[Bilimsel Haber] 2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference: Metamorphosis and Place, May 24-26, 2007, Fatih University, Istanbul

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

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2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference:

Metamorphosis and Place

May 24-26, 2007

*Fatih University
*Istanbul

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*Keynote Speakers:*

*Prof. Dr. Clare Carroll & **Prof. Dr. James Buzard*



  Preliminary Program


May 24

9:00 – 10:00: Registration (D Block)

10:00 – 10:30: Opening Ceremony

10:30 – 11:30: Keynote Address
Clare Carroll, Graduate School, City University of New York

11:30 – 12:00 – Art Exhibit Lecture
Professor Ilhan Ozkececi, classical Turkish Hat and Tezhib artist

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 2:30: Concurrent Sessions


Panel 1 (Red Hall, A Block - 351)
Chair: Lisa Taylor

Lisa Taylor, Bishop’s University: “Making Space: Preservice Teachers
Reading ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis”

Jasmine Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University: “Cartographies of Difference
and Pedagogies of Peril: Muslim Girls and Women in Western Young Adult
Fiction Novels”

Lindsey Moore, Lancaster University: “Dis/Placing ‘Arab, Muslim, Woman’
in Contemporary Women’s Writing”


1:00 – 2:30: Panel 2 (Blue Hall, A Block - 306)
Chair: Ralph Poole

Federico Sabatini, University of Turin: “Place-lessness and
space-lessness in Joyce and Woolf”

Aylin Bayrakceken, Bilkent University: “Voluntary Exile and Identity in
Metamorphosis in D. H. Lawrence’s American Writings”

Enrique Banús, Centro de Estudios Europeos-Universidad de Navarra:
“We’ll Always Have Paris: Metamorphosed Places in Victor Hugo’s Notre
Dame de Paris and Wolfgang Sebald’s Austerlitz”


1:00 – 2:30: Panel 3 (A 204)
Chair: Anthony Lake

Ismail Aydin, Fatih University: “Fires and Fears in Istanbul: Image of
City from the 18th to the 20th Century”

Ebubekir Ceylan, Fatih University: “The Changing Image of Baghdad: A
Historical Perspective”

Bahar Comert Agouridas, Marmara University and Dimitris Agouridas,
Yeditepe University: “The Psychoanalytic Tourist - Displacement and the
Place of the Other”

2:30 – 3:00: Coffee

3:00 - 4:30: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 4 (Red Hall)
Chair: Vassil Anastassov

Charlotte Hallows, Monash University: “Identity and Loss of Placein the
Love Song”

David Ross, Fatih University: “Being in Time to the Music”


Derya Agis, Hacettepe University: “Sephardic Places in Sephardic Songs”


3:00 – 4:30 Panel 5 (Blue Hall)
Chair: Sheenagh Pietrobruno

Martin Cyr Hicks, Fatih University: “Censorship, Propaganda, and the
Construction of National Identities in Canada”

Ralph Poole, Fatih University: “Humor as Displacement of Gender and
Nation in Shani Mootoo’s Out on Main Street”

Jeffrey Orr, Fatih University: “Visionary Writing: Intersemiotic
Translation and Familial Identification in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in
the Family”


3:00 – 4:30 Panel 6 (A 204)
Chair: Metin Bosnak

Wisam Mansour, Fatih University: “The Desert as Catalysis: A Reading of
the Persona of Al-Shanfara’s Lamiyyatu’l Arab”

Mazi Allen, State University of New York: “Walking the Streets of
Algiers: “Zohra and Fatima in Fanon’s Algeria Unveiled”


5:00: Buses to Istanbul


May 25

9:30 – 10:00: Coffee

10:00 – 11:30: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 7 (Red Hall)
Chair: Elizabeth Pallitto

Sara Eigen, Vanderbilt University: “Hybrid Identities in Hans Grimm”

Annedith Schneider, Sabanci University: “What Remains: Migration Writing
and Death in Leila Sebbar’s Le silence des rives”

