TURKEY’S ONE AND ONLY CONFERENCE FOCUSING ON CHILDREN’S MEDIA

Tezuka Takaharu
Professor of Tokyo City University

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Professor Tezuka Takaharu

Professor of Tokyo City University Architect

After worked in London for Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd., Takaharu Tezuka established TEZUKA ARCHITECTS (http://www.tezuka-arch.com/) in Tokyo with his partner, Yui Tezuka, in 1994. With spatial designs skillfully integrated with the outside environment, their designs range from private houses to community buildings. Tezuka Architects’ most important works are Roof House, Echigo Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science, Fuji Kindergarten, Woods of Net, Sora no Mori Clinic, Muku Nursery and Tomioka Chamber of Commerce. Their awards include The Best of All OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities (2011, Fuji Kindergarten); AR Award 2004 the Architectural Review (Echigo-matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science); Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design (2008, Fuji Kindergarten); Japan Institute of Architects Award (2008, Fuji Kindergarten) (2015, Sora no Mori Clinic); Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2017, UNESCO; Moriyama RAIC International Prize 2017 (Fuji Kindergarten), Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC); and World Architecture Festival 2018, School Completed Buildings Winner (Muku Nursery School) Their work was exhibited at the Carnegie International (2013) and the Venice Biennale of Architectre "Freespace" (2018). His TED talk (2014), which presented Fuji Kindergarten, has more than five million views from all over the world (as of November 2019).

Cansu Akbel
BKM

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Cansu Akbel

BKM Producer / Director

Born in 1965, in Germany, Cansu attended UCLA Film and Television Department after graduating from Bosphorus University, Department of Philosophy in 1988. Between 1990 and 1992, she first worked as a freelance production assistant on several films and commercials and then as a director and producer with Stil Productions in Los Angeles. In 1995, Cansu started her own production company Case Productions, where she produced and directed many TV shows, TV series, films, documentaries and commercials. Between 1998 and 2001, she worked as Vice Director of Programming at Kanal D. In 2001-2002, Cansu worked as a distributing agent for films and TV shows of Sony Pictures Television International with Magmultimedia. In 2002, she produced “Beşi Bir Yerde” / “Party of Five (Turkey)” as a co-production with Sony Pictures Television International and Medyapım. In 2003-2006, she produced numerous films and commercials including “Patron Kim?” / “Who’s the Boss? (Turkey)” with Sony Pictures Television International. As a freelance journalist she worked for Deutsche Welle, Radikal Newspaper, NTV and Açık Radyo in 2008-2009. She is currently working with BKM since 2015 as an executive producer and produced comedy shows such as “Eğlendirme Dairesi”, “3G Show” and “Güldüy Güldüy Show Çocuk”, and movies such as “Bizim Köyün Şarkısı” in 2018, “Can Dostlar” in 2019 and “Gamonya: Hayaller Ülkesi” which will be released in 2020.

Karen Coats
University of Cambridge

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Professor Karen Coats

University of Cambridge Director of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature, Faculty of Education

Karen Coats is the Director of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at the University of Cambridge. Prior to her appointment as Professor of Education, she was a professor of English at Illinois State University, where she taught courses in children’s and young adult literature, storytelling, and film. She holds a PhD in Human Sciences from the George Washington University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections between cultural theory and youth literature, with a strong focus on how individual and cultural identities are constructed in dynamic interaction with media. In addition to many scholarly articles, she is author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature and The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

