Program - The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons

NOVEMBER 4, 2009
8.00-8.30
9.00-10.00
1
Registration
OPENING CEREMONY – Welcome Remarks
1-Melek Delilbaşı, Consultant to Rector, Ankara University, 2-Musa Yaşar Sağlam, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University
3-Thomas M. Leary, Counselor for Public Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America, 4-Sevil Gürgan, Vice Rector, Hacettepe University
10.00-11.00
11.00-11.20
Plenary: ASPENDOS VI
Scott Slovic: Materiality and Commitment in a Global Age
Serenella Iovino: The Human Alien: A Reflection on the Future of Ecocriticism
Chair: Simon C. Estok
Discussion
11.20-11.40
COFFEE BREAK 
11.40-12.40
12.40-13.00
Plenary: ASPENDOS VI
Elizabeth Schultz: Humanizing Moby Dick: An Argument for Anthropomorphizing
Baisheng Zhao: From Ecocritics to Ecoculturists: Thoughts on New Enlightenment Movement
Chair: Greg Garrard
Discussion
13.00-14.00
LUNCH 
14.00-15.00
Plenary: ASPENDOS VI
Simon C. Estok: Rationalizing Presentist Ecocritical Theory: Praxis Matters
Axel Goodbody: Nomads, Rhizomes and Vagabonds: Theoretical and Poetic Models of Ecological Inhabitation for a Globalised World
Chair: Greta Gaard
Discussion
15.00-15.20
15.20-15.40
15.40-17.40
COFFEE BREAK 
ASPENDOS VI
ASPENDOS II
ASPENDOS III
ASPENDOS IV
ASPENDOS V
Narratives of Ecodisasters and Apocalypse
Ecospirituality: Myths and Legends
Ecopoetics: Eastern/Western Views
Postcolonial Reflections
Theater in Ecocriticism
Patricia Merivale: The Environmental
Consequences of the Apocalypse
Deniz Ilgaz: The Worship of Trees;
Spiritual Significance of Nature
Huriye Reis: “I pull the parapet’s poppy/
To stick behind my ear”: Nature in the
Poetry of World War I
Raniero Speelman: Primo Levi’s Ecocritical
Stance
Zafer Parlak: Perception of Nature in
Anatolia Mystic Poetry: Folksongs and
Tales
Adamu Pangmeshi: Nature in
Partnership with the Wretched of the
Earth in J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of
the Country, and Doris Lessing’s The
Grass is Singing.
Gholamreza Sami: The March of Industrial
Machinery on American Landscape: A Study
of Maxwell Anderson’s play, High Tor
(1937)
Nurten Birlik: The Stone Gods:
Environmental Apocalypse
Grant Jennings: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
of the Zombie Movie Genre, Ecophobia, and
Modern Fears of Environmental Disaster
Volkan Kılıç: A Mystic Sound: Ney in
Turkish Culture and Literature
Reza Yavarian: Ecocritical Readings of
Rumi
Mithilesh K. Pandey: Environmental
Imagination: The Poetry of Wordsworth
and Kazuyosi Ikeda.
Chen Guangchen: Suspension of Time
and Transcendence of the Ego:Wang
Wei’s Ecopoetics
Gülşah Dindar: The Garip (Strange)
Movement: A Poetic Return to
“Naturality” or “Nature” itself?
Elis Yıldırım: Nature’s Response to Harmful
Human Activities: Calvino And Buzzati’s
Views on the Environment
Şenay Kara: Discussing (discourses of)
Exploitation and Environmental Ethics
at the Intersection of Postcolonial and
Ecocritical Perspectives.
Gözde Pembe Erdoğan: “Hunger and
Lead:” An Ecocritical Reading of Robert
Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle
Sezgin Toska: An Analysis of Nature as an
Actant in The Emperor Jones
Önder Çetin: Self-revelation and
Claiming Post-colonial Identity through
Nature in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children.
Fatma Kalpaklı: The Relationship
Between Nature and Human Psyche:
Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner.
Chair: Ken Noda
21:00 CULTURAL NIGHT
Chair: Elizabeth Schultz
Chair: Peter I-Min Huang
Chair: Cheng Xiangzhan
Chair: Nur G. Akkerman
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
09.00-10.00
10.00-10.20
Plenary: ASPENDOS VI
Greta Gaard: Global Warming Narratives: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Greg Garrard: How Queer Is Green?
