3rd International IDEA Conference
Studies in English
April 16–18, 2008
EgeUniversity
MAIN HALL / HALL A (308) / HALL B (307) / HALL C (310) / HALL D (306)08:30-09:30 / Registration
09:30-10:30 /
Welcoming Ceremony
Opening Speeches
IDEA 2008 Honorary Member Award,Recipient: Ünal Aytür (Professor Emeritus), AnkaraUniversity
10:30-11:00 / COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:00 / Keynote Address: Patricia Waugh
Thinking with Feeling: Modernist and Postmodernist Aesthetics
Chair: Günseli Sönmez İşçi
12:00-13:30 / LUNCH
13:30-15:00 / ABSURD DRAMA
William S. Haney II: The Reality of Illusion in Jean Genet’s The Balcony
Eman El-Attar: Deconstruction Unbound: The Drive Toward a Theatre of Deconstruction in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Rockaby
Chair: Patrick Folk / LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Jana Chamonikolasová: Word Order and Information Structure in English: A Diachronic Study
Mehmet Çelik: Writing a Linguistics Textbook for TurkishUniversity Students
Chair: Mehmet Çelik / TRAVEL WRITING
David Espey and Atalay Gündüz: The Things They Carried: Cultural and Personal Baggage of British vs. American Travel Writers in Contemporary Turkey
Isaac Yue: National Politics and the Traveler in the 19th Century: A Survey and Examination of Bayard Taylor’s Imperialistic Perception of China
Chair: David Espey / TRANSLATION STUDIES – I
Susan Comilang: Framing the Psalms: Translations of Divinity in the Early Modern Period
Paul Arblaster: “Chaste” or “Chamberlain”: Tyndale, Coverdale, Joye, and the Anxiety
of Translating Eunouchos
Chair: Lerzan Gültekin / POSTCOLONIAL VOICES
Bidisha Banerjee: Silencing the Westerner: First Person Narration in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Defne Ersin Tutan: Alternative Africa: Ben Okri’s Famished Roadas a Magic Realist Manifestation
Chair: Klára Kolinská
15:00-15:30 / COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00 /
LITERATURE AND FILM
Laurence Raw: England Reconstructed for American Audiences: The Browning Version (1994) and The Gathering Storm (2002)Aydın Görmez:The Similarities between Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Levent Kazak and Ezel Akay’s Hacivat ve Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?
Chair: Laurence Raw / CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
John Basourakos: Re-Dressing the Icons: UnMasking White Women’s Mythologies in Pem Gems’s Plays Queen Christina, Piaf, and Camille
Evrim Doğan: “The events of this play are true”: Rapist Queens, Cannibalistic Princes and Materialistic Bards in Edward Bond’s Early Morning and Bingo
Klára Kolinská: “The Old New World”: Theatre and Drama in Newfoundland
Chair: John Basourakos / MULTICULTURAL WOMEN’S WRITING
Şebnem Toplu: Hybridity and Womanhood in Meera Syal’s Life isn’t all ha ha hee hee
N. Sibel Güzel: When The Subconscious of the Text Prevails: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty and Womanhood
Bülent C. Tanrıtanır: Beyond Nourishment: Significance of Food in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Chair: William S. Haney II / ELT - I
Faruk Türker: Should We Use Literary Texts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language?: Values and Limitations
Cemal Karaata: Exploring the Gap between Student Preparation and Faculty Expectations: The Situation of First-year Turkish Students at FatihUniversity and Foreign Faculty Members of the ACL and the ELLDepartments
Chair: Faruk Türker
18:00-20:00 / COCKTAIL PARTY AT MURAT PAVILION (MURAT KÖŞKÜ)
3rd International IDEA Conference
Studies in English
April 16–18,2008
EgeUniversity
MAIN HALL / HALL A (308) / HALL B (307) / HALL C (310) / HALL D (306)09:00-10:00 /
Keynote Address: Janet Wilson
Writing Diasporically:Australia, New Zealand and the Metropolitan HomelandChair:Işıl Baş
10:00-10:30 / COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:00 / Panel Session – VEILS THAT MATTER
Anne McWhir: Unveilings: Nature, Romantic Orientalism, and P.B. Shelley’s Alastor
Jeanne Perreault: “Born With a Veil”
Marlene Kadar: War Criminals without Names in Holocaust Memoirs: The Veil that Matters
Chair:Burçin Erol / CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION
Nilsen Gökçen: Whose Rights Next?: Ethics of Human Cloning in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Dimitra Papazoglou: “Love and Patience”: A Reading of On ChesilBeach
Gülşah Dindar: Winterson’s Gut Symmetries: Exploring Infinite Probabilities: Is it Love or Quantum Physics?
