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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr

@sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social
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Social Anthropologist Associate Professor @ucl.ac.uk‬ PI of @takhayyul.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ Editor-in-Chief Contemporary Islam Academic Consultant

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I titled this "The Infrastructure of Solidarity" but what I mean is How we should offer solidarity based on the knowledge that Institutions ALWAYS Fail in their duty of care sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-infrastr...
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The Infrastructure of Solidarity
a continuation of Jason Arday, Solidarity, and What It Costs
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Read “Jason Arday and Solidarity II: The Political Attacker(s)“ by Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu on Medium: sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/jason-arday-...
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Jason Arday and Solidarity II: The Political Attacker(s)
Jason Arday’s tragic death hit many of us hard. My insomnia, gifted to me by academic bullies and which I have been managing with pills…
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just published "We should have attacked Elitism embedded in Academia as an Institution, not Jason Arday" sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-should-ha...
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We should have attacked Elitism embedded in Academia as an Institution, not Jason Arday
There is a virtue in Islamic ethics that asks you to stay silent at the time of fitna, or at the very minimum to resist the temptation of…
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thrilled to share the first look at Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries! 🎉 What animates Islamic politics? Coming soon from @uclpress.bsky.social 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/book/poetics-and-politics-of-islamic-imaginaries/ @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority...
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You think? "Open University scholars call for more self-governance on free speech issues, warning conflicts often ‘improperly’ dealt with" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...
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Academics ‘need clarity’ on navigating disagreements
Open University scholars call for more self-governance on free speech issues, warning conflicts often ‘improperly’ dealt with
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thrilled to launch Emergent Issues in Muslim Life — a new section in Contemporary Islam for short, rigorous scholarly responses to what is happening right now in Muslim communities worldwide. Submission: link.springer.com/collections/fe… @SpringerNature
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Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) @muslimcounciluk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
MCB’s British Muslims in Numbers report reveals progress in employment, health & education while highlighting ongoing challenges. Using census data, it challenges misconceptions and showcases the active role British Muslims play in society. 🔗 loom.ly/1VkbDG0
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jules @esjules.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Stell dir vor, du musst als Richterin tiefen Ausschnitt tagen. Unangenehm? Auch Kopftücher sind nicht einfach religiöses Symbol. Sie sind Alltagskultur und bedeutsam für die eigenen Grenzen und Intimität. Das veranschaulicht anthropologische Forschung, etwa von @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social 1/5
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I just published Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers medium.com/p/why-i-advi...
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Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers
There is a piece of advice I give regularly to some of the brightest scholars I have ever mentored. It breaks my heart a little bit, every…
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What connects the UK's 2025 Equality Act ruling, US anti-trans legislation & pronatalist policies in Turkey and Russia? "Cis Hell" — our new concept for transnational regimes of bodily control. Out today in Journal of Gender Studies w/ @mustafaozbilgin doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2647417
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Such an exciting product of my fieldwork in the Balkans. Although Turkish political narratives circulate widely in the Balkans, focusing on Ankara’s projection risks flattening the complex imaginative work undertaken by local Muslims themselves. @takhayyul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I just signed off 2 acceptance letters for Contemporary Islam. Look out for really exciting papers on agnosticism amongst Muslims and on Zakat and Adaptive Orthopraxy. Both very rich with empirical data and theoretical analysis, expanding the debates on Canon & Islam @springernature.com
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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thank you to the editors, @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social (our PI) and Merve Kayıkçı (affiliate fellow of the Project), and all of the authors (incl. @erolsaglam.bsky.social) who contributed to this issue and made for such insightful conversation!
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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The first paper of the Takhayyul Working Paper Series is out!! We're honoured to present Dr Nazan Üstündağ's "Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women Freedom’s Movement" 📑 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... @erc.europa.eu @ucldiscovery.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.' sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...
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The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders”
In UK academia’s current crisis of mass redundancies and institutional upheaval, academics from disadvantaged backgrounds experience…
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Baris Balcioglu @baris72.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I am incredibly proud to share this deeply personal project with you — a story that has been growing in my heart for quite some time. “Fahri the Magic Boy” is my love letter to every child who experiences the world a little differently, +1/2
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target" sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-workplac...
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The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target
It was several years ago. I was working at a coffee shop in Norwich during the pandemic, and a group of co-workers sat just behind me. One…
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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London art auction raises over £250,000 for Gaza medical aid
A charity art auction in London has raised over £250,000 for emergency medical aid in Gaza.
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I found myself listening to my interview with Faezeh Hashemi (former president of the Islamic Federation for Women's Sport) during the 2012 London Olympics. youtu.be/w8NcNeZDeIw?...
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Hashemi on Women in Sports
YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu
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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A really exciting opportunity to sit down with renowned #author and #psychologist #GunduzVassaf for our latest podcast episode. Take a listen! tinyurl.com/Spotify-Imag... @erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 13/06/2025
Congratulations!!
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Dear Everyone, I am excited to announce my appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life! I am looking forward to working with incredible scholars globally! Here's my editorial note: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springernature.com @ucl.ac.uk
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice" sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...
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We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice
In a world increasingly paralysed by performative activism and social conformity, we need what I call “an autistic nudge” — the kind of…
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This will be part of the book project "Is Critique Islamic?" So any suggestions are more than welcome!
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@takhayyul.bsky.social is directing the discussions. The first four MOST-READ articles in History and Anthropology are from our special issue "Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique" HUGE CONGRATS!!! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @verenameyer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul - UCL Discovery
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I found myself thinking about this: "Being unheard is a state. It is a cosmos that creates its own reality. A void filled with denial." ++ sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/a-brown-woma...
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A Brown Woman is Never a Senior
or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University SIGN THE PETITION chng.it/gBGhv9RyLr
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children
Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest) doi.org/10.1080/1352...
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Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
Turkey’s transformation from a multi-religious and multi-ethnic empire into a nation-state has caused the dismissal, transformation, replacement, denial and destruction of several unrecognised mate...
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Erol Saglam @erolsaglam.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Consider submitting chapters for this exciting project 👇
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My humble input to the conversation "When bodies are regulated based on reproductive capacity – whether excluding trans women from women's spaces or pressuring cisgender women to reproduce – we witness the same logic of control at work." @thebartlettucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...
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Opinion: Gender against prosperity
Sertaç Sehlikoglu responds to the Supreme Court ruling that the term "woman" in the Equality Act refers exclusively to biological women and explains why the prosperity of those affected is at risk.
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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Open Access UCL Research: Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ - UCL Discovery
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Very happy to announce that the final conference of The Global War Against the Rat project, on the topic of Zoonosis as a Historical & Anthropological Question, will be taking place on June 16-17 (in-person only) - programme link here: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Trump administration cuts another $450 million in grants to Harvard, on top of $2.2 billion already frozen | CNN
The Trump administration is cutting another $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University – on top of $2.2 billion already slashed – tightening even further its ideological pressure on America’...
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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together www.takhayyulproject.com/publications @erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social
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Publications — TAKHAYYUL تخیل
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
++but actively support, desire, maintain, and reproduce as well as enjoy and even celebrate these regimes at the expense of others.
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are particularly interested in explorations of subjects and social groups who not only remain comfortable within systems of inequality, destruction, violence, and crisis in diverse forms, ++
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis" (ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social (We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.) www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
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Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
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