Fourth Undergraduate Conference on
Anglo-American Literature:
“FAIRY TALES”
April 12th, 2014 – Saturday
9:00 - 09:30 Registration
09.30 – 09.45
Welcome Notes by Dean (Faculty of Humanities and Letters) and Chair (ELIT) Prof. Dr. Talat S. Halman (C Block
Auditorium)
09.45 – 10.00 Introductory
speech by Meryem Tuğba Pekşen (ELIT IV)
10.00 -10.45 Panel:
Roots of Fairy Tales (C
Block Auditorium)
Burak Şenel
– TOBB University of Economics and Technology - “Truth Unedited: Grimm Brothers and their
Not-So-Fairy Tales”
Uğur Portakal - Boğaziçi University –
“Problematic of the Tail: Physical Transformation and its Function in Fairy
Tales”
Chair:
Deniz Yılmaz (AMER II)
Discussions
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00 Panel: Analysis of Female
Characters in a Misogynistic World (C Block Auditorium)
Elif
Dilge Dinçer - Doğuş University - “The Latent
Soul-Shattering Reality of ‘Twelve Dancing Princesses’ In Jeanette Winterson’s
‘Sexing the Cherry”
Melike Başak Yalçın - Middle East Technical University - “Exploring the Gender: A Symbolic Story: a
Child’s Becoming a Girl”
Gizem Aydın
- TOBB University of Economics and Technology - “A Feminist Approach to “Little Red Riding Hood”
as “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter”
Chair:
Dilara Elbir (AMER II)
Discussions
12.00 – 13.45 LUNCH
BREAK
13.45- 14.45 Panel: Interpretation of Gender
Roles in Fairy Tales (C Block Auditorium)
Samet Söylemez - Middle
East Technical University – “Compulsory Direction”
Yasemin Erdoğan - Bilkent
Laboratory & International School – “Gender Stereotypes and False
Expectations in Fairytales”
Gözde
Öncil - İD Bilkent Univesity – “An Issue of
Feminism: Female Subordination and Stereotypes in Fairy Tales”
Chair:
M. Cavid Barkçin (AMER I)
Discussions
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee
Break
15.00 – 15.45 Panel: Media
and Consumerism (C Block Auditorium)
Monika Manişak - Ege University" - “The Disney
Spell: Children’s Distorted Imagination through Contemporary Fairy Tales”
Ceyda
Kaçar
- Ege University - “Fairy Tales as a Temptation”
Chair: Yiğit Sümer (AMER I)
Discussions
15.45 - 16.45 Panel: Reinterpretation of
Fairy Tales (C Block Auditorium)
Ecem
Duygu Mimoglu - Bilkent Laboratory & International
School -
“Disney
Fairy Tales”
Taylan
Paksoy
- Ege University - “A
Saga of American Modernity: HBO TV Series Carnivàle and the Phantasm within It”
Hakan
Serkan Demir - Celal Bayar University - “Rewriting and Transforming a Fairytale: Three
different versions of Sandman”
Chair: Ahmet Can
Vargün (ELIT IV)
16.45 – 17.45 Panel: Thought-Provoking Views
Leyla
Akay - Bilkent Laboratory & International
School – “Brains Bones and Bread: The Neuroscience of Fairy Tales”
Ardacan
Özdemir - Doğuş University – “The Fairy As The
Giver of Order: A Comparative Review Of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab”
Selen
Ercan - Bilkent Laboratory & International
School – “The Grotesque in Literature - Beauty
and the Beast to The Frog Prince”
Chair: Dilara
Bozkurt (ELIT IV)
Discussions
17.45– 18.00 Coffee Break
18.00– 19.00 Panel: Fairy Tales Regarding East and
Middle East (C Block Auditorium)
Yeliz Turan Yunusoğlu - Middle
East Technical University - “The Story of Princess Budur Staying in the
Shadow of The Tale of Qamar al-Zaman”
Enver Yunusoğlu - Middle
East Technical University - “Shahmaran: the Queen of Serpents Terminating the
Hegemonic Male Dominance”
Tarık Ziyad Gülcü - Ankara University - “Western Colonial Outlook on India: Rudyard Kipling’s The Potted Princess as a Fairy Tale”
Chair: İpek Çakaloz (ELIT IV)
Certificate Ceremony
