Res. Asst. ELİF KAYMAZ

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Publication

Project

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Education Information

2019 - Continues

Doctorate

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Turkey

2015 - 2019

Postgraduate

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Turkey

2012 - 2015

Undergraduate Minor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Turkey

2009 - 2015

Undergraduate

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Turkey

Dissertations

2019

Postgraduate

An Architectural History of Movie Theaters in Ankara

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture

Foreign Languages

C2 Mastery

English

Research Areas

Modern History

Radio, Cinema and Television

Performing and Visual Arts

Architecture

City and Regional Planning

Architectural Aesthetics

Architectural Design

History of Architecture and Restoration

Academic Titles / Tasks

2022 - Continues

Research Assistant

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture

2021 - 2021

Lecturer

Baskent University, Fıne Arts Faculty Of Desıgn And Archıtecture, Department Of Archıtecture

Non Academic Experience

2019 - 2022

Translator

Professional Association, TMMOB, Mimarlık Journal

2021 - 2021

Translator

University, Koç University, Suna Kıraç Library & Archives European Portal Foundation

2019 - 2020

Consultant - Translator

University, Koç University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM)

2015 - 2017

City Planner

University, METU – YTM-MATPUM (Research and Implementation Center for Built Environment and Design), Research & Planning

Courses

Undergraduate

Architectural History 1

Articles Published in Other Journals

2022

Celebration of National Days in Ankara: Performative Forms of Publicity during the Early Republican Period

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E., Sezen Ö. S.

Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi , vol.10, no.2, pp.203-228, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings

2024

Urban Morphology, Mapping and Locating Cinema Places: the Case of Ankara

Kaymaz E.

NECS 2024 Emergencies - Pre-conference Workshop "Digital methodologies in film studies", İzmir, Turkey, 25 - 29 June 2024

2024

Mediating Duty and Spectacle: Curating and Representing Public Space as Wartime Measures in Turkey (1938-1946)

Kaymaz E.

NECS 2024 Conference Emergencies, İzmir, Turkey, 25 - 29 June 2024

2024

İstanbul (will be) in Peril: Illustrating Anxiety, Air Raids and a National Emotional Regime during the Interwar Period

Kaymaz E.

EAHN 2024 Eighth International Conference, Athens, Greece, 19 June - 23 September 2024

2023

Fear, Crisis and Space: Wartime Urbanism and Policies of Passive Defense in Turkey (1939-1945)

Kaymaz E.

Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT), Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, 1 - 03 November 2023, pp.170

2023

Violated Spaces: Film Noir, Bernard Tschumi and Designing Darkness

Kaymaz E.

Darkness in the American Imagination, Madrid, Spain, 4 - 08 September 2023

2022

Visualizing Spatial Aspects of the Celebration of Festivals: Celebration of National Days in Istanbul from Ottoman to Republican Era

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E., Sezen Ö. S.

Osmanlı Araştırmaları Kongresi, İstanbul, Turkey, 7 - 09 September 2022, pp.299

2022

Crossing Borders of the City, Screen and Identity: Children, Moviegoing and National Holidays in Ankara (1929-1946)

Kaymaz E.

HoMER Annual Conference - Across Borders: Audiences, Exhibition And Reception, Rome, Italy, 4 - 08 July 2022, pp.12-13

2022

Trains, Stations, Peoples’ Houses: Spatial Experiments in Educational Film Exhibitions in Early Republican Turkey

Kaymaz E.

NECS 2022 Conference Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network, Bucuresti, Romania, 21 - 26 June 2022

2022

Official Ceremonies as Social Control Mechanisms in Ankara, 1923– 1938

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E., Sezen Ö. S.

75st Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Pennsylvania, United States Of America, 27 April - 01 May 2022, pp.192

2021

Cinematic Spectacle of Demolition or What’s Under the Debris? Francesco Rosi’s Le mani sulla città (1963)

Kaymaz E.

METU Architectural History Graduate Symposium 12: Spaces / Times / Peoples: “Dispossession” and Architectural History, Ankara, Turkey, 24 December 2021

2021

Attractions, Accidents, Affairs: Spectatorship and Places of Film Exhibition As Imagined In Early Cinema

Kaymaz E.

Journal of Sinefilozofi International Symposium on Cinema and Philosophy IV, Ankara, Turkey, 10 - 12 December 2021, pp.66

2021

Sinemalı Apartmanlar, Apartmanda Sinemalar: Seyir Mekanları Tarihine Mimari Bir Yaklaşım

Kaymaz E.

Türkiye Film Araștırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler XXI: Marjinal Minör ve Yerel, İstanbul, Turkey, 21 - 23 October 2021

2021

Enduring Buildings, Shifting Functions: The Life and Death of Ankara’s Premier Movie Theatre

Kaymaz E.

European Architectural History Network Thematic Conference: Architecture and Endurance, Ankara, Turkey, 30 September - 02 October 2021, pp.103

2021

New Cinema History as Architectural History: The Case of Büyük [Grand] Cinema, Ankara, TR

Kaymaz E.

