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THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
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Tuesday, February 18
Meeting: TDP, TEGV Project, at the Student Union Building, TDP Room,
6 p.m. Everybody is invited.
Wednesday, February 19
Conference: “Russia and Turkey”, by Prof. Norman Stone, at FEASS,
C-Block Auditorium, 4 p.m. Organized by the Center of Turkish Politics and History.
Friday - Saturday, February 21 -22 Symposium: Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas Symposium: "Displacing Canons, Dislocating Cultures"; All events will take place in Room A-130 at FEASS. All are welcome, and prior registration is not required. Below is the program for the symposium:
Friday, February 21
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Panel 1: Zuhal Ulusoy, Asuman Türkün-Erendil, Bilkent: “The Encounter of the Modernity Project with the Historical Context”; Şeyda Başlı, Bilkent: “Akabi Hikayesi, Felatun Bey, Rakım Efendi: A Comparative Approach to the Ottoman Modernization Process”; Laurent Mignon, Bilkent: “Lost Voices: Religious Minorities and the Literary Canon”; 4 :30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Keynote: Mahmut Mutman, Bilkent: “Re-writing: The Canon and the Other”;
6 p.m. - 7:20 p.m. Panel 2: Asuman Suner, Bilkent: “Home Is Where the Heart Isn't: (Dis)placing Turkish Film Studies”; Çağlar Enneli, Ankara U.: “Watching Television and Consuming Messages”
Saturday, February 22
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Panel 3: Mustafa Şahiner, Sinan Akıllı, Hacettepe U.: “Re-drawing the Boundaries of Native Cultural Territory through Border Crossings in Classroom”; Don Randall, Bilkent: “David Malouf's Australia: Placing and Displacing Subjectivity and Nationhood”; Laurence Raw, Başkent U.: “Turkish Departments of Foreign Literature and/or Cultures: What Now?”; 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Keynote: Meyda Yeğenoğlu, METU: “Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in a Globalized World”;
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Panel 4: Halil Nalçaoğlu, Ankara U.: “Apocalyptic Dreams of Modernity”; Mustafa Gürbüz, Bilkent: “Constructing a ‘Conversational Encounter’ in a Globalized World”; Trevor Hope, Bilkent: “Antigone: More (or Less) than Kinship, Less (or More) than Kind”; 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: Teaching in, around and beyond the canon(s); and general open discussion.
For details go to: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~gbowe/conf.html
For the latest updates see: http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/whatson
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