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Living in the End Times Programme Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture 13-15 January 2021 A Virtual Conference Hosted by Cappadocia University, Turkey Keynote Speakers: Maggie Gee, Larissa Lai, Elizabeth Outka, Kim Stanley Robinson, Raffaella Baccolini, Laurence Davis, Patricia McManus, Tom Moylan, Darko Suvin, and Phillip E. Wegner Organising Committee: Heather Alberro (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Emrah Atasoy (Cappadocia University, Turkey) Nora Castle (University of Warwick, UK) Rhiannon Firth (University of Essex, UK) Martin Greenwood (University of Manchester, UK) Robert Horsfield (Birmingham, UK) Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) Pelin Kıvrak (Harvard University, USA) Conrad Scott (University of Alberta, Canada) Bridget Vincent (University of Nottingham, UK) Contents Conference Schedule 01 Time Zone Cheat Sheets 07 Schedule Overview & Teams/Zoom Links 09 Keynote Speaker Bios 13 Musician Bios 18 Organising Committee 19 Panel Abstracts Day 2 - January 14 Session 1 23 Session 2 35 Session 3 47 Session 4 61 Day 3 - January 15 Session 1 75 Session 2 89 Session 3 103 Session 4 119 Presenter Bios 134 Acknowledgements 176 For continuing updates, visit our conference website: https://tinyurl.com/PandemicImaginaries Conference Schedule Turkish Day 1 - January 13 Time Opening Ceremony 16:00- Welcoming Remarks by Cappadocia University and 17:30 Conference Organizing Committee 17:30- Coffee Break (30 min) 18:00 Keynote Address 1 ‘End Times, New Visions: 18:00- The Literary Aftermath of the Influenza Pandemic’ 19:30 Elizabeth Outka Chair: Sinan Akıllı Meal Break (60 min) & Concert (19:45-20:15) 19:30- Natali Boghossian, mezzo-soprano 20:30 Hans van Beelen, piano Keynote Address 2 20:30- 22:00 Kim Stanley Robinson Chair: Tom Moylan Follow us on Twitter @PImaginaries, and don’t forget to use our conference hashtag #PandemicImaginaries. You can also join the conversation on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/ngjz9VkfDG 1 Opening Ceremony Master of Ceremonies: Nora Castle (University of Warwick, UK) Welcoming Remarks by Cappadocia University 16:00-16:20 Alev Alatlı Chairperson of the Board of Trustees 16:20-16:30 Hasan Ali Karasar Rector 16:30-16:40 Serpil Oppermann Director of Environmental Humanities Center 16:40-16:45 Sinan Akıllı Head of English Language and Literature Department Welcoming Remarks by Organizing Committee 16:45-17:30 Emrah Atasoy, Cappadocia University, Turkey Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University, UK Nora Castle, University of Warwick, UK Rhiannon Firth, University of Essex, UK Martin Greenwood, University of Manchester, UK Robert Horsfield, Birmingham, UK Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun, Boğaziçi University, Turkey Pelin Kıvrak, Harvard University, USA Conrad Scott, University of Alberta, Canada Bridget Vincent, University of Nottingham, UK 2 Turkish Time Day 2 - January 14 Dystopias: Theory & Post-apocalyptic Apocalyptic Fiction Posthumanism I Plague & Pandemic Anthropocene, Fiction Imaginings Fiction I Capitalocene Chair: Gregory Claeys Chair: Bryan Radley Chair: Dunja