November 3, 2007

TURKEY : LITERARY AND POLITICAL INTERSECTIONS
An Institute for Critical Theory Conference

Duke University Richard White Auditorium

Program

10:30-10:45 Opening Remarks

Fredric Jameson - Institute for Critical Theory, Duke University

10:45-11:15 Introduction

Contexts and Intertexts in Modern Turkish Literature

Erdag Goknar - Turkish Studies, Duke University

11:15-12:30 Session 1

The Writer-Manqué: Orhan Pamuk and His Predecessors

Jale Parla - Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University

12:30-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-2:15 Session 2

Military Coup Narratives and the (Dis)articulations of the Political in Contemporary Turkish Novel

Sibel Irzik - Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul

2:15-3:30 Session 3

Re(Orient)ation in Turkish-German Literature and Criticism

Azade Seyhan - German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College

3:30-4:30 Roundtable

miriam cooke - African & Asian Literatures, Duke University
Michael Hardt - Literature, Duke University
Firat Oruc - Literature, Duke University
Kenneth Surin - Literature, Duke University

4:30-5:30 Reception at Women's Studies Parlors