Prior to the film, be sure to join Cinema & Media Studies in Fisher-Bennet Hall from 12 - 1:30pm for “‘The Truth Is…’ Feminist Documentary and the Real” presented by Shilyh Warren. For more information on this Colloquium, visit cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

November 11 • 5pm–7pm
Stiteler Hall 261, 208 S 37th St
Free and open to the public. Registration required: form.jotform.com/252654816404...

This event is supported by Penn’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication; The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania; Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies; and Wolf Humanities Center; Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture; and La La Lil Jidar.

Fire in Every Direction is a memoir of political and queer awakening, both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents.

Yumusak writes, "I'd like to think that these artichokes are an open invitation to the philosopher to dig in—they are objects of everyday conflict, framed by historical, political, and economic forces."

Image 3: A proto-surrealist still-life by Giorgio de Chirico, which puts a pair of estranged artichokes on an off-center pedestal. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.
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Yumusak is inspired by Halaby's subversion of the role of the artist in her work as a theorist of 'everyday conflict'.

Image 2: A recent painting titled “Organize, Reorganize, Build, Win” by Samia Halaby, which she exhibited at the Havana Biennial in 2024. Halaby describes that the working class brings their art to her through their political movements. www.instagram.com/p/DAgtKlHJE8...

Image 1: Portrait of Ege Yumusak by Jason Varney.

Fellow webpage: www.egeyumusak.com

More: Which differences of perspective generate conflict? Who is within the scope of political persuasion?

To get a better handle on when widespread disagreement is pathological and what we can do about it, Yumusak’s project poses that we ask: When does disagreement begin? How does ‘seeing things a certain way’ commit one to an epistemic stance?

Everyday political conflict blurs distinctions between public and private realms, and social and individual epistemologies. This makes the site of everyday political conflict a generative locus of theorizing about the breakdown of epistemic common grounds in society.

For the Wolf Humanities Center’s Truth Seminar, Yumusak is working on a book project titled, "The Epistemology of Everyday Political Conflict," which focuses on building a theory of everyday political conflict.

Yumusak's public writing has appeared in Boston Review, The Drift magazine, and The Point magazine.

As a faculty fellow, Yumusak will be working on a theory of everyday political conflict. She has also examined questions concerning political language, social movements (e.g., the labor movement and feminism), and ideology.

Her research focuses on how the social interacts with the psychological. Her current project concerns political disagreement—its material foundations, psychological and social manifestations, and epistemic properties.