Sümeyra Buran

It has been an incredible morale boost for me, especially as I try hard to recover from my surgery at Moffitt Cancer Center, to contribute to the 66th issue of Korean Literature Now with my review of Djuna’s Counterweight, translated into Turkish as Asansör. Happy reading!

Gave a talk at African Literature Association 49th Annual Meeting on Afrotolian Futurism: Posthuman Entanglement of Filiations in Anatolia. Thanks for the great turnout! #TrialSampleTwitter - via #Whova event app

@LinkedInHelp My account was restricted for an unknown reason. Though I verified my ID, no reply yet from @LinkedIn. As I cannot access to my account, I cannot create a ticket and reach out to the customer service!!! Why is it so difficult to reach out the @LinkedInHelp?

I am thrilled to give an open lecture/talk at BulgaCon, a national Bulgarian SF convention on Sat, Sept 23, at 19:00-19:45 (Sofia time: EEST = GMT + 2 hrs). Here is the Google Meet link: meet.google.com/uuk-ryjw-iru

I am thrilled to deliver a keynote talk on "Exploring Posthuman Fashion: Redefining the Boundaries of Identity and Aesthetics" at 3am (EST) on September 16, 2023. Here is the Teams link: llc2023.gumushane.edu.tr/en/menu-1/

Son bölüm işte burada. 🎉 Editörlüğünü yaptığım Queer-Feminist Bilimkurgu ve Fantastik roman yazarı Şeyda Aydın dosyasının son bölümü de yayımlandı. Haziran 2023 sayısında, şu linkten okunabilir. 👇✍️🌿 yerlibilimkurguyukseliyor.com/2023/06/27/ybk…

On behalf of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, the Executive Board and IAFA membership mourn the devastating loss of life, livelihoods, and homes in Turkey and Syria and issue this statement to encourage awareness and support.

Turkey has declared a fourth level alert state, an INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR HELP. For those of you around the world reading this message. Our people who are under the rubble of the earthquake in my country need your help to be saved. Pray for Türkiye (Turkey)!

Today, I received a fascinating birthday gift, a book signed by one of the most famous British Sf authors, @Gwyneth Jones. Thank you so much for your beautiful words about my contribution with an Introduction for your amazing novel Life; winner of the 2004 Philip K. Dick award.

In “Yes or No in the Dystopian Nightmare Community of Netflix’s Squid Game,” Sümeyra Buran (@buransum) explores how women’s sacrifices are both required for and naturalized as expected outcomes for the success of male characters in Squid Games #ICFA43

2021 OUTSTANDING EDITOR AWARD Transnational Press London is proud to present the Outstanding Editor Award to Dr Sumeyra Buran Utku @buransum for your excellent service as the editor of Posthumanism Book Series and Journal of Posthumanism. @buransum #journal #posthumanism

Masterworks copies of Life arrived this morning. Maybe more than you ever wanted to know about being a woman scientist, and the demise of binary (sex) genders. (Beautiful cover! & a brilliant intro from Sumeyra Buran Thank you! @buransum

.@buransum examines a city, Göbeklitepe, as the zero point for rewriting the history of humanity in “Posthuman Mysticism: From the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift” sfrareview.org/2021/10/19/pos…

My paper on the Turkish Netflix Series #Atiye, "Posthuman Mysticism: From the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift" is out! sfrareview.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/5104-t… @SFRAReview #thegiftnetflix #Netflix #Atiye #BerenSaat #mehmetgünsür

#filmforumiran Im 1. Themenblock „Modified (Hu)man“ des Film Forums beschäftigen sich Filme und Vortragende mit den Traditionen, Verletzlichkeiten und möglichen Zukünften diverser Körpermodifikationen als soziales Konstrukt. ⏰Fr, 12.11.2021, 19-22 Uhr filmforum-iran.org

I'm having a clear-out so thought I'd give away 1 of my editor copies of The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture. If you'd like this 1st edition hardback retweet this and I'll pick someone at random on Wednesday at 5pm, free P&P. #sf #sciencefiction #AcademicTwitter

I am honoured that @buransum has undertaken to write the introduction for the @Gollancz Masterworks edition of Life sfgateway.com/titles/gwyneth…

Now it is out in vol. 62, issue 3: @annhalam Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…