The “Gender and Literature Seminars Fall 2024 Program” organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) is beginning.
The relationship between gender and literature will be discussed in depth in the seminars to be held every Saturday for 6 weeks between October 26 and November 30, 2024, at Karaköy Minerva Han.
In the seminars to be given by academics from Sabancı University and various institutions, important works of the literary world will be examined from a gender perspective, and discussions will be held on various topics such as the development of feminist literary criticism, how gender is treated in literary texts, the shaping of literature with gender and its re-evaluation from a feminist perspective, and gender in works from world and Turkish literature.
Gender and Literature Seminars Fall Program:
Week 1 Saturday, October 26, 2024
Sibel Irzık, Sabancı University
“Reading Gender: Feminist Literary Criticism and After”
Week 2 Saturday, November 02, 2024
Reyhan Tutumlu, Sabancı University
“Women Excluded from the Canon in Ottoman/Turkish Novels and the Example of Behice Ziya”
Week 3 Saturday, November 09, 2024
Damla Çakmak, Sabancı University
“An Ecogothic Examination of the Female Body in Han Kang’s Vegetarian”
Week 4 Saturday, November 16, 2024
Cansu Kutlualp,
“Bartleby and the Queer Disease (Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener)”
Week 5 Saturday, November 23, 2024
Başak Demirhan, Boğaziçi University
“The Novel of Feminist Formation, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar; Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults, Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends”
Week 6 Saturday, November 30, 2024
Ayten Sönmez, Sabancı University
“Women’s Poverty in the Works of Seray Şahiner”
Location: Sabancı University Minerva Palace, Bankalar Caddesi No: 2 Karaköy*
(*A limited number of people who cannot physically access the seminars will be provided with the opportunity to listen online and ask written questions.)
Time: 10:00 – 13:00
Important Information:
-The program is open to everyone and the quota is limited.
-Priority will be given to candidates who have participated in the Purple Certificate Program.
-Participation is subject to a fee.
-To participate in the program, you must fill out the online application form and pay the participation fee* after the confirmation email that will be sent to you.
-The bank account information for the participation fee will be specified in the confirmation email.
-At the end of the program, participants who have attended at least 4 sessions will be given a participation certificate.
Participation Fee: 4,000 TL (VAT Included)
Participation Fee for Students/ Teachers/ SU Members: 3,600 TL (VAT Included)
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 23, 2024