6 July 2022
11am-2:15pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Eylem Ejder
| Pelin Doğan & Onur Özger | “Theatre as a Political Site of Discourse in the Pandemic: Women’s Experiences, Digital Theatre and Political Performance” | Munzur University & Ankara University |
| Zeynep Günsür Yüceil | “A Fe(male) Condition Traveling through Turkish Sleeping Beauties’ Memoires to the Possibilities in Existence that Non-existence Draws On” | Kadir Has University |
| Özgül Akıncı | “Public Appearances of the Figure of the Prostitute in Turkey” | Independent Scholar (Istanbul) |
| Erdem Avşar | “Dramatic Laws for an Alternative Turkey: Towards a Queer Social Contract” | University of Glasgow |
3pm-5:15pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Deniz Başar
| Deniz Başar & İnci Olgun | “‘Do Not Get Used to Hopelessness’: Precarious Practices of Respect and Co- Existence under the Pressures of Urban Gentrification and Socio-Political Tensions” | Boğaziçi University & Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University |
| Çiğdem Erdöl | “Responding Collective Trauma on Stage: Embodied Image-Making” | Istanbul University |
| Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr | “‘Did Kantocu Peruz Really Live?’: Nostalgia, Solidarity, and the Afterlives of an Ottoman Genre” | Columbia University |
| Burcu Yasemin Şeyben | “Identity and Diversification: Turkish-American Theatre Artists in the US” | Bennington College |
6pm-8pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Pieter Verstraete
| Duygu Çelik | “The Theme of Repetition in Kurdish Theatre in Turkey: Diyarbakır City Theatre” | Munzur University |
| Aycan Akçamete | “Constructing Political Narratives in Performance and Public Sphere: Stage Adaptation of #WeAreArrested by Can Dündar and its Critical Reception” | University of Texas |
| İrem Aydemir | “Citizen Theater on the Edge: From Offline to Online Theatre within a Politically Transforming Turkey” | University of California, Davis |
8:15pm-9pm (Turkish time)
Chair: Pieter Verstraete
Note: The video links are protected by a password which is only shared between the participants until further notice.
