CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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2nd Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Symposium “Labour”
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MAY 3, THURSDAY |
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| 9:00
9:40 |
Start of Registration
Opening Addresses Prof. Dr. Aylin GÜNEY, Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Dr. Trevor HOPE, Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature |
| 10:00-11:45 | PANEL 1: LITERARY LABOURS
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Jason M. Ward
Sercan H. Bağlama “Delusions of Transformation: Enduring Marxist Themes in the Post-War British Novel”
M. Mira Pınar Dolaykaya “Fantastic Responses to Child Labour in the Nineteenth-Century English Children’s Literature: Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies”
Asya S. Uçar “Art’s Labour Found: The Cleaning Lady’s Secret Work of Art in A.S. Byatt’s ‘art work’” |
| 11:45-12:00 | COFFEE BREAK (Rectorate Foyer) |
| 12:00-12:35 | PANEL 2: MUSICAL NOTES ON CLASS 1
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Jeffrey Hibbert
Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş “Remembering Joe Hill Through Music” |
| 12:35-1:35 | LUNCH |
| 1:35-2:35 | KEYNOTE SPEECH: MEYDA YEĞENOĞLU
(Rectorate Conference Hall)
“Organised Forgetting of the Affective Labour of Armenian Women”
Chair: Trevor Hope |
| 2:35-2:50 | COFFEE BREAK (Rectorate Foyer) |
| 2:50-4:00 | PANEL 3: MIGRANT LABOUR
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Elif Çetin
Emrah Işık “Transnational Irish Labour In England: Memory and Identity in Donall MacAmhlaigh’s An Irish Navvy, The Diary of An Exile”
Trevor Hope “Film, the Migrant Worker and Symbolic Labour” |
| 4:15-5:00 | PRESENTATIONS
İclal Kardıçalı (Rectorate Conference Hall) A Midsummer Night’s Dream: At the Opera House and Ballet Company Chair: Evren Akaltun
Ayça İzmirlioğlu (F004) “İşyerinde Ayrımcılığa Maruz Kalan İşçinin Başvurabileceği Yasal Yollar ve Ayrımcılık Tazminatı” Chair: Esen Kara |
| 5:45-6:45 | Reception
(Y Building – First Floor Foyer) |
2nd Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Symposium “Labour”
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MAY 4, FRIDAY |
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| 10:15-11:25 | PANEL 4: NATION, WORK AND ALIENATION
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü
Olcay Çolak “Romancing the Alienation: The Function of the Indian Call Centre in The Other End of the Line”
Ceren Kuşdemir Özbilek “Labour and the Production of Irish Identity in James Joyce’s Ulysses” |
| 11:25-11:40 | COFFEE BREAK (Rectorate Foyer) |
| 11:40-12:15 | PANEL 5: MUSICAL NOTES ON CLASS 2
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç
Murat Göç “The Ghost of Tom Joad: Music, Class, and Revolution in American Popular Culture” |
| 12:15-1:15 | LUNCH |
| 1:15-2:25 | PANEL 6: GENDERED WORK AND THE WORK OF GENDER
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Tuba Geyikler
Zeynep. Z. Atayurt “Feasts Upstairs, Morsels Downstairs: Dramatic Representations of Women’s Labour in Between the Soup and Savoury and Rutherford and Son”
Gülce Gören “Masculinity in Postmodern America” |
| 2:25-2:40 | COFFEE BREAK (Rectorate Foyer) |
| 2:40-3:50 | PANEL 7: PRECARIOUS POSITIONS
(Rectorate Conference Hall) Chair: Emre Özgen
Güven Selçuk “Productive / Unproductive Labour: A Contribution To The Digital Labour Debate”
Özge Can “Culture of Contingent and Fragmented Work: Tensions, Meanings and Identities” |
| 4:00-5:10 | Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Evren AKALTUN |