THE OYA BASAK

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

 

May 12, 2004 (WEDNESDAY)

 

9:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30-12:00 Opening Remarks

                         Dramatic Reading:

Talat Halman, Bilkent University and Yildiz Kenter, Actress

Shakespeare from John Bull to Istanbul

12:00-13:00 Plenary Session  (Chair: Suheyla Artemel, Yeditepe/Bogazici University)

 

John Drakakis, Stirling University

Shakespeare's Venetian Plays”

 

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30-16:00   Concurrent Sessions

 

                     A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: D. Doltas, Dogus U.

Chair: S. Irzik, Bogazici U. Chair: D. Akar, Bogazici U.  

Martin Quinn, Diplomat

“ ‘Troilus and Cressida’ Revisited”

 

Jeremi Szaniawski, Free University of Brussels (ULB)

“Could Shakespeare’s King Lear make for a Hollywood Blockbuster Movie?”

 

José L. Oncins-Martínez, University of Extremadura

“Observations on the manipulation of fixed expressions and idioms as a conversational strategy in Shakespeare’s plays.”

 

Nancy Milford, Hunter College CUNY

“Reinventing Shakespeare: Changes in the great Bard's Biographies”

Linda Bradley Salamon, George Washington University

“Performing Gender: The Clothing of Desire in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night”

Gillian Alban, Bogazici University

What makes Measure for Measure tragical-comical, compared to the tragedies Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth?”

Jale Parla, Bilgi University

The Marvel at the Center: Shakespeare's Conception of Man in Relation to his Conception of Historical Necessity

Robert Erle Barham, University of Louisiana at Monroe

Hermione’s Transformation in The Winter’s Tale: A triumph of Art or Nature?”

Gonul Bakay, Beykent University

“Portia and Cordelia:   Shakespeare’s Powerful Women  Subverting The Male Order”

 

 

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

 

 

16:30-18:00 Concurrent Sessions

 

                     A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: S. Bozkurt, Baskent U.

Chair: D. Ceylan, Bogazici U. Chair: L. Gulcur, Bogazici U.  

Duncan Chesney, Bilkent University

“Shakespeare’s American Inheritor :William Faulkner”

 

Didem Uslu & Arsev Arslanoglu, Dokuz Eylul University

“The three daughters of King Lear reborn: examples from Chekhov, Henley and Smiley”

Ozlem Ogut, Bogazici University

“Always on the Threshold: Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine in Postmodern Space and Time”

Todd Carmody, University of Pennsylvania

“Joyce, Shakespeare, and Last Rites”

 

 

Sabbar Sultan, Al Isra University

Deconstructing Shakespeare

Two Contemporary Examples: Stoppard’s  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) and Bond’s Lear (1971)”

David Porter, University of Massachusetts

The Drama of Consciousness:  A Feature of Shakespeare's Art Highlighted by America's First Modern Poets”

Ozlem Gorey, Bogazici University

“ ‘Maybe to you it looked like I just vanished, but I was out there’: Rewriting King Lear through the Daughters’ Eyes in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres”

 

Meryem Ayan, Celal Bayar University

Rewriting Shakespeare: Reshaping King Lear"

 

Carolyn Jess, Queen’s University, Northern Ireland “We Are Their Parents And Original’: Prequelization and the Role of the Child in Christine Edzard’s The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream”

 

 

19:30  Buffet Dinner

 

 

May 13, 2004 (THURSDAY)

 

9:30-10:00 Coffee

10:00-11:30 Plenary Session (Chair: Bulent Bozkurt, Bilkent University)

 

Ed Esche, Anglia Polytechnic University

“A Study of Character”

 

Suheyla Artemel, Yeditepe University and Bogazici University

“The Representation and Non-representation of  the Turks in the Plays of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

 

11:30-13:00 Concurrent Sessions

 

                     A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: Ö. Görey, Bogazici U.

Chair: Z. Ergun, Istanbul U. Chair: S. Antikacioglu, B. U.  

Saliha Paker, Bogazici University

Shakespeare in Turkish: Preface for a Translation History”

 

Ramon Lopez Ortega & J. L. Oncins Martinez, University of Extremadura

The Translation of Shakespeare into Spanish: Possibilities and Limitations”

Tapati Gupta, University of Calcutta

Into An-‘other’ Script

Shakespeare Translations in Postcolonial India (Eastern Region)

Sevgi Sanli, Playwright, Translator and Dramaturge

“Translating Shakespeare

Sergia Amigo & Luis Gayol, Argentina

The Sonnets in Spanish: The poetic word transmigrated”

Ayse Nur Demiralp, Yeditepe University

“ ‘Unnatural Englishmen’: Representation of Social Protest in Shakespearean Drama”

Ali H. Neyzi, Writer/Translator

Trials and tribulations of a translator”

Bogazici Performing Arts Ensemble/Theatre Bogazici

An Analysis And Stage Application Study On Hamlet”

Meg Russett, University of Southern California

“The Knocking at the Gate: Shakespeare, Skepticism, and Romantic Theatricality”

 

 

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

 

14:30-15:30       Plenary Session (Chair: Sumru Ozsoy, Bogazici University)

 

Ali Taygun, Theatre Director and Actor

Dramatic Reading

 

Adrian Brine, Theatre Director

“Shakespeare, The First Professional Playwright”

        

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00-17:30 Concurrent Sessions

 

                     A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: N. Milford, Hunter Col.

