update 18-10-2010
CONFERENCE
BREAKING THE STEREOTYPE
FROM ORIENT AND OCCIDENT
TO
A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
OF IMAGES
Istanbul, October 22 – 26, 2010
İstanbul 2010 Sanat Üretim Merkezi/
Istanbul 2010 Art Production Center
Kadırga Liman Caddesi, Şehsuvarbey Mahallesi No: 82 34130 Kumkapı İstanbul - Turkey
A 4-day Public Event
Free Entry
Conference Opening: 22 October 2010
Conference Language: English
PROGRAMME
Conference coordinators:
Assoc. Prof. (Privatdozentin) Dr. Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck/ Austria)
Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon)
Please note:
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ARRIVAL DAY (Friday, October 22, 2010)
Registration (14.00-15.00)
Cocktail (14.30-15.00)
Opening Session (15.00-16.30)
Welcome: Veronika Bernard (Conference coordinator, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria)
Welcome: Beral Madra (Istanbul 2010 ECOC Agency, Istanbul/ Turkey)
Welcome: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Conference Co-Coordinator, Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon)
15.30-15.50: Christian Brunmayr (Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul/ Turkey): General Remarks cancelled
15.50-16.10: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon): Some remarks on Orientalism, Occidentalism, the MENA region and the project “Breaking the Stereotype”
16.10-16.30: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria): The scope of this conference – The Project “Breaking the Stereotype. Oriental and Occidental Stereotypes in the Course of Time”
Culture programme (17.00-18.00): Exhibition Final (Finissage) of “Breaking the Stereotype 2009-2010. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images” at the Austrian Library at the Austrian St. George’s High-School Istanbul
DAY 1 (Saturday, October 23, 2010)
Conference coordinator on duty: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (morning); Veronika Bernard (afternoon)
Session 1: Panel “Orient and Occident: Traditional Thinking – Current Consequences – Future Perspectives” (10.00-12.30)
Chair: Veronika Bernard
Mustafa Aydin (Rector of Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey, Political Science and International Relations): Perceptions and Misperception in Turkish-European Relations cancelled
Deniz Bayrakdar (Vize Rector of Kadir Has University and Dean of the Communication Faculty, Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): In between the Images of “Istanbul 2010. The European Capital of Culture”
Renata Papsch (Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria/ Egypt): EC Policy on Culture for the Euro-Med Region cancelled
Kutlay Yağmur (Intercultural Education and Linguistics, University of Tilburg, Tilburg/ The Netherlands): Intercultural Education in a European Context
Dirk Rochtus (Lessius University College, Antwerp/ Belgium): Political-historical Aspects
Session 2: Cultural Positions (14.00-16.45)
Chair: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
13.30-14.00: Gernot Wolfram (University of Applied Sciences Kufstein, Kufstein/ Austria, Cultural Studies): Expected Conflicts? Intercultural Competence beyond Concepts of Otherness cancelled
14.00-14.30: Robbert Woltering (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam/ The Netherlands, Arabic and Political Science): Uses and abuses of Occidentalism
14.30-15.00: Hakan Yılmaz (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul/ Turkey, Political Science): Europe and Turkey – Cultural positions cancelled
14.30-15.00: Dirk Rochtus (Lessius University College, Antwerp/ Belgium, German Philology and International Relations): Orientalism in Turkish foreign policy
15:00-15.30: Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University Istanbul): Evolution of the Turkish Culture: From Nomadic to ? NEW
15.30-15.45: Coffee Break
15.45-16.15: Frank F. Scherer ((PhD Candidate, Social and Political Thought Program, York University, Toronto/ Canada): Freud’s Turkey: Psychoanalysis and the Vicissitudes of Orientalism
16.15-16.45: Tuğba Kalafatoğlu (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey)/ co-author: Vedat Akman (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey, Economics, Social Sciences, European Studies): Globalization is change and its effects in culture
DAY 2 (Sunday, October 24, 2010)
Conference coordinator on duty: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
Session 3: Mechanisms and Targets of Stereotyping (10.00-13.40)
Chair: Kutlay Yağmur
10.00-10.30: Vahide Ersü (clinical psychologist, Istanbul/ Turkey): “Identity” and “Self” in the Process of Creating and Breaking the Stereotypes
10.30-11.00: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria, German Literature): “Who am I, and how can I be me?” – A Desired (Stereotypical) Europeaness as the Turkish Other in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels
11.00-11.30: Tina Sleiman (Zayed University, Dubai/ United Arab Emirates, Arts and Design): Altering perceptions: exploring how images contribute to stereotyping of Arabs
11.30-12.00: Mohamad Masad (Zayed University, Dubai/ United Arab Emirates, Humanities and Social Sciences): Mutual stereotypes between Locals and Expatriates in the UAE
12.00-12.30: A. Faruk Yaylacı (Counsellor of Education, Turkish Embassy Brussels/ Belgium): Producing of Stereotypes in Schools
12.30-13.00: Filiz Yaylacı-Göktuna (Anadolu University, Eskişehir/ Turkey, Sociology): Migrants’ stereotypes about Other Migrants: Belgium Case
Optional culture programme Istanbul (afternoon): Walk through the Grand Bazaar and Sultanahmet/ Bosphorus boat trip/ ferry trip to Istanbul’s Anatolian part and walk along the coast towards the Maiden Tower
DAY 3 (Monday, October 25, 2010)
Conference coordinator on duty: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
Session 4: The Media and the General Public (09.30-12.30)
Chair: Gernot Wolfram
09.30-10.00: Kutlay Yağmur (University of Tilburg, Tilburg/ The Netherlands, Intercultural Education and Linguistics): Ways of promoting or blocking intercultural understanding in the media
10.00-10.30: Stephan Sielschott (PHD student, Philipps-Universität Marburg/ Germany): On Terrorists, Artists and Top Athletes or: The Substitution of Everyday Life by the Extraordinary – A Frame-Analysis of Stereotypical Evaluations of Muslims by East German Regional Newspapers
10.30-11.00: Petra Feldmann (PhD candidate, University of Bielefeld/ Germany: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence): Breaking the Stereotype or Reinforcing the Stereotype? Manifestations of Stereotypes of Muslim Women in German Media Discourse
11.00-11.30: Fatih Okumuş (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam/ The Netherlands, Theology): (In)visibility of Islam in the public sphere in Europe
11.30-12.00: Rogier Visser (PHD student, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam/ The Netherlands): Censorship and Westernization in Beirut: al-Nahla's downfall (Beirut, 1870)
12.00-12.30: Alberto Saviello (PHD student, arts history, Berlin/ Germany): Depicting the Prophet Muhammad - Visual traditions in Western European books cancelled
12.00-12.30: Vincent Platenkamp (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences)/ co-author: Ariane Portegies (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences): Breaking the Silence. Creating Spaces for Enriched Knowledge NEW
Session 5: The Power of Non-Identity (14.20-17.50)
Chair: Dirk Rochtus
14:20-14:40: Nicolien Zuijdgeest (Arabist; journalist; diversity trainer) and Herbert Minderhoud (clinical psychologist; diversity trainer): The Power of Non-Identity. Introductory remarks
14:40-14.50: Coffee Break
14:50-17:50: Nicolien Zuijdgeest and Herbert Minderhoud: The Power of Non-Identity. The Interactive Workshop Session
DAY 4 (Tuesday, October 26, 2010)
Conference coordinator on duty: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (morning), Veronika Bernard (afternoon)
Session 6: Projects of intercultural effort (10.00-11.10)
Chair: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous
09.30-10.00: Agnes Tuna (Head of Austrian Network of Anna-Lindh-Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs): Training Programme about Austria for Turkish Officials for Religious Affairs (Imams) - a Capacity Building Project in Co-operation with Diyanet cancelled
10.00-10.40: Paola Scardella (National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty, Rome/ Italy): Between North and South: overcoming the barriers (plus book presentation “Lampedusa. Gateway to Europe”)
10.40-11.10: Vedat Akman (Kadir Has University/ Istanbul/ Turkey, Economics, Social Sciences and European Studies)/ co-author: Uğur Özgöker (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey, Economics, Social Sciences, European Studies): Istanbul Crossroads: Establishing Mutual Understanding and Intercultural Dialogue through Immigration Themed Short Films
10.40-11.00: Mesut Y. Tufan (Journalist, Istanbul/ Turkey): Broken Mirrors. European Muslims, Eastern Christians. A Visual Travelbook from the Balkans to the Middle East, from Sarajevo to Jerusalem – A presentation cancelled due to “technical equipment insufficiency”
11.00-11.30: Mesut Y. Tufan (Journalist, Istanbul/Turkey): Broken Mirrors. European Muslims, Eastern Christians. A Visual Travelbook from the Balkans to the Middle East, from Sarajevo to Jerusalem – The film clip plus discussion cancelled due to “technical equipment insufficiency”
12.00-12.30: Renata Papsch (Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria/ Egypt): EUROMED – the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures within the context of Culture politics and intercultural dialogue cancelled
Session 7: Journeys between Cultures, Real and Metaphorical (11.10-12.10, 13.30-15.30)
Chair: Robbert Woltering
11.10-11.40: Naji Oueijan (Notre Dame University of Beirut, English literature): Western Travelers and the Orientals
11.40-12.10: Atalay Gündüz (Ege University, Izmir/ Turkey, English Language and Literature): Stereotyping and Constructions of the Other as “Strategies of Symbolic Containment and Risk” in Travel Writing
13.30-14.00: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon, Political Science): The First Victim of War – Comparing Orientalism in the War Reporting of Richard A. Bermann and John Reed
15.00-15.30: Orkun Kocabiyik (PHD student, Ege University, Izmir/ Turkey): Jewish Community of İzmir in British Travel Writing cancelled
15.00-15.30: Sophie Servais (Anthropologist and Social worker, Brussels/ Belgium): Occidental individualistic values and Turkish honour cancelled
Closing Remarks (Conference Coordinators)