Nazlı Çevik Azazi

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Nazlı Çevik Azazi

Storyteller, Instructor, Writer

Nazlı Çevik Azazi, one of the founders of SEİBA International Storytelling Center; storyteller, theater / dance pedagogue (M.A.), instructor and writer. Awarded the “Thüringen Fairy Tale and Legend Award” in Germany in 2017, Azazi conducts studies at national and international levels in order to recall the storytelling, an art that has become almost forgotten in our country, and interpret it in a manner that meets the needs of modern life. She successfully completed the “Master of Arts in Pedagogy” (2008-2011) and “Artistic Expression - Storytelling in Education and Art” (2011-2013) at the Berlin University of the Arts, and contemporary dance schools in Berlin, TanzTangente (2009-2010). She completed “Creative Dance and Dance Pedagogy Certificate Programs Dock at Dock11 (2010-2011). In addition, she continues the Basic Existential Analysis Training which she started in October 2018 in Istanbul. Nazlı's first book, inspired by the experience and knowledge gained from her long-standing works in the field of storytelling; “TALES: Love Between Two Worlds”, and the second book “Healing Tales” came from Doğan Novus. Nazli; on the one hand is going on writing books for children and adults in Turkey and abroad of all ages to tell human stories and provide training, on the other hand, both nationally and internationally in storytelling and theater / dance is producing projects in pedagogy field.

Sümeyye Ceylan
Usturlab

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Sümeyye Ceylan

Usturlab General Manager

She is graduated in Mathematics from the University of Vienna. She defended her master thesis in Fourier Analysis. She did a second master in Pedagogy at the University of Vienna. During her stay in Vienna, she took Astronomy courses from Kuffner Observatory in Vienna. In 2013 She enrolled in Philosophy Phd at the Department of Philosophy, Istanbul Medeniyet University. Her main academic interests are science education, philosophy of mathematics, logic, history of science, history of logic, STEAM education and social entrepreneurship. There was a growing urge inside her to do something to transform the way education system in Turkey works. She wanted to create a more child friendly, play and imagination driven education methodology. Therefore she established Usturlab in 2012, a social enterprise which produces contents, plays, toys, games for children to learn and designs scientific exhibitions. More than 100,000 children received free education in the fields of astronomy, ecology, biology, microbiology, mathematics, coding, robotics, art and philosophy all over Turkey. Sümeyye Ceylan, who works as a consultant for various educational and public institutions and private companies, also designs science centers and scientific games. She is married and has two sons.

Chip Donohue
Erikson Institute, Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center

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Ph.D. Chip Donohue

Erikson Institute, Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center Founding Director

Chip Donohue, Ph.D, is Dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education and Founding Director of the Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center at Erikson Institute in Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College. In 2012 he received the Bammy Award and Educators Voice Award as Innovator of the Year from the Academy of Education Arts & Sciences. In 2015, he was honored as a children’s media Emerging Pioneer at the KAPi (Kids At Play International) Awards.

Burak Göral

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Burak Göral

Founder, Film Critic, Scriptwriter

Burak Göral is a film critic, journalist, writer and screenwriter who was born in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Marmara University. Since 1994; He regularly wrote film critics and cinema articles in many newspapers, websites and magazines. Since the second half of the 1990s, he has worked as an assistant director, radio producer and web site editor, and as a script consultant on some feature films. Since 2004, he has been actively writing screenplays, writing and acting as a scriptwriter for feature films and TV series. He has published four feature books and three feature screenplays. While he is a screenwriter instructor and project consultant / doctor in various educational institutions and organizations, he also organizes ‘workshops’ on scriptwriting in his own Scriptwriting Workshop. In 2018, in order to strengthen the communication between parents and children through the art of cinema, she has been working as a consultant for various festivals, institutions and organizations within the scope of the Sinema Cinema with Children ’initiative. It also communicates with parents through its website (cocuklasinema.com) and contributes to meeting children with the right movies at the right time.

Namkook Lee
Daegu Art University Animation Department, Korea

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Prof. Namkook Lee

Daegu Art University Animation Department, Korea Animation Expert

Professor Namkook Lee is an Animation expert in Animation industry field. He worked in Korea and North America major animation studios such as Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Nelvana, 20 Century Fox, Phoenix etc. more than 40 years as a Director, Key animator, Assistant Animator, Layout Artist, Background Artist, Character Designer, and Animation Camera and Camera Stand Designer. The jury experiences of International Animation Festivals is as follows. -2007 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2007)-International Preliminary Jury, -2008 China International Animation & Digital Art Festival (CICDAF 2008)-International Preliminary Jury, -2010 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010)-International Preliminary Jury, -2011 China Xiamen International Animation Festival (XIAF 2011)-International Final Competition Jury, -2016 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 20016)-International Preliminary Jury. In 2019 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival won an Achievement Award. He has many experiences with animation workshops for kids and exhibitions of animation optical devices (with electronics, electrics, mechanics, optics, and animation drawings). He is still active in the area of animation and has published four animation text books(vol.1: Animation Planning Theory, Vol.2: Animation Motion Theory, Vol.3: Animation Acting Theory, Vol.4: Animation Timing Theory), and one more book is the Animation Encyclopedia(“Aniclopedia”).

