George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty

Atılım University
Department of English Language and Literature
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four Conference
Orhan Zaim Conference Hall
4 April 2014
Welcoming Addresses
Assist. Prof. Dr. Evrim Doğan Adanur
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature
Prof. Dr. Oya Batum Menteşe
9:30-10:00
Member of the Board of Trustees
Prof. Dr. Hasan U. Akay
Provost
Prof. Dr. Abdurrahim Özgenoğlu
Rector
Keynote Speech
“Back to the Future: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Human Rights”
10:00-11:00
Prof. Dr. Burçin Erol
Hacettepe University
Chair: Prof. Dr. Gülsen Canlı
11:00-11:15
Coffee-break
“Oppression through Literalization of Metaphors, an Althusserian Analysis of
Language in Nineteen Eighty-Four”
11:15-11:45
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurten Birlik
METU
Chair: Prof. Dr. Oya Batum Menteşe
"The Truths of Power Discovered and the ‘why’ of Winston Answered: a
Foucauldian Reading of Nineteenth Eighty-Four"
11:45-12:15
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Koç
Çankaya University
Chair: Prof. Dr. Berrin Aksoy
12:15-13:15
Lunch Break
“Newspeak and the Last Man”
13:15-13:45
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Gaziantep University
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lerzan Gültekin
“’Against the Wall’ and Nineteen Eighty-Four”
13:45-14:15
Assist. Prof. Dr. Devrim Kılıçer
Ankara University
Chair: Assist. Prof. Dr. Evrim Doğan Adanur
14:15-14:30
14:30-15:15
Coffee-break
Closing Session
Nineteen Eighty-Four in the Present Tense