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Dr. Buket Akgün

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English literature and media (comics, anime, film and TV series), adaptation, retelling, witches. (she/her)

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Dr. Buket Akgün
7 months
A thank you gift from my twin fresh graduates, which includes characters from and references to almost everything we discussed in my undergrad classes in the last four years—featuring me in the middle as Kiki! One of the most meaningful and touching gifts I have ever received.🖤
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 months
Someone slept through my 18th-Century English Novel final exam.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
@deniztuncer Bir adam bir şekilde bizim apartmandaki sığınağı satın alıp daireye çevirdi. Şikayet ettiğimizde bina planları yok edilmişti.
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3 years
Söylemek istediğim çok şey var. Şimdilik yalnızca geçtiğimiz hafta sonu 21 yıl sonra alma mater'im #Bo ğaziçiÜniversitesi'nden bölüm arkadaşlarımla yeniden buluştuğumuzu yazıp aşağıdaki fotoğrafları bırakacağım. #A şağıBakmayacağız
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
In archaic religions sacred rivers, ponds, wells were believed to lead to the underground womb of Mother Hel, also known as Dame Holle, the mother of all the children on earth. (Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets) #FolkloreThursday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
This term I'm teaching my very first class, which happens to be my Fantasy Fiction class, on Hobbit Day. Happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! Happy #TolkienWeek everyone!
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Depremden etkilenen bölgelerdeki öğrencilerimiz, can güvenliği, barınma gibi hayati sorunların yanı sıra nasıl İstanbul’a dönüp bu dönemi atlatacakları konusunda ciddi endişelere sahip. Umarım YÖK’ün sağladığı izin ve kolaylık tüm bahar dönemini kapsayacak şekilde genişletilir.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
Nicnevin is a Scottish crone goddess & a water witch also known as Bone Mother. She rides with her followers & geese & grants wishes on Samhain night, her sacred night. (Judika Illes, The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, illustration:Wikimedia Commons)🧙🏻‍♀️ #October10 #FolkloreThursday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
My furry auditor student. 🖤
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
I've just had my last core class with seniors. And in my last class with seniors, I always share a quotation from @neilhimself 's _The Graveyard Book_, which has become even more meaningful during the pandemic:
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Proteo, a member of the Mexican search and rescue team, lost his life saving two people from under the rubble in Adıyaman, Turkey. Rest in peace, Proteo. 💔 There are no words to express my sadness and gratitude. Turkey will forever be in your debt. You will never be forgotten.
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1 year
Gracias #Proteo por tu heroica labor, cumpliste la misión #perrito del #Ej ércitoMexicano #fuerzaturquia 🇹🇷 #sismo #esperanza
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
The Tenth Doctor: a theatre's magic, isn't it? . . . Stand on this stage, say the right words with the right emphasis at the right time. Oh, you can make men weep, or cry with joy, change them. You can change people's minds just with words in this place. #WorldTheaterDay
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
May 5th night also marks the start of #H ıdırellez in Turkey. You write/draw your wishes on a piece of paper and bury the paper under or hang it on a rose tree. Like I do every year, I wish for health and peace for everyone, for brains, heart, courage and a place to call home too.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Bu dersi veren, benim yüksek lisans öğrencim olmuştu. Keşke ders izlencemi noktası virgülüne kopyalamadan önce nezaketen haber verseymiş.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
7 months
Cumhuriyetimizin 100. yılı kutlu olsun. Bize cumhuriyeti ve kazanımlarını armağan eden Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’e minnetle nice yüzyıllara.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
11 months
Yesterday, after being found out and pressured, a Turkish publisher admitted to publishing AI-translated books under translator pseudonyms. They claimed that the translator pseudonyms were in fact riddles intended for their readers to solve, that it was all planned to pave 1/3
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Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed
11 months
Dil bölümü mezunlarının çalışmayı umduğu sektörlerden biri daha AI'ya kurban ediliyor. Dedalus Kitap bazı yayınlarında AI destekli çeviri+Çevirmen QC kullandıklarını açıklamış. Bundan ne kitapların yayın haklarını veren tarafların, ne de okuyucuların haberinin olmaması da cabası!
