GloTech Lab hosts Prof. Bilge Yesil and celebrates her pathbreaking new book, Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order. Prof. Yesil will discuss Turkish and global politics of religious victimhood, essentialization of East-West binaries, and identitarian narratives, and relate them with recent trends in US politics and the 2024 elections.

Bilge Yesil is Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island and affiliate faculty in Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on global media and communication, authoritarianism, surveillance, media ownership, and communication policy. She is the author of Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life (2009), Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State (2016), and Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order (2024), and a co-editor of The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East (2023). 

Event details

October 11, Friday, 12-1PM EST 

COMM HUB, 3/F ILC, UMass Amherst