[Bilimsel Haber] Konferans: Haliç Üniversitesi Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyati Bölümü, 19-21 Nisan 2006

[Onur İnal]

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.


The Department of American Culture and Literature at Haliç University invites you to attend a symposium on: 
The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature 
Venue : Haliç University, Rectorate Conference Hall, Mecidiyeköy Campus, Büyükdere Caddesi No.101 

Date : 19-21 April 2006 

PROGRAMME

19 April 2006 Wednesday

10:00-10:20Welcome and Opening Remarks
Assist. Prof. Çiler Özbayrak ( Haliç University, Dept. of American Culture and Literature, Chair) 
Professor Atilla Özalpan ( Haliç University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean) 
Professor Ahmet Çakır ( Haliç University, President) 
Professor Gündüz Gedikoğlu ( Haliç University, Chair of the Board of Trustees) 

10:20-11:00Plenary Session
Chair: Professor Emel Doğramacı ( Çankaya University) 
Resisting Dis/closure: Autobiographical Writing 
and Orhan Pamuk''''''''''''''''s Istanbul
Professor Dilek Doltaş ( Boğaziçi University) 

11:00-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-11:45Session I
Chair: Professor Dilek Doltaş ( Boğaziçi University) 
Say It Isn't So: Autobiographical Hoaxes and the Ethics of Life Narrative
Professor Sidonie Smith ( University of Michigan) and 
Professor Julia Watson ( Ohio State University) 

11:45-12:15Session II
Chair: Professor Cevza Sevgen ( Boğaziçi University) 
A Historical Approach to Turkish Women's Autobiographies
Professor Nazan Aksoy ( Bilgi University) 

12:15-13:15Lunch
13:15-13:45Session III
Chair: Professor Sibel Irzık ( Sabancı University) 
Gender and Sexuality in Turkish Autobiographical Writing: Na(rra)tional Authority, Historical Agency, and Possibilities of Self-representation in Turkish Women's Autobiographies
Assistant Professor Hülya Adak ( Sabancı University) 

13:45-14:15Session IV
Chair: Professor Nazan Aksoy ( Bilgi University) 
Travellers and Traces: The Quest for One's Self in 18th to 20th Century Travel Writing
Professor Manfred Pfister (Free University Berlin) 

14:15- 14:45Session V
Chair: Professor Zeynep Ergun ( İstanbul University) 
Reception and Audience in Life Writing and Healing
Assistant Professor Wendy Ryden ( Long Island University) 

14:45-15.00Coffee Break

15:00-16:30Special Session
Chair: Assistant Professor Hülya Adak ( Sabancı University) 
Roundtable
Life Writing Issues and Prospects: American Perspectives
Professor Sidonie Smith ( University of Michigan) 
Professor Julia Watson ( Ohio State University) 
Professor G. Thomas Couser ( Hofstra University) 
Professor John Eakin ( Indiana University) 

20 April 2006 Thursday

10:00-10:45Plenary Session
Professor Oya Başak ( Boğaziçi University) 
Famous All Over Town: Real Lives of Unrealities
Associate Professor Margaret Russett ( University of Southern California) 

10:45-11:15Session I
Chair: Professor Nazan Aksoy ( Bilgi University) 
Art and Artifice in Sylvia Plath's Self-Portrayals
Professor Richard J. Larschan (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) 

11:15-11:30Coffee Break

11:30-12:00Session II
Chair: Assistant Professor Trevor Hope ( Ankara University) 
Suicide as Atavistic Panacea and Surtext of Self-Writing: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Nilgün Marmara
Professor Yusuf Eradam ( Haliç University) 

12:00-12:30Session III
Chair: Professor Suat Karantay ( Boğaziçi University) 
Theorizing Life: Argentinean History Recovered
Professor Claire Emilie Martin ( California State University, Long Beach) 

12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:00Session IV
Chair: Professor Esra Melikoğlu ( İstanbul University) 
Self as Process: Autobiography, Narrative Identity, and Everyday Life
Professor John Eakin ( Indiana University) 

14:30-15:00Session V
Chair: Professor Aslı Tekinay ( Boğaziçi University) 
Auto/biography, Knowledge and Representation: The Theory and Practice of Filial Narrative 
Professor G. Thomas Couser ( Hofstra University) 

15:00-15:15Coffee Break

15:15-15:45Session VI
Chair: Professor Zeynep Ergun ( İstanbul University) 
Wire-Writing as Life Writing: Alexander Calder's Portraits of Women
Professor Barbara B. Zabel ( Connecticut University) 

15:45-16:15Session VII (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor A. Clare Brandabur ( Doğuş University) 
Being in Time: Reading the Written Self in Alev Tekinay''''''''''''''''s Nur der Hauchvom Paradies (Only the Breeze from Paradise)
Assistant Professor Özlem Öğüt ( Boğaziçi University) - Conference Room A

