PROGRAMME FOR THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL

IDEA CONFERENCE

15-17 April 2009 - Manisa, Turkey

           

15 April 2009

WEDNESDAY

 

 

 

 

 

DAY 1

 

MAIN HALL

GREEN HALL

BROWN HALL

BLUE HALL

GRAY HALL

08:30- 09:30   Registration

09:30- 10:30

 

Welcoming Ceremony

 

Opening Speeches

 

IDEA 2009 Honorary Member Award Announcement of the 5th Idea Conference

 

 

 

 

 

10:30- 11:00   Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

11:00- 12:00   Keynote Address

Liliane LOUVEL

Intermediality and Transposition between Art and Literature”

 

Chair : Himmet UMUNÇ

 

 

 

 

12:00- 13:30  Lunch- Break

 

 

 

 

 

13:30- 15:00  Parallel Sessions

WOMEN AND FICTION

 

1. Huriye REİS: “Reconstruction of the Female in The Book of Margery Kempe

 

2. Feryal ÇUBUKÇU: “The Freeplay of Signifiers: Conflicts of Good and Evil”

 

3. Gökşen ARAS: Ann  Veronica: To Live or To Perish”

MULTICULTURAL FICTION

 

1. Mehmet Ali ÇELİKEL: “Body and Identity : Trading Bodies in Kureishi’s The Body”

 

2. Mina SALMASIYEH: Decolonization in D. H. Lawrence's works in 1920s: The Plumed Serpent, St Mawr, and "The Woman Who Rode Away””

 

3. Hatice EŞBERK: “Multiple Voices of Hybrid Identities in a Postmodern Text as Opposed to Muted Victorian Characterization: Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

POETRY

 

 

1. Gülbün ONUR Ayşen ÖZÇİMEN: “Helpless Voices Against Indifference"

 

2. Selçuk ERYATMAZ: “Reading T.S. Eliot with Leibniz in Mind”     

 

3. İlker ÖZCAN : “Exploring and Comparing the Theme of ‘Connecting Past to the Present’in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney,Tony Harrison&Carol Ann Duffy”

DRAMA

 

 

1. Hossein SAFADARAN Mojtaba SAFADARAN: “Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars: Venus Courage"

 

2. Emine Seda ÇAĞLAYAN: “ A Distinctive Renaissance of a Distictive Nation: Idea of Nationalism”

 

3. Simge DURAN: “The Other Who Needs To Be Understood in The Merchant of Venice

ELT

 

 

1. Antonia SANCHEZ-MACARRO & Carmen SANTAMARIA-GARCIA: “Exaggerating Interest to Hearer”

 

2. İzzettin KÖK & Orkun CANBAY : “Vocabulary Learning Through Vocabulary Learning Strategies”

 

3. Bengü AKSU ATAÇ : “A Study on the Student Reactions to Authentic Assessment”

 

Chair:
Oya BATUM MENTEŞE

Chair:

Didem USLU

Chair:

Aslı TEKİNAY

Chair:

Allan JAMES

Chair:

Murat SEÇKİN

15:00-15:30  Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

15:30- 17:00  Parallel Sessions

EAST VS. WEST

 

1. Fiona TOMKINSON: “East-West and the Myth of the Empty Quest. A Comparative Study of Four Twenty-First Century Novels”

 

2. Alev BAYSAL:

“The West Versus the East: Samuel Johnson’s Cultural Solipsism in Rasselas

 

3. Berkan ULU: “ An Image is a Word and a Word an Image: The Western Eye and Pen”

TRAVEL WRITING

 

1. Ahmet İPŞİRLİ:

“Images of a City: Jerusalem in the 19th Century Travel Writing”

 

2. Atalay GÜNDÜZ: “The Representations of Turkish Westernization Project in British Travelogues”

 

3. Catherine COUSSENS: “The Garden of England: Temporary Immigration & the Contemporary British Novel as Travel Narrative”

ELT

 

1. M.Raouf MOINI & Akram KHAJEH: “A Cross Cultural Study of Invitation Refusal in British English and Farsi”

 

2. Allan JAMES:

“Towards A Sociolinguistic Theory of International English: Semiodiversity

 

3. Münevver BÜYÜKYAZI:

“The Beliefs about Language Learning of University Foreign Language Students and Their Teachers”

DRAMA/FICTION

 

1. Erdinç PARLAK & Gökhan BİÇER: “Caryl Churchill: Dialectics of Sex”

 

