Turkish Literature as a Political Platform – Online Conference 8-9 April 2022

“O Ερντογάν σε αδιέξοδο; Εξωτερικές και εσωτερικές διαστάσεις των εξελίξεων στην Τουρκία”, 19 Μαρτίου 2022
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28 Μαρτίου 2022
“O Ερντογάν σε αδιέξοδο; Εξωτερικές και εσωτερικές διαστάσεις των εξελίξεων στην Τουρκία”, 19 Μαρτίου 2022
1 Μαρτίου 2022
Ο Ερντογάν σε αδιέξοδο; Eξωτερικές και εσωτερικές διαστάσεις των εξελίξεων στην Τουρκία (Online Video)
28 Μαρτίου 2022

The Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies invites you to the Online Conference:

“Turkish Literature as a Political Platform” . Friday-Saturday 8-9 April 2022

Zoom Registration Link: https://ucy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcuirqT8jE9O7q0lXIZ313fpaCTsP7R56

 

                                                                                                                                     

 

Friday, April 8, 2022

 

 
14.00 – 14.15

 

 

Opening/Greetings

Antonis Balasopoulos (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cyprus)

14.15 – 15.00 Keynote Speaker

Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

The Language of Literature and its Politics: The Case of Turkish

15.00 – 15.15 Discussion
15.15 – 15.30 Break
Session 1 Chair: Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
15.30 – 15.50 Hülya Çelik (Ruhr -Universität Bochum, Germany)

“The Old Scroll Rolling from the Cemetery”, Mezarlıktan Yuvarlanan Eski Kafa (1870) – Viçen Tilkiyan’s Socio-Critical Essay in Armeno-Turkish

15.50 – 16.10

 

16.10 – 16.30

Ahmet Yıkık (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Bitter Accents in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

Discussion

 

Saturday, April 9, 2022

 

Session 2 Chair: Çimen Günay Erkol (Özyeğin University, Turkey )
9.00 – 9.20 Zaynabidin Abditrashidov (Alisher Navo’i Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan)

Türkistan’da Edebiyatın Siyasallaşması veya Abdurauf Fitrat’ın İlk Eserlerine Bir Bakış

9.20 – 9.40 Bahar Gökpınar (Yeditepe University, Turkey)

Osmanlı Himaye Düzeninin Küçük Taklitçileri: Akıncı Beyler ve Edebiyat Patronajı

9.40 – 10.00

 

 

10.00 – 10.30

 

Koray Üstün (Hacettepe University, Turkey)

Teknolojinin İktidarında Gücün Yeniden Üretimi: Çöplüğün Generali

Discussion

10.30 – 10.45 Break
 Session 3   Chair: Erol Köroğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
10.45 – 11.05 Adriatik Derjaj & Ma. Xheni Jaku (Tiran University, Albania)

The Transmission of Turkish Literature in Albania from the Ottoman Period until the Present Time

11.05 – 11.25 Burcu Alkan (Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany)

Politics of World Literature Theory and Turkish Literature as World Literature

11.25 – 11.45 Çimen Günay Erkol (Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Turkey)

Turkish Literature in the World Scene: Politics of Translation

11.45 – 12.15

12.15 – 13.30

Discussion

Break

 

Session 4

 

 Chair: Börte Sagaster (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
13.30 – 13.50 Giorgos Michalakopoulos (Ionian University, Greece)

On the Threshold of Two Eras: The Imprint of the 1980 Military Coup on the Characters of Orhan Pamuk’s Silent House – Comparing the Original Text to its Greek Translation

13.50 – 14.10 Bahanur Garan Gökşen (İstanbul Arel University, Turkey)

İlhan Tarus’un Kasabanın Ruhu Romanında Taşra ve Erkeklik

14.10 -14.30

 

14.30 – 15.00

Erol Köroğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)

War in Memory: Literary Representation of the World War I from the Armistice of Mudros to the Early Republican Period in Turkey

Discussion

 

15.00 – 15.15 Break
Session 5  

Chair: Giorgos Michalakopoulos (Ionian University, Greece)

15.15 – 15.35 Yüce Aydoğan (Kadir Has University, Turkey)

Politics/Poetics of Surface in the Fiction of Zaven Biberyan

15.35 – 15.55 Börte Sagaster (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Performances of Blackness in Turkish Popular Culture – from Ottoman Novels to Popular TV Programming

15.55 – 16.15 Petr Kučera (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)

Is There a Kemalist Novel? Some Observations on Early Republican Literature

16.15 – 16.45 Discussion/Concluding Remarks

Organizer: Dr. Ahmet Yıkık                                                          Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies            University of Cyprus                                                                    Information: [email protected]                                      Tel. Number: +357 22893963