Dr. Esin Gülsen-Mutlu

Academic career

• Since February 2023: Post-Doc Researcher at the Chair of Peace Studies, JLU Giessen (HessenFonds Scholarship Holder)
• 2021: PhD, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University. PhD Thesis: Restorative Role of Public Memorials and Memorialization after the Periods of Violence and Oppression: The Case of Turkey
• 2020- 2022:  Assistant Project Coordinator at the Online Encyclopaedia of Turkey Project (conducted by Center for Democracy and Peace Research, London; funded by European Endowment for Democracy)
• 2020: LL.B., Department of Law, Marmara University, Turkey.
• 2018: Research Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Institute.
• 2016-2017: Research Fellow, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
• 2012: M.A., Department of Public Administration, Mersin University, Turkey.
• 2009- 2016: Research Assistant at Mersin University
• 2005: B.A., Department of Sociology, Bosphorus University, Turkey.

Publications

• Gülsen, E. & Yılmaz, B. (ed.) (2023) 100 Years 100 Objects: Examining the History of the Republic of Turkey through Objects, Istanbul: Alfa Publications.
• Gülsen E. (2023) “Tree” in 100 Years 100 Objects: Examining the History of the Republic of Turkey through Objects, (ed.) Bediz Yılmaz & Esin Gülsen, Istanbul: Alfa Publications.
• Gülsen E. & Yılmaz, B. (2023) An Overview of the Republic of Turkey through Objects: The Encyclopaedia of 100 Years 100 Objects. Toplumsal Tarih Akademi (3), 131-135. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3467515.
• Gülsen E. (2021) “Ulucanlar Prison Museum as a Memorialization Case: Whose Memory, Dealing with Which Past?” in Transitional Justice in Turkey: Transforming Subjects, Methods and Tools, İstanbul: Truth Justice Memory Center.
• Gülsen E. (2015) “Truth and Memory on the Road to the Peace: Cases of South Africa and Argentina” (2015) in Peace Book: Psychology of War and Peace from Individual to Society, (ed) Ayşe Devrim Başterzi, A. Tamer Aker, Ankara: Turkish Psychiatry Association Publications.
• Gülsen, E., Çolak E. and Yamak, S. (2015) “Tracing Deep Scars of 1915 in Art and Literature” in Turkish Migration Conference 2015 Selected Proceedings, (ed) Güven Şeker, Ali Tilbe, “Mustafa Ökmen, Pınar Yazgan, Deniz Eroğlu Utku and İbrahim Sirkeci, London: Transnational Press London Publications.
• Gülsen, E. (2014) "Resistance Against New Working Practices in the Service Sector in Turkey", in Global Management Local Resistances, (ed) Ulrike Schuerkens, New York: Routledge.
• Gülsen, E. (2014) "Total Quality Management and its Application in Turkey", Toplum ve Demokrasi, vol. 6, no. 13-14.

Translated Books

Building Peace Together: A Practical Guide by QCEA, translated into Turkish with S. Başak Yanardağ, published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (2019), https://turkey.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf-files/barisi-birlikte-insa-etmek.pdf.

Presentations

• “Restorative Justice and Memory in Peacebuilding” in the Peace Symposium organized by Eskişehir School, June 11-12, 2022, Eskişehir, Turkey.
• “Ulucanlar Prison Museum as a Memorialization Case: Whose Memory, Dealing with Which Past?” in the Symposium on Transitional Justice in Turkey: Transforming Subjects, Methods and Tools organized by Truth Justice Memory Center, November 27-29, 2020, Online presentation.
• “Musical Habitus of the Turkish Migrants in Germany: The case of Metin Türköz and Yüksel Özkasap Songs”, with Mehmet Mutlu, Turkish Migration Conference 2017, August 23-26, 2017, Athens.
• “Returning Home: William Saroyan and Onnik Dinkjian”, Turkish Migration Conference 2016, July 12-15, 2016, Vienna.
• “Memory of the Art and Literature in Coming to terms with the Genocide: Colors, Voices, Words”, with Erdem Çolak, 14th National Social Sciences Congress, November 23-25, 2015, Ankara, Turkey.
• “Tracing Deep Scars of 1915 in Art and Literature”, with Erdem Çolak and Selen Yamak, Turkish Migration Conference 2015, June 25-27, 2015, Prague.
• “Resistance Against New Working Practices in the Service Sector in Turkey”, ISA World Forum of Sociology, August 1-4, 2012, Buenos Aires.