Chair:Nilsen Gökçen / ELT - II
Afsar Rouhi and Mir Reza Khorasani: Planning Time: An Instructional Option for Addressing Accuracy Problem in Task-based Instruction
Seyed Omid Tabatabaei: Examining the Impact of Gender on Task-based Conversational Interactions among EFL Learners: the Case of Recasts
Chair:Seyed Omid Tabatabaei / SELF IN LITERATURE
Bilge N. Zileli Alkım: The Gothic in Villette: Lucy Snowe’s Struggle for Self-reconciliation
Banu Akçeşme: A Foucaultian Reading of The Black Prince: Writing as a ‘Technology of the Self’
Mahinur Akşehir: In Search of the Natural Self: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Chair:Bilge N. Zileli Alkım
12:00-13:00 / LUNCH
13:00-13:30 / VISIT TO EGE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL ARTIFACTS
13:30-15:00 / MODERNISM AND FICTION
Lerzan Gültekin: Dialogic Cultures: A Bakhtinian Reading of James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Gülfer Göze: Irony of Ulysses: Deconstructing for Universality
Burcu Kayışcı: The Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man and an Older Man: Bildungsroman and the Formation of the Artist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger
Chair:Azize Özgüven / DRAMA
Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu: Shakespeare’s Creative Disfigurement of Death
Ayşem Seval: “Poor, Deformed and Ignorant”: The Early Modern Witch in The Witch of Edmonton
Volkan Kılıç: Truly Woman-Centered Tragedy: Delarivier Manley’s The Royal Mischief
Chair:Şebnem Toplu / REREADINGS
Türkan Güren: Virginia Woolf as a Marker of a Paradigmatic Change from the Newtonian Reality to the Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis of Space, Time, Consciousness and Gender in Orlando
Önder Çetin: An Ecocritical Approach to World War I Narratives
Şafak Nediceyuva: Failed Fathers and Failed Masculinities in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Chair:Dilek Direnç / TRANSLATION STUDIES - II
Ayşenaz Koş: Promoting Simone de Beauvoir and Le Deuxiéme Sexe through the Male in Turkey
Ayşe Ayhan: The Influence of Rewriters on the Reception of Latife Tekin’s Works within the Source and Target Cultures
Bekir Savaş: A Linguistic Analysis of Nazım Hikmet’s Poetry as a Sign of Translatability of Poems
Chair:N.Sibel Güzel
15:00-15:30 / COFFEE BREAK
15:30-16:30 / THE OTHER IN LITERATURE
Mustapha Marrouchi: The Logic of Cultural Value and Violence (of the Letter)
Chair:Sedat İşçi / CULTURAL INTERACTIONS
Zafer Parlak: Volunteer Service Overseas: A Case Study on the Volunteer Work in the UK
Hasan Baktır: Dialogy between the Ottoman Orient and English Society in the Pseudo-Oriental Letters
Chair:Atilla Silkü / TRANSLATION STUDIES - III
Maria Sidiropoulou: Ethnic Identities on Stage: Shifting Communication Styles
Şeyda Eraslan Gerçek: (Un)translatability of the Hybrid or the In-between: Lost in Translation?
