Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so registration for this event is essential and can be done by emailing:readingturkishliterature2013@gmail.com by Wednesday 27 February.

Conference Programme Reading Turkish Literature (pdf file) Conference Programme Reading Turkish Literature (.docx file)

Day 1: Friday, 1 March 2013

09.30: Registration (tea & coffee provided)

10.15: Opening remarks

10.30: Panel 1 - Contemporary Turkish Literature
Chair: Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri (St John’s, Oriental Institute)
Professor Murat Belge (Istanbul Bilgi University): The contemporary Turkish novel
Dr Yalçın Armağan (Istanbul Şehir University): Born Under İkinci Yeni: Contemporary Turkish Poetry
Professor Yavuz Demir (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun): Telling Stories in Turkey from Tradition to Nobel Prize

12.15 – 13.30: Lunch Break (sandwich lunch provided)

13.30: Panel 2 - Translating Turkish Literature
Chair: Dr Celia Kerslake (Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College)
Professor Maureen Freely (University of Warwick): The Long and Winding Road, or the difficult business of Turkish-to-English translation
Dr Duygu Tekgül (Yeditepe University¸ Istanbul): The Modern Turkish Novel in English Translation
Ms Nermin Mollaoğlu (Kalem Agency, Istanbul): The Literary Agent’s View

15.15 - 15.45 Tea Break

15.45: Panel 3 - Turkish Literature in all its Colours: Other Voices
Chair: Professor Theo Van Lint (Pembroke, Oriental Institute)
Dr Hülya Adak (Sabancı University, Istanbul): Armenian literature in Turkey
Ms Özlem Galip (University of Exeter): Kurdish Novelistic Discourse in Turkey: Fictionalising the 'Homeland' in Different Time Zones
Dr Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford): (To) Be/longing: Remarks on Contemporary Jewish Turkish Literature

17.30: Refreshments

Day 2: Saturday 2nd March 2013

09.30: Panel 4 - The Reception of Turkish Literature
Chair: Dr Domenico Ingenito (Wadham, Oriental Institute)
Dr Mehmet Kalpaklı (Bilkent University, Ankara): Looking Through Frosted Glass: Perceptions of Ottoman Literature in Modern Turkey
Dr Süha Oğuzertem (Istanbul Bilgi University): The Dilemmas and Prospects of Literary Criticism in Turkey
Dr Keya Anjaria (SOAS, London): Teaching the Turkish Novel in the Context of World Literature
Dr Robert Vivian (Alma College): A Westerner Looks Eastward: Living and Writing in Turkey

11.45: Closing Remarks

12.00: Lunch (sandwich lunch provided)

Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so registration for this event is essential and can be done by emailing:readingturkishliterature2013@gmail.com by Wednesday 27 February.