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CONFERENCEPROGRAM

NOVEMBER 7th WEDNESDAY

12:30 – 13:30 REGISTRATION Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall

13:30 – 14:15 Opening Remarks:Ufuk Özdağ, Hacettepe UniversityChair, The Department of American Culture and Literature

Gönül Uçele, Bahçeşehir UniversityChair, The Department of American Culture and LiteratureFormer Chair, Professor Emerita The Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe

University

S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş, Hacettepe UniversityAssistant Dean, Faculty of Letters

A. Murat Tuncer, Hacettepe UniversityRector

14:15 – 15:00 Opening Speech: The Epistemology of the Glass Cabinet:Reading Allegories in the Work of Edith WhartonMatthew Gumpert, Boğaziçi UniversityModerator: Ufuk Özdağ

15:00 – 16:30 Documentary:Girls of Hope / Umudun KızlarıCommentary: Ayşegül Selenga TaşkentModerator: Nur Gökalp Akkerman

16:30 – 17:30 OPENING RECEPTIONHosted by Prof. Dr. A. Murat TuncerRector, Hacettepe University

NOVEMBER 8th THURSDAY

9:30 – 11:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MEHMET AKİF ERSOY HALL

Reading and the Library in the Age of Technology Transformation of Libraries as Cultural Institutions of Reading: Writers’ VisionMarta Koval

The Internet and the Dream of the Library of AlexandriaIrmak Ertuna-Howison

Shakespeare Seeking an American Marketiser: Towards a Youtubisation of LiteratureKassim Boudjelal Safir

CHAIR: Himmet Umunç

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Reading in the Transnational ContextIs All “Reading” Reading and What Good Does It Do? American Perspective and NotOnlyAndrzej Ceynowa

Reading of Jack London as a Cultural Cartography in ChinaMin Zhou

Russian Reading of Modern International Political Jokes and Anecdotes:Ethnic and Cultural Stereotyping of AmericansOksana Zhernovaya

CHAIR: Linda J. Strom

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK



Letters, Codes and Erasure: Reading the Postmodern NovelA Parable about Reading: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of LeaveGülşen AslanWe Are What We Read: Percival Everett’s ErasureÖzlem Görey

CHAIR: Özlem Uzundemir

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Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAmericans and Books: Reading and Cultural Identity in the Antebellum United StatesMarek Wilczynski

Baking Powder and Politics: Female Newspaper Readership before the “Women'sPage”Na’ama Maor and Dafnah StraussCHAIR: Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH



Reading and Writing the Self Re-membering the Self/Destroying the Face Machine:

Autobiography and Identity Construction in Autobiography of a Face by Lucy GrealyCeylan Ertung

Booklists in African American Life Writing and Karla Holloway’s BookmarksS. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş

Tongue Tied America: Reading Chicano NarrativeSantiago Vaquera-Vásquez

CHAIR: S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş

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Reading, Writing and RespondingFrom Cover to Cover: Every Cover Has a StoryMeryem Ayan and Feryal Çubukçu

When Readers Write: the Creative Reader in Writer Response Theory

Ruxandra BularcaReading Jane Austen: Journeys of Self-Discovery in The Jane Austen Book ClubH. Övgü Tüzün

CHAIR: Gönül Uçele




Reading the Landscape

Reading Epitaphs, Memorials and Museum Inscriptions: On Traces, Presences andInterpretationZbigniew Bialas“Say Nice Things about Detroit”: Reading the American Post-Industrial Landscape Julia Sattler

What Do We Mean When We Talk about Reading PhotographsOlaf Hansen

CHAIR: Tanfer Emin Tunç

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Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy The Power of Remembrance: Reading as Political Empowerment in Science FictionNarrativesCem KılıçarslanLooking Backward to See the Future: Discursive Community and the Culture of SteampunkGordon J. MarshallReading the Metaphors at Stake: Transformation and Americanization of the Vampire in the Twentieth CenturyGözde Erdoğan

CHAIR: Cem Kılıçarslan

19:00 – 22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

NOVEMBER 9th FRIDAY



Politics and Poetry

Experience of the Word: Readings of BeatsÖzge Özbek AkımanReading Haikuography as Racial Representation in the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez

Sally Michael HannaCHAIR: Ayça Germen

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Reading Readers ReadingReading Thoreau Reading WaldenBarış GümüşbaşMarilyn Monroe Reading

Meltem Kıran-RawCHAIR: Belgin Elbir




Reading Race in the Transnational AgeReading Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Storyteller”: Fusion of Globalism, Regionalism andEcocriticismGül Kurtuluş

Reading Problematic Representations of Latina/os and Muslims in American CultureChristopher Rivera

Creating A Reading Culture: The Social Power of Literacy in Richard LaGravenese’sFreedom WritersLinda J. StromCHAIR: Meldan Tanrısal

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Reading War and ViolenceDangerous Readings: The Turner Diaries as an Inspiration for Hate and ViolenceCeylan Özcan

Reading the “Falling Man”: Violent Closeness between the “Victims” and the“Perpetrators”in J. S. Foer’s Extremely Close, Incredibly Loud and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Julia Szoltysek Judging Books by the Cover: “Covering” the Experience of War in IraqMerve Özman

CHAIR: Ceylan Özcan

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 – 14:15 Closing Speech:Reading as Travel, Travel as ReadingDavid Espey, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: S. Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş

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