The International Society for the Critical Study of Divination (ISCSD) is pleased to announce that the recording of our Book Talk held on May 16, 2025, is now available online.
The event featured Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey by Zeynep K. Korkman (University of California, Los Angeles), with Canan Tanir (University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley) serving as discussant.
In this pathbreaking ethnography, Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés, where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals carve out affective and feminized publics amidst the overlapping pressures of secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and patriarchal forces. Her work highlights “feeling” both as a mode of divinatory engagement and as a feminist analytic, offering profound insights into precarity, alternative futures, and postsecular subjectivities.
The recording can now be viewed on the ISCSD YouTube channel Here.
