22nd METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE: ZADIE SMITH AND HER WORK
PROGRAMME
26 MARCH 2015, THURSDAY (MORNING)
09:30-10:00 REGISTRATION- CULTURE AND CONVENTION CENTRE (KKM)
10:00-10:20 OPENING REMARKS (ROOM D)
Prof. Dr. Gölge Seferoğlu, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurten Birlik, Head of the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East
Technical University
10:20-11:20 KEYNOTE SPEECH (ROOM D)
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Philip Tew, Brunel University London, UK
“Fifteen Years Old: Retrospection, Belatedness & Nostalgia in Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000)”
11:20-11:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:40-12:40 SESSION ONE
ROOM D
ROOM C
Chair:
Chair:
Trevor Hope, Yaşar University, Turkey
“Whodunnit, Innit? NW and the Guilt of Plot”
Gönül Bakay, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
“Challenges of Cosmopolitanism: Zadie Smith’s
NW as a Contemporary Urban Epic”
Jeffrey Hibbert, Yaşar University, Turkey
“Zadie Smith Reading David Foster Wallace:
The Postmodern Ethics of Centrifugal Narrative”
Beatriz Pérez Zapata, University of Zaragoza,
Spain
“Going nowhere, going home: place, origins and
memory in NW”
12:40-14:00 LUNCH
26 MARCH 2015, THURSDAY (AFTERNOON)
14:00-15:20 SESSION TWO
ROOM D
ROOM C
Chair:
Chair:
Michael Perfect, Bilkent University, Turkey
“‘Let us stick to what we are obviously here for’:
Infidelity and Identity in Zadie Smith’s Fiction”
Ladan Amir Safaei, Atılım University, Turkey
“Psychosocial Identity Development in Zadie
Smith’s White Teeth”
Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu, Çankaya University,
Turkey
“The Fusion of Verbal, Musical and Visual Artistic
Domains in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty”
Gülrenk H. Oral, Essen Duisburg University,
Germany
“Can We Really Escape the Past? : Identity Quest
and Cultural Memory in Zadie Smith’s Novel
White Teeth”
Gillian M. E. Alban, Istanbul Aydın University,
Turkey
“The Subalterns Speak back in Zadie Smith’s
White Teeth and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane”
Tuba Korkmaz, METU, Turkey
“Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: A multiple Play on
the Concept of History”
15:20-15:40 COFFEE BREAK
15:40-16:40 SESSION THREE
ROOM D
ROOM C
Chair:
Chair:
Emel Taştekin, Yaşar University, Turkey
“That ‘extra shoe:’ Jewishness and reactive
religious identities in Zadie Smith’s novels”
Mine Krause, University of Bayreuth, Germany
“From ‘In-Between-Identities’ to ‘Global Souls’ in
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Elif Şafak’s The
Bastard of Istanbul”
Steven Barfield, University of Human
Development, Iraq
“‘Defending his liberal humanism against
fundamentalists of the right and the left’:
Exploring Zadie Smith’s Literary Criticism and
Journalism”
Santosh Pundalik Rajguru, L. B. P. M. College,
India
“Quest for Identity in Zadie Smith and Andrea
Levy’s Novels: An Analysis”
17:00 WINE AND CHEESE PARTY (SOSYAL BİNA)
27 MARCH 2015, FRIDAY (MORNING)
10:00-11:00 SESSION ONE
ROOM B
Chair:
Başak Güntekin, Editor for World Literature, Everest Publications
“Zadie Smith is Changing her Mind/ Zadie Smith Bugün Farklı Düşünüyor”
Tuncay Tezcan, Hacettepe University, Turkey
“Descriptive Translation Analysis: From White Teeth to İnci gibi Dişler”
11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20-12:00 SESSION TWO
ROOM B
ROOM G (2nd FLOOR)
Chair:
Merve Kansız, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
“Popular Culture as ‘Simulacrum’ in Zadie
Smith’s The Autograph Man”
Chair:
Sadenur Doğan, METU, Turkey
“History as the Great Identity Marker for Samad
Iqbal in White Teeth”
Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu, Hacettepe University,
Turkey
“The Posthuman Predicament in Zadie Smith’s
White Teeth”
Fahimeh Q. Berenji, METU, Turkey
“Multiculturalism and Polyphony in
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”
12:15-12:45
(ROOM B)
CLOSING REMARKS AND THE RESULTS OF VOTING FOR THE TOPIC OF NEXT YEAR’S CONFERENCE