Conference Programme
April 28th, 2011 – 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
10.30 -10.45 “Challenging the Status Quo of Women in the Early Twentieth Century” by Gülten Silindir (Ankara University – ELIT MA)
Chair: Yonca Bakır
Discussions
10.55 – 11.10 “(American) “‘Women Others’: A Look inside Nathaniel Hawtorne’s Male- Centered Short-Story World” by Jelena Nikodinoska (University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle)
Chair: Etienne Marget
Discussions
11.20 – 11.35 “Rape is a Political Crime Against Female Body” by Gökçe Şimşek ( Bilkent University- AMER III)
Chair: Nesrin Mutlu
Discussions
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.40 – 13.55 “Media’s Effect on Otherizing Woman in Popular TV Series Lost” by Meltem Karabacak (Ege University – AMER IV)
Chair: Sinem Orallı
Discussions
14.05 – 14.20 “The Orient’ in Lost” by Kübra Vural (Hacettepe University – ELIT)
Chair: Mehtap Akbaş
Discussions
14.30 – 14.45 “They Sing America!: African American Female Artists Surpassing The Racial Barriers” by Berkay Erdemandı (Hacettepe University – AMER III)
Chair: Erolcan Talas
Discussions
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 15.45 “From Russia with Love: A Guide to How to Other” & Film Session by Sema Nur Ketenci (Istanbul Kültür University – ELIT IV)
Chair: İpek Çakaloz
Discussions
15.55 – 16.10 “Mirror, mirror, on the wall… who’s the most perfect of them all?” by Özlem Aktüy (Ege University – AMER IV)
Chair: Melih Mol
Discussions
April 29th, 2011 Friday
9.45 – 10.00 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
10.00 – 10.15 “Two Different Ways to Belong Somewhere: A Study of the Aspect of the ‘Other’ in Fruit of the Lemon and My Beautiful Laundrette” by Dilek Menteşe (Ankara University – ELIT MA)
Chair: Şerife Gül
Discussions
10.25 – 10.40 “Colonialism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe within the Context of Othering” by Özlem Özmen (Hacettepe University – ELIT)
Chair: Melek Şen
Discussions
10.50 – 11.05 “Clinking of the Chain Gang or The Representation of Panopticism in Heart of Darkness” by Gökhan Yılmaz (Hacettepe University – ELIT)
Chair: Aydan Akın
Discussions
11.15 – 11.30 “The ‘Significant’ Others: Separate Personalities in Literature” by Nurulhude Baykal (Bilkent University – ELIT IV)
Chair: Mert Türkeşi
Discussions
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.40 – 13.55 “The Experience of ‘Otherness’ in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” by V. Betül Can (Hacettepe University – ELIT IV)
Chair: Ali Dur
Discussions
14.05 – 14.20 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot” by H. Feyza Sütçü (METU – FLE IV)
Chair: Didem Varinli
Discussions
14.30 – 14.45 “Madness and Othering in Pat Parker’s Regeneration” by Melih Mol (Bilkent University – ELIT IV)
Char: Özge Artun
Discussions
14.55 – 15.10 Magda, as a Guide to Other in J.M. Coetzee’s in The Heart of Country by Mehtap Akbaş (Bilkent University – ELIT IV)
Chair: Nimet Poyraz
Discussions
15.20 – 15.50 Coffee Break
15.50 – 16.05 “Deconstruction of History as a Meta-narrative and Otherness in Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Passion” by Emrah Atasoy (Hacettepe University ELIT IV)
Chair: Yeşim Kurşunlu
Discussions
16.15 – 16.30 “The Birth of Two Similar Musical Traditions across Cultures: A Comparison of the Arabesque Culture to Hip-Hop” by Adem Balcı (Hacettepe University – ELIT IV)
Chair: Sezin Çırak
Discussions
Closing Remarks
Conference Organizer: Dr. Gül Kurtuluş