Chair: I. Almond, Bogazici U. Chair: G. Sayin Teker, Dogus U.  

Robert Machado, University of San Diego

Subplots and 'Insignificants': Desdemona in the Background of Othello"

 

 

Tom Band, Italia Conti School of Theatre Arts

“Look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth” French Cultural influence on British Theatre with specific reference to Michel St. Denis’s production of Macbeth in 1937.

Hande Seckin Tekdemir, University of Southern California

Cursing And Curving Language In A Tempest By Aime Cesaire

 

Asli Tekinay, Bogazici University

“ ‘Othello’ Rewritten: Paula Vogel’s ‘Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief’ ”

 

Feryal Cubukcu, Dokuz Eylul University

Macbeth's Concern with Text-Making

Seyhan Ozmenek, Bogazici University

“Representations of Caliban/Prospero Relationship in Four Screen Adaptations of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Iclal Cetin, State University of NewYork

Brecht’s Adaptation of Coriolanus: A Comparative Study of Acts 5.4 and 3.1”

 

Turgay Bayındır, Purdue University

Parody of Courtly Ideals and the Reassertion of Social Norms in Twelfth Night”

Clare Brandabur, Dogus University

“Postcolonial Readings of Shakespeare's The Tempest: various interpretations of Caliban, Ariel, Prospero, and Miranda”

 

18:00-19:00 Piano Recital by Stephen Porter

 

 

20:00 PERFORMANCE
Bogazici University Players
"Troilus and Cressida

 

 

May 14, 2004 (FRIDAY)

 

9:30-10:00 Coffee

10:00-11:30 Plenary Session (Chair: Cevza Sevgen, Bogazici University)

 

Gordon McMullan, King’s College London

The technique of it is mature: Inventing Shakespeare’s late plays in print and in      performance”

 

Aysegul Yuksel, Ankara University

 

“Lady Macbeth: Macbeth’s Binary Opposite”

 

11:30-13:00 Concurrent Sessions

 

                        A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: Ö. Ögüt, Bogazici U.

Chair: A. Tekinay, Bogazici U. Chair: A. Erbora, Istanbul U.  

Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester

“Two epitaphs: Milton's on Shakespeare and Shakespeare's on Stanley

 

Panayiota Mini, University of Crete

“Reflecting on the purpose of art and the artist’s role in a society:

Kozintsev’s Interpretation of Hamlet.”

Aysem Seval Demiriz, Istanbul Kultur University

“A Will of Its Own: The Body Image in Hamlet

Necla Cikigil, Middle Eastern Technical University

“Shakespeare’s Texts Translated into a Different Performance Medium: Shakespeare in Dance Language”

Gulsen Sayin Teker, Dogus University

“A Mad Woman in the Court:  Ophelia Revisited in Cinema”

Mimi Yiu, Cornell University

“Rearranging Getrude’s Closet

Scene: Architecture, Subjectivity

and Hamlet’s Transitional Spaces”

 

Himmet Umunc, Hacettepe University

“Where More Is Meant: The Hermeneutics of Re-Reading Shakespeare”

Yeeyon Im, King’s College London

“Peter Brook’s Intercultural Hamlet (2000)”

Eman Karmouty, Alexandria University

"Something is rotten in the state of …"

 

 

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

 

 

14:30-16:30  Sessions in Turkish (BTS)* (Chair: Isil Bas, Bogazici University)

 

Basar Sabuncu, Theatre Director

“An Indecent Approach to Shakespeare”

 

Isil Kasapoglu, Theatre Director

“Shakespeare as a Turkish Playwright”

 

Sevda Sener, Bilkent University

“Shakespeare’s Tricky World”

 

Merih Tangun, Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory

“The Influence of Language on Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

  

17:00-18:00 Concurrent Sessions

 

                       A                                                           B                                              C

Chair: K. Fortuny, Bogazici U.

Chair: M. Russett, USC. Chair: S. Ertugrul, Bogazici U.  

Esin Akalin, Istanbul Kultur University

(Re)Reading  Shakespeare Through The Stage Art Of John Philip Kemble And Edmund Kean In King Richard The Third

Ahmet Suner, University of Southern California

Words, Gifts, Binds and Nothing: The Unbalanced Economies of Shakespeare’ Timon of Athens

Hasibe Kalkan Kocabay, Istanbul University

“The Other Shylock”

 

 

Neslihan Ekmekcioglu, Hacettepe University

“‘Being Nothing’ : The Dual Aspect of The King’s Existence Leading to Existentialist Approaches in Three Different Productions of Richard II”

Nazmi Agil, Ege University

Much Ado About Nothing : Theater in the Service of Ideology”

 

Devrim Taylan Yildiran, Dokuz Eylül University

“Haunting  Shakespeare, Haunted by Shakespeare”

 

 

 

*Simultaneous Translation is available.

 

 

19:30 PERFORMANCE

Semaver Kumpanyasi; Director : İsil Kasapoglu

“Twelfth Night”