Hacettepe University Reading Society

WHO ARE WE?

HUNOK, Hacettepe University Reading Community, is a student community that has been active since 2007. It embraces all Hacettepe University students without being under the roof of a specific department.

HOW DO WE WORK?

We have three main activities that we organize as a community. These are book and movie reviews in the context of the theme, Free Writing Workshops, and concept events. In our concept events, we organize thematic events specific to the worlds and universes we all know and love. We arranged Harry Potter and House of Dragons events the previous seasons.

We don't just read, we discuss. The essence of our community is discussion and exchange of ideas. We watch, read and analyze within the context of a theme we choose together. Each semester, we create at least 6 themes, each with three movies and books, and vote on them. The theme with the most votes is chosen as our "semester theme". In the context of this semester theme, we review 3 books and 3 movies. The biggest advantage of our community is that it is not a departmental community. We come together with people from very different departments. This gives us different perspectives. Each discussion allows us to open a new window in our perspective.

We organize 3 Free Writing Workshops in a semester. In these workshops, we write freely on a specific material - this material can be an image, a quote, a concept or music - without genre limitations. We look at the same guiding material, but the points we reach are quite different. We take different paths from the same material. We publish the writings we like in our magazine "Karaca".