Every year, our Department hosts a number of guest lectures by both young and confirmed scholars in the fields of Turkish and Comparative literature.
2021-22
- Alphan Akgül (Istanbul 29 Mayıs University), “Bedene Gömülü Şiir: Şair ve Akademisyen Alphan Akgül ile Söyleşi”
2020-21
- Şule Akdoğan (ODTÜ), “Transnational Feminisms and Contemporary Turkish Women Writers in English Translation: Theories, Texts and Practices”
2019-20
- Victoria R. Holbrook, “What is Reality and How Can I Find It? Plato, the Gracious Quran and Romance”
- Mehmet Fatih Uslu (İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi), “Zabel Yesayan: Kadın, Cinsellik ve Siyaset”
2018-19
- Şima İmşir (İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi), “Biological Debt, Illness, and the Limits of the Nation-State in Women’s Writing in Turkish” (watch here)
- Erol Köroğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), “Haremdeki Namahrem: İlk Türkçe Romanlarda Bir İmkân ve Tasallut Alanı Olarak Cinsellik”
- Kenan Sharpe (UC Santa Cruz), “Aesthetics and Politics: The Long 1960s in Turkey and the US”
- Erkan Irmak (İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi), “Eski Köye Yeni Roman: Köy Romanının Tarihi, Kökeni ve Sonu (1950-1980)”
- Sibel Irzık (Sabancı University), “Comparative Literature in Turkey” (Graduate Conference Keynote Lecture)
- Neveser Köker (Arizona State University), “Translation and Politics of Cosmopolitan Nativeness”
2017-18
- Doruk Tatar (SUNY Buffalo), “’Games ‘They’ Play, Games Played on ‘Us’: A Comparative Approach to Fantasies of Espionage in British and Turkish Literatures”
- Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (Koç University), “Reading Tanpınar Today, Beyond World Literature”
- Ali Bolcakan (University of Michigan), “Rethinking Turkish Language Reforms: Language and Resistance in the Republican Era”
- Charles Sabatos (Yeditepe University) “The Ottoman Captivity Narrative in Central European Literature”
- C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University), “Disguise, Ottoman Fashion, and the Wardrobe of Genres”
- Kristin Dickinson (University of Michigan), “Translating Turanism: German-Turkish Cultural Relations of the Early 20th Century”
2016-17
- Fatih Altuğ (İstanbul Şehir University), “Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil ve Tevfik Fikret’te Hareket, Beden ve Mecralar”
- Bülent Eken (Kadir Has University), “The Other As a Heuristic Concept: Philosophy, Literature, Politics”
2015-16
- Nedim Gürsel (Sorbonne – CNRS), “Interview with Nedim Gürsel”
- Zeynep Tuna Ultav (Yaşar University), “Literary Spaces Through the Lens of Architectural Discipline”
- Karin Schweissgut (Freie Üniversität), “Poverty Narratives–Works of Art or Pieces of Committed Literature: Literary Treatments of Poverty in Mahmut Makal’s ‘Bizim Köy’ (1950) and Ferit Egdü’s ‘O’ (1977)”
