On October 14, the Department of Turkish Literature held its annual graduate conference, \u201cSustainability and Eco-criticism,\u201d at FFB-22. Eighteen participants from different universities shared their research on Turkish Literature in relation to themes such as gender, narrative, politics and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thought-provoking keynote lecture was delivered by Dr. Deniz G\u00fcndo\u011fan-\u0130bri\u015fim of Sabanc\u0131 University. In her talk, Dr. G\u00fcndo\u011fan-\u0130bri\u015fim presented a detailed overview of theoretical developments in the field and introduced significant terminology. In the \u201cEco-Conscious Storytelling\u201d panel, the focus was on the possibility of constructing a more democratized narrative. The panelists problematized the human voice that governs and underlines human superiority in storytelling practices. They then demonstrated how literature can provide alternative, egalitarian and less human-based perspectives. Drawing on a framework that combines eco-criticism with gender theories, the second panel, \u201cGender and Eco-criticism,\u201d showcased the parallel between human-dominated binary thinking and gender-based norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three panelists rendered literature as a tool that challenges these dichotomies. In the panel \u201cHistory\/Ottoman Literature(s),\u201d the participants analyzed literary works that historicize the human oppression of the environment or represent such catastrophes as draughts and pandemics. Reading closely from their materials, four speakers set literary works as documents of ecological traumas and environment.
The penultimate panel, the \u201cPolitics of Literature,\u201d underlined how literary works politicize the environment when representing human anxieties about urbanization and modernization. Finally, the online panel included papers on various themes, such as history, animal studies and narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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