Nazlı Eda Noyan
Bahcheshehir University

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Prof. Nazlı Eda Noyan

Bahcheshehir University Head of Department of Cartoon and Animation

Prof. Dr. Nazlı Eda Noyan (b. Izmir, 1974) has a BA and MFA in graphic design and a Ph.D in art history. She worked as an intern designer for UNICEF, Ghana, and currently is the founder head of the Cartoon and Animation Department of Bahçeşehir University. She is the author and designer of 13 children’s books (the ‘Nar’s Art Journal’ and ‘Gülçin and the Yarns That Weave Life’ series). She has also written and co-directed animated short films including Children of Other Lands and A Cup of Turkish Coffee (a FR-TR co-production supported by ARTE and CNC). The latter was cited in the ‘New Contexts and Voices’ chapter of Maureen Furniss’s ‘A New History of Animation’ (Thames & Hudson, 2016). She is presently working on an animated feature - Sisters’ Tales, and an animate short - A Tender Dream as well as an animated series for children Abidiks & Gubidiks. She is director of the Istanbul Animation Festival, Animist, and founder of animasyonunkadinlari.org, an archive for women working in animation in Turkey. She lives in Istanbul with her husband Dağhan and their two daughters, Nar and Mavi. girlsawthesea.net / independentforces.com

David Kleeman
Global Trends, Dubit. David Kleeman

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David Kleeman

Global Trends, Dubit. David Kleeman SVP

David W. Kleeman is a strategist, analyst, author and speaker who has led the children’s media industry in developing sustainable, kid-friendly practices for more than 30 years. He is SVP of Global Trends for Dubit, a strategy and research consultancy and digital studio based in Leeds, England. Kleeman is advisory board chair to the international children’s TV festival Prix Jeunesse, Board Vice President for the National Association for Media Literacy Education, and a director of the Children’s Media Association.

Melike Günyüz
İbn Haldun University

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Ph.D. Melike Günyüz

İbn Haldun University Lecturer

Having served in the publishing field for more than 25 years, Melike Günyüz is the chief editor of Erdem Publishing Group. And she has been working on several projects as a chief project consultant related to publishing and children. Melike Günyüz carries her studies, professional career and works with NGO’s to spread Turkish culture, to make Turkish literature known abroad and to provide children best fundamental books and to channel Turkish publishing sector into a more effective lobbying activities in the world. She is also the founder member of IWF (International Women’s Forum) Turkey. Still conducting projects with many associations and non-governmental organizations and offering consulting services to public institutions about publishing, Dr. Melike Günyüz also works as a lecturer at İbn Haldun University. She is one of the most-translated children books writer who has written more than 20 titles. After graduating from Turkish Language and Literature Department at Boğaziçi University, she took her master degree at the same department and did her doctorate on Ottoman Literature in the Department of Old Turkish Literature at İstanbul University.

Ümit Kireççi
Comic Book Platform (ÇROP)

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Ümit Kireççi

Comic Book Platform (ÇROP) Researcher, Author, Actor, Art Instructor

He was born in 1972 in Germany. He started his amateur theater activities in his hometown İskenderun. In 1992, he founded, directed and exhibited plays for children with his theater company Lila Dreams Theater. He teaches Creative Drama Master at FMV Ishık Schools. In 2005, he graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing, Department of Theater, Ankara University with a thesis on “Comic Book Script”. In 2018, he completed hir master's degree at Istanbul University, Department of Translation Studies with his dissertation titled “Translation in Comics”. In addition to carrying out joint comic book projects with universities, he also writes comic book articles on newspapers, magazines, internet and television channels. He wrote the first text, then the comic - screenplay, the butterfly, the legend of another world (comic book), the clown pan, and the curtains. Since 2008, he has been working as the manager and journalist of the Comic Book Platform (CROP).