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Bu öğrenciler salgın başında kendi yaş gruplarına sokağa çıkma yasağı uygulanırken bile organize olup bir şekilde Beyazıt kampüsündeki hayvanları beslemeyi sürdürdüler. Satın alınamayacak şey onların cömertçe Beyazıt'taki tüm hayvanlar için harcadıkları zamandır. İyi ki varlar.🖤
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İÜHF Hayvan Hakları Kulübü
2 years
Aslında bu twitlere cevap vermiyoruz fakat bizim de insan olduğumuzu zaman zaman unutuyorsunuz. Biz bir avuç insandan oluşan bir öğrenci kulübüyüz ve bugüne kadar kendi imkanlarımızla yüzlerce kedi tedavi ettirip sahiplendirdik.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
New Guineans believe that beneath the ocean lies the underworld where the souls of the dead toil in the undersea gardens. #FolkloreThursday (Image: From Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [風の谷のナウシカ])
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Dr. Buket Akgün
11 months
Jeanette Winterson's analogies of storytelling and writing at the end of #Weight are so precise.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
In Orson Welles's MACBETH the witches penetrate Macbeth's mind, castle & kingdom-England even-in the form of a thick fog, lightning, strong winds, forked or barren trees w/crooked boughs, window-bars, his army's V-shaped shields, his V-shaped throne and banner. #WyrdWednesday 1/3
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
"Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!" (Macbeth 4.2.82) #ShakespeareSunday 📷 from Women's March in 2017. Universally and timelessly relevant.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
One of my MA students kindly invited me to join the online conference session which included her thought-provoking presentation titled "A Critical Review of #FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood : Colonial Patterns and Different Outcomes of the Survivors." 🖤
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Rest in power, Betty White. 🤍 In honour of her memory here's a clip of her more-than-what-meets-the-eye performance as an anthropology professor in #Community . And to quote @monaeltahawy , "Civility, decorum, etc are used to uphold & maintain authority."
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Dr. Buket Akgün
7 months
Students who have taken my Textual Analysis course, in which we discuss Gustav Klimt's Der Kuss and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt" back to back, would agree.
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Belle & MrB
7 months
The longer you look, the darker it gets: reassessing Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss 🤔😬
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
The paper I presented at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area at the virtual PCA Conference in April 2022 got published in Litera today. Feels like a lifetime ago. I can only hope to find the same clarity of mind to work on my unfinished projects after I'm done with grading. 1/2
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
3:03 AM. 13 hours until my session. And I'm finally finished with my paper, slides and video. I'm presenting on #DoctorWho Christmas Special "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" as an ecofeminist retelling of #TheMagiciansNephew and #TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe . #pcaaca22
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
If you are into seinen and shounen manga--specifically Berserk, One Piece, Soul Eater and/or Witchcraft Works--but can't access the full article online, you can read the accepted manuscript here:
@JGNandComics
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
4 years
Mythology Moe-ified: Classical Witches, Warriors, and Monsters in Japanese Manga, by @bukakgun -
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
Benim gibi daha önce bu kapıyı hiç açık görmeyenler için bonus Hergele fotoğrafları.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
7 months
"Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life, an unimportant life, a life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy's value is your value. That's what defines an age. That's what defines a species." —Twelfth Doctor
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Metro İstanbul
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#MetroDuyuru #M2 M2 Yenikapı-Hacıosman Metro Hattı 4.Levent istasyonumuzda bir yolcumuzun intihar girişiminde bulunması nedeniyle 4.Levent istasyonumuz işletmeye kapatılmıştır. Seferlerimiz Yenikapı-Şişli/Mecidiyeköy ve Sanayi Mahallesi-Hacıosman istasyonları arasında
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
So many elderly and disabled people made extraordinary effort to vote today. The caption below reads, "My granny (94) voted by using a stretcher and an ambulance and accompanied by applause." 💗
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Hande Birsay
1 year
Anneannem (94) ambulans ve sedye desteğiyle, alkışlar eşliğinde oyunu attı🫶
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
A page from Neil Gaiman (writer) and Colleen Doran's (artist) _Snow, Glass, Apples_, a retelling of "Snow White" inspired by Harry Clarke and art nouveau. #FairyTaleTuesday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Evet, yine bir şekilde birlikte çalıştığımız, alışveriş yaptığımız her kurumdan kadına atfedilen stereotip cinsiyet rolleriyle bezenmiş, insanlığa ve ilerlemeye olan inancımızı sarsacak, sinir bozucu ve hatta tetikleyici sözde kutlama mesajları aldığımız bir güne uyandık.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
You can view and download the article at this link: 2/2
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Never too early to receive a spooky season gift. 🧙
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Dr. Buket Akgün
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Dan Herbert
9 months
No new pics, where are you mentally.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
This faculty kittie has had enough of the cold and rainy weather and the first week of classes and wants to go on the summer break already. 💛
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
I’m grading the Fantasy Fiction midterm exams. Look at one of the students’ adorable rendition of the Master Hand’s warning that “To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” #UrsulaLeGuin #AWizardOfEarthsea
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
I mostly wear black, and I love it. However, I invested in some cute and colourful pins to spice up my wardrobe in these dark and unprecedented times. Will you look at that unicorn cat? Caticorn? Doesn’t it spark joy? Look at its whiskers.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
The whimsical and vocal furry auditor of my hybrid class on Wednesdays who comes very early to watch me connect the laptop to the projector and demand to be petted but leaves in the middle of class if we don’t continue to shower her with love and affection.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
Campus cats missed their humans so much. They ran to me meowing, demanding pats. I took these photos after I obliged.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
I voted in the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections! The lines were soooo looong. Tiresome but a good sign. People are eager to vote and arrived at their voting stations very very early in the morning. From now on I'll go in the afternoon, though. 😺
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Dr. Buket Akgün
8 months
Happy #HobbitDay and a Happy #TolkienWeek ! Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
This term I'm teaching my very first class, which happens to be my Fantasy Fiction class, on Hobbit Day. Happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! Happy #TolkienWeek everyone!
