Friday 19 April 2024
From storytelling and architectural design to moviemaking and economic production, the act of creating is intimately tied to our senses of self and community. What is creativity? What constitutes a creation? What constitutes a creature? What are the political implications of the act of creation? How might an attention to creativity impact our understandings of the history of literary thought?
Conference schedule (Friday, 19 April 2024)
09:30 – 09:45: Opening Remarks – Jonathan Williams, Ceylan Köşker Bevington
09:45 – 10:30: Keynote Speaker – Prof. Mine Özyurt Kılıç (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi): “Narrative Acts of Empathy: Literature as a Medium for Emotional Engagement”
10:40 – 11:40: Panel 1 – The Gothic (İlayda Doğanyılmaz, moderator)
Aryani Roy (Jadavpur University), “A Tale of Two Vampires: Carmilla and Dracula”
Dipyaman Bhomwick (Jadavpur University), “From a Man’s World to Gaia’s: An Ecocritical Perusal of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
Umut Bürme (TOBB University of Economics and Technology), “Beneath the Bunker: Unpacking Monstrosity and Creativity in Amnesia’s Labyrinthine Play 1”
11:50 – 12:50: Panel 2 – Coloniality (Dilanaz Güler, moderator)
Hazal Kazancı (Bilkent University), “The First Contact: Native Americans and Their Potential Influence on the Climate of Enlightenment”
Doğaç Kaynak (Mehmet Akif Ersoy University), “Eradication of Reality and Recreation of Tradition in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Postcolonial Analysis of Ben Okri’s Famished Road (1991)”
Elif Gülce Demircan (TED University): “Coloniality of Gender; Reviving the Story of An Otherized Woman in Wide Sargasso Sea”
12:50 – 13:50: Lunch Break
13:50 – 15:05: Panel 3 – Drama and Adaptations (Amal Saad, moderator)
Xu Yiming (Shandong Arts Institute), “Floating down the wild ford-unmaned, unfettered, untouched: Exploring the Post-Dramatic Theatre Characteristics of Heiner Goebbels’ Stifters Dinge”
Zümra Demiral (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi), “Exploring Lydia Schouten’s ‘I feel like boiled milk’ Video Within The ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Exhibit: A Critical Analysis and Commentary”
Dilara Kaya (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi), “Doris Lessing’s Literary Works on the Big Screen”
15:05 – 15:20: Coffee
15:20 – 16: 35: Panel 4 – Mythology (Saygın Özbicer, moderator)
Kerem Özdoğru (Boğaziçi University), “Exploring Catalog Rhetoric in the Context of Inspiration and Deliberation in Whitman and Emerson’s Writings”
Doğa Baran (Boğaziçi University), “The Myth of Prometheus: (Re)creating the Existential Hero”
Sagnik Kundu (Jadavpur University), “There is no Raft: Reading the Flood Myths in the Context of the Climate Crisis in the Global South”
Ufuk Altunbaş (Ege University), “Prometheus Recreated: How Does Cagan Irmak’s Adaptation of Frankenstein Reframe the Identities of the Monster and the Doctor?”
Conference organizing committee: İlayda Doğanyılmaz, Dilanaz Güler, Saygın Özbicer, Amal Saad, Ceylan Köşker Bevington, Jonathan Williams