Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race
and Gender
In
Collaboration with American Consulate General:
Press and
Cultural Section
9:00-10:00 Registration
“The
Refiguration of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other
Matters Under the
Sign of the Global”
Larry Estrada,
“American
and Ethnic Studies in the Era of Globalization”
Chair:
Oya Basak
11:45-
12:00 Coffee Break
“Neither Christian Nor Heathen:
Slaves”
James Loucky,
“Weaving New Identities in the
Maya Diaspora: Lessons for
Comparative
Ethnicity”
Christopher Thomas Cairney,
“The Need for Strangeness:
Captivity Narratives and Issues
of
Race and Gender in Early
Chair:
Cliff Endres
“Black
Intellectuals and Artists in
Mary F. Brewer, De
“Race, Performance and
National Identity in
Wilder’s Our Town”
Kim Fortuny,
“James Baldwin ‘Down at the Cross’ in
“The Narrative as Political Statement of Identity and
History – Julie
Dash’s Daughters of the Dust”
Chair:
Süheyla Artemel
16:15-17:45 Panel I (Rectorate Conference Hall)
Turgay Bayındır,
“Could Christmas Be Merry in
Barish Golland,
“The African-American Sorrow
Song and the Hebrew
Lament: A Comparative Study”
“Testosterone Talk: Media and
the Myths of Machismo in
David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago”
Inci Bilgin,
“Discussing Race Through
Trickster: A Study of Tony
Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’
Chair: Cevza Sevgen
Panel II (Seminar Room)
Nesrin Yavaş,
“Race, Spatial Processes, and
Identity in Gloria Naylor’s The
Women of
Ayça
Ülker Erkan, Ege University, Turkey
“Transnational Ethnic Dimensions in Wakako Yamauchi’s Play
The Music Lessons”
Demet Satılmış& Aycan Çetin,
“Placing Race On Canvas: The
Representation of African
Americans in 19th Century Genre Painting and 20th Century
Neamat Imam,
“Arhur Miller: The Stasis of
Race and the Metastasis of
Seduction”
Chair:
Ayse Dilek Erbora
19:30
Buffet Dinner
You are cordially invited to the conference banquet at Baltalimanı Sosyal Tesisleri.
“Women, Cancer and the
Globalization of American Medicine”
George Elliott Clarke,
“Reading ‘Africana’ or The
Americanization of
Diaspora”
John Drabble,
“The FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE
and the Decline of
Ku
Klux Klan Organizations in
Chair: Martin Quinn
Zafer Parlak,
“Racial Hierarchy, the
Manifest Destiny and the ‘White Man’s
Burden’”
Esra Öztarhan,
“In the Trap of Race and
Gender:
Yonka Krasteva,
“Postethnic Performativity and
Adolescent Female Identity in
Gish Jen’s Mona in the
Promised Land”
Chair: Saliha
Paker
Panel II (Seminar Room)
Arsev Ayşen
Arslanoğlu,
“How Women Can Form Their
Identity by Overcoming the
Binary Opposition Depicting
Them as ‘the Other’…”
Mary Lou O’neil,
“Statutory Rape Laws: The
Protection of Young, White
Womanhood”
Sladja Blazan,
“Gender and Migration in
Contemporary Slavic American
Literature”
Chair:
Didem Uslu
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
“Vision and Vocation:
Shamanistic Traditions in Black Elk
Speaks and Yaşar Kemal’s Çukurova Trilogy”
Hasan Alzubi,
Mu’tah University, Jordan
“Triangular
Narrative Patterns in Richard Wright’s ‘Native
Son’ and ‘The Outsider’ “
Özlem Görey,
“ ‘These are the Things I Know
are True’: The Quest for the
Mother’s Name in Amy Tan’s The
Bonesetter’s Daughter”
Chair:
Gülsen Sayin Teker
16:00-17:30 Nilsen Gökçen & Nazmi
Ağıl,
“Snow White Doesn’t Want to
Wake Up: The Romance Reader
by
Meryem Ayan, Celal
“Race Trial in Wright’s Native Son”
Laurance Raw, Başkent
“Transnationalism and Gender
Relations in Ian Softley’s The
Wings of the Dove”
Nilüfer Öcel,
“Two Films (‘The Associate’
and ‘Face Off’) and The Concept
of ‘The Other’”
Chair: Azize Özgüven
Department of
Western Languages and Literatures
undergraduate students
reading their own selections from
African American
Poetry.
Chair: George Elliott
Clarke