Second International Akşit Göktürk Conference

Second International Akşit Göktürk Conference
28 November 2011
09:15
Opening Speech
Esra Melikoğlu
Oya Başak
09:35
Keynote Speaker: Marina Warner
“The Fairy Way of Writing”: Myth and the Reasoning Imagination
Chair: Cevza Sevgen
10:30
Coffee Break
Hall A
Hall B
Works of Marina Warner
Chair: Murat Seçkin
Works of Salman Rushdie
Chair: Amy Christmas
10:45
The Leto Bundle: The Revival of the Great MotherGoddess’s Cult in the Cult of the Female Rock Star
Esra Melikoğlu
“Experiencing Myth in Postmodern Culture: The Truth
of Untruth in Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories
and Luka and the Fire of Life
Tawnya Ravy
11:15
“She is just a bundle of old bandages”: Marina Warner
Rewriting the Myth of “She” in The Leto Bundle
Tuba Korkmaz
Hades Revisited: The Reworking of the Orpheus Myth
in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Roxana Doncu
11:45
Coffee Break
Film
Chair: James Burton
Rewriting
Chair: Cassandra Sciortino
12:00
Contemporary Revisionings of Myth: Re-Locating The
Ramayana to Post 9/11 USA
Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn
The Mythological Reconfiguration of the Dionysus
Cult in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Novel A New
England Tale (1822)
Michaela Keck
12:30
Modern Day Mermaids: A Cinematic Revisit to the
Myth
Kostoula Kaloudi
Mythopoeia of the Old Aztec and Maya in D. H.
Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent
Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu
13:00
Lunch
Poetry
Chair: Meltem Gürle
14:30
Reflections of the Beautiful Helen in the Works of
Seferis and Euripides
Esin Ozansoy
15:00
Let Me Tell You Our Story: Familiar Stories from
Unfamiliar Narrators in Carol Ann Duffy’s The
World’s Wife
Sema Taşkın
15:30
Seamus Heaney: Mythologizing History and
Aestheticizing Political Violence
Mümin Hakkıoğlu & Erdinç Parlak
16:00
Cocktail
Music
Chair: Roxana Doncu
Harp as Living Myth: How mythology resurrected the
Celtic harp, reconnecting the healing art of harps
worldwide
Diana Rowan
Music that moves between worlds: One Myth toward
intercultural understanding
Cassandra Sciortino
29 November 2011
09:30
Keynote Speaker: Murathan Mungan
Chair: Dilek Doltaş
10:30
Coffee Break
Hall A
Hall B
Turkish Novel
Journey
Chair: Arpine Mızıkyan
Chair: Gillian M.E. Alban
10:45
The Myth of the Journey in Murathan Mungan’s Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and
Şairin Romanı
Jasmine: Repeating and Transforming Hindu Myth
Canan Şavkay
and Praxis Through Contemporary Canadian Literary
Pilgrimage
Shoshannah Ganz
11:15
Gilgamesh Regained: Reading Oğuz Atay’s
Tutunamayanlar as a Metaphysical Novel
Meltem Gürle
Coffee Break
11:45
Theory
Chair: Michaela Keck
Tennyson’s “Ulysses”: “Writing” the Nostalgic
Elsewhere
Paola Partenza
Feminist Rewritings
Chair: Steven Nash
12:00
Myth as Metafiction
James Burton
Metamorphosing Archetypal Femmes Fatales in A.
Carter and A.S. Byatt
Gillian M.E. Alban
12:30
Testomony on Ontological Metaphor and
Expression of Problematic Meaning (Jan Patočka
on the Relations of Myth and Literature)
Miloš Ševčík
“Spinning a thread of her own”: Margaret Atwood,
The Penelopiad and the Carnivalesque
Zeynep Z. Atayurt
13:00
“… and swell to be tumescent I”: From an
economy of myth(s) to muthologos in the poetry
and critical writings of Charles Olson
Albin Lohr-Jones
Off with their heads! Amputation in Mythology and
Fairy Tale
Melody Ellis
13:30
Lunch
Contemporary
Chair: Diana Rowan
Gender
Chair: Melody Ellis
15:00
Orpheus and Eurydice in Performance in the 21st
Century
Arthur J. Sabatini
Postmodern Mythology in Belletristic Literature:
Milorad Pavić – The Other Body
Carmen Dᾰrᾰbuş
15:30
Rhizomatic Narratology and Videogame Culture
Amy Christmas & Steven Nash
Bilgesu Erenus’ Mythmaking: Halide ve Kırmızı
Karaağaç
Pürnur Uçar Özbirinci
16:00
Dubious Nature of a “Gnostic Hitchhiker”: Every
Gnostic’s Guide to Life, the Universe and
Everything
Şeyda İnceoğlu
The Reinforcement of Misogyny and Gender
Trappings within the Homosexual Discourse of
Sidney’s Old Arcadia
Christine M. Davids
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