M.Mohr Chair: Heather Alberro Chair: Burcu Kayışcı Chair: Fatma Aykanat Annika Gonnermann Ayşe Çelikkol Chun-Yu Lu Sezgi Öztop Haner Akkoyun Öznur Karakaş Session 1 Heike Sieger Mehmet Zeki Giritli Frances di Lauro Seçil Erkoç Andrew Milner Gregory Marks 12:00-13:20 Diego Carretero Sotirios Cenk Tan Züleyha Çetiner Öktem Elzem Nazli Brianna Bullen Román Bampatzimopoulos Khawla Bendjemil Niğmet Çetiner Sümeyye Güllü Aslan Koray Kırmızısakal Lucia Opreanu Hannah A. Barton Debarati Choudhury 13:20-13:40 Coffee Break (20 min) Creating with Polluted Mediations: Language Zombies I Pandemics: Historical Daniel Defoe and Body Politics During Seas: Toxic Wellbeing, & Technology Perspectives Pandemic Fiction End Times Terrible Beauty, and New Water Literacies Session 2 Chair: Clifton Evers Chair: Wladyslaw Chair: Krzysztof M. Chair: Thomas Kelly Chair: Zsolt Czigányik Chair: Simon Spiegel 13:40-15:00 Clifton Evers Witalisz Maj Işıl Şahin Gülter Gönül Bakay Onur Karaköse Luz Mar González- Murtaza Mohiqi Krzysztof M. Maj Anamta Rizvi Seda Arıkan Demet Karabulut Dede Arias Roberto Favalli Ildikó Limpár Mukuta Borah Gökben Güçlü Anna Campbell Shé Mackenzie Hawke Oleksandr Okhrimenko Seda Pekşen Pawel Kaptur Freya Lowden Özlem Gülen 15:00-16:00 Meal Break (60 min) 3 ROUNDTABLE: Plague and Pand. Health & Viral Margaret Adaptation in End Apocalyptic and Ethics & Politics Whither hope? Fict. II Happenings I Atwood I Times Post-apocalyptic Teaching Fiction utopia(nism) through the pandemic crisis Chair: Burçin Erol Chair: Nurten Birlik Chair: Jill Belli Chair: Gülşen Sayın Chair: Özden Chair: Anita Session 3 Kalina Maleska Çağdaş Ö. Duman Kristín María Burcu Kayışcı Sözalan DeMelo 16:00-17:20 Siân Adiseshiah Zsolt Czigányik Heather McKnight Kristinsdóttir Akkoyun Yıldıray Çevik Alice Breemen Dan Byrne-Smith Alyaa Dawood Al- Mirna Radin- Valentina Adami Denise Blunn Gözde Ersoy Anita DeMelo Caroline Edwards Lami Sabadoš Lidia María Thomas Kelly Murat Kabak Olea Morris Adam Stock Ercan Gürova Başak Ergil Cuadrado Payeras Andrea Burgos William Coker Katarzyna Ginszt Darren Webb Ikram Lecheheb Mascarell and Soumaya Bouacida 17:20-17:40 Coffee Break (20 min) Climate Change & The Fantastic Film & Media I Margaret Atwood II Health & Viral Gender & Fiction Happenings II Sexualities I Chair: Meliz Ergin Chair: Peter Sands Chair: Artur Blaim Chair: Thomas Horan Chair: Özlem Öğüt Chair: Işıl Baş Session 4 Claire Curtis Tim Murphy Steven Shaviro Mabiana Camargo Yazıcıoğlu Ariel Kroon 17:40-19:00 Marek Oziewicz Sarah Lohmann Annette Magid Eduardo Marks de Mono Brown Greg Campbell Trevor Jackson Sara González Gregory J. McClure Marques Patrick Mahoney Steven Holmes Sotirios Triantafyllos Bernárdez and Lynda Haas Gillian M. E. Alban Amy LeBlanc Muzaffer Derya Simon Spiegel Dilara Parslow George Sieg Nazlıpınar Subaşı 19:00-20:00 Meal Break (60 min) Keynote Address ‘End Times or Living Presents? Writing in the Face of Pandemic’ 20:00-21:30 Larissa Lai & Maggie Gee Chair: Mine Özyurt Kılıç 4 Turkish Time Day 3 - January 15 Critical Ecologies Shifting Boundaries Theatre During End Philosophy & Theology Posthumanism II Urban Design & and Borders Times Futures Chair: Hülya Yağcıoğlu Chair: Andrew