[Bilimsel Haber] Reinventions of Identity in the Balkans, May 10-12, 2006, Beykent University

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Reinventions of Identity in the Balkans*

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*May 10-12, 2006 *

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*Beykent University*


*Programme*



*May 10, Wednesday, 2006 (The Marmara Hotel, Taksim)*


09:30-10:00 Registration / Coffee


10:00-11:15 Welcome / Opening Session

Chair: Assist. Prof. Gönül Bakay, Organizing Committee


Prof. Dr. Cuma Bayat, Rector, Beykent University

Murat Kaynar, Head of Istanbul Rotary Club


Hüseyin Bürge, Mayor of Bayrampaşa


Hakan Fidan, TİKA


11:15-12:00 Plenary Session


Ömer Ersun, ASAM, Ambassador


12:00-12:15 Coffee Break


12:15-13:30 Keynote Speaker


Süleyman Demirel, 9^th President of Turkey


13:30-14:30 Lunch


*Beykent University, Taksim Campus*


14:30-16:00 Session I

Chair: Gönül Bakay


“*Ottomania: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Meets Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, or
the Enduring Quest for Cultural Identity”*

George Rousseau


16:00-16:15 Coffee Break



16:15-17:15 Session II A


Chair: Gönül Uçele

“*Orientalism / Occidentalism”*

Mihaela Irimia


“*Reinventions of Ethnic Identity”*

Marina Matic


16:15-17:45 Session II B


Chair: Can İkizler


*“Çingene Kimliğinin Görünümü: Balkanlar ve Çokkimliklilik”*

Suat Kolukırık


* “Osmanlı Kimliğinden Türklüğe Geçişte Balkan Savaşı’nın Rolü”*

Haluk Harun Duman

“*Irk Olgusunu Aşan Bir Kavram: Makedonya’da Türklük ve Türkçe”* Lütfü
Türkkan


19:00-21:00 Cocktail Prolonge (Hosted by Rotary Club, Istanbul)


*May 11, Thursday, 2006*


9:30-11:00 Session III


Chair: Gönül Pultar


*“**War of the Words: Language, Ottoman Power and the Construction of
Identity in Ismail Kadare’s _Three-Arched Bridge_”*

Andrew White


“*Re-Mythifying the Self: The Politics of Identity in Ismail Kadare’s
_The Palace of Dreams_, Milorad Pavic’s _Landscape Painted with Tea_/,/
and Orhan Pamuk’s _Snow_/./”*

Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen


“*Reinvention of Identity in Ivo Andric’s _The Bridge on the Drina”_*

Gönül Pultar


11:00-11:15 Coffee Break







11:15-12:15 Session IV


Chair: Kamile İmer


“*Avrupa Birliği üyesi Ülkelerin AzınlıkHakları Konusundaki Karnelerine
bir Örnek: Yunanistan”*

Berna Aksoy


“*Bir Kimlik Olarak Balkan Bektaşiliğinin Ayrışım Süreci”*

A. Yılmaz Soyyer


12:15-13:30 Lunch


13:30-15:00 Session V (A)


Chair: Veysel Kılıç


*“The Possibilities and Horizons of /Praxis/ Practices in (Post)Yugoslav*

*Time”*

Nikola Mokrovic


“*Visualising the Nation”*

Bratislav Pantelic


“*National Identity Policy in Post-Communist Macedonia”*

Nesrin Kenar


13:30-15:00 Session V (B)


Chair: John Basourakos


*“Forced Migration of Bulgarian Ethnic Turks”*

Vassil Anastassov


* “Invention of ‘Mübadil’ Identity in Turkeyat the Age of Globalization”*

Özgür Dirim Özkan

*“Ethnic versus National Identity in Bosnia”*

Sabit Subasic

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break


15:15-16:15 Panel

Moderator: Ömer Ersun

Participants: Andrew White, Mihaela Irimia






*May 12, Friday, 2006*


10:00-11:30 Session VI A


Chair: Mihaela Irimia


*“Confined in Space and Time”*

Emel Abduraman


*“People’s Houses in Reconstructing Urban Culture”*

Ayşe Durukan Kopuz


“*Reinventions of Turkish National Identity: The Case of Nazım Hikmet”*

Bilgen Sütçüoğlu


10:00-11:15 Session VI B


Chair: Övgü Tüzün


“*Reinventing Traditions, Uncovering Identities: Coining Identity
through Folklore’s Reinvention in the Balkans”*

Nikolai Vukov


“*Patterns of Multicultural and Intercultural Practice: East and West”*

Vassilis Petsinis


11:30-11:45 Coffee Break


11:45-12:45 Closing Session / Final Comments


12:45-14:00 Lunch


14:30-18:00 Tour of Istanbul (by bus)


19:30-22:00 Dinner (Hosted by Beykent University)


Contact:

Gönül Bakay: _gonulbakay at superonline.com
<mailto:gonulbakay at superonline.com>_

Selma Uzun: _selmauzun at gmail.com <mailto:selmauzun at gmail.com>_