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CONFERENCEPROGRAM
NOVEMBER 7th WEDNESDAY
12:30 – 13:30 REGISTRATION Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
13:30 – 14:15 Opening Remarks:Ufuk Özdağ, Hacettepe UniversityChair, The Department of American Culture and Literature
Gönül Uçele, Bahçeşehir UniversityChair, The Department of American Culture and LiteratureFormer Chair, Professor Emerita The Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe
University
S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş, Hacettepe UniversityAssistant Dean, Faculty of Letters
A. Murat Tuncer, Hacettepe UniversityRector
14:15 – 15:00 Opening Speech: The Epistemology of the Glass Cabinet:Reading Allegories in the Work of Edith WhartonMatthew Gumpert, Boğaziçi UniversityModerator: Ufuk Özdağ
15:00 – 16:30 Documentary:Girls of Hope / Umudun KızlarıCommentary: Ayşegül Selenga TaşkentModerator: Nur Gökalp Akkerman
16:30 – 17:30 OPENING RECEPTIONHosted by Prof. Dr. A. Murat TuncerRector, Hacettepe University
NOVEMBER 8th THURSDAY
9:30 – 11:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Reading and the Library in the Age of Technology Transformation of Libraries as Cultural Institutions of Reading: Writers’ VisionMarta Koval
The Internet and the Dream of the Library of AlexandriaIrmak Ertuna-Howison
Shakespeare Seeking an American Marketiser: Towards a Youtubisation of LiteratureKassim Boudjelal Safir
CHAIR: Himmet Umunç
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Reading in the Transnational ContextIs All “Reading” Reading and What Good Does It Do? American Perspective and NotOnlyAndrzej Ceynowa
Reading of Jack London as a Cultural Cartography in ChinaMin Zhou
Russian Reading of Modern International Political Jokes and Anecdotes:Ethnic and Cultural Stereotyping of AmericansOksana Zhernovaya
CHAIR: Linda J. Strom
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Letters, Codes and Erasure: Reading the Postmodern NovelA Parable about Reading: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of LeaveGülşen AslanWe Are What We Read: Percival Everett’s ErasureÖzlem Görey
CHAIR: Özlem Uzundemir
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Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAmericans and Books: Reading and Cultural Identity in the Antebellum United StatesMarek Wilczynski
Baking Powder and Politics: Female Newspaper Readership before the “Women'sPage”Na’ama Maor and Dafnah StraussCHAIR: Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 15:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Reading and Writing the Self Re-membering the Self/Destroying the Face Machine:
Autobiography and Identity Construction in Autobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyCeylan Ertung
Booklists in African American Life Writing and Karla Holloway’s BookmarksS. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
Tongue Tied America: Reading Chicano NarrativeSantiago Vaquera-Vásquez
CHAIR: S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
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Reading, Writing and RespondingFrom Cover to Cover: Every Cover Has a StoryMeryem Ayan and Feryal Çubukçu
When Readers Write: the Creative Reader in Writer Response Theory
Ruxandra BularcaReading Jane Austen: Journeys of Self-Discovery in The Jane Austen Book ClubH. Övgü Tüzün
CHAIR: Gönül Uçele
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 – 17:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Reading the Landscape
Reading Epitaphs, Memorials and Museum Inscriptions: On Traces, Presences andInterpretationZbigniew Bialas“Say Nice Things about Detroit”: Reading the American Post-Industrial Landscape Julia Sattler
What Do We Mean When We Talk about Reading PhotographsOlaf Hansen
CHAIR: Tanfer Emin Tunç
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Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy The Power of Remembrance: Reading as Political Empowerment in Science FictionNarrativesCem KılıçarslanLooking Backward to See the Future: Discursive Community and the Culture of SteampunkGordon J. MarshallReading the Metaphors at Stake: Transformation and Americanization of the Vampire in the Twentieth CenturyGözde Erdoğan
CHAIR: Cem Kılıçarslan
19:00 – 22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
NOVEMBER 9th FRIDAY
9:30 – 10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Politics and Poetry
Experience of the Word: Readings of BeatsÖzge Özbek AkımanReading Haikuography as Racial Representation in the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez
Sally Michael HannaCHAIR: Ayça Germen
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Reading Readers ReadingReading Thoreau Reading WaldenBarış GümüşbaşMarilyn Monroe Reading
Meltem Kıran-RawCHAIR: Belgin Elbir
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL
Reading Race in the Transnational AgeReading Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Storyteller”: Fusion of Globalism, Regionalism andEcocriticismGül Kurtuluş
Reading Problematic Representations of Latina/os and Muslims in American CultureChristopher Rivera
Creating A Reading Culture: The Social Power of Literacy in Richard LaGravenese’sFreedom WritersLinda J. StromCHAIR: Meldan Tanrısal
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Reading War and ViolenceDangerous Readings: The Turner Diaries as an Inspiration for Hate and ViolenceCeylan Özcan
Reading the “Falling Man”: Violent Closeness between the “Victims” and the“Perpetrators”in J. S. Foer’s Extremely Close, Incredibly Loud and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Julia Szoltysek Judging Books by the Cover: “Covering” the Experience of War in IraqMerve Özman
CHAIR: Ceylan Özcan
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 14:15 Closing Speech:Reading as Travel, Travel as ReadingDavid Espey, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
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