2. Buket DOĞAN: “Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a Precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd”

 

3. Azer Banu KEMALOĞLU: “Oscar Wilde’s Art and Aestheticism: The Picture of Dorian Gray”

POETRY

 

1.Hande SEBER:

“The Representations of Queen Elizabeth I in Edmund Spenser’s “Aprill” Eclogue”

 

2. Zümrüt ALTINDAĞ:

“William Blake as a Naive and Sentimental Poet”

 

3.Azad Hamad SHARIF & Ismael Mohamad FAHMI: “Coleridge’s Approach and Appraisal of Chaucer and Shakespeare”

 

Chair: Esra

MELİKOĞLU

Chair:

Lerzan GÜLTEKİN

Chair:

Dibakar PAL

Chair:

Gülbün ONUR

Chair: Fiona TOMKINSON

18: 30- 20:30  Coctail Reception given by the University Rector at Rectory.

 


 

16 April 2009

Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

DAY 2

 

MAIN HALL

GREEN HALL

BROWN HALL

BLUE HALL

GRAY HALL

09:00- 10:00 : Keynote Address

 

Susana ONEGA

“Narratives that Heal: Trauma and the Ethics of Love in Contemporary British Fiction”

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Atilla SİLKÜ

 

 

 

 

10:00- 10:30  Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

10:30- 12:00  Parallel Sessions

 

 

 SHAKESPEARE

 

1. Esin AKALIN: “Shakespeare’s Use of Mythography in Troilus and Cressida and  Anthony and Cleopatra

 

2. Nevio CRISTANTE: “Brutus as the Tragic Hero in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Study on Its Implications”

 

3. Mustafa ŞAHİNER: “The Devils Incarnate: Hellish Verses of Shakespeare’s Richard III and Greene’s Selimus

SELF AND THE OTHER

1. Bülent TANRITANIR: “(In)visibility in Ralph Waldo Ellison’s Invisible Man and Percival Everett’s Erasure

 

2. Alexandra FILIMONOVA: “Implications of the Myth in The Black Prince By Iris Murdoch”

 

3. Hilal KAYA: “Deconstruction and The Importance of Being Earnest”

ELT

 

1. Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA & Serpil GEZGİN:

“The Effects of a Training Experience on the Self Monitoring Skills”

2. Ahmad AMERI GOLESTAN:

“The Impact of Syntactic Priming and Proficiency on the Production of EFL Learners”

3. Afsar ROUHI & Mehdi SOLHI:

“Spatial Intelligence and Learning Idioms Through Pictures in EFL Classroom Setting”

GENDER ROLES

 

1. Sıddıka AŞIK:

“Covert Metamorphosis of Gender Roles in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca

 

2. Mine ÖZYURT KILIÇ: “Female Solidarity in Fay Weldon’s Down Among the Women

 

3. Şeyda İNCEOĞLU: “Reading the Silence in the Maternal Text of Carol Shield’s Unless

 

MODERN VS. POSTMODERN FICTION

1. Alireza MAHDIPOUR:

“Modern vs. Postmodern Epistemology in the Short Story”

 

2. Meryem AYAN & Reyhan ÖZER: “A Mythical Portrait of an Artist as a Young Modern Man”

 

3. Cumhur Yılmaz MADRAN “Self/Other Relation in the Sephere of Literary Discourse in Martin AmisMoney”

 

 

Chair:

Günseli İŞÇİ

Chair:

Burçin EROL

Chair:   Gülden

ERTUĞRUL 

Chair:

Huriye REİS

Chair:

Alev BAYSAL

12:00- 13:00  Lunch- Break

 

 

 

 

 

13:00- 14:30  Parallel Sessions

 

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

 

1. Nazmi AĞIL: “So Long Lives This and Gives Life to Thee…:A Comparative Study of Ekphrasis

 

2. Zeynep YILMAZ KURT: “Cyclical Identities in Janet Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry and Elif Shafak’s Sufi (Pinhan)”

 

3. Yasemin YILMAZ: James Joyce’s Ulysses and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow”

 FICTION

 

1. Meryem AYAN:

 “Matter of Connectedness or Disconnectedness”

 

2. Eren ALKAN:

“Requiem for an Identity: Hybridity, Gender, and Decadence in Salman Rushdie’s Shame and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

 

3. Fatma KALPAKLI:

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia

ELT

 

