Visiting PhD Student | Winter 2027

Contact : althea.karadag@inalco.fr

Presentation

Althéa Karadağ is a PhD candidate in contemporary cultural history at the Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies and Research (CERMOM), at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris), under the supervision of Alexandre Toumarkine and Timour Muhidine. She holds a master’s degree in Turkish studies, with a specialization in arts and literature, from INALCO. Her PhD thesis, entitled “Art and Women in Struggle: The Contemporary Art Scene of Turkey from the 1960s to the Present,” focuses on politically engaged artistic practices by women artists from Turkey. At the intersection of art history, cultural history, and gender studies, her research examines mechanisms of (in)visibility in art historiography, forms of feminist resistance to dominant state narratives, and transnational artistic circulations.

Areas of expertise

• Cultural and political history of contemporary Turkey
• Contemporary art history in Turkey
• Art and political engagement in authoritarian contexts
• Women artists from Turkey
• Prison art and literature
• Collective memory, dissident narratives, and life writing
• Mobility, diaspora, exile, and transnational circulations
• Writing and representation of the body in contemporary art

Publications

 « Compte rendu d’exposition, Algérie mon amour, artistes de la fraternité algérienne (1953-2021) », Carnet Hypothèses ARVIMM, novembre 2022. Disponible en ligne : https://arvimm.hypotheses.org/2526