Date: May 9th, 2018
Place: A-130
Hours: 10.00-18.00
10.00-10.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mehmet Kalpaklı (Bilkent University)
Etienne Charrière (Bilkent University)
10.30-12.30 Session 1
Abdullah Doğan (Boğaziçi University)
From the Tale of the Husband and Wife to the Fantastic Novel: The Journey of Muhayyelât’s Reception in Turkish Literature
Ayşenur Sarı (Bilkent University)
Potentialities of Ottoman Crime Fiction
Uğur Ermez Yetkin (Bilkent Üniversitesi)
An Intertextual Approach to Early Modern Ottoman Novels on the Topic of Squandered Inheritances
Tuğba Kara (Bilkent University)
The Guidance of the Mürşidi Kamil in The Congress of Birds and Siddharta through Islamic and Buddhist Mysticism
Chuan Wang (Bilkent University)
Translation Possibilities: Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre in Chinese, English, and Turkish
13.30-15.30 Session 2
Kaan Kurt (Bilkent)
Nâzım Hikmet’s Contruction of the Future
Mehmet Can Ekzen (Bilkent University)
Looking at Bilge Karasu’s Novels from the Point of View of the Social Construction of Gender
Mehmet Şamil Dayanç (İstanbul Şehir University)
The Theme of “Interpellation” in Short Stories on the 1980 Coup
Nurten Bulduk (Bilkent University)
Cultural Heritage and Literature in Turkey
16.00-18.00 Session 3
Sena Yapar (Bilkent University)
“De te fabula narratur!”: An Alternative Reading of The Disconnected as a National Narrative
Suphi Keskin (Bilkent University)
Problem of Identity and Deterritorialization in Turgut Özben
Duygu Öksünlü (Boğaziçi University)
A Critique of Clear-Mindedness: Şule Gürbüz’s Play Ne Yaştadır Ne Başta: Akıl Yoktur
Seren Üstündağ (Bilkent University)
Language Without a Home, Home Without a Language: The Operation of language in Mehmed Uzun’s Yitik Bir Aşkın Gölgesinde and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Annedili
Petrika Gavri (Bilkent University)
Amor Fati: Being Minor and Trauma Avoidance Strategies in Emine Sevgi Özdamar
