[Bilimsel Haber] Program: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward W. Said, 25-26 May 2007, Bogazici University

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward W. Said
25-26 May 2009
Bogazici University


Conference Program

25 MAY 2007  FRIDAY

9:30 - 9:45   	Welcome Speech

9:45 - 10:00   	Opening Speech by Mariam Said

10:00 - 10:45   Keynote Address by Elias Khoury
		Exile and its Double: Revisiting Edward Said


10:45 - 11:00 	Coffee Break


11:00 - 13:00   First Panel

		EDWARD SAID, THE LITERARY CRITIC
		THE POWER OF LITERATURE

		Jale Parla moderator
	
		Timothy Brennan, The Making of a Counter-Tradition

		Masao Miyoshi, Literary Elaborations
		
		Jacqueline Rose, The Political Edge of Fiction


13:00 - 14:30   Lunch Break


14:30 - 16:30   Second Panel

		EDWARD SAID, THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
		SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

		Müge Gürsoy Sökmen moderator
	
		Tuncay Birkan, Saidian Publishing in Turkey: From 		
		Auerbach in Istanbul to Said in Istanbul

		Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said: Balancing the Academic and 			the
Political, the Public and the Private
	
		Saree Makdisi, Said and the Style of the Public 				Intellectual

		Fawwaz Traboulsi, Orientalising the Orientals: The Other 		Message of
Edward Said


16:30 - 17:00  	Coffee Break


17:00 - 18:30   Literary Evening with Elias Khoury, Murathan Mungan




26 MAY 2007  SATURDAY

10:30 - 12:30   Third Panel

		ON THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION

		Faruk Birtek moderator

		Joseph Massad, Beginning with Edward Said

		Karma Nabulsi, The Role of Palestinian Intellectuals in 			an Era of
Fragmentation

		Ilan Pappe, Creative Turmoil: Palestine, Peace and 				Edward Said

		Raja Shehadeh, Analyzing Palestine: Post Mortem or 				Prognosis?
		

12:30 - 14:30   Lunch Break


14:30 - 17:00   Fourth Panel

		LOOKING AT TODAY THROUGH SAID'S LENSES

		Nükhet Sirman moderator

		Meltem Ahiska, Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Impasse of 		Modernity

		Akeel Bilgrami, Humanism and Democratic Politics Today

		Harry Harootunian, Said's Antinomies

		Mahmood Mamdani, On Blasphemy, Bigotry and the Politics 			of Culture Talk
	
		Gauri Viswanathan, Edward Said, Religion, and Secular 				Criticism


14:30 - 17:00   Coffee Break


18:00 - 19:30   Piano Concert by Saleem Abboud-Ashkar