Join us for a talk by Emek Ergun, author and expert in global and women's and gender studies, in conversation with Berfin Çiçek, University of Washington Near and Middle Eastern Studies doctoral student. This talk will explore the political role of translation in facilitating transnational feminist transformations and connectivities by drawing on her reception studies that explored the transatlantic journey of Hanne Blank’s Virgin: The Untouched History – a popular feminist book demystifying the man-made histories of virginity in western geographies – via her Turkish translation.

Emek Ergun is Associate Professor of Global Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at UNC Charlotte. Her first single-authored book, Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023. Ergun is also the co-editor of Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives (Routledge, 2017) and the 5^th edition of Feminist Theory Reader (Routledge, 2020).

This lecture is in honor of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi.