[Bilimsel Haber] 1st International Congress of Anthropology, May 25-27, 2007, Istanbul

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1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION, TURKEY
RECONSIDERING EUROPEANNESS FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES:
BOUNDARIES, IMAGES, CULTURES

May 25-27, 2007, Istanbul-Turkey

Conference Program

FRIDAY, May 25, 2007

09:00 - 10:00 OPENING
Opening Speech: lber Ortayli

10:00 - 13:15 SESSION I
Chair: Bozkurt Güvenç

10:00 - 10:30 Nedret Kuran Burçoglu
Europe and Europeanness

10:30 - 11:00 Ulf Hannerz
Changing Europe, Changing Anthropology

11:00 - 11:30 Discussion 

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:15 Michael Herzfeld
Europe and the Global Hierarchy of Value: Geographies and Dynamics of
Cultural Anthropology

12:15 - 12:45 Barbro Klein
Anthropology, Ethnology and European Disciplinary Landscape

12:45 - 13:15 Discussion

13:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 SESSION II
Chair: Ulf Hannerz

14:00 - 14:30 Akile Gürsoy
Anthropology and Anthropologists in Turkey

14:30 - 15:00 Ubaldo Martinez Veiga
Effects of the Last Regularization Process of Foreign Immigrants in
Spain: Labor Market, Integration and Differential Racism

15:00 - 15:30 Discussion
Saturday, May 26 2007

SESSION III
Chair: Akile Gürsoy

10:00 - 10:30 Jenny B. White
Urban Anthropology of Turkey

10:30 - 11:00 David Shankland The Anthropology of Rural Turkey

11:00 - 11:30 Discussion

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:15 Henry Rutz
Education and the Reproduction of the Istanbul Middle Class

12:15 - 12: 45 Levent Soysal
Viewing Europeanness from Istanbul: City, Spectacle and "Civilizing
Process";

12:45 - 13:15 Ayse Durakbasa, Meltem Karadag, Gül Özsan Esraf Families
in Provincial Cities in Turkey: Family Strategies and Narratives

13:15 13: 45 Discussion

13:45 - 14:45 Lunch Break

SESSION IV
Chair: Sibel Özbudun

14:45 - 15:15 Sibel Özbudun
Multiculturalism

15:15 - 15:45 Belkis Kümbetoglu
"Be European, Be Different"

15:45 - 16:15 Discussion

16:15 - 16:30 Coffeebreak

16:30 - 17:00 Inci User
Reflection of a Multicultural Society: Turkish Writers in the
Contemporary German Literature

17:00 - 17:30 Erdogan Gedik
Different Perceptions of the "Almanci"; Identity

17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

Sunday, May 27, 2007

SESSION V
Chair: Michael Herzfeld

09:00 - 09:30 Hürriyet Konyar
Hybrid Identities and New Cultural Environments Reflected in the Turkish
Media in the Context of Postcolonial Relations

09:30 - 10:00 Suavi Aydin
Being Minority in Turkey

10:00 - 10:30 Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Intersecting Anthropologies: Anthropology of Turkey and Anthropology of
Europe

10:30 - 11:00 Discussion

11:00 - 11:45 Coffebreak

11:45 - 12: 45 Panel (Postgraduate Students):
Contemporary Developments and Reflections about Anthropology from
Different Countries of Europe

Moderator: Merve Çagsirli (ODTÜ)
Speakers: Sandra Finger (Sabanci University)
Nicolas Kosmatopoulos (Zurich University)
Fabio Vicini (University of Milano Bicocca)
Manuela Pellegrino (UCL, UK)

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break

14: 00 - 15:00 PANEL: Recent Trends and Issues in the Anthropology of
Turkey
Moderator: Hande Birkalan-Gedik

Speakers: Ayfer Bartu Candan
Jenny B. White
David Shankland

15:00 - 15:30 Closing Speech: Bozkurt Güvenç