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<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Haliç
Üniversitesi Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyati Bölümü 19-21 Nisan 2006
tarihinde ''''The theory and practice of life writing: auto/biography, memoir
and travel writing in post/modern literature'''' konulu üç gün süresince
Mecidiyeköy kampüsünde gerçekleşecek uluslarasi bir seminer organizasyonuna
evsahipliği yapmaktadır. Seminer ile ilgili ayrıntılı bilgiler aşağıdaki linkte
yer almaktadir.<BR><BR><BR>The Department of American Culture and Literature at
Haliç University invites you to attend a symposium on: <BR>The Theory and
Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in
Post/modern Literature <BR>Venue : Haliç University, Rectorate Conference Hall,
Mecidiyeköy Campus, Büyükdere Caddesi No.101 <BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Date : 19-21 April 2006
<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">PROGRAMME<BR><BR>19 April 2006
Wednesday<BR><BR>10:00-10:20Welcome and Opening Remarks<BR>Assist. Prof. Çiler
Özbayrak ( Haliç University, Dept. of American Culture and Literature, Chair)
<BR>Professor Atilla Özalpan ( Haliç University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Dean) <BR>Professor Ahmet Çakır ( Haliç University, President) <BR>Professor
Gündüz Gedikoğlu ( Haliç University, Chair of the Board of Trustees)
<BR><BR>10:20-11:00Plenary Session<BR>Chair: Professor Emel Doğramacı ( Çankaya
University) <BR>Resisting Dis/closure: Autobiographical Writing <BR>and Orhan
Pamuk''''''''''''''''s Istanbul<BR>Professor Dilek Doltaş ( Boğaziçi University)
<BR><BR>11:00-11:15Coffee Break<BR>11:15-11:45Session I<BR>Chair: Professor
Dilek Doltaş ( Boğaziçi University) <BR>Say It Isn’t So: Autobiographical Hoaxes
and the Ethics of Life Narrative<BR>Professor Sidonie Smith ( University of
Michigan) and <BR>Professor Julia Watson ( Ohio State University)
<BR><BR>11:45-12:15Session II<BR>Chair: Professor Cevza Sevgen ( Boğaziçi
University) <BR>A Historical Approach to Turkish Women’s
Autobiographies<BR>Professor Nazan Aksoy ( Bilgi University)
<BR><BR>12:15-13:15Lunch<BR>13:15-13:45Session III<BR>Chair: Professor Sibel
Irzık ( Sabancı University) <BR>Gender and Sexuality in Turkish Autobiographical
Writing: Na(rra)tional Authority, Historical Agency, and Possibilities of
Self-representation in Turkish Women’s Autobiographies<BR>Assistant Professor
Hülya Adak ( Sabancı University) <BR><BR>13:45-14:15Session IV<BR>Chair:
Professor Nazan Aksoy ( Bilgi University) <BR>Travellers and Traces: The Quest
for One’s Self in 18th to 20th Century Travel Writing<BR>Professor Manfred
Pfister (Free University Berlin) <BR><BR>14:15- 14:45Session V<BR>Chair:
Professor Zeynep Ergun ( İstanbul University) <BR>Reception and Audience in Life
Writing and Healing<BR>Assistant Professor Wendy Ryden ( Long Island University)
<BR><BR>14:45-15.00Coffee Break<BR><BR>15:00-16:30Special Session<BR>Chair:
Assistant Professor Hülya Adak ( Sabancı University) <BR>Roundtable<BR>Life
Writing Issues and Prospects: American Perspectives<BR>Professor Sidonie Smith (
University of Michigan) <BR>Professor Julia Watson ( Ohio State University)
<BR>Professor G. Thomas Couser ( Hofstra University) <BR>Professor John Eakin (
Indiana University) <BR><BR>20 April 2006 Thursday<BR><BR>10:00-10:45Plenary
Session<BR>Professor Oya Başak ( Boğaziçi University) <BR>Famous All Over Town:
Real Lives of Unrealities<BR>Associate Professor Margaret Russett ( University
of Southern California) <BR><BR>10:45-11:15Session I<BR>Chair: Professor Nazan
