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Asli Ozgen-Havekotte is an Assistant Professor in Media Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She teaches the BA program in Media Culture and the MA program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. Her research operates at the intersections of film historiography, critical archival studies, and memory activism, rooted in an intersectional feminist and decolonial praxis. Currently, she focuses on audiovisual memory and contested pasts, as well as archival activist practices concerning diasporic film heritages. Asli is also working on a book about audiovisual heritage and migration between Turkey and the Netherlands, with an emphasis on the political uses of film in solidarity networks. Her background in postcolonial critical theory has influenced her focus on feminist video art within the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. Asli's doctoral research in film-philosophy explored cinematic portrayals of walking as a political act under the guidance of Patricia Pisters. Her monograph, "Aesthetics Politics Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking Films" (2022), published by Amsterdam University Press, received the ASCA Book Award. Asli is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Eye Filmmuseum, where she engages with diasporic and postcolonial collections and addresses pressing issues of decolonization within the museum field. Besides her academic work, she is an internationally recognized film critic and contributes regularly to various magazines, catalogs, and festivals. In 2014, she joined the editorial board of Altyazi, a Turkish film magazine focusing on cinema politics and freedom of expression.
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