Asli Kemiksiz　

Research task

Marine Biodiversity Loss and Local Response

Keyword

Anthropocene, multispecies, biodiversity, extinction

Biography

2016-2020 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Science

2014-2016 M.A. in Anthropology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

2012-2014 Research Student. Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture

2008-2011 M.A. in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, Institute of Social Sciences

2001-2007 B.A. in International Relations, Galatasaray University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences

Presentation

Articles

Kemiksiz Asli. 2020. “An Ethnography of Robotics: Potentials and Challenges in Making Robots More Human. ” Ph.D. thesis. Osaka University Graduate School of Human Sciences.

Kemiksiz Asli. 2019. “Modeled After Life Forms: Embodiment and Ways of Being an Intelligent Robot.” Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 19(1): 51–81.

Kemiksiz Asli. 2019. “Materials of Imagination: On the Limits and the Potentials of the Humanoid Robot.” NatureCulture 5: 69–94.

Jensen, Casper Bruun, Asli Kemiksiz. 2019. “ Experiments in Thinking across Worlds: Introduction”, NatureCulture 5 (i-xiii).

Robinson, Kim Stanley, Asli Kemiksiz, Casper Bruun Jensen. 2019. “Writing Science Fiction Out of Experience: SF, Social Science and Planetary Transformations An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.” NatureCulture 5. November 2018. https://www.natcult.net/interviews/writing-science-fiction-out-of-experience-sf-social- science-and-planetary-transformations/

Kemiksiz Asli. 2016. “Science Fiction and Technology: Performativity in the Emergence of the Japanese Humanoid Robot.” M.A. thesis. Osaka University Graduate School of Human Sciences.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2011. “The Boundary Between Human and Machine in Science Fiction.” M.A. thesis, Istanbul Bilgi University, Institute of Social Sciences.

Presentations

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2019. “Boundaries/Transgressions.” In NatureCulture, created by Grant Jun Otsuki, Gergely Mohacsi, Miki Namba, Liv Nyland Krause, Asli Kemiksiz, and Emile StPierre. In Innovating STS Gallery Exhibit, curated by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. New Orleans, USA, September 05, 2019. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/innovating-sts/essay.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2019. “Not Merely a Technology, Not Yet a Person: Robotics, AI, and the Ethics of Ontological Gray Zones.” Ph.D. Workshop in Kyōsei Summer School 2019, Osaka University, May 6.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2018. “Workers and Lab Tools: A Robotic Comparison” 12th Ethnographies of Science and Technology Workshop: “Robots in Motion”. May 19.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2017. “Modeled After Life Forms: Embodiment and Ways of Being an Intelligent　Robot”, East Asian Anthropological Meeting 2017, City University of Hong Kong, October 15.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2017.“Robots in Collaboration: Multidisciplinarity in Current Robotics” International Workshop for Science, Technology, and Innovation. May 30-31.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2016. “Popular Imaginaries and Technoscience: Performativity in the Emergence of the Japanese Humanoid Robot” AJJ 2016 Fall Meeting, Tsukuba University, November 26- 27.

Kemiksiz, Asli 2016.“The Machine and the Human: In Fiction and in Technoscience”, Organic Metaphors in Technoscience Workshop, University of Amsterdam, September 16.

Kemiksiz, Asli 2016.“’Making Humans’ or an Anthropological Inquiry into Cognitive Robotics”, Trans-Regional Anthropology Workshop (TRAWS) vol. 8, Osaka University, July 30, 2016.

Kemiksiz, Asli. 2016.“Science Fiction and Technology: Performativity in the Emergence of the Japanese Humanoid Robot”, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Kinki District Ph.D. & M.A. Dissertation Conference, Kobe University, March 20, 2016.

Others

Translation Kemiksiz, Asli (Trans.). 2011. Shaw, Adrienne, “Video Oyunu Kültürü Nedir? Kültürel İncelemeler ve Oyun İncelemeleri” Kült Dergisi 2–3: 110–138.

Essay Kemiksiz Asli. 2016.「コーヒーの家、紅茶の庭」 (“Coffee House Tea Garden)、Vesta 103

Invited Talk Kemiksiz, Asli. 2017. “Japanese Robotics from an Anthropologist’s Perspective.” Pint of Science Tokyo, May 21.

Interview Bilingual News Podcast 「 特 集 編 279 Asli 」 2017/ 8/24 https://bilingualnews.libsyn.com/279-asli-082417

Database Kemiksiz, Asli, Kenji Kuroda (Eds.) 2018. Museum Database, Turkey Edition. Center for Modern Middle East Studies, National Museum of Ethnology. https://www.minpaku- cmmes.com/

Interview トルコ人研究者が日本で見据える「ロボットと人間が 共存する世界」(“A World where Robots and Humans Coexist, as Seen by a Turkish Researcher”) Forbes Japan Self Made Women 100 2019/06/17. https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/27823

Object area

Japan