİRİKİM, Dec.1997.
3. Baudry, Jean-Louis, “Temel Sinematografik Aygıtların İdeolojik Etkileri” translatedfrom
English by Aslı Daldal, Yeni Sinema, No:2, Summer, 1997.
2. Kurosawa, Akira, “Herkes İçin Film Yapmak” translatedfrom English by Aslı Daldal,
Görüntü, No:1, Spring 1991.
1. Paini, Dominique, “Ozu’nun Baharı” translatedfrom French by Aslı Daldal, Görüntü No:1,
Spring, 1991.
Other Publications:
12. Daldal, Aslı, “Yeni Sinemayı Düşünürken” (On New Cinema) Birgün, July, 6, 2010.
11. Daldal, Aslı, “Ahmet Uluçay’ın Anısına” (InMemoriam: Ahmet Uluçay), Radikal 2,
December 13, 2009.
10. Daldal, Aslı, “11’e 10 Kala” (10 to 11), Radikal 2, October 12, 2009
9. Daldal Aslı, “Yumurta: Minimal Bir Senfoni”, Radikal 2, November 12, 2007.
8. Daldal Aslı, “Erken Dönem Pasolini Sineması”, Radikal 2, April 1st, 2007.
7. Daldal Aslı,“Barda Neler Oluyor”, Radikal 2, February 18, 2007.
6. Daldal Aslı, “Küçük Kıyamet’i Görmeden Ölme”, Radikal 2, December 31, 2006.
5. Daldal, Aslı, “Kader”, Radikal 2, November, 26, 2006.
4. Daldal, Aslı, “Postmodern İklimler”, Radikal 2, October 29, 2006.
3. Daldal, Aslı, “Reha Erdem Sineması”, Radikal 2, October 22, 2006.
2.Daldal, Aslı, “Bir Yapımcının Gözünden Cannes: Fuat Erman’la Söyleşi”, Radikal 2, June,
11, 2006.
1. Daldal, Aslı, “Haftanın Filmi” (Weekly Film Analyses), Finansal Forum, Jan-Oct.2000.