[Discussion] hatirlatma -- NY on Air seminar on Diasporic Lit

[Gonul Pultar]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend the second of the Bilkent Seminars
on Literature, Culture and Society:

Writing Outside the Nation:
Professor Azade Seyhan (Bryn Mawr College) on Diasporic Literature
in conversation with Dr. Dalia Kandiyoti (CUNY-College of Staten Island)

Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2003 
Time: 18:00 hrs.
Place: Room AZ-60 (NY online classroom)
Faculty of Economics Building, Bilkent University 

Professor Seyhan, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities and Professor of
German and Comparative Literature, will be discussing with Dr. Kandiyoti
her book Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton UP, 2001) devoted to
diasporic authors in the United States and Germany. The two
Istanbul-born scholars will also touch upon general issues concerning
the present state of comparative literature. 

The lecture-conversation will take place by video conferencing through
New York On Air. It will be conducted in English; the audience may then
ask questions in Turkish. 

Coffee will be served from 17:30 hrs. onwards. 

As seating is limited, seats will be reserved on a first come first
served basis. Please reserve your seat by e-mail or phone: 
bilsem@bilkent.edu.tr 
(312) 290-2044 

Sincerely, 

Gönül Pultar, Ph.D. 
Coordinator, 
Bilkent University Seminars on 
Literature, Culture and Society 

Faculty of Humanities and Letters Room Z-41
Bilkent University

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CURRICULUM VITAE 

Azade Seyhan 

German and Comparative Literature 2931 Belmont Avenue 
Bryn Mawr College Ardmore, 
Pennsylvania 19003 
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010 (610) 658-6374 
(610) 526-5382 or 5198 e:mail:azadeseyhan@mac.com 
Facsimile: (610) 526-7479 
e:mail: aseyhan@brynmawr.edu 
http://www.brynmawr.edu/german 

EDUCATION 

Ph.D. Germanics, University of Washington, Seattle (1985) 
M.A. Germanics, University of Washington (1981) 
M.A. Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of 
Washington (1972) 
Graduate Study in Linguistics, University of California, Los 
Angeles (1969-1970) 
B.A. Comparative Literature, Robert College, Istanbul (1969) 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 

1997-Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Professor of 
German and Comparative 
Literature, and adjunct professor in Philosophy, Bryn 
Mawr College. Chair, Bryn Mawr-Haverford Bi-College 
Department of German (1994 -1999) and 
(2002 - ) 

Summer 2001:Faculty, NEH Summer Institute, "Nature, Art, and 
Politics after Kant: Re-evaluating Early 
German Romanticism," Colorado StateUniversity 

1999-2000: Visiting Professor of German, Center for 
German and European Studies, Georgetown 
University 

1991-1997: Associate Professor of German and Comparative 
Literature, Bryn Mawr College 

1991-1993: Co-Chair, Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College 

1991-1992: Visiting Associate Professor of German. 
University of Pennsylvania 

1985-1991: Assistant Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College 

1984-1985: Instructor in Germanics, University of 
Washington, Seattle 

1982-1984: Predoctoral Teaching Associate in Germanics, 
University of Washington 

1981-1983: Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and 
Literatures, University of Washington. 
(Joint Appointment with Germanics 1982-1983) 

1978-1981: Teaching Associate in Near Eastern Languages 
and Literatures, University of Washington 

1972-1978: Instructor in Humanities, Middle East 
Technical University, Ankara 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS 

German Philosophical Traditions and Critical Theory 
Exile and Diaspora Studies 
Literary Theory and Criticism/Philosophical Approaches to Criticism 
Modern German Literature (18th Century to the present) 
Literary and Cultural Bilingualism 
Transcultural Literatures of the United States 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS (Selected) 

Fairbank Professorship in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College (1997-) 

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1995 and 1987) 

American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1988) 

DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Fellowship at Cornell 
University (Summer 1987) 

Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College (Summer 1986) 

PUBLICATIONS 

Books 

Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton University Press, 2001.) 

Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of 
German Romanticism (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of 
California Press, 1992) 

Selected Book Chapters 

"German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the 
Bildung of the Other." Forthcoming in Nation, Language and the 
Ethics of Translation, ed. Sandra L. Bermann and Michael Wood, 
Princeton University Press. 

