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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr

@sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social

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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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…

I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.'
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...

11.07.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cok tesekkur ederim (tebrigin hayrani oldugum roman yazarindan gelmesi <3)

11.07.2025 20:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!

09.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER!!!

09.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fahri the Magic Boy &quot;Fahri the Magic Boy&quot; presents a narrative exploration of dyspraxia through the lived experience of its protagonist, offering an alternative discourse to traditional deficit-focused represen...

and to everyone who supports them on their journey. And, I don’t care if it’s not academic. I try to follow my heart when developing my academic projects anyway.
Here's the full book
www.academia.edu/130425349/Fa...
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09.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

09.07.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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…

My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target"
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-workplac...

04.07.2025 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

www.newarab.com/news/london-...

25.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hashemi on Women in Sports
YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu Hashemi on Women in Sports

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?...

24.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

23.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! Lucky to have Emily Edwards on the team too!

13.06.2025 07:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!!

13.06.2025 07:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

13.06.2025 03:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

++ — the resilience you would see on the face of any autistic individual persevering through a world that often demands they suppress their authentic way of being whilst fighting for what they know to be right."

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"I respect her every time I see her face because I can read the tensions written there. The tension on her face, to me, simultaneously shows her resilience++

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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…

"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice"

sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...

12.06.2025 13:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

This will be part of the book project
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!

11.06.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!! Little excitements

09.06.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@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

09.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul - UCL Discovery UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

11.04.2025 10:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

+++"There are other ways of making a speech unfree, including by making it insignificant [and then marking it as uncivil or too loud when forced to repeat]."

27.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

++" Paradoxically, she cannot prove that she is unheard, as her options are either being further denied or treated as ‘too loud’ (high-pitched). In this state of void, free speech does not really have any particular relevance." +++

27.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Brown Woman is Never a Senior or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness

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...

27.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

SIGN THE PETITION

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26.05.2025 12:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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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.

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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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...

Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)

doi.org/10.1080/1352...

23.05.2025 21:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Consider submitting chapters for this exciting project 👇

22.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

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...

15.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ - UCL Discovery UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

Open Access UCL Research: Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

18.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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