Jeffrey Herlihy, Morningside College: “Hemingway’s Hispanic Vision in
For Whom the Bell Tolls: ‘You were in as far as any foreigner could be’”

Debjani Bhattacharyya, University of Heidelberg: “Spatially
Metamorphosed Bodies in Sabia Sumar’s The Silent Waters”


10:00 – 11:30: Panel 8 (Blue Hall)
Chair: Vivian Blaxell

Gerald Figal, Vanderbilt University: “War Memories, Tropical Visions:
The Transformation of Culturescapes in Postwar Okinawa”

Tal Litvak and Inbal Cicurel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat
Campus: “Home, Homeland, and Youth in War”

Edona Llukacaj, Fatih University: “In Order to Survive”

10:00 – 11:30: Panel 9 (A 235)
Chair: Verena Laschinger

Sonia Fizek, University of Lodz: “Internet as a Place for the
Metamorphosis of Literature?”

Sheenagh Pietrobruno, Fatih University: “From the Minute to Immensity:
Reshaping Digital Space”

Sybille Lammes, Utrecht University: “Playing the World: Postcolonial
Computer Games as Spatial Narratives”

Rasa Balockaite, Kaunas University of Technology: “Online Spaces:Re
Mapping Power Relationships in Lithuania”

11:30 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 2:30: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 10 (Red Hall)
Chair: Joshua Parker

Matt Suff, Central European University: “Stoichea, Statues and States of
Affairs: Metamorphosis, Metonymy and Mereology in Cognitive Mapping of
the Civic, Spacial, and Temporal Spheres”

Mark Haywood, Cumbria Institute of the Arts: “One Body Politic:
Metamorphosis of Place Reflected in Face”


1:00 – 2:30: Panel 11 (Blue Hall)
Chair: John Basourakos

Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University: “Metamorphosis of
Place and Time in James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen”

Sura Khrais, University of Applied Science: “Wolfgang Iser’s Reception
Theory: Possible Reading(s) of The Transformation”

Nagihan Haliloglu, University of Heidelberg: “Caribbean Metamorphosis:
Deessentialized Colonial Identities in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”

Tania Zulli, University of Roma Tre: “Finding New Sites: Nadine Gordimer
and the Transformation of Place and Identity in Post-Apartheid Fiction”

1:00 – 2:30: Panel 12 (A 235)
Chair: Mohamed Bakari

Urmila Chakraborty, North Bengal University, India: “The Black Psyche
Under Duress”

Guita Grin Debert, Universidade Estadual de Campinas: “Places in
Metamorphosis and Representations of Aging in Brazil”

Azize Bosnak, Fatih University: “Grabbing or Being Grabbed: Language of
the Globe, English”


2:30 – 3:00: Coffee


3:00 – 4:30: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 13 (Red Hall)
Chair: Wisam Mansour

Jerilyn Sambrooke, Lithuania Christian College: “Global Migrations:
Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe”

Mohamed Bakari, Fatih University: “Ngugi Wa Thion’go’s New Dystopia”

Yesim Buyukaslan, Fatih University: “Metamorphosis of Civic Identity
Within Campanella's Walls and on More's Island”


3:00 – 4:30: Panel 14 (Blue Hall)
Chair: John Basourakos

Elizabeth Pallitto, Fatih University: “Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses:
Ovidian Revisions by Tullia d’Aragona”

Buket Aktas, Fatih University: “Black Swan, White Dress: Medea with an
Irish Accent”

Michael Jasper, Fatih University: “Farm Girls Feeling the GoddessWithin
Them: Ovidian Metamorphoses in the Poems of James Dickey”


3:00 – 4:30: Panel 15 (A 235)
Chair: Mary Beth Davis

James Lambert, Fatih University, “Across the Zodiac: Lexicographal
Travels through Space, Time, Infinity and Beyond”