Fred Black
Ampere Analysis

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Fred Black

Ampere Analysis Analyst

Fred has worked as an analyst at London data and analytics firm Ampere Analysis since September 2018. He is principally responsible for the collection and curation of data for Ampere’s Commissioning Analytics service. He has written reports on topics such as the proliferation of the co-production model in Europe, the localisation of content at Netflix and Amazon, and renewals and cancellations in the US market. Prior to Ampere Fred worked in data protection and financial modelling. He holds a BSc in Geography from UCL.

Hakkı Alkan
ShiftDelete.Net Owner

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Hakkı Alkan

ShiftDelete.Net Owner

Alper Afşin Özdemir
Turkish E-Sports Federation

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Alper Afşin Özdemir

Turkish E-Sports Federation Founding President

Nilüfer Pembecioğlu
Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication

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Prof. Nilüfer Pembecioğlu

Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication Lecturer

She graduated from the English Language Training Department of Istanbul University in 1986. She obtained her master’s degree at the English Language Training Department of Marmara University’s Faculty of Education. In 2001, she completed her doctorate at Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema and obtained her associate degree at Istanbul University, Social Sciences Vocational School of Higher Education, Department of European Community in the same year. Making researches in the fields of preschool education, communication sciences, mass communication and means thereof, teacher training, English language education, linguistics, and European Union, Ms. Pembecioğlu obtained the title of associate professor in 2006 and professor in 2013 at Istanbul Faculty of Communication. She served as a lecturer at İzmir University’s Public Relations Department and as Department Head of Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema. During this period, she lectured as a visiting professor at various universities in abroad. Her articles and papers were published in many national and international magazines. She took charge in different documentaries, short films, and television programs. Ms. Pembecioğlu wrote “Ethics – Communication - Child”, “Child Image in Turkish and Global Cinema”, “I Communicate: Communication Techniques”, “Essays on Documentary Film”, and “Entr’acte”.

A. Anıl Atal
Anadolu Group / Toy Business Unit at Adel

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A. Anıl Atal

Anadolu Group / Toy Business Unit at Adel Business Unit Director

Experienced Business Unit Head with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Business Management, Start-ups, Route to Market, Sales, Trade Marketing, Sourcing, Pricing, Promotion, Marketing Management, Market Planning, Integrated Marketing, Advertising, and E-commerce. Strong management skills with a Faculty; Bachelor focused in Economics and Administrative Sciences; Economics from Koç Üniversitesi.

Nezih Orhon
Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences Lecturer

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Prof. Nezih Orhon

Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences Lecturer Lecturer

Prof. Nezih Orhon is the head of the Department of Cinema and Television, Faculty of Communication Sciences, at Anadolu University. He is one of the authors of the book Media Literacy (Medya Okuryazarlıgı), which represents a joint eort of the Radio and Television Supreme Council and the Ministry of National Education. He prepared a Specialist Report on the Status of Media Literacy in Turkey, a project supported by the European Commission. He has been acting as the Global Media Monitoring Project Coordinator for Turkey for the last twenty years. He also works as the Chairman of the Children's Rights Association, which organizes the "Children's Rights Film Festival".

Funda Tuğrul
Researcher & Mediabrands Insights (MBI)

