32nd Annual American Studies Conference November 7-9

32nd Annual American Studies Conference
November 7-9, 2007
Hacettepe University, Beytepe Campus
Ankara, TURKEY
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
13:00 – 15:00
REGISTRATION
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
15:00 -15:30
WELCOME REMARKS
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Gülriz Büken
15:30 – 16:45
Cartography: Race, Place and War in the Writing of W.E.B. Du Bois
Amy Kaplan
17:00 – 18:30
18:30 – 20:30
SNCC FREEDOM SINGERS
RECEPTION
Photography by Hector Maldonado of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe will be exhibited throughout the Conference.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
PANEL SESSION #1
K Hall
9:30 -11:00
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
Exhibition Hall
The American Road
American Monuments and Landscapes
Spaces of Political Dissent
Chair: Aslı Tekinay
Chair: Ufuk Özdağ
Chair: Louis Mazzari
The Space at the End of the Road
David Espey
The Social and Cultural Reflections of Common Space
Pelin Yıldız
The Road As Space in American Film
Yusuf Eradam
Interpreting a Lost Landscape
Çiğdem Pakel
The American Pickup Truck
Corinne A. Champagne
Tower Power: The Skyscraper or the Art of Silent Domination
Devrim Yarangümeli
The Politics of Place in Thirties America: Forging Radical Regional Traditions in
California and the Midwest
Michael Steiner
Hiding in the Margins?: The Development of a Physical and Discursive Space for
Dissent in Cold War America
Gordon J. Marshall
Good Bye Lenin: German Space Overturned by American Space
Azer Banu Kemaloğlu and Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
PANEL SESSION #2
K Hall
11:30 -13:00
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
Native American Terrains
Charles Olson and the Poetics of Space
Transnational Spaces
Chair: David Espey
Chair: Robert J. Bertholf
Chair: Atilla Silkü
Storied Landscape: Importance of Land for the Laguna
Pueblo and Navajo Indian Tribes
Alexandra Hubackova
Spatial Schemata in Traditional Cherokee Culture
John Donaldson
Charles Olson, “Open Form” And Utopian Space
Barış Gümüşbaş
Charles Olson’s Poetics of Space
Robert J. Bertholf
Purikura: Photobooth Technology and Gendered Space in the Youth Culture of
Contemporary Japan
Erin Curtis
Namesake: Nostalgia for the Present
Madhuja Mukherjee
Whitman on the Rez, Alexie and the City
Denis Ferhatovic
13:00 – 14:00
Exhibition Hall
Space According to Tullini
Tülin Sertöz
Lunch Break
14:00 -15:30
PANEL SESSION #3
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
K Hall
North Hall
Spaces of Agency and Resistance
American Scenes at Home and Abroad
The American West
Chair: Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş
Chair: Alev Croutier
Chair: Ayça Germen
Battle of Space and Place in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”
Meryem Ayan
Cyberspace as an Aesthetic Phenomenon
Serhat Kut
Maistresse en Maison: The (Re)construction of Domestic Space in
Expatriate American Travel Literature
Mary Lou O'neil
Space As Landscape: 19th-Century American Travelers And The British
Landscape
Michele Bottalico
Mapping City Spaces: GIS and the Representation of History
Robert Macieski
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Jeffrey Orr
Desanctification of ‘Home’ in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child and True West
Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Transgression in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
Russell Greer
Picturing the Spaces of War in Nineteenth-Century American Scenic
Guidebooks
Matt Johnston
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 -17:30
PANEL SESSION #4
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
K Hall
Exhibition Hall
Negotiating Personal Identity
Negotiating Race and Place in the American South
Disciplinary Spaces
Chair: Aysu Erden
Chair: Selhan Endres
Chair: Barış Gümüşbaş
Metaphors of Spatial Merging: The Female Body as House in the
Work of Louise Bourgeois, Francesca Woodman and Mary
Caponegro
Ceylan Ertung
National Identity and the Rhetoric of Expansion in Antebellum Discourse
Sally Gomaa
Technoscapes: Standing Reserve and the War Machine
Anita Oğurlu
Constructing African American Space in the Deep South: Booker T.
Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Speech of 1895
Cary D. Wintz
Foucault, the Professional-Managerial Class, and the Desanctification of
Space
Stephanie Palmer
No Space Hidden: Communicating Omni-Dimensional Mastery in African
American Yards
Grey Gundaker
Discipline and the Spaces of Contemporary Universities
Ian Przybylinski
The Mutant Space between Two Worlds, the Expatriate’s
Dilemma
Füsun Çoban Doskaya
Power, Space and Identity in “A Rose for Emily”
Çağrı Kırmızı Karasu
17:45 – 18:45
Special Presentation
Native-American Artifacts
Chair: Meldan Tanrisal
Collecting Myaamiaki: An Exploration of Indigenous Space through Things
Nichole Prescott
Friday, November 9, 2007
9:30 -11:00
PANEL SESSION #5
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
K Hall
Exhibition Hall
Spaces of African-American Identity
Symbiotic Relationship Between Space and Female
Identity in Contemporary American Women’s Narratives
Turkey and the American Experience
Chair: John Donaldson
Chair: Kamil Aydin
Chair: Dilek Direnç
“Crossover” or “World Music”: the Search for a Terminological
Identification for African Popular Music in the United States
Amzat Assani
Am I Approximately an I. Magnin Transplant?: The Bonds of Self, Body
and Womanhood in Anne Sexton’s Poetry
Sena Sahini
Michigan Water Tastes Like Cherry Wine
Louis Mazzari
Whom Can I Speak To?: Reflections of Lamentations for an Uninherited
Heritage in Irena Klepfisz’s Poems
Mati Turyel
It Doesn’t Have a Color: Colorblindness and “Passing” Spaces
of Racial Negotiation in James McBride’s The Color of Water
Habiba Ibrahim
Women’s Space as Text in Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers”
Mahinur Akşehir
Turkey in Memoirs of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs)
Zafer Parlak
Sweet Home Anatolia: Imagining the Lost Homeland in Recent American
Fiction
Jeffrey Howlett
Americans and American Identities in Nineteenth-Century Smyrna
Timothy M. Roberts
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
PANEL SESSION #6
11:30 -13:00
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
13:00 – 14:00
K Hall
Exhibition Hall
Sacred Spaces
Borderlands
Consumer Space
Chair: Nur Gökalp Akkerman
Chair: Tim Roberts
Chair: Ahmet Beşe
Skin as Sacred Space: Reflections on Religion and Tattoos
Thomas G. Endres
A Tedious Maze: The Politics of Space in Edgar Huntley
David H. Evans
Afro-Brazilian Sacred Space and the Theory of Relation
Martin L. Duncan
Territorial Space As Negative Aura in the US
Eren Alkan
Primary Experiences: Mediated Artistic Practices, Installation
and the Address of Liminal Space
Annushka Peck
Changing Views of the Ultimate Space
Ronald Shook
Buying and Selling a Piece of the American Pie: The Uses, Disuses, and
Spaces of Patriotic Consumption
Annessa Ann Babic
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas: Commercial Space and the Manipulation
of the American Dream
Onur Dizdar
From the Mall of America to AnkaMall: Deciphering the Meaning of
Contemporary Consumer Space in the United States and Turkey
Tanfer Emin Tunç
Lunch Break
PANEL SESSION #7
K Hall
14:00 – 15:30
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
Gendered Space in Film and Literature
Cityscapes in Film and Literature
Artistic Spaces
Chair: Tanfer E. Tunç
Chair: Yusuf Eradam
Chair: Grey Gundaker
Gendered Space in American Women’s Films of the 40s and
50s
Kıvılcım Subaşi
Pulp Fictions: The Cinematography of Urban Space in the Work of Rem
Koolhaas
Frances Hsu
Audience Criticism within the Visual Arts: A Case Study of Bruce Nauman’s
Self-Presentation
Patrick Van Rossem
Women’s Spaces, Men’s Places: Spatial Identity and Plotting
in the American Film Noir
Evrim Doğan
Do Tread On My Dreams: The Perception of Cityscape in Science
Fiction Films
Cem Kiliçarslan
Hopperesque and Carveresque Space in the American Scene
Saniye Çanci
The Sad Man in the Attic:The Discontents of Masculine
Domesticity in Willa Cather’sThe Professor’s House
Meltem Kiran-Raw
The Role of the Cityscape in Don DeLillo’s Novel Cosmopolis and Paul
Auster’s The New York Trilogy
Ingrida Zindziuviene
Nowhere Or Somewhere: The Utopian Cyberspace in William Gibson’s
Sprawl Trilogy
Özlem Şahin Demirbilek
Coffee Break
16:00 -17:00
15:30 – 16:00
PANEL SESSION #8
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
Space and the Hispanic-American Experience
Chair: Maria Herrera-Sobek
Politicizing Space: The Barrio and the Stage in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit and I Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Badges
Nur Gökalp Akkerman
Story Tellers: Wandering in Chicano/a Border Stories
Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez
WRAP-UP SESSION
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall
17:15 -18:00
18:30 – 20:00
Exhibition Hall
Robert Bertholf, Yusuf Eradam, John Donaldson, David Espey
Presentation by Nora Naranjo-Morse at the US Ambassador’s Residence
Velvet Curtains: ExplorIng the BoundarIes of Space
Açalya Allmer