1^st INTERNATIONAL AKŞİT GÖKTÜRK CONFERENCE

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE NOW AND THEN

15-16 April 2010

Istanbul University, Rector's Building,

Beyazit - Istanbul, TURKEY

15 April 2010
09:30 09:35	Opening Speech Dr. Maggie Gee Keynote Address Chair: Prof. Oya Başak
10:30	Coffee Break
	Hall A	Hall B
	Dystopia	Gender
	Chair: Prof. Cevza Sevgen	Chair: Dr. J. Edgar Bauer
10:45 11:15	Dystopia as perceived in the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) Assist. Prof. Hilde Tørnby Oryx and Crake: Cosmetic Hubris to Destruction of the Cosmos Assist. Prof. Gillian Alban	Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex & Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions: An Insight into Feminist Issues and Women’s Autonomy in a Male Dominated World Assist. Prof. Luma Ibrahim Al-Barzenji & Prof. Abdullah Al Bassuni The Reaganist Apocalypse in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Assist. Prof. Nesrin Yavaş
11:45	Coffee Break
12:00 12:30	Chair: Assist. Prof. Nesrin Yavaş	Chair: Dr. Melis Mülazımoğlu Erkal
	Brave New Future: A Comparative Study of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Huxley’s Brave New World Dr. Fatemeh Mahmoudi Gloom, Post Modernity and the Human Project Dr. A. O. Adigun & Malachy Igwilo	Homo-Sapiens Wiping Out the Planet vs. Robo-Sapiens Cleaning Up His Mess Funda Bilgen Destructing the Simulacra – Building a New Future: Possibility of a New World in Chuck Palahniuk’sDiary: A Novel Research Assist. Esin Kumlu
13:00	Lunch
	Chair: Assist. Prof. Şeyda İnceoğlu	Chair: Assoc. Prof. Murat Seçkin
14:30 15:00	The Secret life of ‘no place’ – the power of ‘new’ landscape in the poetry of Fergus Allen Joanna Blachino “How to Contemplate the Inevitable Destruction of the Majority of Humanity with Total Equanimity”: The Poetics of Ecological Anti-Humanism in John Gray and Will Self Onur Tokur	“The Left Handed World”: On Gloria Anzaldúa’s Uprooting of the Sexual Binomial and the Rewriting of History Dr. J. Edgar Bauer
		Utopia?
		Chair: Assoc. Prof. Murat Seçkin
		The Flower Children of The Time Machine in Porto Allegre Assist. Prof. Sema Bulutsuz
15:30	Coffee Break
	Chair: Assist. Prof. Yıldız Kılıç	Chair: Assist. Prof. Canan Şavkay
15:45 16:15	The Rape Of Britain’s National Heritage During The Short Republican Period Dr. Marek Smoluk Life in the Age of Zaibatsu: Japan as Dystopia inNeuromancer and Lost in Translation Fran Bigman	Shades of meaning: revisioning traditional conceptions of identity in the poetry of Chris Mann Molly Brown Do Not Fear Them! They are Beautiful Comers: Mutant Personalities in the Post-Apocalyptic American Narratives from 1980s to 2000s Dr. Melis Mülazımoğlu Erkal
16:45	Cocktail

16 April 2010
09:30	Çiler İlhan Chair: Prof. Esra Melikoğlu
10:30	Coffee Break
	Hall A	Hall B
	Dystopia	Utopia?
	Chair: Dr. Jane Nardin	Chair: Assist. Prof. Gillian Alban
10:45 11:15	Visions of the Future Now and Then in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome Assoc. Prof. Chitra Sankaran ‘Neither Living Nor Dead’: the ‘Unreal City’ in Philip Kerr’s A Philosophical Investigation Assist. Prof. Susan Ang	“Dirty Work: The Toilers of Utopia” Dr. Jeffrey Hibbert Two Journeys on the River Thames: Utopia and Horror, Horror Kaya Genç
11:45	Coffee Break
	Chair: Assist. Prof. Luma Ibrahim Al-Barzenji	Chair: Assoc. Prof. Chitra Sankaran
12:00 12:30	From Noah’s Ark to Blair’s Helicopters: Dystopian Future in Maggie Gee’s The Flood (2004) Assist. Prof. Mine Özyurt – Kılıç	Utopian Logic in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) and Anthony Trollope’s The Fixed Period (1882) Dr. Jane Nardin
	Myth/Fairytale	Art/Language & Utopia/Dystopia
	Chair: Assist. Prof. Luma Ibrahim Al-Barzenji	Chair: Assoc. Prof. Chitra Sankaran
	Redefining (or Revisiting) the Faust Myth in a Discworld: Terry Pratchett’s Eric Faust Assist. Prof. Şeyda İnceoğlu	Responding to the End Nuno Branco
13:00	Lunch
	Art/Language & Utopia/Dystopia
	Chair: Assist. Prof. Arpine Mızıkyan	Chair: Assist. Prof. Mine Özyurt – Kılıç
14:30	Apocalypse of Language: Pontypool Changes Everything Research Assist. Gülden Hatipoğlu	The Mosaics of Life: Terry Tempest Williams’s Aesthetics of Fragmentation Dr. Jing H. Hwang