Opening Speech

Simla Ayşe Doğangün & Aslı Telseren Ömeroğlu

Session 4

Chair : Simla Ayşe Doğangün
- Hendrik Bullens (Forgotten, Ignored, Denied: The Evolution-, (Pre-)History- and Culture-Nexus in Human Mobility and Forced Mass Migratio)

- Pieter Verstraete (Being Permanently Temporary: Affect and Archiving Exiled Lives on the Stage)

- Jülide Karakoç & Duygu Ersoy (Reflections on the Possibility of Voluntary Repatriation)

Session 5

Chair : Umut Eldem
- Itır Toksöz (Environmentalism Through Science Fiction)

- Sina Güneş (6th Mass Extinction: Human vs. Nature)

Session 1

Chair : Nazlı Beril Özer Tekin
- Sejal Yadav (Understanding the ‘Alternative’ in Contemporary Spaces and Institutions of Performances and Culture in Urban India)

- Rui Oliveira Lopes (Appropriate curatorship and the culture of cultural inclusion)

Session 2

Chair : Eva Bernard
- Simla Ayşe Doğangün (Critical Geopoetics and Modernity in Heart of Darkness and Season of Migration to the North)
- Dicle Koylan (Conceptualizing the City as a Desiring Machine)
- Ayşe Duygu Yavuz (Women’s Existence Through Representations of Space in Works of Adalet Ağaoğlu and Michael Cunningham)

Session 3

Chair : Gülay Gülpınar Özoran
- Dimitra Laurence Larochelle (Transnational soap operas as an opportunity for intercultural communication: the reception of Turkish soap-operas by Greeks)

- Muhammad Ali (Darkness Inside Out: Studying the Smoggy On-screen Look of Pakistani Television Series Akhri Station)

- Aslı Telseren Ömeroğlu (Reading True Crime Stories through Intersectionality: Example of The People v. O.J. Simpson American Crime Story)