20th METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE: SALMAN

20th METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE:
SALMAN RUSHDIE AND HIS WORK
METU Culture and Convention Center, Ankara, Turkey
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY December 13th, 2012
Time
9:00-9:30
Hall D
Hall C
Registration
Opening Speeches
9:30-9:50
Prof. Dr. Yaşar Özden
METU, Dean of the Faculty of Education
Prof. Dr. Gölge Seferoğlu,
METU, Head of the Department of
Foreign Language Education
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Yüksel
Ankara University
9:50-10:50
Prof. Dr. Abdulrazak Gurnah
Keynote Speaker
University of Kent, UK
“Liminal Intimacies: Migrant Courtship
in Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Courter’ and
‘The Firebird’s Nest’”
10:50-11:10
Coffee Break
Session One
Chair: Prof. Dr. Oya Batum
Menteşe
Atılım University
11:10-12:30
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bakari
Fatih University, Turkey
“Between Mahound and Mahomet: The
Genesis of Divergence of Views on the
Prophet in Salman Rushdie and Thomas
Carlyle”
Asst. Prof. Dr. Youssef Yacoubi
The Ohio State University, USA
“The Satanic Verses As a Plural Event”
Asst. Prof. Dr. Andrew J. Ploeg
Bilkent University, Turkey
“Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and the
Diabolical Divine”
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
Time
Hall D
Session Two
Hall C
Session Two
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nursel İçöz
METU
Chair: Prof. Dr. Deniz Bozer
Hacettepe University
Prof. Dr. A. Clare Brandabur
Fatih University, Turkey
“Salman Rushdie as Literary Critic and
Political Activist”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali
Celikel
Pamukkale University, Turkey
“Rushdie and Cinema:
Cinematographic Narrative in
Rushdie’s Novels”
Dr. Jeffrey Hibbert
Yaşar University, Turkey
“Rushdie’s Quarrel with Culture: A
Reading of The Ground Beneath Her
Feet”
Arijana Luburić-Cvijanović &
Asst. Prof. Dr. Nina Muzdeka
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
“The Role of Magical Realism in the
(Re)Construction of Postcolonial
Identity in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction”
Tawnya Ravy
George Washington University, USA
“Literature Meets Technology: Salman
Rushdie’s Experiments with Multi-Media
Projects”
Hilal Kaya
METU, Turkey
“The Use of Intertextuality to Expose
the Novel’s Ideological Theme:
‘Uniformity vs. Diversity’ in The
Moor’s Last Sigh”
14:15-15:30
15:30-15:45
Coffee Break
Session Three
Chair: Prof. Dr. E. Sema Ege
Ankara University
15:45-17:00
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valerie Kennedy
Bilkent University, Turkey
“’Out of the Dark’: The Disturbance of
Shame
Asst. Prof. Dr. Adriana Raducanu
Yeditepe University, Turkey
“Salman Rushdie’s Shame: The Sublime
of Intimate Others”
Session Three
Chair: Prof. Dr. Gülsen Canlı
Atılım University
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kuğu Tekin
Atılım University, Turkey
“Fatehpur Sikri and Florence:
Unforgettable Cities in Salman
Rushdie’s The Enchantress of
Florence”
Yi-shan Lin
National Taiwan Normal University,
Taiwan
“The Irretrievable Paradise in Salman
Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown”
Katherine Meloche
The University of Alberta, Canada
“Telekinecities: Bombay/Mumbai’s
Architectural Transcendence in
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children”
17:30 WINE & CHEESE PARTY – METU SOSYAL BINA
FRIDAY December 14th, 2012
Time
Hall D
Session One
Hall C
Session One
Chair: Prof. Dr. Himmet Umunç
Başkent University
10:00-11:00
Asst. Prof. Dr. Margaret J-M
Sönmez
METU, Turkey
“Rushdie and the Postcolonial Language
Debate: Comparing Shalimar and Kim”
Dr. Grzegorz Szpila
Jagiellonian University, Poland
“Rushdie’s Phraseological Landscapes”
11:00-11:15
Aslı Kutluk
METU, Turkey
“The Polysemic Quality of Salman
Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”
Victoria Bilge Yılmaz
METU, Turkey
“Salman Rushdie and Mikhail
Bulgakov: Magical Realism and Its
Function in Master and Margarita
and The Satanic Verses”
Coffee Break
Session Two
11:15-12:15
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aytül
Özüm
Hacettepe University
Session Two
Chair: Prof. Dr. Meral Çileli
METU
Chair: Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa
Kırca
Çankaya University
Asst. Prof. Dr. Trevor Hope
Yaşar University, Turkey
“Fury: The Nation in the Age of Digital
Reproduction”
Şermin Sezer
METU, Turkey
“Jamila as the ‘Bulbul-e-Din,” and
“the voice of the nation’ in Midnight’s
Children
Nazim Balcı
Bahçesehir University, Turkey
“Ruby Sweepers”
Şule Akdoğan
METU, Turkey
“A Postmodernist Feminist Reading
of The Enchantress of Florence”
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
Time
Hall D
Session Three
Hall C
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazan Tutaş
Ankara University
14:15-15:30
Esin Korkut
METU, Turkey
“The Function of Gates as Temporal and
Spatial Boundaries in East,West”
Merve Akbaş
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
“The Ambivalent Role of History in
Rushdie’s Work”
Gülşat Topsakal
METU, Turkey
“Salman Rushdie’s Shame: Writing on
the East from the Centre”
15:30
CLOSING REMARKS AND RESULTS OF VOTING
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER