NOVEMBER 4, 2009 1 8.00-8.30 Registration 9.00-10.00 OPENING CEREMONY – Welcome Remarks

10.00-11.00 Plenary: ASPENDOS VI Scott Slovic: Materiality and Commitment in a Global Age Serenella Iovino: The Human Alien: A Reflection on the Future of Ecocriticism Chair: Simon C. Estok 11.00-11.20 Discussion 11.20-11.40 COFFEE BREAK  11.40-12.40 Plenary: ASPENDOS VI Elizabeth Schultz: Humanizing Moby Dick: An Argument for Anthropomorphizing Baisheng Zhao: From Ecocritics to Ecoculturists: Thoughts on New Enlightenment Movement Chair: Greg Garrard 12.40-13.00 Discussion 13.00-14.00 LUNCH  14.00-15.00 Plenary: ASPENDOS VI Simon C. Estok: Rationalizing Presentist Ecocritical Theory: Praxis Matters Axel Goodbody: Nomads, Rhizomes and Vagabonds: Theoretical and Poetic Models of Ecological Inhabitation for a Globalised World Chair: Greta Gaard 15.00-15.20 Discussion 15.20-15.40 COFFEE BREAK  ASPENDOS VI ASPENDOS II ASPENDOS III ASPENDOS IV ASPENDOS V 15.40-17.40 Narratives of Ecodisasters and Apocalypse Ecospirituality: Myths and Legends Ecopoetics: Eastern/Western Views Postcolonial Reflections Theater in Ecocriticism

Patricia Merivale: The Environmental Deniz Ilgaz: The Worship of Trees; Huriye Reis: “I pull the parapet’s poppy/ Adamu Pangmeshi: Nature in Gholamreza Sami: The March of Industrial Consequences of the Apocalypse Spiritual Significance of Nature To stick behind my ear”: Nature in the Partnership with the Wretched of the Machinery on American Landscape: A Study Poetry of World War I Earth in J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of of Maxwell Anderson’s play, High Tor Raniero Speelman: Primo Levi’s Ecocritical Zafer Parlak: Perception of Nature in the Country, and Doris Lessing’s The (1937) Stance Anatolia Mystic Poetry: Folksongs and Mithilesh K. Pandey: Environmental Grass is Singing. Tales Imagination: The Poetry of Wordsworth Gözde Pembe Erdoğan: “Hunger and Nurten Birlik: The Stone Gods: and Kazuyosi Ikeda. Şenay Kara: Discussing (discourses of) Lead:” An Ecocritical Reading of Robert Environmental Apocalypse Volkan Kılıç: A Mystic Sound: Ney in Exploitation and Environmental Ethics Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle Turkish Culture and Literature Chen Guangchen: Suspension of Time at the Intersection of Postcolonial and Grant Jennings: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Transcendence of the Ego:Wang Ecocritical Perspectives. Sezgin Toska: An Analysis of Nature as an of the Zombie Movie Genre, Ecophobia, and Reza Yavarian: Ecocritical Readings of Wei’s Ecopoetics Actant in The Emperor Jones Modern Fears of Environmental Disaster Rumi Önder Çetin: Self-revelation and Gülşah Dindar: The Garip (Strange) Claiming Post-colonial Identity through Elis Yıldırım: Nature’s Response to Harmful Movement: A Poetic Return to Nature in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Human Activities: Calvino And Buzzati’s “Naturality” or “Nature” itself? Children. Views on the Environment Fatma Kalpaklı: The Relationship Between Nature and Human Psyche: Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner.

Chair: Ken Noda Chair: Elizabeth Schultz Chair: Peter I-Min Huang Chair: Cheng Xiangzhan Chair: Nur G. Akkerman

21:00 CULTURAL NIGHT NOVEMBER 5, 2009

09.00-10.00 Plenary: ASPENDOS VI Greta Gaard: Global Warming Narratives: An Ecofeminist Perspective Greg Garrard: How Queer Is Green? 10.00-10.20 Chair: Axel Goodbody Discussion 10.20-10.40 COFFEE BREAK  10.40-12.00 PANEL: ASPENDOS VI TURKISH NATURE WRITERS Tarık Günersel: Naturally Gizem Altın Nance: Porcupine Dreams: A Collaboration of Art and Literature Deniz Postacı: We Cannot Write upon Nature without Reading Nature… H.Çağlar İnce: Lost Tales Chair: Serpil Oppermann 12.00-12.20 Discussion 12.20-13.20 LUNCH  13.20-14.20 Plenary: ASPENDOS VI Linda Hogan: Brave Old World: Indigenous Knowledge Chair: Elizabeth Schultz 14.20-14.40 Discussion ASPENDOS VI ASPENDOS II ASPENDOS III ASPENDOS IV ASPENDOS V 14.40-16.40 Music, Dance, Film and Eco –Aesthetics Ecopoetry Postcolonial Ecocriticism Environmental Justice, History and Ecocritical Readings Ethics Cheng Xiangzhan: The Core Issues of Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan: Perceptions of David H. Evans: Race and Nature in Iris Shu-O Huang : Where Deep Ecoaesthetics and its Theoretical Development Nature in Modern Turkish Poetry Tony Morrison Mei Zhu: Environmental Injustice in Ecology and Post- in China Don DeLillo’s Poetics: The Case of Structuralism Meet: The Indre Zakeviciene: The Potentiality of Şebnem Toplu: Self, Community, and Underworld Ecological Poetics of Ute Ritschell: Poetic Installations- Artworks Ecopsychology: The Parallels of Nature: Jacob Ross’s Pynter Bender Azad Hamad Sharif and Ishmael Faulkner’s The Bear in Nature and Forest Lithuanian and English Poetry Mohammed Fahmi Saeed: The Ömürbek Karayev : An Ecological Mirfatih Zakiev: Ethnoecology is One Ecological Crisis and the Risk-Oriented Approach to the Works of Cengiz Bilge Mutluay: Singing for Clear Waters:Pete B. Ayça Ülker: An Ecofeminist of the Branches of Postmodern Ecology World in Two Literary Works Aytmatov Seeger’s Hudson River Project Approach to Adrienne Rich’s Poem Antonio Fabris: The Italian Presence in Pelin Kümbet: Foreshadowing the “Diving into the Wreck” Sinan Akıllı: An Early Ecocritic?: Henry the Eastern Mediterranean: The Catastrophe: Ecocritical Reading of Joan Stone: Swans and Eagles: An Ecocritical Rider Haggard Historical Background D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Reading of Bird Dances Selçuk Eryatmaz: Nature Reflected in Diego Santaliana: The Development of Chatterley’s Lover William Wordsworth’s and Walter Jacqueline Jondot: Damn the high dam! the Land through Private Public Anna Vitucci: Italo Calvino’s La Li Hsiao Ching: Nature Oriented Films of Scott’s Poetry Jamal Mahjoub Partnerships strada di San Giovanni, Autobiography Germany : A Comparative Study of the 3th Pasquale Ventrice: Widespread Eco- and Ethic-Environmental Conscience Green Screen and the 8th NaturVision museum within the Perspective of Merve Sarı: Ecocriticism in Fantasy: International Nature Film Festivals Sustainable Development Charles De Linth’s The Wild Wood and Environmental Concerns

Chair: Serenella Iovino Chair: Tarık Günersel Chair: Carmen Flys- Junquera Chair: Nevin Özkan Chair: John VanderLippe

16.40-17.00 COFFEE BREAK  17.00-18.30 PANEL: ASPENDOS VI OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Sancar Ozaner, Outdoor Ecology-Based Environmental Training in Turkey or Understanding the Synthesis of Nature: Popularization of Science Yaşar Ergün, Narrating Amanos Nature School Şükran Yalçın Özdilek, Nature Education in Nature Gülşen Bağcı Kılıç, Nature Education in Turkey Chair: Ufuk Özdağ 20.00 ANTALYA CITY TOUR 1 NOVEMBER 6, 2009

ASPENDOS VI ASPENDOS II ASPENDOS III ASPENDOS IV ASPENDOS V

08.00-10.00 Cultural Ecology Children’s Literature and Environmental Environmental Traditions in Western Native American/First Nations Ecolinguistics, ecotranslation, and Rights Literary Texts Environmental Literatures and environmental politics Christina Caupert and Timo Müller: The Nature Writing Ecological Function of Imaginative Texts: Anthony Pavlik: Children’s Literature and Robert Steinke: “Nature Is the Second Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu: Environmental Theory and Practice the Ecocritics God”: The Human Claim to Mastery over Jeffrey Howlett: The Indian as Figure Sensitivity vs. Anthropocentrism in the Ayfer Gürdal Ünal: An Ecocritical Analysis Nature and its Negation in Medieval Head in North American Nature Discursive Practices of Political Figures at Erik Redling: “Portraits of Things”: of a Children’s Picture Book: The Walking German Literature Writing 2009 Local Elections in Turkey: An Eco- Cultural Ecology and Gertrude Stein’s Plane-Tree N. Sibel Güzel: Nature in Ann Nevio Cristante: Sacred Ecology: critical Discourse Analysis Modernist Experiments in Tender Buttons Pelin Taşkın: Environmental Rights of Radcliffe’s Gothic Novels: The Hidden The Life Breeding Significance in Aymil Doğan: EcoInterpreting in the Children and a General Evaluation of Talent Under the Veil of Gathic Politics Culture and Spirit of Native Making of Ecocriticism: Focus on Funda Civelekoğlu: Ancient Greek Tragedy Environmental Education in Turkish Jennifer Hamilton: Ecological Sacredness in Nature Awareness Raising and the Ecology of Culture Educational System Structures: The Work of the Storm in Nancy Honicker: Their Proper Carmen Valero Garces: Ecotranslation Jovanka Denkova: Ecological Humanitarian The Tempest Element: An American Genealogy of and/or Images of Translated Literary Michael Sauter: Harbingers of Globalization Thought in Macedonian Literature for Gül Kurtuluş: A New Approach to Sir Nature Writing Landscape in Suburbia: Philip Roth’s American Pastoral Children and the Young. Philip Sidney’s Sonnet Sequence, Christian Hummelsund Voie: Four Uwe Küchler: Linking Foreign Language Esra Yardımcı and Gülşen Bağcı Kılıç: Astrophil and Stella: Imagery, Symbols Landscapes of Contemporary Nature Education and the Environment: How did Nature-Based Education at a Camp and Themes in Accordance with Writing Intercultural Communicative Competernce Affect Children’s Conceptions of Human- Ecology, Love and Relationships Gül Varlı: Engendering Nature from and Environmental Literacy Nature Interaction? a Feminine Point of View

Chair: Axel Goodbody Chair: Greta Gaard Chair: Huriye Reis Chair: David H. Evans Chair: Clare Brandabur

10.00-10.20 COFFEE BREAK  Animals in Literature Ecocritical Approaches to Turkish 10.20-11.40 The Notion of Place: Lakes, Rivers and Literary/Scientific Responses to Climate Reading Linda Hogan Culture Farms Change Jak Den Exter: Turks and Birds Pınar Batur: The Sea Connects it all: John VanderLippe, The Statis Environment: Clare Brandabur: Climate change in Byron Peter I-Min Huang: Ecopoetics: Ethics Yaman Koray’s Deep Ecology and Turkish Atatürk Orman Çiftliği and the Kemalist and Mary Shelley of Body, Cyborg Writing, and Excess Evren Yiğit Devrimci: An Environmental Thought Modernisation Project Ecocritical Approach to 19th Century Günil Ayaydın Cebe: Yaşar Kemal’s Merih Aydınalp and İzzet Arı: Mitigatıon Carmen Flys Junquera: (Un)mapping Travel Narratives of Istanbul: The Memed, My Hawk and Latife Tekin’s James Bishop: “I Couldn’t Find My Plant”: of Co2 Emıssıon From Electrıcıty Generatıon (Ir)rational Geographies: Linda Hogan’s Animals of the City Muinar Bioregional Pedagogy in the Composition By Usıng Renewable Energy Sources Communicative Places Kıymet Giray: İstanbul in the Pictorial Classroom Blossom N. Fondo: “The Hunter Memory Kevser Pişkin: The Beauty and the Beast Hunted”: The Case against Animal Mustafa Özcan: Fisherman of Liu Quinghan, Ecological Literature Destruction in Richard Connell’s The Halicarnassus Research Focusing on both sides of Yangtze Dimitra Papazoglou: Limitations of Human Most Dangerous Game River Nature: Jan Mc Ewan and the Preservation of the Environment Eldor M.Usmonov, Modeling of Ecological Policy of the States of Central Asia. Respondent: Linda Hogan Chair: Raniero Speelman Chair: Gizem Altın Nance Chair: Patricia Merivale Chair: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu

11.40-12.00 COFFEE BREAK  12.00-13.00 PANEL: ASPENDOS VI Serpil Oppermann: The Future of Ecocriticism: The Third Wave Nevin Özkan: Doruk’s Plight: Human/ Nonhuman Relations in Abbas Sayar’s Yılkı Atı Ufuk Özdağ: Theorizing Ecological Art Criticism: Melchior d’Hondecoeter’s “The Contemplative Magpie” Chair: Scott Slovic CLOSURE

14.00 FIELD TRIP 20.00 GALA DINNER – TURGUT ALBAYRAK HALL