Chair:Maria Sidiropoulou / DETECTIVE FICTION
Seda Coşar: Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem as a Parody of Detective Fiction and Detectives
Sena Şahini: Shakespearean Solution for the Problem of Justice in Agatha Christie’s Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
Chair:Nevin Koyuncu
16:45-19:00 / CITY TOUR - KONAK
3rd International IDEA Conference
Studies in English
April 16–18, 2008
EgeUniversity
MAIN HALL / HALL A (308) / HALL B (307) / HALL C (310) / HALL D (306)09:00-10:00
10:00-10:30 / Keynote Address: Saliha Paker
The Metonymics of Translating Turkish Fiction: Latife Tekin’s Swords of Ice and Other Works in English
Latife Tekin Interviewed by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne Translation by Nilgün Dungan
Chair: Himmet Umunç
10:30-10:45 /
COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:15 / CULTURAL & COMPARATIVE STUDIESSeçkin Ergin: Women and Politics: Religious Discourse in the Writings of 19th Century Anglo-American and Turkish Women
Gabriella Hima: Travelling as Cultural Dialogue between the Self and the Other: Turkish Women in the Western World at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Burcu Alkan: Progress or Peril: Portraying Modernization
Chair: Seçkin Ergin / ELT - III
Lavinia Eugenia Nădrag: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Communication in English Language Learning and Teaching
Carmen Santamaría García and Nesrin Oruç: Understanding the Communicative Approach: A Cross-cultural Approach from Turkey and Spain
Tunç Medeni: JAIST English Technical Communication Program: A Cross-Cultural Academic Community for Learning English Language
Chair: Lavinia Eugenia Nădrag / CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE - I
Ralph J. Poole: Exiled Intimacy in Transit: Elif Shafak’s Metropolitan Novels
Berkem Gürenci: Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton: Parodying the Detective Genre
Chair: Ralph J. Poole / LITERARY THEORY
Jerilyn Sambrooke: Reading American Literature in Turkey: Reader Response Theory in an Era of Globalization
Uzay Kılıç: Modern Sensibility of Meaning
Taner Can: Rethinking English Literary Modernism: The Politics of Periodisation and the Canon
Chair: Didem Uslu
12:15-13:15 /
LUNCH
13:15-14:45 / TRANSLATION STUDIES – IVMine Yazıcı: Translation as a Norm-governed Behaviour
M. Naci Kayaoğlu: Using a Specialized Corpus for Well-informed Intuitive Decisions on Appropriate Word Choice in Translation Process
Ece Sarıgül: Translation of Collocations
Chair:Gülden Ertuğrul / CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE - II
Nüvid Alemdaroğlu: Rewriting History in John Arden’s Left-Handed Liberty
Uğur E. Küçükboyacı: Reference within the Intertextual: Life versus Memory in Malcolm Bradbury’s Unsent Letters, The History Man, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties
Chair:Nüvid Alemdaroğlu / POETRY
Fırat Karadaş: The Witch Unwitched: The Divine Witch of Shelley’s “The Witch of Atlas”
Dilek Bulut: Representation of Female Poetics in Anne Finch’s Poetry
Özlem Türe Abacı: “Where is Your Kingdom of the Word?”: The Struggle over Language in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s X/Self
Chair:Gabriella Hima / CREATIVITY AND THE ARTIST
MichaelaCristina Mudure: Marie Bashkirtseva and Katherine Mansfield: How Disease Became Literature
Alina Beatrice Cheşcă: The Fear of Life or the Condition of the Artist
Özlem Uzundemir: The Paragon between Image and Word: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chair:Özlem Uzundemir
14:45-15:00 /
COFFEE BREAK
15:00-16:00 / POSTMODERN THEORY AND THE NOVELBerkan Ulu: Mal D’archive: Une Impression “Derridaen” and The Burden of Writing
Orkun Kocabıyık: Slave into Hero: Orhan Pamuk’s Doppelganger
Chair:Evrim Doğan / WOMEN IN 18th CENTURY LITERATURE
Dilek Kantar: Women or ‘Virgins, Wives and Whores’ in the Eighteenth Century Ironic Myths
Aylin Alkaç Kutlukan: Reading Fanny Hill Against the Grain
Chair:Seçil Saraçlı / RELIGION AND LITERATURE
Carlos A. Sanz Mingo: Arthuriana vs. Religion: the Other Enemies of God
Hülya Taflı: The Alp and the Monster in Pre-Islamic Epic (The Book of Dede Korkut) and Beowulf
Chair:Murat Erdem / TRANSLATION STUDIES – V
Abdolreza Pazhakh: The Trade-off between Translation and Discourse Analysis
Sun Libing: Translator: An Invisible Person?
Chair:Abdolreza Pazhakh
16:00-16:15 / COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:15 / WRAP-UP SESSION
20:00 / CONFERENCE DINNER AT ASANSOR RESTAURANT