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Funda Tuğrul

Researcher & Mediabrands Insights (MBI) Child Research Coordinator

Melih Tuğtağ

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Melih Tuğtağ

Writer

Bengi Semerci

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Prof. Bengi Semerci

Psychiatrist, Academician, Writer

Serap Erdoğan
Anadolu University, Education Faculty

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Assist. Prof. Serap Erdoğan

Anadolu University, Education Faculty Lecturer

She worked as a preschool teachers for a year in 1997, and started to work as a research assistant at the Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, Anadolu University in 1998. She was appointed as an assistant professor in the same department in 2007, and received the title of associate professor in child development and education in 2011. She is the chairperson of the "Pre-school Education Development Association of Turkey" that is the national committee for the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (Organisation Mondiale Pour L'Education Prescolaire-OMEP) since 2016. She coordinated the project titled “Developing a Distance Education Support Program for Preschool Teachers” (no. 1404E272) funded by Anadolu University between 28 May 2014-2 June 2015. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWkdAqN1ssfbmxbbvAqOKiayE2xU06iDD She coordinated the project titled “Developing and Administering Anadolu Scale of Preschool Mathematics” (no. 1306E265) funded by Anadolu University between 28 June 2013-27 August 2014. She coordinated the project titled “e-Mentorship-Based Training for Preschool Teachers (e-MBT: PTs)” (no. 115K419) funded by TUBITAK between November 2015 - July 2017. She is the child development advisor for the cartoon "Ege and Gaga" broadcast by TRT Cocuk. As of 2015, she has coordinated the Child Development Program at the Open Educatino Faculty, Anadolu University, and actively participated in the process of delivering the courses via distance learning courses. She worked as a visiting schooler for a one year at the Research Centre for Children, Families and Communities in Canterbury Canterbury Christ Church University (RCfCFC) from 1 September 2018 – 31 July 2019.

Kemal Tekden
Turkey Gifted and Genius Children's Education Foundation

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M.D. Kemal Tekden

Turkey Gifted and Genius Children's Education Foundation General Presidency

Op. Dr. Kemal TEKDEN was born in 1959. After completing his primary and secondary education in Kayseri, he studied at Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul and graduated in 1982. He specialized in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine. He worked as an ENT specialist at Kayseri State Hospital for 4 years. In 1993, he left the civil service and opened Kayseri's first private medical center. In 1998, the first private heart hospital, Kayseri Heart Hospital, Tekden Medical Center, Denizli Tekden Hospital and lastly in March 2007, he opened Kayseri Tekden Hospital with his partners. In 2006, he brought Tekden Primary and Secondary Schools, Kayseri's first smart school, to Kayseri and in 2011, to Istanbul. Op. Dr. Kemal Tekden served as the founder or director of many foundations and non-governmental organizations. He serves as the General Presidency of Turkey Gifted and Genius Children's Education Foundation (TÜZDEV) . He is also the Chairman of TEKDEN FILM which is the producer of DİRİLİŞ ‘ERTUĞRUL’ series. He has 2 books. He became the Deputy of Kayseri in the 25th Term. He is married and has 3 children.

Pınar Kandemir
TRT World

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Pınar Kandemir

TRT World Director of Research and Vision at TRT World

Professional Experience Pınar Kandemir has been the Director of Research and Vision at TRT World since 2015. She is the founder of four sub-brands of TRT, including TRT World Research Centre, TRT World Forum, TRT World Academy and TRT World Citizen. In addition to leading the TRT World Research Centre, which releases reports, discussion papers, policy outlooks and various other publications on regional and global issues, she continues to coordinate the TRT World Forum, an annual academic conference that brings together academics, policy makers, journalists and leaders of civil society from all around the world to Istanbul each year. She also leads TRT World Citizen, a humanitarian initiative that aims to increase social awareness around ongoing humanitarian crises across the world by utilizing media, and TRT World Academy, which organizes small-scale academic conferences and provides media training for young people. The departments under her leadership have enjoyed considerable success in a relatively short period of time. TRT World Forum was named “the Project of the Year” at the 2018 Anatolia Media Awards and TRT World Citizen was awarded the Social Impact for Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2019 IBC Awards in Amsterdam. Prior to joining TRT World, Ms. Kandemir worked as the founding Director of the Daily Sabah Centre for Policy Studies – the think tank arm of Daily Sabah - and served on its editorial board. Since 2002, she has served on various editorial boards and in managing positions throughout the industry. Educational Background Having receiving her BA and MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University, Ms. Kandemir has continued her studies by undertaking a PhD in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on the “Transformation of Secularism in Turkey”, and has possesses expertise on media and humanitarian work, Turkish political history and secularism.