Seminar Series of the Faculty of Applied Sciences – Fall 2025 – 5. Seminar

Dear Students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences,

You are kindly informed to welcome The Coordinator for Sustainability and Food Security Studies in Sabancı University’s Istanbul Policy Center, Prof. Zafer Yenal as the guest speaker of the seminar series.

Date      : Thursday, 27 November 2025

Time      : 14:40-15:30

Place     : AB3 #150 / Zeynep Alp Köseoğlu Auditorium

Before joining Sabancı University in September 2024, Prof. Zafer Yenal served as a professor of sociology at Boğaziçi University since 2000. He holds a BSc in economics from Middle East Technical University (1989) and earned his PhD in sociology from Binghamton University, NY (2000). His research spans sustainability studies, sociology of consumption, sociology of food, rural sociology, political economy, human geography and historical sociology. Prof. Zafer Yenal has authored and produced numerous articles, books, exhibitions, as well as radio and TV programs and podcasts. For the past three years, he has written Zappa Zamanlar; a widely-read social science bulletin. He is currently the coordinator for sustainability and food security studies in Sabancı University’s Istanbul Policy Center.

In the seminar class, Prof. Zafer Yenal will present on “From Plate to Farm: The Fragility of Turkish Agriculture and Small-Scale Farming”.