Milner Chair: Aslı Tekinay Chair: Heather Chair: Cenk Tan Chair: Tim Waterman Berrin Demir Giulia Champion Tuğba Aygan McKnight Shraddha A. Singh Jenna Mikus, Kavita Session 1 Murathan Kaya David Gray Amjad AlShalan Ilaria Biano Nafisa Oliveira Gonsalves, & Hira 12:00-13:20 Kübra Baysal Jari Käkelä Belgin Bağırlar Alastair Lockhart Şebnem Düzgün Sheikh Hülya Yağcıoğlu Hope Caitlyn Roulstone Angela Patricia Heredia Alan Marshall Ken Fallas Louise Jammet 13:20-13:40 Coffee Break (20 min) Entanglements of Utopias & Dystopias Film & Media II Theory & Politics Horror & Body Horror Hope & (Post)Apoc. Contagion Beginnings Chair: Şafak Horzum Chair: Zeynep Atayurt Chair: Gillian M. E. Chair: Rhiannon Firth Chair:Drew Thornton Chair: Emrah Atasoy Zümre Gizem Yılmaz Fenge Alban Laura Denning Drew Thornton Katrin Schmitt Session 2 Karahan Anindita Shome Jana Fedtke Erick Morataya Srijanee Adhikari Dunja M. Mohr 13:40-15:00 Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu Svjetlana Sumpor Rituparna Das Martin Greenwood Daniel Kong Anton Nikolotov Başak Ağın & Şafak Alexander Popov Ujjwal Khobra & Shadia Abdel-Rahman Mónica Martín Horzum Rashmi Gaur Téllez Karthika V. K. 15:00-16:00 Meal Break (60 min) 5 Theorizing End Pandemic Film & Media III Poetics of Gender & Film & Media IV Zombies II Times Psychologies & Apocalypse (Poetry, Sexualities II Subjectivities Music, and Mixed Media) Chair: Rita Chair: Bridget Chair: Giulia Chair: Hande Seber Chair: Elizabeth Chair: Matt Hudson Chair: Ildikó Limpár Session 3 Monticelli Vincent Champion Sabina Fazli Russell Ceren Kuşdemir Lars Schmeink 16:00-17:20 Vera Benczik Elham Fatma and Stavroula Anastasia Olusegun Stephen Michael Pitts Özbilek Ewa Drab Rhiannon Firth & Rashmi Gaur Katsorchi Titus Álvaro Arango Fulya Kıncal Olgahan Bakşi Erica Lagalisse Anna Bugajska Eleni Tsatsaroni Dani Shalet Vallejo Bahar Memiş Yalçın Maria Anna Djamila Houamdi Débora Madrid Julia Sattler Almudena Neet Neilson Bertolino Liam Knight Thais Lassali Machado-Jiménez Manuel Santana Chiara Xausa Hernández 17:20-17:40 Coffee Break (20 min) Post-colonial Futures Capitalism & Apocalypse & Post- Plague & Pandemic Anthropocene: In & Dystopias II Biopolitics apocalypse Fiction III Beyond 'End Times' Chair: Tim Murphy Chair: Nicole Pohl Chair: Claire Curtis Chair: Conrad Scott Chair: Nora Castle Chair: Etta Madden Session 4 Margaret Anne Smith Ben DeVries Amanda Pavani Conrad Scott Marina Pereira Benjamin Burt 17:40-19:00 Anita Girvan Jason Livingston Jill Belli Peter Sands Tiff Graham Ata Mohamed Tabriz Leah Van Dyk Jason Goldfarb Wendy Roy Emrah Atasoy & Lydia Nixon Jayde Martin & Allison Mackey and Irena Jurković Roberto Olavarría Thomas Horan Joey Song Benjamin Horn Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu Choin Cassandra Bausman Tânia Cerqueira 19:00-20:00 Meal Break (60 min) Keynote Address 20:00-21:45 ROUNDTABLE Raffaella Baccolini, Laurence Davis, Patricia McManus, Tom Moylan, Darko Suvin, and Phillip E. Wegner 21:45-22:15 Closing Remarks by Conference Organizing Committee 6 Time Zone Cheat Sheet I DAY 1 – JANUARY 13 Time Zone & Introductory Keynote 1 Concert Keynote 2 Reference Point
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