1. Afsar ROUHI & Zahra Javan-AMANI:

“Declarative Knowledge: Is it a Must for Uptaking Recasts and Prompts”

 

2. M.Raouf MOINI: “On the Role of L1 in Learning Second Language Collocation: Evidence From Translation”

 AUTHORS / CONTEXTS

 

1.  Dibakar PAL:

“Francis Bacon and Of Imagination”

 

2. Oya BAYILTMIŞ: “Roderick Random: A Satire of the British Navy in the Eighteenth Century”

 

3. Betül MİNNET: “How Nobel Met Ethnicity?

The Ethnic Nobel Prize Laureates of the United Kingdom; 1907-2007

 LITERARY SETTINGS

 

 1. Ahmet SÜNER: “Literature and Literary Study in an Age of Comparative and Universal Contexts”

 

2. Rıza ÖZTÜRK: “A Study on Some of Graham Greene’s Prose Writings: Pubs and Alcohol Drinking Habits in the British Life”

 

3. Sinan AKILLI:

“Dreaming of a Falling Star: Prophecy, Astrology and the Turks in Early Modern England

 

Chair: Margaret J-M SÖNMEZ

Chair:

Mustafa ŞAHİNER

Chair:

Dilek İNAN

Chair: Nevio
CRISTANTE

Chair: Ayça Ülker ERKAN

14:30-15:00  Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

15:00- 16:30  : Parallel Sessions

 

DETECTIVE FICTION

 

1. Arpine MIZIKYAN: “The Detective and the Criminal and Order Restored: A Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

 

2. Margaret J-M SÖNMEZ: “Foreign Voices in British Detective Stories from 1900 to 1950”

 

3.  Memet Metin BARLIK: “A Postmodern Love Story; Reality versus the Ideal: The Black Prince

FEMALE WRITERS

 

1. Serkan ALGAN:

“Evolving Victorian Vocations as Reflected in Middlemarch”

 

2.Aytül ÖZÜM:

“The Ecological Voice in The Mill on the Floss”

 

3. Hatice KUM: “Rebellious Edna and Domestic Adele: Two Feminist Characters In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening”

ELT / STYLISTICS

 

1. Senem DONANCI BÜYÜK: The Use of the Common European Framework for References for Languages (CEFRL) in Tertiary Level Contexts”

 

2. Özge Gül ZEREY: “ELT Students’ Perspectives on a Performative Approach to the Study of Theater in Language Courses”

POSTMODERN FICTION

 

1.  Çağlar BAŞOL: “A Postmodern Analysis of Fanshawe and Auster in Paul Auster’s The Locked Room

2. Elif ŞİMŞEK: “Rewriting of History Through the Eyes of ‘The Other’ in The Nature of Blood”

 

3. Nursen GÖMCELİ:

“The Questioning of History, Nationality and Identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Credible Witness”

DRAMA

 

 

1. Dilek ZERENLER: “Communication: An Enemy or a Rescuer of a Relationship in the Play Here”

 

2. Ayça ÜLKER ERKAN:

“The Embodiment of Emotions in Thornton Wilder’s Play Our Town”

 

3. Wei H. KAO:

“Protestant Women, Nationality, and the Black in Christina Reid’s Three War Dramas”

 

 

Chair:

Gillian ALBAN

Chair:

Rezzan SİLKÜ

Chair:

M.Raouf MOINI

Chair:

Hande SEBER

Chair: Nuvid ALEMDAROĞLU

16:30- 18:00  : City Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

18:00- 21:00 : Supper  Flavored with Students’ Performances at The Steps

 

 


 

17 April 2009

Friday

 

 

 

 

 

DAY 3

MAIN HALL

GREEN HALL

BROWN HALL

BLUE HALL

GRAY HALL

09:00- 10:00 : Keynote Address

Terry EAGLETON

“The Death of Criticism?”