Aksoy ( Bilgi University) <BR>Art and Artifice in Sylvia Plath’s
Self-Portrayals<BR>Professor Richard J. Larschan (University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth) <BR><BR>11:15-11:30Coffee
Break<BR><BR>11:30-12:00Session II<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Trevor Hope (
Ankara University) <BR>Suicide as Atavistic Panacea and Surtext of Self-Writing:
Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Nilgün Marmara<BR>Professor Yusuf Eradam (
Haliç University) <BR><BR>12:00-12:30Session III<BR>Chair: Professor Suat
Karantay ( Boğaziçi University) <BR>Theorizing Life: Argentinean History
Recovered<BR>Professor Claire Emilie Martin ( California State University, Long
Beach) <BR><BR>12:30-13:30Lunch<BR>13:30-14:00Session IV<BR>Chair: Professor
Esra Melikoğlu ( İstanbul University) <BR>Self as Process: Autobiography,
Narrative Identity, and Everyday Life<BR>Professor John Eakin ( Indiana
University) <BR><BR>14:30-15:00Session V<BR>Chair: Professor Aslı Tekinay (
Boğaziçi University) <BR>Auto/biography, Knowledge and Representation: The
Theory and Practice of Filial Narrative <BR>Professor G. Thomas Couser ( Hofstra
University) <BR><BR>15:00-15:15Coffee Break<BR><BR>15:15-15:45Session
VI<BR>Chair: Professor Zeynep Ergun ( İstanbul University) <BR>Wire-Writing as
Life Writing: Alexander Calder’s Portraits of Women<BR>Professor Barbara B.
Zabel ( Connecticut University) <BR><BR>15:45-16:15Session VII (Concurrent
Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor A. Clare Brandabur ( Doğuş University)
<BR>Being in Time: Reading the Written Self in Alev Tekinay''''''''''''''''s Nur
der Hauchvom Paradies (Only the Breeze from Paradise)<BR>Assistant Professor
Özlem Öğüt ( Boğaziçi University) – Conference Room A<BR><BR>Chair: Professor
Didem Uslu ( Dokuz Eylül University) <BR>The Dancer and the Dance : An Analysis
of Mrinalini Sarabhai''''''''''''''''s Autobiography, The Voice of the
Heart<BR>Leena Chandorkar, PhD ( Abasaheb Garware College) – Conference Room B
<BR><BR>16:15-16:45Session VIII (Concurrent Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant
Professor Sırma Soran Gumpert ( Haliç University) <BR>Jean Genet’s Prisoner of
Love: Journal, Travel Narrative and Love Story<BR>Assistant Professor A. Clare
Brandabur ( Doğuş University) – Conference Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Assistant
Professor Trevor Hope ( Ankara University) <BR>The Empirical Journey to the
Self: Memory, Language and the Re-construction of Identity in Moris Farhi’s
Young Turk<BR>Assistant Professor Bronwyn Mills (Kadir Has University) –
Conference Room B <BR><BR>16:45-17:15Session IX (Concurrent Session)<BR>Chair:
Assistant Professor Oya Berk ( Haliç University) <BR>South African Women’s
Accounts of Imprisonment under the Apartheid<BR>Daniel Roux, MA ( University of
Stellenbosch) – Conference Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Bronwyn
Mills (Kadir Has University) <BR>An “Experiment” in Transraciality: John Howard
Griffin’s Black Like Me </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Assistant Professor Meltem
Kıran Raw (Başkent University) – Conference Room B <BR><BR>17:30-18:15 Session X
<BR>Film Presentation “The Last Biscuit” <BR>Paul Hallam <BR><BR>21 April 2006
Friday<BR><BR>10:00-10:30Session I<BR>Chair: Professor Clifford W. Endres (Kadir
Has University) <BR>The Brother, the Friend, the Stranger, and I: Uwe Timm’s
Biography of a Post-War German Generation<BR>Professor Jutta Birmele (
California State University, Long Beach) <BR><BR>10:30-11:00Session II<BR>Chair:
Associate Professor Türkan Araz ( İstanbul University) <BR>How Girls are
