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Topographies of ‘Turkish cinema’: Hybrids, hyphens and borders
April 21-22, 2011 – İzmir University of Economics
Conference Venue: D015
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Thursday, 21 April
09:30 Registration and welcome reception
10:30 Welcome speech
Prof. Dr. Sevda Alankuş (Dean, Faculty of Communication, IUE)
10:45 Keynote speech
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nejat Ulusay (Ankara University)
A Transformational Experience within the Contexts of ‘National’ and ‘Transnational’: The Case of Turkish
Cinema
11:30
Break
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11:45 1 Session (Moderator: Asst. Prof. Andreas Treske, Yaşar University)
Levent Yılmazok (University of Amsterdam)
Contrastive Representation, Nation(alism) and Post-1990 Turkish Cinema
Prof. Dr. Louise Spence (Kadir Has University)
Dr. Aslı Kotaman (Plato School of Media Art and Design)
The Archeology of Suffering: Remembrance and the Politics of Truth
Özgür Çiçek (SUNY Binghamton)
Historicizing National Cinema in Turkey through Yılmaz Güney
13:00
Lunch
14:00 Keynote speech
Ayşe Polat
15:15
Coffee Break
nd
15:30 2 Session (Moderator: Prof. Dr. Louise Spence, Kadir Has University)
Diğdem Sezen (İstanbul University)
Women in Turkish-German Cinema: Tracing the Direction of Change through the Image of Women
Tülay Dikenoğlu Süer
The Gradual Liberation of Women in the Berlin Trilogy of Thomas Arslan
Sermin Çakmak
The Stories of ‘Mistreated Women’ in Turkish-German Cinema
Damla Okay (Bilkent University)
Receiving the Expatriate Actor: The Two-fold Case of Sibel Kekilli
17:10
Coffee break
rd
17:30 3 Session (Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pantelis Vatikiotis, İzmir University of Economics)
Ayça Tunç (University of London)
Habitats of Meaning: Turkish-German Cinema and Generational Differences
Asst. Prof. Dr. Özgür Yaren (Yüzüncü Yıl University)
Wedding Scenes as Homeland Metaphors
Murat Tırpan (Doğuş University)
Dialogic Bridges: Polyphonic Scores of the Accented Movies
19:00
Speakers’ Dinner
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Friday, 22 April
10:00 Keynote speech
Prof. Dr. Nezih Erdoğan (İstanbul Bilgi University)
Issues of National/Ethnic Identity in the Early Years of Cinema in Turkey,
1894 – 1929
10:45
Coffee Break
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11:00 4 Session (Prof. Dr. Robert Cardullo, İzmir University of Economics)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Senem Duruel Erkılıç (Mersin University)
Asst. Prof. Dr. Hakan Erkılıç (Mersin University)
Black Humor World of Migrants Caught between Two Cultures: Space, Identity and Belonging in Tunç Okan’s
Cinema
Asst. Prof. Dr. Gökçen Karanfil (Izmir University of Economics)
Serkan Şavk (Izmir University of Economics)
Rethinking the Concepts of Turkish Cinema in Times of Mobility
Kevin Smets (University of Antwerp)
Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp)
Roel Vande Winkel (University of Antwerp)
Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University)
Centre and Periphery: Film Practices among the Turkish Diaspora in Antwerp
Pınar Yıldız (Ankara University)
Serhan Mersin (Ankara University)
Transforming Hospitality: Forming New Transcultural Fields in Turkish Cinema
12:45
Lunch
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13:45 5 Session (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nuran Erol Işık, İzmir University of Economics)
Asst. Prof. Dr. Gül Yaşartürk (Akdeniz University)
Şehlem Sebik
Life of Turkish Immigrants in Hamburg: Kurz und Schmerzlos and Gegen die Wand
Dr. Şerife Geniş (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Multicultural Encounters: Images of Migrants and Issues of Identity in Fatih Akın’s Cinema
Emre Yeşilbaş (Nişantaşı Vocational School of Higher Education)
Bildung and the ‘All-seeing Eye’: A Comparative Study of the Bildungsroman and Turkish-German Cinema
15:00
Break
15:15
Closing session
Open discussion about the conference