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Had my last class w/senior Ss and almost cried several times. It's been my absolute pleasure being their advisor & watching them grow into such admirable people despite being through so much in these 4 years. May no one darken their delight, may they be and do all they want to.💗
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
I'm so stressed because I'm behind schedule with my projects planned for this summer. So, like any sensible person would, I made a hairdresser's appointment to have a haircut and an anti-freeze treatment which will take an hour.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
One of our fresh graduates got accepted to Humboldt University & sent me a thank you email to tell me in detail how much the courses she took from me helped her with her motivation letter, interview & dissertation topic. It's always a sheer joy to get such great news & feedback.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds: I think, withal, There would be hands uplifted in my right; And here, from gracious England, have I offer Of goodly thousands (Macbeth 4.3.39-44) #ShakespeareSunday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Her ne kadar iyi niyetle söylense de "İyi tatiller." artık resmen tetikleyici. Biz tatil yapmıyoruz. Biz daha dersler bitmeden sınav hazırlayıp çoğaltmaya başlıyoruz. Sınav döneminde bir yandan sınav gözetip diğer yandan sınav okuyoruz. 1/4
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
I only want to say that I teach over 500 students per semester. #TheChair
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Tüm öğrenciler ve akademisyenler koronavirüs kapıp karantinaya girmeden ve haliyle ne sınavı yapacak ne de sınava girecek kimse kalmadan online sınav uygulaması gündeme gelmeyecek gibi görünüyor.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
Hippolyta's mid-battle speech made me think of Mona Eltahawy. If you're not watching #LovecraftCountry , I hope that you find the time to watch the season 1 episode 7 entitled "I Am" at least, @monaeltahawy . I know you will *love* it.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Kısaca, COVID-19 nedeniyle insanlar hala ölüyor ama o kadar da şey etmeye gerek yok çünkü COVID-19'a yakalanan herkes ölmüyor. Bazıları sürünüyorlar. Bazıları da uzun kovid nedeniyle ömürleri boyunca sürünecekler.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
I am adding this to my intro to Gothic novel slides.
@DundeeGothic
The Dundee Gothic Group
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
Today I officially kicked off the fall term with my Fantasy Fiction course. Despite the most annoying connection issues I had at the beginning, I immensely enjoyed the student participation. 🖤
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Dr. Buket Akgün
10 months
Cerberus heatwave has hit Turkey, and it's been giving me an insufferable headache. I can't imagine how hard it must be for those who have to work in less than ideal conditions in this weather.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
In Neil Gaiman's _The Sandman_ #19 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Sep. 1990), it has already been centuries since the faerie folk left the earth as Gaia no longer welcomes them. Dream makes sure that the memory of the faerie folk will survive... 🧚🏻‍♂️ #FairyTaleTuesday 1/3
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Since the beginning of the pandemic, some of my students w/ADHD have been telling me that they can focus better when they watch the recordings of online classes at 1,5-2x speed too. I hope universities continue to offer at least a few online classes per year after the pandemic.
@RissMNeilson
Riss M. Neilson ✨A Love Like the Sun-updatesonly
2 years
Someone on booktok told me to use 1.5-2 speed for audiobooks because I have adhd and now I can finally listen to them without too much struggle. Just spreading the word 🤍
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Uzmanlar depremin yarattığı psikolojik hasarın önemini vurgularken, özellikle kendisi ve/veya sevdikleri depremden etkilenen öğrencilerimizin bahar dönemine dair kaygılarını da göz önünde bulundurmamız gerekiyor.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters, is said to be a beautiful woman raped by Poseidon in a temple of Athena who punishes Medusa by turning her into a monster with a petrifying gaze and poisonous snakes instead of hair. #MythologyMonday #October7th (Bernini, Musei Capitolini)
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
In which I disturb the faculty cat when “His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation      Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:           His ineffable effable           Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.”
