PROGRAM

10:00

WELCOMING REMARKS

10:15

MIKKEL BOLT RASMUSSEN

Keynote: Post-Fascism, or, the Cultural
Politics of Crisis-Ridden Capitalism

10:45

DISCUSSION

11:00

BREAK

SECTION 1: MANY FACADES OF UNREST

11:20

RAMAZAN FİDAN

A Problem Concerning Ideology

11:35

YAKUP ATAMER AYKAÇ

Eco-Resistance: An Ecological Movement Between Dichotomies

11:50

BERFİN ÇİÇEK

Fitting the Nation: Dispositions of the Self in "Dancing Arabs"

12:05

DISCUSSION

12:20

LUNCH BREAK

SECTION 2: TECHNO-UNRESTS

13:40

ÖYKÜ SOFUOGLU

"Is This the Real Life, Is This Just Fantasy?"
Virtual Reality Meets Cinema

13:55

İLYAS DENİZ ÇINAR

Close Reading the Robots: How the Progenitor of
"Robot Fiction" Negotiates the Human Form

14:10

MİNE HAZAL SENOL

AI: A New Form of "Other" and Arising Legal Issues

14:25

DISCUSSION

14:40

BREAK

SECTION 3: THE CRISIS OF THE OTHER

15:00

ALMİNA KARYA ODABASI

The Limbo: Costs of Othering

15:15

A. BERKEM YANIKCAN

"Who Is at the Door?" Defining Borders and the Abject Side of Transculturalism in David Greig's "Europe"

15:30

DISCUSSION

15:40

BREAK

SECTION 4: ANXIOUS POLITICS

16:00

CAN HALDENBİLEN

Deconstructing the Concept of Populism

16:15

TUGÇE KIRMACI

Reflection of Political Tensions on Everyday Aesthetics

16:30

DISCUSSION

16:40

CONCLUDING REMARKS