Women in the Arts and Writing:
Negotiating the Ottoman Public Sphere in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
6-7 April 2006
Boğaziçi University, İbrahim Bodur Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
Thursday 6 April 2006
9:30 Opening remarks
-Boğaziçi University: Rector Ayşe Soysal
-IFEA (Fransız Anadolu Araştırmaları Enstitüsü): AlexandreToumarkine
-Duygu Köksal and Anastassia Falierou
Coffee Break
Session I:Writing History and Women
Chair: Assoc.Prof. M.Asım Karaömerlioğlu
10.20 –10.45: Prof. Dr. Fatmagül Berktay (Istanbul University)
–Thoughts on Writing History: Gender, Women, and Nation Building
10.45-11.10: Elif Mahir (Marc Bloch University)
–Feminism Poles Apart: Ottoman Women Writers in Popular Periodicals (1918-1923)
11.10-11.35: Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (New York University)
–Armenian Women’s Activism and a New Look into the “Old” Historiography on the Ottoman/Turkish Women’s Movement (1919-1920)
11.35-12.00: Discussion
12.00-14.00: Lunch
Session II: Social Problems and Women: Discourse and Intervention
Chair: Assist. Prof. Cengiz Kırlı
14.00-14.25: Assoc. Prof. Elisabeth Frierson (University of Cincinnati)
–Refugee Flows and Disruption of Discourses from the Hamidian Era through WWI
14.25-14.50: Assist. Prof.Yavuz Selim Karakışla (Boğaziçi University)
–Hukk-ı Süküt: The General Strike of Women Silk workers at Bursa and Bilecik (1910).
14.50-15.15: Melissa Bilal ( University of Chicago)
–Another way was possible:Reading Zabel Yesayan’s Call Against War
15.15-15.40: Discussion
Coffee Break
Session III: Women in the Arts: Painting, Theather, Dance
Chair: Prof. Dr. Saliha Paker
16.00-16.25: Burcu Pelvanoğlu (Mimar Sinan University)
– Mihri (Müşfik) Hanım'ın portreleri ve otoportresi
16.25-16.50: Hasmik Khalapyan (Central European University)–A World and Its Own Boundaries: Theater, Armenian Actresses, and Public Space in the Ottoman Empire
16.50-17.15: Assoc. Prof. Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University)
–Selma Selim Sırrı and Her Approach to Modern Dance
17.15-17.40: Discussion
Friday 7 April 2006
Session I: Women’s Writing: Individual, Public Sphere, Otherness
Chair: Prof. Dr.Yeşim Arat
10.00-10.25: Assist. Prof. Bahriye Çeri (Yıldız Technical University)
–Ahmet Midhat Efendi ile Şair Fıtnat Hanım’ın Aşk Mektupları
10.25-10.50: Assoc. Prof. Duygu Köksal (Boğaziçi University)
– From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: Emancipation and Nationalism in Demetra Vaka’s Writings
10.50-11.05: Discussion
Coffee Break
11.25-11.50: Kostas Pikoulos (Panteios University)
–Women and National Identity in the Writings of Pinelopi Delta and Halide Edip Adıvar (1900-1930).
11.50-12.15: Dr.Alexandre Toumarkine (IFEA)
–Yazar ve Şair Hayriye Melek Hunç: Osmanlı basınından Çerkez cemaati militanlığına
12.15-12.30: Discussion
12.30-14.30: Lunch
Session II: Representation(s) of Ottoman Women in the Press
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ferhunde Özbay
14.30-14.55: Anastassia Falierou (IFEA)
Enlighted Mothers and Scientific Housewives: Discussing Women’s social role(s) in Evridiki (1870-1873).
14.55-15.20: Özgür Türesay (Galatasaray University)
-İlk Osmanlı Kadın Almanaklarından Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1900)
15.20-15.35: Discussion
Coffee Break
15.55-16.20: Prof. Dr.Reina Lewis (University of East London)
-Beeing Seen in Public: Ottoman Women, Dress, and the Writing of Modern Space
16.20-16.45: Prof.Dr. François Georgeon (CNRS)
-Osmanlı mizah basınında kadının konumu
16.45-17.30: General Discussion
Organised by the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) and Atatürk Institute of Bogaziçi University with contributions of the Orient-Institut (Istanbul) and the UMR-8032 Etudes turques et ottomanes (CNRS)
Organization
Anastassia FALIEROU (IFEA)
Duygu KÖKSAL (Boğaziçi University)
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