Conference Programme
April 12th, 2012 – Thursday
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Introductory speech by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Prof. Dr. Talat Sait Halman (C Block Auditorium)
10.30 -11.45 Panel: From Witches to Cross-Dressers (C Block Auditorium)
Ayşegül Türkeri – Ankara University – “The Representation of Gender Roles in Harry Potter”
Nihan Simge Soyöz – Bilkent University – “The Subversion of Woman’s Return to Domesticity as Happy Ending in Brockden Brown’s Wieland, or, The Transformation: An American Tale”
Gökçe Gündoğdu – Boğaziçi University – “Androgynous Characters as ‘Interpreters’ in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”
Chair: Şehriban Dağılan (ELIT II)
Discussions
11.45 – 13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – 14.15 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Familial Codes (C Block Auditorium)
Selda Saraç – Bilkent University – “Patriarchal Imprisonment and Silent Upheaval in Eveline by James Joyce”
Duygu Deliler – “Boğaziçi University – Autobiographical Truth Reflecting the Social Truth of Female Subjectivity in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’”
Chair: Ceren Ay (ELIT IV)
Discussions
13.00-14.15 Panel: Illusions of Privileges (FEASS, A-130)
Dilek Tuna Dursun – Bilkent University – “‘A Rose for Emily’: A Southern Woman versus Southern Society”
Murat Arslan – İstanbul University – “Happily or Properly Ever After?: Stereotypical Gender Roles in Grimms’ Fairytales”
Ezgi Hamzaçebi – Boğaziçi University – “On the Trail of Women Who Go Mad for Writing”
Chair: Gamze Kartal (AMER IV)
Discussions
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee Break
14.30 – 15.40 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Woman versus Society (C Block Auditorium)
Mehtap Hayırsöz – University of Gaziantep – “Silence Brings Madness”
Serap Çiçek – Pamukkale University – “Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Gender as a Social Construct”
Zeynet Öztunca – İstanbul University – “Taboos Shattered: Question of Social Roles in Churchill’s Cloud Nine”
Chair: Nilüfer Gökmen (AMER III)
14:30-15:40
Panel: Voice of the Silent Party (FEASS, A-130)
Ömer Cengiz – Hacettepe University – “The Voice of the Voiceless Other: Representation of the Opressed Women in A Doll’s House and The Awakening”
Begüm Tuğlu – Ege University – “The Echoes of Broken Portraits: Representations of Dismembered Women in Literature”
Ekrem Selvi – Ege University – “The Depiction of Male Sexuality In Certain Ancient Greek Sculpture”
Chair: Nimet Poyraz (ELIT III)
Discussions
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.15 Panel: Queer Identities (C Block Auditorium)
Özkan Akkaya – Bilkent University – “The Movie Zenne Dancer and Ahmet Yıldız’s Murder”
Bahri Kılıç – Ege University – “Breaking down the Walls with a Garland of Flowers: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s A Song of Love”
Merve Tokel – Hacettepe University – “The Deconstruction of Breakfast on Pluto in terms of Gender Approaches”
Chair: Ceren Şanlıdağ (ELIT IV)
Second Undergraduate Conference on Anglo-American Literature:
“Gender and Sexuality”
Conference Programme
April 13th, 2012 Friday
10.00 – 10.15 Opening speech by Assist Prof Dr Ayşe Çelikkol, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of English Language and Literature and American Culture and Literature Department (C Block Auditorium)
10.30 – 11.45 Panel: Wives and Maids (C Block Auditorium)
Nurulhude Baykal – Bilkent University – “Happily Ever After?: Rewriting of Fairytales in Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry”
Canan Eyigün – İstanbul University – “Patriarchal Victimization of the Female in The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood”
Ülkem Önal – Bilkent University – “Pushing the Limits of Gender and Sexual Identity in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet”
Chair: Dilara Bozkurt (ELIT II)
Discussions
11.45 – 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 14.15 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Gender and Other Structures of Power (C Block Auditorium)
Melih Mol – Bilkent University – “Working Class Women Portrayed: Barker’s Treatment of Working Class Women in Her First Three Novels”
Gözde Uzunçam – İstanbul University – “Turning a Blind Eye to Patriarchy”
Kübra Vural – Hacettepe University – “A Feminist of the Medieval Times: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales”
Chair: Beste Haskan (ELIT IV)
Discussions
13.00 – 14.15 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Labelling the Sexes (FEASS, A-130)
Yıldız Kahveci – Ege University – “A Feminist Reading: Identity and Mother – Father Dichotomy in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Jazz”
Pınar Çelik – İstanbul University – “Goodness, But Not Greatness: Woman as an Underprivileged Member of Society in Unless by Carol Shields”
Betül Kat – Boğaziçi University – “How to Live Through a Courtly Love: Gender Roles in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Chair: Şule Şimşek (ELIT II)
Discussions
14.15 – 14.30 Coffee Break
14.30 – 15.20 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Gender as the Core of Power Relations (C Block Auditorium)
Betül Taşyapan – Erzurum Atatürk University – “Feminism”
Yudum Alak – Bilkent University – “Porn Butchers Women”
Chair: Meryem Tuğba Pekşen (ELIT II)
Discussions
14.30 – 15.20 Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Gender’s Impact on Language and Woman Spirit (FEASS, A-130)
Mehmet Çelikbaş – Fatih University – “Mental Pollution Caused by Sexuality and Its Effects on Language Learning”
Sinem Maden – Bilkent University – “Gender Roles in English and Turkish Proverbs: A Case Study of an English-Turkish Dictionary”
Chair: İpek Çakaloz (ELIT II)
15.20 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.15 Panel: Representations of the Female on Screen (C Block Auditorium)
Mehtap Akbaş – İstanbul Şehir University – “Akad’s Women, Space and Music in Yalnızlar Rıhtımı and Vesikalı Yarim”
Merve Çeliksümer – Ege University – “United States of Tara: Multiple Personality as an Alternative to Gender Issue: Shapeshifter Women Model”
Ayşe Tuğba Uğraş – University of Gaziantep – “Disunity of Women”
Chair: Gülfem Toy (ELIT IV)
Cookies & Beverages
Conference Organizer: Dr. Gül Kurtuluş
