Thursday, 5 June
18:00 - 20:30 Drinks at the Bebek Hotel Bar. Cash bar.
Friday, 6 June
9 am – 5 pm Workshop registration
10:00 Opening Remarks:
- Gönül Pultar (Cultural Studies Association of Turkey)
- Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University)
5-minute break
10:35 -11: 35 Keynote Speech I
- Chair: Belma Baskett (International Society for Theatre and Literature)
- Justin McCarthy (University of Louisville), “The Turk in America”
11:35 – 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 – 13:20: Session I: Turkish-American Relations
- Chair: Emine O. İncirlioğlu (Maltepe University)
- Pınar Dost-Niyego (Atlantic Council Istanbul Office), “History of Turkish-American Relations”
- Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University), “A Palazzo on the Bosphorus: The American Embassy in Beyoğlu”
13:10-14:30 Lunch hour
14:30 16:30 Session II: The Ottoman Legacy
- Chair: Brian T. Edwards (Northwestern University)
- Erin Hyde Nolan (Boston University), “Eyes Wide Shut: Images of Istanbul in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad”
- Cafer Sarıkaya (Boğaziçi University), “Ottoman Participation in the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition”
- Emrah Şahin (University of Florida), “‘Terrible Turk Beaten’: Fighting the Turkish Athletes during the Progressive Era”
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30:-17:45 Session III: Turkish-American Associations
- Chair: Selhan Endres (Kadir Has University)
- Zeynep Kılıç (University of Alaska) “Organizational Interpretations of Belonging and Identity - Politics of Incorporation among Turkish American Associations in New York”
- Alice Leri (University of South Carolina), “A Study of ATAA (Assembly of Turkish American Associations)”
18:00- 20:30 Cultural Studies Association Reception at Kennedy Lodge (Boğaziçi University)
Saturday, 7 June
9 am – 5 pm Workshop registration
9:00 – 11:00 Keynote Speeches II
- Chair: Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University)
- Sabri Sayarı (Bahçeşehir University), “Turkish Studies in the USA”
- Kemal Sılay (Indiana University),“Deconstructing Kemalism, Celebrating ‘Diversity’: American Academia’s Contributions to Islamist Dystopia in Turkey”
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Session IV: Turkish Studies in the USA
- Chair: Clifford Endres (Kadir Has University)
- Tuğrul Keskin, “Orientalism to Neo-Orientalism: Turkish Studies in the US”
- Brian Edwards, “What's in a Hyphen?: Between Turkish American Studies and Turkish-American Studies”
12:15-13:30 Lunch hour
13:30-15:30 Session V: Immigration, Identity Formation, Diaspora
- Chair: Esra Almas (Haliç University)
- Faiza Meberbeche (Abu Bakr Belkaid University of Tlemcen-Algeria), “The Turkish Diaspora in the United States: Immigration and Identity Formation”
- Müzeyyen Güler (Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts), “The Second Generation of Turks who Migrated to America”
- İlke Şanlıer Yüksel (Doğuş University), “We’re Still Living the Journey”: Media in the Daily Lives of Immigrants from Turkey”
- Tahire Erman (Bilkent University, “Turkish Tailors Establishing Themselves in American Society: Experiences of ‘Lower Class’ Immigrants”
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:45 Session VI: Turkish-American Art and Artists
- Chair: Tahire Erman (Bilkent University)
- Belma Baskett (International Society for Theatre and Literature), “Literature about the Turkish Immigration to the United States of America”
- Elena Furlanetto (Dortmund Technical University), “An Implausible Juncture? Locating Turkish Literature in an American Frame”
- Elif Huntürk (Bilkent University), “Building up a New Identity through Music: The Case of Ahmet Ertegün”
- H. Alper Maral (Yıldız University), “İlhan Mimaroğlu and Bülent Arel: Two Turkish Pioneers of Electronic Music Tuning the United States to the New World of Sounds”
17:45–18:15 Closing remarks / Wrap-up session
- Chair : Gönül Pultar
19:30 Dinner at the Baltalimanı İstanbul University Faculty Restaurant. To be paid individually.