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March 28, 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
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| 14.00 – 14.15
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Opening/Greetings
Antonis Balasopoulos (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cyprus) |
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| 14.15 – 15.00 | Keynote Speaker
Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) The Language of Literature and its Politics: The Case of Turkish |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
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| 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 |
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| 9.20 – 9.40 | Bahar Gökpınar (Yeditepe University, Turkey)
Osmanlı Himaye Düzeninin Küçük Taklitçileri: Akıncı Beyler ve Edebiyat Patronajı |
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| 9.40 – 10.00
10.00 – 10.30
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Koray Üstün (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
Teknolojinin İktidarında Gücün Yeniden Üretimi: Çöplüğün Generali Discussion |
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| 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 |
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| 11.05 – 11.25 | Burcu Alkan (Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany)
Politics of World Literature Theory and Turkish Literature as World Literature |
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| 11.25 – 11.45 | Çimen Günay Erkol (Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Turkey)
Turkish Literature in the World Scene: Politics of Translation |
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| 11.45 – 12.15
12.15 – 13.30 |
Discussion
Break |
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Session 4
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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 |
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| 13.50 – 14.10 | Bahanur Garan Gökşen (İstanbul Arel University, Turkey)
İlhan Tarus’un Kasabanın Ruhu Romanında Taşra ve Erkeklik |
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| 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
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| 15.00 – 15.15 | Break | |
| Session 5 |
Chair: Giorgos Michalakopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) |
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| 15.15 – 15.35 | Yüce Aydoğan (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
Politics/Poetics of Surface in the Fiction of Zaven Biberyan |
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| 15.35 – 15.55 | Börte Sagaster (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Performances of Blackness in Turkish Popular Culture – from Ottoman Novels to Popular TV Programming |
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| 15.55 – 16.15 | Petr Kučera (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
Is There a Kemalist Novel? Some Observations on Early Republican Literature |
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| 16.15 – 16.45 | Discussion/Concluding Remarks
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