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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- This summer, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, will host visiting scholar Günes Ekin Aksan of Turkey, a PhD student in the Political and Social Sciences Department at Marmara ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and a lecturer in the Communication Department at Istanbul Bilgi ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
She will be in residence in the UB Center for Urban Studies from July through September, where she will conduct research on her dissertation, "The Symbolic Production of Urban-Rural Dichotomies as a Hegemonic Tool in Turkish Comics."
Robert Silverman, PhD, associate professor of urban and regional planning, says, "Güneº selected UB as a place to pursue her work because of UB's reputation for urban scholarship in departments like sociology, political science, social work, history, communications and media study. She thinks UB offers a unique opportunity to do comparative research on the urban migration experience and its representation in popular culture."
Aksan's summer research at UB is supported by a scholarship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK).
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