Women’s Literature from Ottoman Empire To Date

Özyeğin University Faculty of Arts & Sciences  and OzU Gender Research Network jointly organize a conference entitled “Women’s Literature from Ottoman Empire To Date” in celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8.

The conference will be held on the Özyeğin University Çekmeköy Campus, featuring prominent scholars and authors in women’s literature. Speeches by Fatmagül Berktay, Yaprak Zihnioğlu, Hazal Halavut, Murat Cankara, Mehmet Fatih Uslu, Duygu Köksal, Didem Havlioğlu, Feryal Saygılıgil and Hülya Adak will be followed by a roundtable session moderated by   Enver Aysever and Senem Timuroğlu, featuring the authors Müge İplikçi, Şebnem İşigüzel and Hatice Meryem, who will share their own personal experiences as women authors in today’s world.

The conference  will focus on women’s efforts to express themselves through literature from the Ottoman Empire times to the early days of the Republic of Turkey, and explore the contrarians such as Mihri Hatun, Nezihe Muhiddin, Halide Edip Adıvar, Zabel Yeseyan, Selma Ekrem, Suat Derviş, Leyla Erbil, and Sevgi Soysal.
The Conference will be in Turkish 


Conference Program

WOMEN’S LITERATURE FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO DATE                             

PROGRAM
 
Session I:                     The Legacy of Ottoman Empire  (10:00-11:00)
 
Fatmagül Berktay       To The Reality of the Dream 
 
Yaprak Zihnioğlu        The Historical Development of Women’s Movement and Literature”   
 
Hazal Halavut              “How Did I Establish Turkish Literature?: Halide Edip and Corporate Literature”
 
 
COFFEE BREAK        : 11.00- 11.30


Session II:                    “Other” Women  (11.30-12.30)
 
 
Murat Cankara            “Mothers and Daughters: Epistemological Foundations of “Other” Tanzimat Era Novels”
 
Mehmet Fatih Uslu     “Zabel Yesayan and Meliha Nuri Hanoum”
 
Duygu Köksal              “Maidenhood in the Late Ottoman Society; Demetra Vaka and Selma Ekrem”
 
 
LUNCH BREAK            :12:30-13:30
 

Session III:                    “To Be or Not To Be in A Literary Canon“ (13:30- 14:30)
 
Didem Havlioğlu           “Fiction of a Women Writer: Mihri Hatun in 16th Century Bibliographies
  
Feryal Saygılıgil             “An Extraordinary Voice: Suat Derviş”
 
Hülya Adak                       “One-Man God, Communist Sergeant and Gorgos: Idealogy and Resistance in the Works of Halide Edip, Sevgi Soysal and Leyla Erbil”  
 

COFFEE BREAK:             14:30-15:00
 
 
Roundtable :                     Being A Woman Writer in Today’s World  (15:00-17:00)
 
Moderators:                     Enver Aysever- Senem Timuroğlu
 
Authors:                            Müge İplikçi, Şebnem İşigüzel, Hatice Meryem