Symposium Program
Turkish-American Studies 2016
ARIT Building
Organized by the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey
andthe American Research Institute in Turkey
Thursday, 2 June
18:00—ARIT Reception
Friday, 3 June
9:30 to 17:00—Registration
10:00 to 11:15—Opening Remarks and Speech
Antony Greenwood (ARIT): Welcoming Remarks
Gönül Pultar (Cultural Studies Association of Turkey / Bilkent University), “Contextualizing Turkish-American Studies within Transnational American Studies”
11:15 to 11:30—Coffee break
11:30 to 13:00—Session I
“Immigration and Assimilation”
Chair: Louis Mazzari
Zeynep Selen Artan-Bayhan (City University of New York), “Identity in the Making: Turkish Immigrants in New York and New Jersey”
Zafer Parlak (Izmir University), “Assimilation Process of Turkish-Americans”
13:00 to 14:30—Lunch
14:30 to 16:00—Session II
“From Changing Identities to Cultural Acquisitions”
Chair:Ralph Poole
Nükhet Kardam (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey), “Watercolor Identities”
Leman Giresunlu (Dokuz Eylül University), “In Retrospect: Cultural Acquisitions and Partnerships in American Studies”
16:00 to 16:45—Session III
Special ARIT Session
Chair: Antony Greenwood (ARIT)
Brian Johnson (ARIT), “'The Gift-Edged Mission': Reflections on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' First Century of Involvement in Anatolia”
16:45 to 17:00—Coffee break
Screening of The House that Ahmet Built (2007) on the life of A. Ertegün, followed by discussion
Moderator: Belma Baskett
19:30—Shuttle for Cultural Studies Association Dinner
Saturday, 4 June
9:30 to 17:00—Registration
9:30 to 11:00—Session V
“Show Business”
Chair: Verena Laschinger
Bengi Başaran (Istanbul Technical University), “Bedouins and The Wild East Show in the 1893 Chicago World Fair”
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (New York University), “Carrying Our Country to the World: Turkey's Diplomatic Fashion Shows in the United States”
11:00 to 11:15—Coffee break
11:15 to 13:15—Session VI
“Literary Negotations”
Chair: Kim Fortuny
Belma Baskett (Middle East Technical University and Michigan State University),“Literature by Turkish Immigrants to America”
Koray Üstün (Hacettepe University), “A Poet and Intellectual in the USA: Seyfettin Başçıllar”
Verena Laschinger (University of Erfurt), “Negotiations of Turkish-Americanness in Joseph O'Neill's Postethnic Literature”
13:15-14:45—Lunch
14:45 to 16:45—Session VII
“America in Turkey”
Chair: Zafer Parlak
Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University), “A Case for Smart Power from Istanbul”
Ralph J. Poole (University of Salzburg), “‘We are all Androgynous’: Staging America in Turkey”
Kim Fortuny (Boğaziçi University), “An American in Istanbul: Nature, Literature and Local Allegiances”
16:45 to 17:00—Coffee break
17:00 to 18:30—Session VIII
Wrap-up session / Roundtable discussion on the future of Turkish-American Studies and American Studies in Turkey
Moderator: Gönül Pultar
Facilitators: Verena Laschinger, Louis Mazzari, Zafer Parlak