Introduction to Turkish-American Studies
Boğaziçi University Alumni Association Building
June 6-7, 2014
Workshop Program
Introduction to TurkishAmerican Studies Boğaziçi University Alumni Association Building June 67, 2014
organized by the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey
Thursday, 5 June
18:00—Drinks at the Bebek Hotel Bar
Friday, 6 June
9:00 to 17:00—Workshop registration
10:00—Opening Remarks
Cash bar
Oya Başak (Boğaziçi University)
Gönül Pultar (Cultural Studies Association of Turkey) Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University)
5minute break
10:35 to 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 to 11:50—Coffee break
11:50 to 13:20—Session I
“TurkishAmerican Relations”
Chair: Emine O. İncirlioğlu (Maltepe University)
Pınar DostNiyego (Atlantic Council Istanbul Office), “History of TurkishAmerican Relations”
Işıl Acehan (İpek University), “Impact of Ottoman Immigration on TurkishAmerican Relations”
Louis Mazzari (Boğaziçi University), “A Palazzo on the Bosphorus: The American Embassy in Beyoğlu”
13:20 to 14:30—Lunch hour
14:30 to 16:30—Session II
“The Ottoman Legacy”
Chair: Gönül Bakay (Bahçeşehir University)
Erin Hyde Nolan (Boston University), “Eyes Wide Shut: Images of Istanbul in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad”
Bahar
Gürsel (Middle East Technical University), “Letters from Abroad to
Kindred at Home: Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Ideas about the Old World
and the Ottoman Empire”
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”
16:30 to 16:45—Coffee break
16:45 to 17:45—Session III “TurkishAmerican 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 to 20:00—Cultural Studies Association Reception at Kennedy Lodge (Boğaziçi University)
Saturday, 7 June
9:00 to 17:00—Workshop registration
9:00 to 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 to 11:15—Coffee break
11:15 to 12:15—Session
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Chair: Clifford Endres (Kadir Has University)
Tuğrul Keskin, “Orientalism to NeoOrientalism in Modern Turkish Studies”
Brian T. Edwards, “What's in a Hyphen?: Between Turkish American Studies and TurkishAmerican Studies”
12:15 to 13:30—Lunch hour
13:30 to 15:30—Session V
“Immigration, Identity Formation, Diaspora”
Chair: Dilek Doltaş (Boğaziçi University)
Fazia
Meberbeche (Abu Bakr Belkaid University of TlemcenAlgeria), “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 to 15:45—Coffee break
15:45 to 17:45—Session VI
“TurkishAmerican Art and Artists”
Chair: Oya Başak (Boğaziçi University)
Belma
Baskett (International Society for Theatre and Literature), “A Brief
Look at the Literature about the Turkish Immigration to the United
States of America and the Hitherto Unrecorded Story of Osman and Timur”
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), “Bülent Arel and İlhan Mimaroğlu:
Two Turkish Pioneers of Electronic Music Tuning the United States to the
New World of Sounds”
17:45 to 18:00—Closing remarks / Wrapup session
Chair: Gönül Pultar
19:30—Dinner at the Baltalimanı İstanbul University Faculty Restaurant
