Eylem Atakav, PhD

Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement, and Professor of Film, Gender and Public Engagement
University of East Anglia

Eylem Atakav is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement, and Professor of Film, Gender and Public Engagement at the University of East Anglia (UK). She is a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2016) and a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE (2023). She is the author of Women and Turkish Cinema: Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation (Routledge, 2012) and editor of Directory of World Cinema: Turkey (Intellect, 2013). She is the director of Growing Up Married (2016) – an internationally acclaimed documentary about forced marriage and child brides in Turkey; co-director of Lifeline (2020), a documentary that reveals the reality of working in the frontline of the domestic abuse sector in the UK during the pandemic; and most recently Left Behind (2023), a short documentary that focuses on migrant survivors of domestic violence in England.

Presentation(s):

• Spotlight Speaker: Lights, Camera, Action: Storytelling as Activism and International Educators as Agents of Social Change by Eylem Atakav

  Thursday, May 29, 2025
  8:30 AM – 9:20 AM PST