With the support of the Faculty of Letters at Ege University, the Anglophone Studies Graduate Symposium (ASGRAD) aims to encourage graduate students from various humanities departments to share their research to better understand our lives in a rapidly changing world, in line with their academic fields. In this way, ASGRAD fosters collaborative research and study among participants and facilitates cultural exchange.

 

ASGRAD emphasizes the importance of international graduate symposia by organizing one of the first such events in Türkiye. It provides a platform where participants can broaden their research by exchanging ideas in the symposium's interactive atmosphere.

 

In 2018, ASGRAD—organized by committee members Asil Doğuş Taşkın, Aysel Bakır, Canan Kaplan, Ecem Gülerler, and Sergen Taştekin, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Aylin Atilla Mat—launched one of the first graduate symposiums in Türkiye, titled Transformation. The second symposium, held in 2022 under the theme Silence, again saw graduate students contribute to its diverse and thought-provoking program.