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
I got a Nazgûl as a parting gift from a student today. 🖤 I put him in front of #TheLordOfTheRings books for now, but I plan to have him stand on my desk and terrorize me into writing nonstop this summer: “Do you not know Death when you see it? Write now and curse in vain!”
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Dr. Buket Akgün
6 months
Nothing like former students becoming new friends. 💐
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
". . . a man can die but once; we owe God a death." (Henry IV Part 2 3.2.253-254) #ShakespeareSunday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." (The Fellowship of the Ring) #TolkienReadingDay
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
Manasa, the sister of the Naga King, is an Indian snake goddess. She is the one to pray for protection against snakes, wealth, abundance, success, fertility, and *healing, especially from contagious diseases*. (See Judila Illes's The Encyclopedia of Spirits.) #MythologyMonday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Be bold in us: we’ll follow where thou lead'st, Like stinging bees in hottest summer’s day Led by their master to the flowered fields (1.5.13-15) #ShakespeareSunday #HisDarkMaterials
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Dr. Buket Akgün
7 months
I've been regularly purging my library, donating the purged books and trying to go digital whenever possible in order to be able to access my library wherever I am. I'm about to finish this year's purge, which might be my last for a while. All in all, it is quite liberating.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
Spring classes start today. May we all have a safe, healthy, peaceful, and nourishing term.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
There’s not a hollow cave or lurking place, No vast obscurity or misty vale Where bloody murder or detested rape Can couch for fear,but I will find them out, And in their ears tell them my dreadful name, Revenge,which makes the foul offender quake.(Tit5.2.35-40) #ShakespeareSunday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
To piece #MythologyMonday & #FairyTaleTuesday together,Baba Yaga is an underworld goddess who controls the forces of life & death. She has a bone leg, a necklace made of skulls,& an oven reminiscent of the witch's cauldron.(Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) #October29th 🧙🏻‍♀️☠️🦴🍵(1/4)
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Bir günü bile mutlu, huzurlu geçirmek mümkün olmadığından mezun bir dostumun gönderdiği öğretmenler günü buketini, ölüm haberini aldığım Patates’in anısına paylaşıyorum. Veterinerde olduğunu bildiğim halde bugün gözlerim metroda onu aramıştı.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
Nifelheim, the world of fog, is the dark and cold Nordic underworld. In The Prose Edda, it lies under one of the three roots of Yggdrasill. It is the realm of Hel and home to Nidhogg and Fenrir. #FolkloreThursday #October17th 🎃🧟‍♀️🐉🐺(Henry Wheaton, Wikimedia Commons)
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Folklore Thursday
5 years
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is folklore of the #underworld and #underground ! (Image: Aeneas and the Sibyl, Jan Brueghel the Elder)
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Dr. Buket Akgün
6 months
Starting December 1, I plan to study Japanese on a daily basis. And by that I don't only mean the daily Anki decks.
@DeeringRachel
Rachel Deering
6 months
A Merry December to all. 🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
In Norse mythology Midgard was the abode of humans connected to Asgard by the rainbow bridge Bifrost. It was surrounded by a wall built by Odin& his brothers out of Ymir's eyebrows and by Jormungand the serpent biting its own tail.(No credits found for the image) #MythologyMonday
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Normally, I couldn't care less whether people do (not) like something and go berserk about it, but I'm so very sick of seeing racist and/or ignorant tweets filled with fallacies as to why there cannot and must not be non-white actors in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
Amid the national debate on whether the academics "who work 10 hours a week" [sic] deserve a raise, I'll be spending the holidays grading the midterm exams. Happy holidays, I guess.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
Some believe phoenix (simurg in Turkish) is born out of the ashes of salamander. Both birds are known for their resilience to fire. In _Saltukname_ Sarı Saltuk flies over the mountain Kuh-ı Şu'a, a mountain of fire, on a phoenix, also accompanied by a salamander. #MythologyMonday
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Happy birthday, #EdgarAllanPoe ! My American Studies undergraduate dissertation was on Poe’s short stories. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” — Edgar Allan Poe
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Artık üzülmek yetmiyor. Kahroldum. Şimdi Emeritus profesör olan Cevza Sevgen'den lisans öğrencisiyken ders alma ayrıcalığına erişmiş biri olarak, kendisinden ders alamayacak öğrenciler adına, bölümüm adına, alma mater'im adına kahroldum.