Chair: Işıl BAŞ

 

 

 

 

10:00- 10:30   Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

 10:30-12:00 : Parallel Sessions

 

 DRAMA / WORKSHOP

 

1. Laurence RAW

Özlem CİDELİ

Sebiha AKPINAR

Aysel GONCA

Seda KARASU

Esra CEYLAN:

“Introducing Shakespeare’s Hamlet”

 

2. Tuba AĞKAŞ:

“Identifying the Theme of “hybridity” in Different Aspects of Life through the Technical Elements and the Structure of the Two Acts in Derek Walcott’s Pantomime”

 

3. Matthias GALLER:

“The Old Man in the Pardoner’s Tale

FOUCAULT/

DERRIDA

 

1.Banu AKÇEŞME:
A Game of Power-Knowledge-Resistance in Old Times”

 

2. Pelin KÜMBET:
“ Web of Power Circulating in All Directions: A Faucaultian Reading of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed

 

3. Uzay KILIÇ: “Understanding Derrida on ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’”

THOMAS HARDY

 

1.Zennure KÖSEMAN:
“ Consequences of Private Practices of Social Change in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and the Tess of D’ubervilles

 

2. Manolya HARNUBOĞLU: “The Female Character As Victim of Drives and Prejudice: A Study on Hardy’s Jude the Obscure

 

POST MODERN LITERATURE

 

1. Zekiye ANTAKYALIOĞLU:

“Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton: History As Taxidermy”

2. Baysar TANIYAN:

The Golden Notebook : A Fragmented Narrative”

 

3. Burcu GÜRKAN:

“Crossing the Bridge of One: Mediating the Self Through the Other”

NOSTALGIC FICTION

 

1. Ayça Ülker

ERKAN &  

Sibel GÜZEL “Nostalgia or Transgression: Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Mr. Wrong”

 

2. Selçuk ERYATMAZ,

Sultan DEMİR, Zeynep ERÇELEBİ: “Perceptions of Memory, Culture and Nature in LeGuin’s Always Coming Home”

 

3. Youcef LARBI: “Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath

 

Chair:

Nazmi AĞIL

Chair: Esin
AKALIN

Chair: Arpine MIZIKYAN

Chair:

Meryem AYAN

Chair:

Wei H. KAO

12:00- 13:00  Lunch- Break

 

 

 

 

 

13:00- 14:30  Parallel Sessions

 

THE NOVEL

 

 

1. Gillian ALBAN: “Love and Loss in Henry Wood’s East Lynne, George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Mill on the Floss, and A.S. Byatt’s Possession

 

2. Claire BRANDEBUR: “Ishuguro’s The Unconsoled: Moving the Post in Postcolonialism

 

3. R.Aslıhan AKSOY SHERIDAN: “Transgressing (Nar)rational Boundaries in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two Birds

CULTURE

 

 

1. R. Marcella ÖZENÇ: “The Teaching of Translation Studies to the Generation of Popular Culture”

 

2. Zafer PARLAK:

“Representation of the West and the Westerners in the Mainstream Printed Media of 1960s”

 

3. Mehmet BÜYÜKTUNCAY & Demet SATILMIŞ: “The Dissenting Youth of the 80s: Representations of Subcultural POlitics in Made in Britain and This is England

IRISH LITERATURE

 

1.Dilek İNAN:

Conor McPherson’s The Weir : New Master of Irish Story Telling”

 

2.Bedrettin YAZAN:

“Sectarian Conflict and Inability to Construct a National Identity in Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s Five Plays”

 

3. Ş.Nüvid ALEMDAROĞLU:

“Rewriting History in Terry Eagleton’s Plays”

 ROMANTICS

 

 

1. Uğur KÜÇÜKBOYACI “The Desperate Quest of the Modern Romantic Intellectual: Chasing the World in Malcolm Bradbury’s Stepping Westward

 

2. İbrahim KATİP “Creation and Chaos in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

 

3. Emre ÇAKARScribo Ergo Sum: Romantic Irony in Tristram Shandy

 IMAGES

 

 

1. Erik MORTENSON: “Shrouded Strangers”: Negativity, Shadows, and the Dream in the Work of Jack Kerouac”

 

2. Buket AKGÜN:

The Penelopiad: Dislodging the Myth of Penelope as the Archetype of Faithful and Patient Wife”

 

3. Taner CAN: “The Burial of the (Un)dead: In Search of the Uncanny in War Poetry”

 

Chair:

Dilek DİRENÇ

Chair:

Laurence RAW

Chair:

Aytül ÖZÜM

Chair:

Matthias GALLER

Chair:

Zafer PARLAK

14:30-15:00 Coffee / Tea Break

 

 

 

 

15:00- 16:00  WRAP UP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

16:00-19:00 : Visiting Sardes (80 kms. From Manisa)

                       

 

19:00 -21:00 : GALA Dinner at Sardes Lydia Hotel

                       

 

 

 

18 April 2009 Saturday

DAY 4

 

A whole day trip: Visiting Pergamon & Allenoi