2020 (since December) As an Academy in Exile scholar with the post-doc research project “Gendered Memories and Emotions in Migrant Cinema

• Freie Universität Berlin

2019 Post-doc with the title Gendered memories: How migrant women narrate their migrant experiences

• Gender and Women's Studies Research Center, Kadir Has University, İstanbul 

2016 Dissertation with the title Images of Remembering and Forgetting

• Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara University

2009 – 2017 Research Assistant 

• Faculty of Communication, Ankara University

2004 Graduation 

• Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Ankara University 

2021/11 - 2022/02: Co-Lecturer of "Gender in Turkey"

• Marburg University

2021/11 - 2022/02: Lecturer of "Gender and Society"

• Off University

2020 - 2021 Lecturer of “Memory and Gender in Cinema": Lesson of “Gender and Society”

• Off University

2016 - 2017 Lecturer: Research Methods of Social sciences, Department of Journalism

• Ankara University, Turkey

2015 - 2016 Research assistant: Documentary, Department of Radio Television and Cinema

• Ankara University, Turkey

2014 - 2015 Research assistant: Department of Radio Television and Cinema

• Ankara University, Turkey

2013 - 2014 Research assistant: Cinematography, Department of Radio Television and Cinema

• Ankara University, Turkey

Research areas

• Film and Media Studies
• Gender Studies
• Memory Studies
• Migration Studies
• Sociology of emotions 

Books

• Yıldız, Pınar (2021). Kayıp Hafızanın İzinde (On The Trace of Memory Lost: Confronting the Past, Mourning and Denial in Cinema, Dissertation). İstanbul: Metis Publishing.

Book Chapters

• Yıldız, Pınar (2018). Sinemada Geçmişi Hatırlamanın Ayrımcı Politikası (Discriminatory Policy of Remembering the Past in Cinema). In: Ülkü Doganay (eds.), Ayrımcılığın Yüzleri (In Faces of Discriminatory). Ankara: Capacity Development Association and Human Rights Platform.

• Yıldız, Pınar & Mersin, Serhan (2013). Transforming Hospitality: Forming New Transcultural Fields in Cinema. Gökçen Karanfil & Serkan Şavk (eds.), Imaginaries Out Of Place (p. 23-37). England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Yıldız, Pınar (2015). Yeşim Ustaoğlu Sinemasında Travma ve Hafıza (Trauma and Memory in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoğlu). In: Kolodziejski Maciej, Icbay Mehmet Ali & Arslan Hasan (eds.), In Contemporary Issues in Arts(p. 181-193). Germany: Ehrmann Verlag.

Articles

• Yıldız, Pınar (upcoming 2022-2023). The Politics of Aesthetic and Ethical Memory: Confronting the Past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut, Memory Studies Journal.

• Yıldız, Pınar (April 2018). Kolektif Hafızamızda ‘Susturulamayan Bir İç Ses’: Babamın Sesi (An Unrepressed İnner Voice in Our Collective Memory: Voice of My Father). Journal of Institute of Social Sciences, no 17. Istanbul: Mimar Sinan University.

• Yıldız, Pınar (2015). Sinemada Hatırlamanın Politikası: Gece ve Sis (The Politics of Remembering in Cinema: Night and Fog). Journal of  Communication, no. 22. Istanbul: Galatasaray University.

Report and Guide

• Yıldız, Pınar & Erol, N. Ceren (2018). Mülteci Kadınlar ve Medya: Hak Odaklı Habercilik Rehberi (Migration Women and Media: Guide of Rights-based Journalism), Under the Programme “Ending Violence Against Women: Implementing Norms, Changing Minds”, with Women’s Studies Association, UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.

• Yıldız, Pınar & Erol, N. Ceren (2017). Media and Gender in Turkey. Reporting at a project “We are still Journalist” (Hâlâ Gazeteciyiz). Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. https://halagazeteciyiz.net/2018/09/29/2081/

Conference papers

• "Felaketten Geriye Kalan Nasıl Anlatılır? Tanıklık Krizi ve Belgesel Sinema" (“How the Narrate What’s Left of the Disaster? The Crisis of Witnessing and Documentary Cinema”). The Unrecognized Genocide: Dersim 1937-1938, 18-20 November 2021, University of Dusburg-Essen, Germany.
• Suriyeli Mülteci Kadınların Göç Sonrası Deneyimleri ve Medya Temsilleri (Post-Migration Experiences and Media Representations of Syrian Refugee Women) with N. Ceren Erol. Migration and Gender Conference, Kırkayak Cultural Migration and Cultural Studies Center, 7-8 Sep 2019, Gaziantep-Turkey.

• Eşikte Bırakılanlar: Türkiye’de Suriyeli Mülteci Kadınlar (Syrian Refugee Women) with N. Ceren Erol Salmanoğlu. Migration Research in Turkey from a Gender Perspective, Sabancı University, Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) and Migration Research Association (GAR), 3 May 2019, İstanbul-Turkey.

• Hayalet Sesler: Türkiye Sinemasında Bastırılanın Sesi” (Ghost Voices: Voice of the Repressed in Turkish Cinema). New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference: Cinema and Voice, Kadir Has University, May 2015, İstanbul-Turkey.

• Yeşim Ustaoğlu Sinemasında Travma ve Bellek (Trauma and Memory in the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoğlu). V. European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences St Petersburg, 11-14 September 2014, Russia.

• Bellek Mekanları (Spaces of Memory). Space and Culture, VI International Cultural Research Symposium, 8-10 September 2011, Kadir Has University, İstanbul.