Chair: Professor Didem Uslu ( Dokuz Eylül University) 
The Dancer and the Dance : An Analysis of Mrinalini Sarabhai''''''''''''''''s Autobiography, The Voice of the Heart
Leena Chandorkar, PhD ( Abasaheb Garware College) - Conference Room B 

16:15-16:45Session VIII (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Sırma Soran Gumpert ( Haliç University) 
Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love: Journal, Travel Narrative and Love Story
Assistant Professor A. Clare Brandabur ( Doğuş University) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Assistant Professor Trevor Hope ( Ankara University) 
The Empirical Journey to the Self: Memory, Language and the Re-construction of Identity in Moris Farhi's Young Turk
Assistant Professor Bronwyn Mills (Kadir Has University) - Conference Room B 

16:45-17:15Session IX (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Oya Berk ( Haliç University) 
South African Women's Accounts of Imprisonment under the Apartheid
Daniel Roux, MA ( University of Stellenbosch) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Assistant Professor Bronwyn Mills (Kadir Has University) 
An "Experiment" in Transraciality: John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me 
Assistant Professor Meltem Kıran Raw (Başkent University) - Conference Room B 

17:30-18:15 Session X 
Film Presentation "The Last Biscuit" 
Paul Hallam 

21 April 2006 Friday

10:00-10:30Session I
Chair: Professor Clifford W. Endres (Kadir Has University) 
The Brother, the Friend, the Stranger, and I: Uwe Timm's Biography of a Post-War German Generation
Professor Jutta Birmele ( California State University, Long Beach) 

10:30-11:00Session II
Chair: Associate Professor Türkan Araz ( İstanbul University) 
How Girls are Narrated in Women's Autobiographies: Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
Emeritus Professor Maria Antonia Alveres ( Distance Teaching University of Madrid) 

11:00-11:15Coffee Break

11:15-11:45Session III 
Chair: Associate Professor Matthew Gumpert (Kadir Has University) 
Telling Life Stories: The Rhetorical Form of Biographical Narratives 
Associate Professor Gerald P. Mulderig ( DePaul University) 

11:45-12:15Session IV 
Chair: Professor Yusuf Eradam ( Haliç University) 
İstanbul: Edouard Roditi's Mirror of the Self
Professor Clifford W. Endres (Kadir Has University) 

12:15-12:45 Session V
Chair: Associate Professor Murat Seçkin ( İstanbul University) 
Stories "are all we are": Thomas King's Personal and Communal Life Writings
Professor Teresa Gibert ( Spanish National University of Distance Education) 
12:45-13:45Lunch
13:45-14:15Session VI (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Laurence Raw (Başkent University) 
Anglo-American Women Travellers Writing on the Self and on Oriental Women
Tea Jansson, MA ( University of Tampere) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Associate Professor Matthew Gumpert (Kadir Has University) 
Constructing the Self through the Other: Fin-de-siècle Biographies of Female Missionaries
Juliette Atkinson, MA ( University College, London) - Conference Room B 

14:15-14:45Session VII (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Sema Bulutsuz ( İstanbul University) 
Too Far For Comfort? A Discussion on Narrative Strategies in Biography
Assistant Professor Rana Tekcan ( Bilgi University) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Assistant Professor Özden Sözalan ( İstanbul University) 
A Culture of Everyday Life: Exploring Blogging as Cyber Autobiography
Assistant Professor Leman Giresunlu ( Dokuz Eylül University) - Conference Room B 

14:45-15:00Coffee Break

15:00-15:30Session VIII (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Özlem Öğüt ( Boğaziçi University) 
Henry James: Creating 'The Master'
Assistant Professor Laurence Raw (Başkent University) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Associate Professor Alev Bulut ( İstanbul University) 
Gertrude Stein's Rejection of Identity and Autobiography
Assistant Professor Sema Bulutsuz ( Istanbul University) - Conference Room B 

15:30-16:00Session IX (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Çiler Özbayrak ( Haliç University) 
Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: The Picture of the Artist Trying to Represent the Self 
Assistant Professor Oya Berk ( Haliç University) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Professor Ayşe Dilek Erbora ( İstanbul University) 
Re:Collections: Disintegrations of Archive and Identity in Orhan Pamuk''''''''''''''''s İ stanbul
Assistant Professor Trevor Hope ( Ankara University) - Conference Room B 

16:00-16:30Session X (Concurrent Session)
Chair: Assistant Professor Leman Giresunlu ( Dokuz Eylül University) 
Traces of the History of Turkish Modernization in Orhan Pamuk's The New Life : The Oscillation between Fascination with and Resistance to the "West"
Ayşe Ece, PhD ( Marmara University) - Conference Room A 

Chair: Assistant Professor Sırma Soran Gumpert ( Haliç University) 
Making New Homes away from Home: Diaspora Experiences of Greeks and Turks in the 1920s
Banu Özel , MA ( Haliç University) - Conference Room B 
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