Suzette Ebanks, Goldsmith’s College: “Place and Space in Contemporary
British Culture”

Idris Çakmak, Fatih University: “Eliot and Tanpınar”

3:00 – 4:30: Panel 16 – Perceptions of Place among the Slavs (Prep S. -011)
Chair: Ralph Cleminson, University of Portsmouth

Ekaterina Pantcheva, The University of Architecture, Sofia:
“Metamorphosis of Sacral Places in Sofia”

Lilly Stammler, St. Peter’s College, Oxford University: “Creating Sacred
Space by Commemorating Destruction: The Case of the Zograph Monastery”

Neven Budak, University of Zagreb: “Construction of Space in two
Croatian Chronicles of the 13th and 14th Centuries”


5:00: Buses to Istanbul



May 26

10:00 – 11:00: Keynote Address
James Buzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 – 11:15: Coffee

11:15 – 12:45: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 17 (Main Hall)
Chair: Sheenagh Pietrobruno

Defne Karaosmanoglu, Fatih University: “Nostalgia and Minority Cuisines:
Reconstructing Istanbul Through Taste and Smell”

B. Deniz Calis, Yeditepe University: “Construction of Self and Ottoman
Landscape in Sehrengiz Genre (1512-1730)”

Lewis Johnson, Bogaziçi University: “Reconstructions of Place: Osman
Hamdi, Ottoman imperial visual culture and the territorialization of the
gaze”



11:15 – 12:45: Panel 18 (Loggia)
Chair: Kevin McGinley

Joanna Derdowska, Charles University: “City Perception in Transit, the
Prague Experience”

Verena Laschinger, Fatih University: “A Space for Inner Exile: Orhan
Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City”

Seval Arslan, Fatih University: “How an Oriental Becomes an Orientalist:
A Study of Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book”


12:45 – 2:00: Lunch

2:00 – 3:00: Book Launch
Louis Mazzari, Fatih University: “Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper and
the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement”

3:00 – 4:30: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 19 (Main Hall)
Chair: Clyde Forsberg
Discussant: Martin Hicks

Lucie Tunkrova, Fatih University: “Imagining Europe: Shared Identity in
the Light of Turkish Accession”

Pavel Senderak, Palacky University: “The Language Policy of the European
Union”

Vassil Anastassov, Fatih University: “The Language Communication of
United Europe”


3:00 – 4:30: Panel 20 (Loggia)
Chair: Jeffrey Orr

Yoon Sook Cha, Berkeley University: “Changing Places and Taking Hold of
Stillness: Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900”

Anthony Lake, Fatih University: “A Walk Around London with E.M. Forster:
Metamorphosis and the English Metropolis”

Zelma Catalan, Sofia University: “And the World Lay Spread BeforeMe”:
Space, World and Narrative in Dicken’s David Copperfield and Great
Expectations”


4:30 – 4:45: Coffee

4:45 – 6:15: Concurrent Sessions

Panel 21 (Main Hall)
Chair: Defne Karaosmanoglu

Michelle Iwen, Cardiff University: “Embrace/Appropriation of the Other
in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”

Banu Mertoglu, Fatih University: “Metamorphoses of the Harem as the
Place of the “Other”

Priti Joshi, University of Puget Sound: “Situatedness vs
Cosmopolitanism: Tagore, Ghosh, and Women”


4:45 – 6:15: Panel 22 (Loggia)
Chair: Vassil Anastassov

Metin Bosnak, Fatih University: “Call Me Eve, Patriarchy Calls MeEvil:
Gyne(p)(h)obia in Literature”

Elif Sezgin, Fatih University: “’Sin-Remorse’ and‘God-Human’: Tracing
the Characters of Adam and Orestes”

Clyde Forsberg, Fatih University: "Diaspora, Translation, and the
Metamorphosis of the Hebrew Bible: The Case of Sa'ada ibn Yusuf al Fayyumi"

6:15 – 7:45: Closing Ceremony