Chair: Axel Goodbody
Discussion
10.20-10.40
COFFEE BREAK 
10.40-12.00
12.00-12.20
PANEL: ASPENDOS VI
TURKISH NATURE WRITERS
Tarık Günersel: Naturally
Gizem Altın Nance: Porcupine Dreams: A Collaboration of Art and Literature
Deniz Postacı: We Cannot Write upon Nature without Reading Nature…
H.Çağlar İnce: Lost Tales
Chair: Serpil Oppermann
Discussion
12.20-13.20
LUNCH 
13.20-14.20
Plenary: ASPENDOS VI
Linda Hogan: Brave Old World: Indigenous Knowledge
Chair: Elizabeth Schultz
Discussion
14.20-14.40
14.40-16.40
ASPENDOS VI
ASPENDOS II
ASPENDOS III
ASPENDOS IV
ASPENDOS V
Music, Dance, Film and Eco –Aesthetics
Ecopoetry
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Environmental Justice, History and
Ethics
Ecocritical Readings
Cheng Xiangzhan: The Core Issues of
Ecoaesthetics and its Theoretical Development
in China
Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan: Perceptions of
Nature in Modern Turkish Poetry
David H. Evans: Race and Nature in
Tony Morrison
Indre Zakeviciene: The Potentiality of
Ecopsychology: The Parallels of
Lithuanian and English Poetry
Şebnem Toplu: Self, Community, and
Nature: Jacob Ross’s Pynter Bender
Ute Ritschell: Poetic Installations- Artworks
in Nature and Forest
Bilge Mutluay: Singing for Clear Waters:Pete
Seeger’s Hudson River Project
Joan Stone: Swans and Eagles: An Ecocritical
Reading of Bird Dances
Li Hsiao Ching: Nature Oriented Films of
Germany : A Comparative Study of the 3th
Green Screen and the 8th NaturVision
International Nature Film Festivals
Chair: Serenella Iovino
B. Ayça Ülker: An Ecofeminist
Approach to Adrienne Rich’s Poem
“Diving into the Wreck”
Mirfatih Zakiev: Ethnoecology is One
of the Branches of Postmodern Ecology
Sinan Akıllı: An Early Ecocritic?: Henry
Rider Haggard
Selçuk Eryatmaz: Nature Reflected in
William Wordsworth’s and Walter
Scott’s Poetry
Jacqueline Jondot: Damn the high dam!
Jamal Mahjoub
Chair: Tarık Günersel
Chair: Carmen Flys- Junquera
Mei Zhu: Environmental Injustice in
Don DeLillo’s Poetics: The Case of
Underworld
Azad Hamad Sharif and Ishmael
Mohammed Fahmi Saeed: The
Ecological Crisis and the Risk-Oriented
World in Two Literary Works
Antonio Fabris: The Italian Presence in
the Eastern Mediterranean: The
Historical Background
Diego Santaliana: The Development of
the Land through Private Public
Partnerships
Pasquale Ventrice: Widespread Ecomuseum within the Perspective of
Sustainable Development
Iris Shu-O Huang : Where Deep
Ecology and PostStructuralism Meet: The
Ecological Poetics of
Faulkner’s The Bear
Ömürbek Karayev : An Ecological
Approach to the Works of Cengiz
Aytmatov
Pelin Kümbet: Foreshadowing the
Catastrophe: Ecocritical Reading of
D.H. Lawrence’s Lady
Chatterley’s Lover
Anna Vitucci: Italo Calvino’s La
strada di San Giovanni, Autobiography
and Ethic-Environmental Conscience
Merve Sarı: Ecocriticism in Fantasy:
Charles De Linth’s The Wild Wood
and Environmental Concerns
Chair: Nevin Özkan
Chair: John VanderLippe
16.40-17.00
COFFEE BREAK 
17.00-18.30
PANEL: ASPENDOS VI
OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Sancar Ozaner, Outdoor Ecology-Based Environmental Training in Turkey or Understanding the Synthesis of Nature: Popularization of Science
Yaşar Ergün, Narrating Amanos Nature School
Şükran Yalçın Özdilek, Nature Education in Nature
Gülşen Bağcı Kılıç, Nature Education in Turkey
Chair: Ufuk Özdağ
20.00 ANTALYA CITY TOUR
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NOVEMBER 6, 2009
08.00-10.00
ASPENDOS VI
ASPENDOS II
ASPENDOS III
ASPENDOS IV
ASPENDOS V
Cultural Ecology
Children’s Literature and Environmental
Rights
Environmental Traditions in Western
Literary Texts
Native American/First Nations
Environmental Literatures and
Nature Writing
Ecolinguistics, ecotranslation, and
environmental politics
Anthony Pavlik: Children’s Literature and
the Ecocritics
Ayfer Gürdal Ünal: An Ecocritical Analysis
of a Children’s Picture Book: The Walking
Plane-Tree
Pelin Taşkın: Environmental Rights of
Children and a General Evaluation of
Environmental Education in Turkish
Educational System
Jovanka Denkova: Ecological Humanitarian
Thought in Macedonian Literature for
Children and the Young.
Esra Yardımcı and Gülşen Bağcı Kılıç:
How did Nature-Based Education at a Camp
Affect Children’s Conceptions of HumanNature Interaction?
