Coordinators
- Prof. Dr. G. Deniz Bayrakdar (Turkey)
- Prof. Dr. Nevena Dakovic (Serbia)
Project Team
Turkey Research Group
- Assoc. Prof. Melis Behlil
- Assoc. Prof. Belma Öztürkkal
- Assoc. Prof. Levent Soysal
- Dr. Özlem Avcı Aksoy
- Dr. Hilmi Bengi
- Dr. İrem İnceoğlu
- Aliye Atalay
- Selçuk Yavuzkanat, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate of Cinema, Deputy Director/Advisor
- Fatma Memici, Graduate Student
Serbia Research Group
- Doç. Dr. Ildiko Erdei, Project Member
- Doç. Dr. Aleksander S. Janković, Project Member
- Doç. Dr. Ana Martinoli, Project Member
- Doç. Dr. Aleksandra Milovanović, Project Member
- Dr. Nebojša Romčević, Project Member
- Maša Seničić, PhD Candidate, Project Member
Area of Research
The project examines the geopolitics of the Balkan region and the geopolitical relations of Serbia and Turkey. Serbia and Turkey, with shared geographies, histories, and cultures in the Balkans, will be approached in this study based on the emotions embedded in TV series and the referentiality to real and imaginary places that were read through them.
The focus is on the case studies of four genre pairs from Turkey and Serbia. The national imaginary and cultural imagination that is constructed, changed, and transferred through the drama contents in both countries and its reception; the national and transnational identities, representation of the past and the everyday life; in general, how the geopolitics of TV series work articulated in the emerging notion of geocriticism (Maoz Azaryanh & Kenneth E. Foote: 2008; Westphal 2011; M.L. Ryan: 2012).
The project is supported by TÜBİTAK-Serbia Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MoESTD) Bilateral Cooperation Program.