"Moral Agency and the Play of Chance: The Ethics of Irony in 
Der Zweikampf." Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen. Neue 
Studien, ed. Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan (Würzburg: 
Königshausen und Neumann, 2001), 25-34 

"Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time 
in Schlegel and Novalis." Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to 
the Modern Period, ed. Jon Whitman. (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 437-450. 

"Cultural Legacy, Legitimacy, and Identity in the Turkish 
Community of Germany." Parameters of Partnership: The U.S. - Turkey 
- Europe, ed. Hüseyin Bagci, Jackson Janes, Ludger Kühnhardt 
(Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999), 103-118 

"Geographies of Memory: Protocols of Writing in the 
Borderlands." Multiculturalism in Transit: A German-American 
Exchange, ed. Klaus J. Millich and Jeffrey M. Peck (Providence, RI: 
Berghahn, 1998), 193-212 

"'Jede Zeit ist eine Sphinx, die sich in den Abgrund stürzt, 
sobald man ihr Rätsel gelöst 
hat': (Re)dressing the Romantic Text." Heinrich Heine und die 
Romantik, ed. Markus Winkler (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1997), 129-143 

"Scheherazade's Daughters: The Thousand and One Tales of 
Turkish-German Women 
Writers." Writing (New) Identities: Gender, Nationalism, and 
Immigration in New European Subjects, ed. Gisela Brinker-Gabler and 
Sidonie Smith (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 
230-248 

"From Minor Literature, Across Border Culture, To Hypenated 
Criticisms." Politics and Culture, vol. iv, "Reading the Shape 
of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies," ed. Henry 
Schwarz and Richard Dienst (Boulder, Colorado and Oxford: 
Westview Press/Harper Collins, 1996) 15-29 

"Ethnic Selves/Ethnic Signs: Invention of Self, Space, and 
Genealogy in Immigrant Writing." Culture/Contexture: Explorations 
in Anthropology and Literary Studies, ed. E. Valentine Daniel and 
Jeffrey M. Peck (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of 
California Press, 1996) 175-194 

"Fractal Contours: Chaos and System in the Romantic 
Fragment." Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic 
Imagination, ed. Richard Eldridge (Cambridge University Press, 1996) 
133-150 

"Visual Citations: The Dialectic of Text and Image in Walter 
Benjamin." Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, 
Art, Politics and Literature, ed. Beate Allert (Detroit: Wayne State 
University Press, 1996) 229-241 

"Allegories of History: The Politics of Representation in 
Walter Benjamin." Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern 
Discourse, ed. David Downing and Susan Bazargan (Albany, N. Y.: State 
University of New York Press, 1991) 231-248 

Selected Articles 

"Enduring Grief: Autobiography as Poetry of Witness in the 
Work of Assia Djebar and Nazim Hikmet." Forthcoming in Comparative 
Literature Studies 

"Why Major in Literature: What Do We Tell Our Students?" PMLA 
117 (2002): 510-512 

"Linguistic Difference and Cultural Translatability: A 
Primer." ADFL Bulletin 33 (2002): 59-63 

"Allegorie der Allegorie: Romantische Allegorese als 
kulturelle Erinnerung." Rereading Romanticism. A volume in the 
series Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, ed. Martha B. 
Helfer, 47 (2000): 151-167 

"Lost in Translation: Re-Membering the Mother Tongue in Emine 
Sevgi Özdamar's Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei", The German 
Quarterly 69 (1996): 414-426 

"Language and Literary Study as Cultural Criticism." ADFL 
Bulletin 26 (1995): 7-11 

"Cannons Against the Canon: Representations of Tradition and 
Modernity in Heine's Literary History." Deutsche 
Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 
63 (1989): 494-520 

"Labours of Theory: The Quest for Representation in Early 
German Romanticism." Seminar 25 (1989): 187-204 

"Landscapes of Ruin and Projects of Recovery: Walter 
Benjamin's Theory of Allegory as the Emblem of Modernity." Works and 
Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the 
Arts 11/12 (1988): 81-95 

"Poetic Discourse as Metanarrative: The Critical Map of 
Heine's 'Harzreise.'" The German Quarterly 59 (1986): 19-33