[Bilimsel Haber] Conference: "Changing Feminist Paradigms and Cultural Encounters," June 7-9, 2013, Boğaziçi and Bilgi Universities

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Gulhan Balsoy <gerkaya at gmail.com>
Conference:

Journal of Women's History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul Bilgi
University Conference:


Changing Feminist Paradigms and Cultural Encounters: Women's
Experiences in Eastern Mediterranean History in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries

June 7-9, 2013, İstanbul

June 7, Friday:

Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University



9:30-10:30                Opening Speeches

Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s History)

Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s 
History)

Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)



10:30-11:00              Coffee Break

11:00-12:30              Women Pioneers, Agency, and Activism

Chair: Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Ana Stjelja (Independent Scholar), Historical Patterns of Women’s
Activism in the Region: The Case of Serbian Writer Jelena J.
Dimitrijevic (1862-1945)

Nevila Pahumi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Visions of a Petite
Diplomate: Paraskevi Kyrias and “Albania” at the Paris Peace
Conference, 1919

Umut Azak (Okan University)/Henk de Smaele (University of Antwerp),
National and Transnational Dynamics of Women's Activism in Turkey in
the 1950s and 1960s: The Story of the IWC Branch in Ankara

12:30-14:00              Lunch Break

14:00-15:30              Can We Speak of “Women”? Different Agendas,
Different Feminisms

Chair: Benita Roth (Binghamton University, Associate Editor, Journal
of Women’s History)

Amany Soliman (Alexandria University), Non-Muslim Feminists in Egypt's
Early 20th Century: A Double Challenge

Başak Tuğ (İstanbul Bilgi University),  The Alternative Modernity of
Sabiha Sertel’s Cicianne



15:30-16:00              Coffee Break



16:00-17:00              Education, Agency and Nationalism

Chair: Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Ellen Fleishmann (University of Dayton), Education and Agency in Early
Twentieth-Century Lebanon: Women Educated “Under an American Roof”

Nadya Sbaiti (Five College), Separate in our Togetherness? Education
for Women and Nation in Interwar Lebanon




June 8, Saturday

Santral Residence, "Board of Trustees Meeting Room", İstanbul Bilgi 
University

9:30-11:00                Reconstructing the Untold Experiences

Chair: Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Ebru Aykut (Mimar Sinan University), Home-Rebels in the Late Ottoman
Empire: Murderous Wives and Female Arsonists

Nadezhda Alexandrova (Sofia University), Bulgarian Women in Istanbul
in the 1860s and 1880s

Yavuz Selim Karakışla (Boğaziçi University), Nursing in the Ottoman
Empire, 1854-1923



11:00-11.30                          Coffee Break

11:30-13:00              Gendered Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion

Chair: Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, Book Review Editor,
Journal of Women’s History)

Gülhan Balsoy (Işık University), The Women of the Haseki Women’s
Hospital and Being a Poor and Lonely Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century
Istanbul

Kent Schull (Binghamton University), State Patriarchy and Gendered
Incarceration:  Women, Children, and Prison Reform in the Late Ottoman
Empire

Liat Kozma (Hebrew University), The Traffic in Women and Children in
the Middle East in the Interwar Period

13:00-14:30              Lunch Break

14:30-16:00              Challenging the Nationalist Historiographies

Chair: Yeşim Arat (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Zeynep Türkyılmaz (Dartmouth College), Being the Mother for Others’
Daughters:  Maternal Colonialism and the Female Nation-Builders of the
Turkish Republic

Rezzan Karaman (University of California, Los Angeles), The Formation
of Gender Roles within the Context of Kurdish National Discourse in
the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

Selda Tuncer (Middle East Technical University), Going Public: Women’s
Everyday Experiences of Public Space in Modern Turkey



16:00-16:30              Coffee Break

16:30-18:00              Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Nükhet Sirman (Boğaziçi University)

Feminist Publishing in Turkey and the US:  Comparative Histories and 
Experiences




June 9 , Sunday

Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University



9:00-11:30                Discourses on Women

Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (İstanbul Bilgi University)

Ceyda Karamürsel (University of Pennsylvania), Re-reading the Second
Constitutional Era through Women and Slavery

Eftymia Kanner (University of Athens), Communal Interaction,
Discourses on Women’s Rights and Feminist Interventions from the
Ottoman Reform Era to the Early Turkish Republic

Katerina Dalakoura (University of Crete), Discourses on Women’s
Emancipation in Greek Women’s Journals (1880-1911): “Feminisms” in
Ottoman context

11:30-12.00              Coffee Break

12:00-13:30              Closing Remarks

14:00-18:00              Visit to Topkapı Palace and Harem


http://journalofwomenshistory.org/?p=983



Gülhan Balsoy


Isik University
Department of Humanities

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