@bogazicitv
Boğaziçi TV
2 years
Dersleri engellenen akademisyenler: Can Candan Cevza Sevgen Sumru Özsoy Alpar Sevgen Nükhet Sirman Faruk Birtek Yaman Barlas Zeynep İlsen Önsan Eren Soyak Çağatay Sönmez Onur Güngör Can Tunca Banu Aykın Köylüer Selahattin Yılmaz İzzettin Önder Mehmet Akıncı
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
1 Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. 2 Witch. Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin'd. 3 Witch. Harpier cries: —'Tis time, 'tis time. (Macbeth 4.1.1-3) #ShakespeareSunday
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
8 months
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
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Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
O take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips, These sorrowful drops upon thy bloodstained face (Titus Andronicus 5.3.152-153) #ShakespeareSunday #BardWars
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. (Macbeth 1.2.11-12) #ShakespeareSunday #Samhain
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
If in the world he live, we’ll seek him out; If in his grave he rest, we’ll find him there; And be resolv'd, he lives to govern us, Or dead, gives cause to mourn his funeral, And leave us to our free election. (Pericles 2.4) #ShakespeareSunday #BardWars
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! (Macbeth 5.5.19-23) #ShakespeareSunday 🕯️
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Dr. Buket Akgün
1 year
I've been grading since the 27th of December, and I'm 11 final exam papers and 1 feedback video away from being free from grading until my next final exam, which is in 18 hours, but look at this drawing of a distinguished gentleman and the cookie I forgot to post.
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Bırakın insanlar Wordle skorlarını paylaşsın. Ölüm kalım meselesi.
@bbcturkce
BBC News Türkçe
2 years
ABD'de 80 yaşındaki bir kadın, günlük kelime oyunu Wordle paylaşımını yapmayınca yakınları polisi aradı, rehin alındığı ortaya çıktı
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Dr. Buket Akgün
5 years
Dabbetü'l-arz is a hybrid creature which God will summon from the earth on the day of Armageddon. It's depicted differently in various sources & miniatures... (Metin And's Ottoman-Islam Mythology Through Miniatures;Terceme-i Miftah-ı Cifrü'l-Cami,İÜK T.6624) #FolkloreThursday 1/2
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
"Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end." (Ham 4.3.21-25) #ShakespeareSunday
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
4 months
Students’ lovely drawings and notes on their exam papers are definitely one of the things I’ll miss the most. Ever so uplifting during the grading period. 🖤
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Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
"For by my mother I derived am" (1H6 2.5.74) #ShakespeareSunday #ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina #CAOS
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
Zeynep Ergun'la ilk defa yüksek lisans başvurum sırasında tanışmıştım. Yüksek lisans dersleri alırken, İÜ İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalına geçmemi öneren oydu. Gel Mitoloji dersleri ver demişti. Ailesine ve sevdiklerine sabır dilerim. 💔
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Emrah Virlan
2 years
Zeynep Ergun'un ölüm haberini almak yıkıcı oldu. Öyle bir temel atmış ki, kendisinden öğrendiğim her şey bana hala yol gösteriyor. Bana daha büyük iyilik yapmış birisi yoktur bugüne kadarki hayatımda. Anlatamam. Ne kelimeler yeter, ne de zaman. Bacı'sına kavuştu. Gitti.
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Dr. Buket Akgün
10 months
Shelley's The Last Man Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" King's The Stand Saramago's Blindness Malerman's Bird Box
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Gregory Betts
10 months
Imagining a Pandemic Lit course. Start with The Decameron, King Lear, Defoe's A Journal in a Plague Year, Camus' The Plague, Love in the TIme of Cholera, Emily St. John's Station Eleven. What else?
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
2 years
. . . . . . . . . The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. (The Tempest 5.1.64–68) #ShakespeareSunday #BardWars
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
4 years
In Celtic Mythology there's no forced separation of heaven or earth. The Celts believed that the Otherworld "could be found out to sea, under a hill, or in an invisible universe parallel to ours." (Monaghan, The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore 244) #MythologyMonday
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
6 months
I am thrilled that Janet Brennan Croft read and recommended my article "Doctor Who’s Ecocritical Revisit to Narnia."
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" (_Macbeth_ 1.5.50-52) #ShakespeareSunday 🗡️
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@bukakgun
Dr. Buket Akgün
3 years
Do you email yourself the final draft of the manuscript you’re working on at the end of every day—sometimes multiple times during the day just to be safe? Or is it just me?
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