Conference Programme
April 12th, 2014 – Saturday
9:00 – 09:30 Registration
09.30 – 09.45 Welcome Notes by Dean (Faculty of Humanities and Letters) and Chair (ELIT) Prof. Dr. Talat S. Halman (C Block Auditorium)
09.45 – 10.00 Introductory speech by Meryem Tuğba Pekşen (ELIT IV)
10.00 -10.45 Panel: Roots of Fairy Tales (C Block Auditorium)
Burak Şenel – TOBB University of Economics and Technology – “Truth Unedited: Grimm Brothers and their Not-So-Fairy Tales”
Uğur Portakal – Boğaziçi University – “Problematic of the Tail: Physical Transformation and its Function in Fairy Tales”
Chair: Deniz Yılmaz (AMER II)
Discussions
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Panel: Analysis of Female Characters in a Misogynistic World (C Block Auditorium)
Elif Dilge Dinçer – Doğuş University – “The Latent Soul-Shattering Reality of ‘Twelve Dancing Princesses’ in Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Sexing the Cherry”
Melike Başak Yalçın – Middle East Technical University – “Exploring the Gender: A Symbolic Story: A Child’s Becoming a Girl”
Gizem Aydın – TOBB University of Economics and Technology – “A Feminist Approach to “Little Red Riding Hood” as “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter”
Chair: Dilara Elbir (AMER II)
Discussions
12.00 – 13.45 LUNCH BREAK
13.45- 14.45 Panel: Interpretation of Gender Roles in Fairy Tales (C Block Auditorium)
Samet Söylemez – Middle East Technical University – “Compulsory Direction”
Yasemin Erdoğan – Bilkent Laboratory & International School – “Gender Stereotypes and False Expectations in Fairytales”
Gözde Öncil – İD Bilkent Univesity – “An Issue of Feminism: Female Subordination and Stereotypes in Fairy Tales”
Chair: M. Cavid Barkçin (AMER I)
Discussions
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 15.45 Panel: Media and Consumerism (C Block Auditorium)
Monika Manişak – Ege University” – “The Disney Spell: Children’s Distorted Imagination through Contemporary Fairy Tales”
Ceyda Kaçar – Ege University – “Fairy Tales as a Temptation”
Chair: Yiğit Sümer (AMER I)
Discussions
15.45 – 16.45 Panel: Reinterpretation of Fairy Tales (C Block Auditorium)
Ecem Duygu Mimoglu – Bilkent Laboratory & International School – “Disney Fairy Tales”
Taylan Paksoy – Ege University – “A Saga of American Modernity: HBO TV Series Carnivàle and the Phantasm within It”
Hakan Serkan Demir – Celal Bayar University – “Rewriting and Transforming a Fairytale: Three different versions of Sandman”
Chair: Ahmet Can Vargün (ELIT IV)
16.45 – 17.45 Panel: Thought-Provoking Views
Leyla Akay – Bilkent Laboratory & International School – “Brains Bones and Bread: The Neuroscience of Fairy Tales”
Ardacan Özdemir – Doğuş University – “The Fairy As The Giver of Order: A Comparative Review Of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Queen Mab”
Selen Ercan – Bilkent Laboratory & International School – “The Grotesque in Literature – Beauty and the Beast to The Frog Prince”
Chair: Dilara Bozkurt (ELIT IV)
Discussions
17.45– 18.00 Coffee Break
18.00– 19.00 Panel: Fairy Tales Regarding East and Middle East (C Block Auditorium)
Yeliz Turan Yunusoğlu – Middle East Technical University – “The Story of Princess Budur Staying in the Shadow of The Tale of Qamar al-Zaman”
Enver Yunusoğlu – Middle East Technical University – “Shahmaran: the Queen of Serpents Terminating the Hegemonic Male Dominance”
Tarık Ziyad Gülcü – Ankara University – “Western Colonial Outlook on India: Rudyard Kipling’s The Potted Princess as a Fairy Tale”
Chair: İpek Çakaloz (ELIT IV)
Certificate Ceremony
Conference Organizer: Dr. Gül Kurtuluş
