7 July
Panel 1: Interventions to Public Space
12pm-2pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Deniz Başar
Gizem Kıygı | Queering the Space with Children: Walking and Mapping for Children’s Right to City | Kent Dedektifi (NGO) Istanbul |
Tracy Lord | What is Going Right with Food Groups? ‘Alt Food’ in a Neighborhood of İstanbul, Turkey | Boğaziçi University (retired) |
Başak Ergil | Towards an Urban Poetics of Multilingualism and Translation: Reclaiming Pluralistic Selves and Collectivities in Sites of Memory and Conscience in Istanbul and Beyond | Yeni Yüzyıl University |
Panel 2 & 3: Counter-Commemorative Landscapes and Dissecting Performativity of the State
3pm-5pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Pieter Verstraete
Bilal Akar | Transformation and Hybridization of Kurdish Theater in Turkey | Boğaziçi University |
Duygu Erdoğan Monson | Utilizing a Four-Century Old Tool of Mythmaking: Erdogan’s Rediscovery of Baroque Performativity | Shoreline Community College |
8 July
Panel 4: Embodied Resistance
1pm-3pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Eylem Ejder
Diler Özer & Belma Oğul | Boun Resistance and Protest Aesthetics | Istanbul Technical University, Turkish Music State Conservatory |
Sevi Bayraktar | Women Dancing Resistance: Folk Dance and Activism in Times of Emergency | University of Music and Dance Cologne |
Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu-Yanaşmayan | The Role of Performative Protest in Contemporary Germany in Negotiating Transcultural Feminist Discourses: The Visual and Verbal Narratives of Kübra Gümüşay and Reyhan Şahin | University of Duisburg-Essen |
Panel 5: Dramaturgies of Neoliberalism, Precarization and Solidarity
4pm-6pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Pieter Verstraete
Aslı Telli | Journalism Unchained: How One Believes in Free Press in the Future of the Past | Universität Siegen |
Nalan Erbil | Power-Aesthetics and Dialectics of Censorship in Turkish Literature and Television | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Zeynep Uğur | Crafting New Political Imaginaires: Independent Arts and Culture Initiatives | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de recherche politiques Raymond Aron |
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