Robert Steinke: “Nature Is the Second
God”: The Human Claim to Mastery over
Nature and its Negation in Medieval
German Literature
N. Sibel Güzel: Nature in Ann
Radcliffe’s Gothic Novels: The Hidden
Talent Under the Veil of Gathic
Jennifer Hamilton: Ecological
Structures: The Work of the Storm in
The Tempest
Gül Kurtuluş: A New Approach to Sir
Philip Sidney’s Sonnet Sequence,
Astrophil and Stella: Imagery, Symbols
and Themes in Accordance with
Ecology, Love and Relationships
Chair: Greta Gaard
Chair: Huriye Reis
Christina Caupert and Timo Müller: The
Ecological Function of Imaginative Texts:
Theory and Practice
Erik Redling: “Portraits of Things”:
Cultural Ecology and Gertrude Stein’s
Modernist Experiments in Tender Buttons
Funda Civelekoğlu: Ancient Greek Tragedy
and the Ecology of Culture
Michael Sauter: Harbingers of Globalization
in Suburbia: Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Chair: Axel Goodbody
Jeffrey Howlett: The Indian as Figure
Head in North American Nature
Writing
Nevio Cristante: Sacred Ecology:
The Life Breeding Significance in
Politics Culture and Spirit of Native
Sacredness in Nature
Nancy Honicker: Their Proper
Element: An American Genealogy of
Nature Writing
Christian Hummelsund Voie: Four
Landscapes of Contemporary Nature
Writing
Gül Varlı: Engendering Nature from
a Feminine Point of View
Chair: David H. Evans
Chair: Clare Brandabur
Animals in Literature
Ecocritical Approaches to Turkish
Culture
Jak Den Exter: Turks and Birds
Pınar Batur: The Sea Connects it all:
Yaman Koray’s Deep Ecology and Turkish
Environmental Thought
Günil Ayaydın Cebe: Yaşar Kemal’s
Memed, My Hawk and Latife Tekin’s
Muinar
Kıymet Giray: İstanbul in the Pictorial
Memory
Mustafa Özcan: Fisherman of
Halicarnassus
10.00-10.20
COFFEE BREAK 
10.20-11.40
The Notion of Place: Lakes, Rivers and
Farms
Literary/Scientific Responses to Climate
Change
Reading Linda Hogan
John VanderLippe, The Statis Environment:
Atatürk Orman Çiftliği and the Kemalist
Modernisation Project
Clare Brandabur: Climate change in Byron
and Mary Shelley
Peter I-Min Huang: Ecopoetics: Ethics
of Body, Cyborg Writing, and Excess
Merih Aydınalp and İzzet Arı: Mitigatıon
of Co2 Emıssıon From Electrıcıty Generatıon
By Usıng Renewable Energy Sources
Carmen Flys Junquera: (Un)mapping
(Ir)rational Geographies: Linda Hogan’s
Communicative Places
Kevser Pişkin: The Beauty and the Beast
Gülşen Aslan: Nature- Human Bond
in Linda Hogan´s Solar Storms and
People of the Whale.
Blossom N. Fondo: “The Hunter
Hunted”: The Case against Animal
Destruction in Richard Connell’s The
Most Dangerous Game
Respondent: Linda Hogan
Chair: Raniero Speelman
James Bishop: “I Couldn’t Find My Plant”:
Bioregional Pedagogy in the Composition
Classroom
Liu Quinghan, Ecological Literature
Research Focusing on both sides of Yangtze
River
Dimitra Papazoglou: Limitations of Human
Nature: Jan Mc Ewan and the Preservation of
the Environment
Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu: Environmental
Sensitivity vs. Anthropocentrism in the
Discursive Practices of Political Figures at
2009 Local Elections in Turkey: An Ecocritical Discourse Analysis
Aymil Doğan: EcoInterpreting in the
Making of Ecocriticism: Focus on
Awareness Raising
Carmen Valero Garces: Ecotranslation
and/or Images of Translated Literary
Landscape
Uwe Küchler: Linking Foreign Language
Education and the Environment:
Intercultural Communicative Competernce
and Environmental Literacy
Evren Yiğit Devrimci: An
Ecocritical Approach to 19th Century
Travel Narratives of Istanbul: The
Animals of the City
Eldor M.Usmonov, Modeling of Ecological
Policy of the States of Central Asia.
Chair: Patricia Merivale
Chair: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu
11.40-12.00
COFFEE BREAK 
12.00-13.00
PANEL: ASPENDOS VI
Serpil Oppermann: The Future of Ecocriticism: The Third Wave
Nevin Özkan: Doruk’s Plight: Human/ Nonhuman Relations in Abbas Sayar’s Yılkı Atı
Ufuk Özdağ: Theorizing Ecological Art Criticism: Melchior d’Hondecoeter’s “The Contemplative Magpie”
Chair: Scott Slovic
CLOSURE
14.00 FIELD TRIP
20.00 GALA DINNER – TURGUT ALBAYRAK HALL
Chair: Gizem Altın Nance