Conference Programme
April 12th, 2013 – Friday
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Introductory speech by Asst. Prof. Patrick Hart (C Block Auditorium)
10.30 -11.30 Panel: Arabella, Eshter Greenwood and Lucy Lurne: Victims of a Misogynistic World (C Block Auditorium)
Tarık Gülcü – Ankara University – “Arabella’s Quixotism: Female Insanity as a Failed Reaction Against Patriarchy”
Hande Dağ- Ege University – “Madness or Challenge: Self-Destruction in Sylvia Plath’s Semi-Autobiographical Novel, The Bell Jar”
Enver Yunusoğlu – Dokuz Eylül University- “The Silent Madness of Empathy”
Chair: Meryem Tuğba Pekşen (ELIT III)
Discussions
11.30- 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45- 12.45 Panel: Shakespeare’s Frantic Characters (C Block Auditorium)
Irmak Özevin- Ege University – “Embarrassing Reality Leaving Behind Reason Upon Characters Hamlet and King Lear”
Kübra Vural- Hacettepe University – “The Result of Tragic Burden: Different Dimensions of Madness in Hamlet”
Ayşegül Türkeri – Ankara University- “The Madness of the Literary Mind”
Chair: Alev Sezin Çırak (ELIT IV)
Discussions
12.45 – 14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30- 15.15 Workshop: Polychromatic Panorama in Poe’s Short Fiction (C Block Auditorium)
Tevfik Can Babacan – Başkent University – “The Tell-Tale Heart of the House of Usher”
Merve Tutka – Başkent University – “The Tell-Tale Heart of the House of Usher”
Serkan Korkmaz – Başkent University – “The Tell-Tale Heart of the House of Usher”
Esra Akçay – Başkent University – “The Tell-Tale Heart of the House of Usher”
Chair: Nilüfer Gökmen (AMER IV)
Discussions
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.15 Panel: Healthy Intellect versus Insane Mind: Vain Craving for the Nest (C Block Auditorium)
Monika Manişak – Ege University” – “The Story of a Remorseless Conscience: The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe”
İpek Çakaloz – Bilkent University – “The Greatest Mad Characters and Why Did They Go Mad”
Burak Şenel – TOBB ETU – “Longing for the Womb: Aetiology of Insanity in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”
Chair: Sümeyra Gök (AMER IV)
16.15- 17.00 Panel: Madness from the Inside Out (C Block Auditorium)
Cansu Yıldırım – Ege University – “On the Nature of Madness; A Thorough Look into the Abyss of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
Simge Şirin – Bilkent University – “Michel Foucault and Some Aspects of Madness”
Selin Kavasoğullar – Yaşar University – “Female Insanity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
Chair: Nimet Poyraz (ELIT IV)
Discussions
17.00– 17.15 Coffee Break
17.15– 18.00 Panel: Representation of Madness and Fanciful Audience in Visual Arts (C Block Auditorium)
Raşit Mutlu – İstanbul University – “A Brief Analysis of Marks of Madness in Modern and Contemporary Western Art: from Munch to Tracey Emin”
Mehmet Koçer – Ege University – “Madness in 1960s as a Societal Diagnosis: Misfits of Social Expectations in the Movies One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted.”
Mehtap Uçan – 18 Mart University – “Madness Brought By Cinema”
Chair: Erolcan Talas (ELIT IV)
Second Undergraduate Conference on Anglo-American Literature:
“Gender and Sexuality”
Conference Programme
April 13th, 2013 Saturday
13.00 – 13.45 Panel: Traumatic Past and Neurotic Present in Woolf’s Fiction (C Block Auditorium)
Meryem Tuğba Pekşen – Bilkent- University – “Mrs Dalloway’s Stream of Consciousness and/or Madness: Keeping in Step with Time”
Elif Dilge Dinçer – Doğuş University – “Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Sketch of the Past’”
Chair: Dilara Bozkurt (ELIT III)
Discussions
13.45 – 14.45 Panel: Obsessed Homodiegetic Narrators into Madness (FEASS, A-130)
Nilüfer Gökmen – Bilkent University – “Holden Caulfield: Mad or Only a Depressed Young Boy?”
Yağmur Başak Selimoğlu – Boğaziçi University -“The Detective Narrators in The Dupin Stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Esrar-ı Cınayat”
Derya Güçdemir – Ege University – “Is Children Literature as Innocent as Children”
Chair: Berna Girgin (AMER IV)
Discussions
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.00
Panel: Social & Individual Aspects of Eccentric Expositions in Anglo-American Literature (C Block Auditorium)
Taylan Paksoy- Ege University – “Milton, Blake, Pound : Oracles of Anglo-Atlantic Civilization”
Aysem Öktem – 18 Mart University – “Writers in their Texts: Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Halide Edip Adıvar”
Selda Saraç – Bilkent University – “Live or Die: Anne Sexton’s Journey Through Madness”
Chair: Yağmur Özge Artun (ELIT IV)
Discussions
16.00- 17.00 Panel: Socially Handicapped Female Characters: Madness as a Veil (C Block Auditorium)
Yeliz Turan – Hacettepe University – “Female Insanity Caused by the Misogyny of Male Physicians As Reflected in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Bell Jar”
Menekşe Gökçen – Ege University – “Transgressing Borders: New Woman Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea”
Dilek Yurt – Ege University – “Man-Made World and Man-Made Madness in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
Chair: İpek Erkal (ELIT IV)
Cookies & Beverages
Conference Organizer: Dr. Gül Kurtuluş
