[Bilimsel Haber] Turkish American Studies Symposium, 3-4 June 2016, Istanbul

[erdem.selvin at kulturad.org]

Saygıdeğer bilimselHaber üyeleri,

Kültür Araştırmaları Derneği'nin Türkiye Amerikan Araştırmaları 
Enstitüsü İstanbul ofisi (ARIT) ile birlikte düzenlediği 
"Turkish-American Studies 2016" sempozyumu 3-4 Haziran 2016 tarihlerinde 
ARIT binasında gerçekleşecektir.

Sempozyum programı ve ARIT ofisinin adresi aşağıdadır.

Sempozyuma katılım formuna ve diğer detaylara sempozyum websitesinden 
<http://turkamer.kulturad.org/?page_id=1136> ulaşabilirsiniz.

Daha detaylı bilgi için lütfen <turkishamericans2016 at kulturad.org> 
adresine e-posta gönderiniz.



Sempozyum Programı

Turkish-American Studies 2016
ARIT Building
June 3-4, 2016

Organized by the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey and the
American Research Institute in Turkey


Thursday, 2 June

18:00—Cultural Studies Association of Turkey Reception


Friday, 3 June

9:00 to 17:00—Registration

10:00 to 11:15—Opening Remarks and Speech

Tony Greenwood (ARIT): Welcoming Remarks

Gönül Pultar (Cultural Studies Association of Turkey / Bilkent 
University), “Contextualizing Turkish-American Studies within 
Transnational/Gobal American Studies”


11:15 to 11:30—Coffee break

11:30 to 13:00—Session I

“Immigration and Assimilation”
Chair: Louis Mazzari

Zeynep Selen Artan-Bayhan (City University of New York), “Identity in 
the Making: Turkish Immigrants in New York and New Jersey”

Zafer Parlak (Izmir University), “Assimilation Process of 
Turkish-Americans”


13:00 to 14:30—Lunch


14:30 to 16:00—Session II

“Individual Experiences”
Chair: Ralph Poole

Nükhet Kardam (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at 
Monterey), “Watercolor Identities”

Leman Giresunlu (Dokuz Eylül University), “Personally Experiencing 
American Studies between 1992-1997”


16:00 to 16:15 Coffee break


16:15 to 18:15—Session III

Screening of The House that Ahmet Built (2007) on the life of A. 
Ertegün


18:15 to 18:30—Discussion on the movie
Moderator: Belma Baskett


20:00—Dinner


Saturday, 4 June

9:00 to 17:00—Registration

9:30 to 11:00—Session IV

“Show Business”
Chair: Verena Laschinger

Bengi Başaran (Istanbul Technical University), “Bedouins and The Wild 
East Show in the 1893 Chicago World Fair”

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (New York University), “Carrying Our Country to 
the World: Turkey's Diplomatic Fashion Shows in the United States”


11:00 to 11:15—Coffee break


11:15 to 13:15—Session V

“Literary Negotations”
Chair: Kim Fortuny

Belma Baskett (Middle East Technical University and Michigan State 
University), “From Istanbul to Montreal and Other Texts”

Koray Üstün (Hacettepe University), “A Poet and Intellectual in the 
USA: Seyfettin Başçıllar”

Verena Laschinger (University of Erfurt), “Negotiations of 
Turkish-Americanness in Joseph O'Neill's Postethnic Literature”


13:15-14:45—Lunch


14:45 to 16:45—Session VI

“America in Turkey”
Chair: Zafer Parlak

Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University), “A Case for Smart Power from 
Istanbul”

Ralph J. Poole (University of Salzburg), “‘We are all Androgynous’: 
Staging America in Turkey”

Kim Fortuny (Boğaziçi University), “An American in Istanbul: Nature, 
Literature and Local Allegiances”


16:45 to 17:00—Coffee break


17:00 to 18:30—Session VII

Wrap-up session / Roundtable discussion on the future of 
Turkish-American Studies and American Studies in Turkey
Moderator: Gönül Pultar


ARIT İstanbul ofisi adres:

Üvez Sokak 5
Arnavutköy
Istanbul
Telephone: (90-212) 257-8111
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