BERNARD Eva

Contact details

eva.bernard.1@etu.univ-amu.fr

Éva Bernard is a doctoral student in Political Science at Aix-Marseille University and a research associate at the Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (Istanbul). She is working on current women's and feminist movements in Turkey, and on their inclusion in the space of protest through the articulation of a plurality of objectives, scales and modes of action.

Functions

Doctoral student in Political Science working on the construction of an opposition space for women and feminists in Turkey

Associate researcher at the Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (IFEA - Istanbul)

Member of AYAK - a group of French-speaking researchers based in Istanbul

Translator (English, French, Turkish), interpreter (fixing)

Academic work

Dissertation in Political Science in progress. Provisional title: L'espace radical des mobilisations des femmes en Turquie : La construction d'un front d'opposition féministe (2010-2023). Thesis directed by Aude SIGNOLES

Article to be published (autumn 2025): "What does ethnographic work do to feminist commitment? La construction d'une éthique par le terrain au cours d'une recherche sympathisante sur le mouvement des femmes et féministes en Turquie', European Journal of Turkish Studies (EJTS).

Blog post: "#La Convention d'Istanbul Sauve des Vies : Analyse des discours du Mouvement féministe en Turquie", Carnet Hypothèses - AYAK, 4.12.2020, online

Research dissertation (M2) in Conflict, Law and Justice Policy - SOAS, University of London

Research dissertation (M2) in Human Rights - Institut des Hautes Études Européennes, University of Strasbourg

Translation of a scientific article FR/EN: Florin, Garret 2024, "Gens, lieux et gestes du travail : le recyclage des métaux à Istanbul", Flux n° 138 October - December, pp. 107-126

Areas of research

Sociology of social movements

Feminist movements

Political sociology of contemporary Turkey

Feminist epistemologies

Productions

Papers presented at symposia, conferences and study days

  • "L'espace des mobilisations radices des femmes en Turquie: La construction d'un front d'opposition féministe (2010-2023)", Paper presented at the conference "Les transformations contemporaines des mouvements féminministes" - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, 22-23.05.2024
  • "Consciousness-Raising in the Women and Feminist Movement in Turkey: (Still) a Radical Feminist Learning Method?", Paper presented at the AtGender Network Conference at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 4-6.09.2023
  • Presentation of the thesis at the Doctoriales, Sciences Po Aix, 30.09.2022
  • "Legal framing of women's revolutionary struggle: The fight against gender violence in the Turkish context", Paper presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender (European Consortium for Political Research), Ljubljana (Slovenia), 6-8.07.2022
  • "Le mouvement des femmes entre auto-organisation et action protestataire : discours et pratiques d'auto-défense contre les violences masculines en Turquie", Presentation at the IFEA doctoral workshop, 12.05.2022
  • "Practices of solidarity and feminist mobilisations: a multi-spatial and decentralised point of view on the political action of the women's movement in Istanbul", paper presented as part of the doctoral school Informality and Otherness at the test of the city in the Mediterranean, organised in Istanbul by the IFEA and the CITERES laboratory, 27-29.10.2021.
  • Subjectivity and commitment in the field: Feminist perspectives", paper presented at the Study Day "Faire du terrain en Turquie", organised by the AYAK collective, 30.10.2020.

Seminar presentations

  • Speech at the Gender and Politics in Contemporary Turkey seminar, EHESS, Paris (18.01.2024)
  • Lecture as part of the Sociology Methodology seminar (L1), at Galatasaray University (21.12.2023)
  • Lecture as part of a political science degree seminar at Sciences Po Paris. Title: "The feminist and women's movement in Turkey: historical perspective on a contemporary struggle" (2022)

Scientific activities

  • Co-organisation and moderation of a round table on Citizen Mobilisations in response to the earthquakes of February 2023 in Turkey, as part of the ANR IMAGIN-E project "Alter-cItizens in the Middle East. InventinG resIstaNce in times of violEnce" (2022-2026), at the IFEA on 02.05.2023
  • Co-organisation and moderation of an interdisciplinary workshop "Looking through the Gender Lens - Interdisciplinary Discussion on Gender in Academia", held at the IFEA on 23.03.2023
  • Co-organisation of a monthly reading workshop on social movements at the IFEA in 2022
  • Co-organisation of and participation in the Journalism & Research Study Day, Penser le dialogue, organised by the AYAK young researchers' collective, 25.09.2021

Promoting research

  • Radio interview on the feminist movement in Turkey for François Robergé's programme, L'Histoire Jugera, Radio Centre-Ville (Quebec), 01.04.2025
  • Written press interview, for the article by Yannick Van Der Schueren, "Le vote des femmes pourrait-il avoir raison d'Erdogan?", La Tribune de Genève, 14.05.2023
  • Press interview, for the article by Ariane Bonzon, "Les femmes et Erdoğan : certaines de celles qui l'ont élu hier pourraient bien le chuter demain", Slate.fr, 20.07.2021
  • Radio interview for Marie Tihon's report, "En Turquie, les femmes dans la rue contre les féminicides", Vu d'Allemagne, Deutsche Welle, 29.06.2021