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Laçin TUTALAR PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, 817 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 *Currently off-campus, on fieldwork-visit in Turkey for Fall 2018. Email: [email protected]
AREAS OF INTEREST
Soundscape Studies, Emotional and Affective Geographies of Music, Urban Art; Mediterranean Geographies; Violent Spaces; Qualitative Methods.
EDUCATION
PhD, Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington. August 2011– (continued). Dissertation: Soundscapes of youth and the state in urban public spaces of Istanbul. Advisor: Anna Secor
M.S., Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 2004–2007. Thesis: Globalization and shopping malls in Ankara: four cases. Advisor: Sencer Ayata
B.A., Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. 1999–2004. Independent Study: A Discussion of Differentiated Citizenship in Turkey. Advisor: Deniz Yükseker
PUBLICATIONS
Tutalar, L., 2016, ‘Sesli kamusal alanları ararken bir saha anlatısı: Etik kurulundan çıkıp sokak müziğini dinlemek’ [‘A narrative of fieldwork in search of sonorous public spaces: getting out of IRB and tuning in to the street music’], Modus Operandi: İlişkisel Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [Journal of Relational Social Sciences], Issue 4, Urban Studies: Critical Approaches. (In Turkish)
BEYOND THE ACADEMIA:
Tutalar, L . 2018. ‘Normal bir Kesinti’ [A regular interruption], A.I. D.+ Zine, N.8, December 2018.
TRANSLATIONS: ‘Dünyanın Sefaleti’ [La Misère du monde; The Weight of the World]. Pierre Bourdieu et al., Heretik Books. Ankara, September 2015. Translated the 6th chapter on Inheritance into Turkish.
CONFERENCES and TALKS
As PANELIST
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‘‘Art/Representation’’, 22nd Annual Conference on Critical Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 23-25 October 2015.
As PRESENTER ‘’Normal bir Kesinti: Sokak Müziğinin Kesintili ve Akışkan Halleri’ [A regular interruption: Street Music Interrupted and Flowing], PAR/ A.I.D. at Torun Art Gallery, 15 December 2018. Ankara, Turkey.
‘’A weird art map of the city: listening to the refugee, power and vulnerability’’, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, 1 April 2016.
“Happiness, Peace and Fear when the Street Musician Broadcasts in Istanbul's Streets: Encounters with Street Music and Looking for a Public That Listens”, Istanbul Studies Center (ISC) Fellows Symposium, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 14 May 2015.
“Moving with a Crowd, Singing to a Crowd”, Spaces of Attunement Symposium: Life, Matter, and the Dance of Encounters, Cardiff University, School of Geography, UK, 30-31 March 2015.
“Music in Place: a festival in the neighborhood, a festival in mind, a festival in discourse”, AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA, 10 April 2013.
“Mediating power through one’s body and emotional labor: reproducing private space in a public setting?”, 19th Annual Conference on Critical Geography, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2-4 November 2012.
“Consumer´s place in the mall: reflections of the global and the local in four shopping malls in Ankara.” Poster Presentation, 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2009.
As DISCUSSANT: ‘‘Geographies of Media XVII: Musicscapes and Spaces of Music (2)’’, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, 1 April 2016.
“İstanbul'da gençlik mekanları: Kamusal Alanda Müzik, Şehrin Ses Manzarasında Saklı Gençlik ile İktidar [Spaces of Youth in Istanbul: Music in Public Space, Youth and Power hidden in the Soundscape of the City]”, Guest-seminar with Sociology class, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey, 7 May 2015.
AWARDS, GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
International Student Tuition Scholarship, International Student & Scholar Services, University of Kentucky ($1000). Fall 2018.
Barnhardt-Withington Funds, Travel bursary to finalize fieldwork, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. ($400), March 2018.
International Student Tuition Scholarship, International Student & Scholar Services, University of Kentucky ($1000). Spring 2016.
Travel Bursary, Spaces of Attunement: Life, Matter, and the Dance of Encounter Symposium, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. (£400)
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March 2015
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Istanbul Studies Center, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. October 2014 – May 2015
Dissertation Enhancement Award, University of Kentucky Graduate School ($3000) March 2014
Barnhardt-Withington Funds, Preliminary Research, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. ($950). March 2013.
Merit Scholarship, Koç University, Istanbul. September 1999- May 2004
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
“Role of Religion in Public Life”. Research Assistant to PIs: Anna Secor, University of Kentucky, and Banu Gökarıksel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2015 – Fall 2015.
Ethnographic interviews and sound-mapping with buskers-musicians and event organizers; Surveys with youth on soundscapes of the city, Dissertation Data Collection, Istanbul, Turkey, Summer 2014- Summer 2016.
“Women Entrepreneurs in Turkey”, Multi-city Fieldworker for Project Coordinators: Yıldız Ecevit, METU, and İlknur Yüksel Kaptanoğlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey, January – March 2014.
“What is it like to be at a music festival?”, Preliminary dissertation research, Istanbul, Turkey. Summer 2013.
Interviews with sales staff in shopping malls; Fieldwork for master’s thesis, Ankara, Turkey. March – June 2006.
SERVICE
Microteaching Group Leader, Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant Orientation, Graduate School, University of Kentucky. (Served as one of several group leaders, working with ten new teaching assistants at a two-day workshop), August 2017.
Help Coordinate Extra Accommodation for Conference Presenters, 23nd Annual Conference on Critical Geography, University of Kentucky, October 2016.
Volunteer, World Refugee Day, ASAM (Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers & Migrants), Ankara, Turkey, Summer 2005.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Primary Instructor, GEO 172 Human Geography, University of Kentucky, Spring 2018. Online Instructor, GEO 261 Global Dynamics of Health & Disease, University of Kentucky, Winter 2018. Teaching Assistant, GEO 261 Global Dynamics of Health & Disease, University of Kentucky, Fall 2017. Teaching Assistant, GEO 261 Global Dynamics of Health & Disease, University of Kentucky, Spring 2017. Teaching Assistant, GEO 261 Global Dynamics of Health & Disease, University of Kentucky, Fall 2016. Primary Instructor, GEO 326 Geography of Europe, University of Kentucky, Fall 2013. Primary Instructor, GEO 172 Human Geography, University of Kentucky, Spring 2013. Teaching Assistant, GEO 160 Lands and People of the Non-Western World, University of Kentucky, Fall 2012. Teaching Assistant, GEO 163 Global Conflicts, University of Kentucky. Spring 2012. Teaching Assistant, GEO 160 Lands and People of the Non-Western World. Fall 2011.
TRAINING, WORKSHOPS and CERTIFICATES
Grad Degree+ Certificate on Workplace Leadership, Communication and Resolving Conflict. University of Kentucky Graduate School, Office of Professional Development. September 2016- May 2017
Voiceover Training, Başkent İletişim Akademisi, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. April – October 2014
Research Proposal and Grant Writing Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. Spring 2013
Affiliated with Critical Pedagogy Reading Group, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. Spring 2013
Affiliated with “disClosure” Editorial Collective, University of Kentucky. Spring 2012
Future Faculty in Geography, Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. Spring 2012
Teaching Practicum, Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. Fall 2011
Student Assistant to Dr. Deniz Yükseker, Department of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul. October 2003 - June 2004
Intern: Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies [think tank discontinued], Ankara, Turkey. September 2003
LANGUAGES
Turkish (native), English (fluent), Italian (upper intermediate).
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French (beginner) Arabic (beginner)
SOFTWARE LITERACY
MaxQDA Atlas.ti SPSS