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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 Philip 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 06 Schedule Overview & Teams/Zoom Links 08 Keynote Speaker Bios 12 Musician Bios 17 Organising Committee 18 Panel Abstracts Day 2 - January 14 Session 1 22 Session 2 34 Session 3 46 Session 4 60 Day 3 - January 15 Session 1 74 Session 2 88 Session 3 102 Session 4 119 Presenter Bios 134 Acknowledgements 177 For continuing updates, visit our conference website: https://tinyurl.com/PandemicImaginaries Conference Schedule Turkish Day 1 - January 13 Time Introductory Remarks by Conference Organizing Committee and 16:30- 17:30 Cappadocia University Representatives 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 (60min) & Concert (19:45-20:15) 19:30- Natali Boghossian, mezzo-soprano 20:30 Hans van Beelen, piano Keynote Address 2 20:30- Kim Stanley Robinson 22:00 Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor 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 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) 2 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. 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