Narrated in Women’s Autobiographies: Cisneros’ The House on Mango
Street<BR>Emeritus Professor Maria Antonia Alveres ( Distance Teaching
University of Madrid) <BR><BR>11:00-11:15Coffee Break<BR><BR>11:15-11:45Session
III <BR>Chair: Associate Professor Matthew Gumpert (Kadir Has University)
<BR>Telling Life Stories: The Rhetorical Form of Biographical Narratives
<BR>Associate Professor Gerald P. Mulderig ( DePaul University)
<BR><BR>11:45-12:15Session IV <BR>Chair: Professor Yusuf Eradam ( Haliç
University) <BR>İstanbul: Edouard Roditi’s Mirror of the Self<BR>Professor
Clifford W. Endres (Kadir Has University) <BR><BR>12:15-12:45 Session
V<BR>Chair: Associate Professor Murat Seçkin ( İstanbul University) <BR>Stories
“are all we are”: Thomas King’s Personal and Communal Life Writings<BR>Professor
Teresa Gibert ( Spanish National University of Distance Education)
<BR>12:45-13:45Lunch<BR>13:45-14:15Session VI (Concurrent Session)<BR>Chair:
Assistant Professor Laurence Raw (Başkent University) <BR>Anglo-American Women
Travellers Writing on the Self and on Oriental Women<BR>Tea Jansson, MA (
University of Tampere) – Conference Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Associate Professor
Matthew Gumpert (Kadir Has University) <BR>Constructing the Self through the
Other: Fin-de-siècle Biographies of Female Missionaries<BR>Juliette Atkinson, MA
( University College, London) – Conference Room B <BR><BR>14:15-14:45Session VII
(Concurrent Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Sema Bulutsuz ( İstanbul
University) <BR>Too Far For Comfort? A Discussion on Narrative Strategies in
Biography<BR>Assistant Professor Rana Tekcan ( Bilgi University) – Conference
Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Özden Sözalan ( İstanbul University)
<BR>A Culture of Everyday Life: Exploring Blogging as Cyber
Autobiography<BR>Assistant Professor Leman Giresunlu ( Dokuz Eylül University) –
Conference Room B <BR><BR>14:45-15:00Coffee Break<BR><BR>15:00-15:30Session VIII
(Concurrent Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Özlem Öğüt ( Boğaziçi
University) <BR>Henry James: Creating ‘The Master’<BR>Assistant Professor
Laurence Raw (Başkent University) – Conference Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Associate
Professor Alev Bulut ( İstanbul University) <BR>Gertrude Stein’s Rejection of
Identity and Autobiography<BR>Assistant Professor Sema Bulutsuz ( Istanbul
University) – Conference Room B <BR><BR>15:30-16:00Session IX (Concurrent
Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Çiler Özbayrak ( Haliç University)
<BR>Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy: The Picture of the Artist Trying to Represent the
Self <BR>Assistant Professor Oya Berk ( Haliç University) – Conference Room A
<BR><BR>Chair: Professor Ayşe Dilek Erbora ( İstanbul University)
<BR>Re:Collections: Disintegrations of Archive and Identity in Orhan
Pamuk''''''''''''''''s İ stanbul<BR>Assistant Professor Trevor Hope ( Ankara
University) – Conference Room B <BR><BR>16:00-16:30Session X (Concurrent
Session)<BR>Chair: Assistant Professor Leman Giresunlu ( Dokuz Eylül University)
<BR>Traces of the History of Turkish Modernization in Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life
: The Oscillation between Fascination with and Resistance to the “West”<BR>Ayşe
Ece, PhD ( Marmara University) – Conference Room A <BR><BR>Chair: Assistant
Professor Sırma Soran Gumpert ( Haliç University) <BR>Making New Homes away from
Home: Diaspora Experiences of Greeks and Turks in the 1920s<BR>Banu Özel , MA (
Haliç University) – Conference Room B </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>