History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception (HoMER) Network, Annual Conference, Maynooth University, Naas, Ireland, 25 - 29 May 2021

2021

‘Where the Magic Happened’ for a Few: A Micro-History of a Downtown Movie Theater in Ankara

Kaymaz E.

AHRA PhD Symposium “Researching in the City” Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 31 March - 01 April 2021

2019

When a Movie Theater Shoulders Homes and Stores: Apartment Blocks with Movie Theaters

Kaymaz E.

SanArt Association of Aesthetics and Culture 3rd Turkish Congress of Aesthetics, Ankara, Turkey, 23 - 25 May 2019, pp.126-127

Books & Book Chapters

2024

Public Space, Society and Ceremony: Spatial and Social Traces of National Day Celebrations in Istanbul

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E., Sezen Ö. S.

in: Architecture at the 100th Year of the Republic, İpek Akpınar Aksugür,Şebnem Önal Hoşkara, Editor, İdealkent Yayınları, Ankara, pp.376-411, 2024

2023

Visualizing the Spatial Context of Celebrations: National Holidays in Istanbul from Ottoman to the Republican Period

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E., Sezen Ö. S.

in: Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies, Yunus Uğur, Editor, Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, pp.293-332, 2023

2022

Spatial Scenarios for 'Vitrin': On the Functional, the Ordinary, and the Unusual

Kaymaz E.

in: Scenes from an Emergency Assembly Point, Onur Çimen, Editor, Goethe Institute, Ankara, pp.16-26, 2022

2020

2018 National Architecture Awards: Buildings, Projects, Ideas

Kaymaz E.

Mimarlar Odası Yayınları, Ankara, 2020

Supported Projects

2020 - 2022

Invention and Official Celebration of National Days in building of the nation - state in Turkey: Spatial Manifestations of Ceremonial Legitimization in Istanbul and Ankara (1908-1946)

TUBITAK Project

Tozoğlu A. E., Kaymaz E.

2015 - 2017

Research and Excavation Project for the Discovery of the Tomb of Sultan Süleyman Magnificent in Szigetvar

Project Supported by Public Organizations in Other Countries

Peker A. U. (Executive), Kaymaz E.

Activities in Scientific Journals

2022 - Continues

METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE = ODTÜ MIMARLIK FAKÜLTESI DERGIS

Assistant Editor/Section Editor

Excavation And Surface Survey

2012 - 2012

Myndos and Environment Surface Research Project

Surface Survey,Turkey,Muğla,Bodrum/Gümüşlük

Şahin M., Kaymaz E.

2012 - 2012

Burgaz-Ancient Knidos Archeological Research Project

Archaeological Excavation,Turkey,Muğla,Burgaz

Tuna N., Kaymaz E.

Memberships / Tasks in Scientific Organizations

2024 - Continues

DOCOMOMO Turkey

Member

2023 - Continues

EAHN - European Architectural History Network

Member

2022 - Continues

NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies

Member

2019 - Continues

Chamber of Urban Planners

Member

Mobility Activity

2024 - 2024

Erasmus Programme

Guest Researcher

Selbstuniversität e.V , Germany

2023 - 2023

Erasmus Programme

Guest Researcher

SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Germany

2018 - 2019

Erasmus Programme

Student Mobility

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2018 - 2018

Erasmus Programme

Intership

Eklekta Egyesület, Hungary

2013 - 2014

Erasmus Programme

Student Mobility

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

2013 - 2013

Erasmus Programme

Language Course

Universita Degli Studi di Siena, Italy

Awards

April 2024

Salt Araştırma Fonları 2024

Salt

November 2023

Conference Grant

İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü

Congress and Symposium Activities

25 June 2024 - 29 September 2024

NECS 2024 Emergencies

Moderator

İzmir-Turkey

24 December 2021 - 24 December 2021

METU Architectural History Graduate Symposium 12: Spaces / Times / Peoples: “Dispossession” and Architectural History

Panelists

Ankara-Turkey

10 December 2021 - 12 December 2021

Journal of Sinefilozofi International Symposium on Cinema and Philosophy IV

Panelists

Ankara-Turkey

21 October 2021 - 23 October 2021

Türkiye Film Araștırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler XXI: Marjinal Minör ve Yerel

Panelists

İstanbul-Turkey

25 May 2021 - 29 May 2021

History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception (HoMER) Network, Annual Conference at Maynooth University

Panelists

Naas-Ireland

31 March 2021 - 01 April 2021

AHRA PhD Symposium “Researching in the City” at Sheffield Hallam University

Panelists

Sheffield-United Kingdom

23 May 2019 - 25 May 2019

SanArt Association of Aesthetics and Culture 3rd Turkish Congress of Aesthetics

Moderator

Ankara-Turkey

23 May 2019 - 25 May 2019

SanArt Association of Aesthetics and Culture 3rd Turkish Congress of Aesthetics

Panelists

Ankara-Turkey

17 July 2018 - 14 August 2018

Pécs Talks – Urban Sessions by Eklekta Egyesület

Moderator

Pecs-Hungary

Invited Talks

December 2019