The Faculty of Arts and Sciences
presents
at Eastern Mediterranean University
*During the course of Inscriptions ’05, there will be a series of ongoing exhibitions, performances,
multi-media installations, film screenings and musical events held in the old, walled city of Famagusta. These will include:
“Electronic Composition” by Duo 46 “Scum of the Earth” by Garrett Phelan
“Shades of Remembrance” by Benjamin Morris “Sang Real” by Craven Allsorts
“Baggage” by Fateh Azzam “The Wall” by Elif Akşit et al.
See www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions for further details
and/or mail inscriptions@emu.edu.tr
click to download conference programme
(Moderator: Lorraina Pinnell, Eastern Mediterranean University )
(1) Elif Ekin Akşit (Ankara University) elifaksit@yahoo.com: “Re-placing politics:
The saintly tomb and Muslim women.”
(2) Benjamin Morris (Edinburgh) bam9@duke.edu: “Memory and Forgetting: A Photographic
Exhibition.”
10:30-11:30 a.m. PANEL 2: TEXT/CINEMA/DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE I Library Auditorium
(Moderator: Nicholas Pagan, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Terry Kidner (New Jersey) terrykid@optonline.net: “Dancing with intertextuality: Salome goes
to the movies.”
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10:30-11:30 a.m. PANEL 2A: DISJUNCTIVE DISCOURSES Blue Hall
(Moderator: Can Sancar, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Ahmet Gildir (Eastern Mediterranean University) ahmet.gildir@emu.edu.tr: “Romantic passion:
A form of death-drive towards lost jouissance.”
(2) Murat Bülbülcü (Eastern Mediterranean University) murat.bulbulcu@emu.edu.tr: “‘To
domesticate’ or ‘to foreignize?’ Neşe Yaşın‘s novel The Secret History of the Sad Girls: A
transliteral case study.”
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(Moderator: Robert D’Alonzo, Eastern Mediterranean University )
(1) Jennifer Maiden (Sheffield University) jemaid@yahoo.co.uk: “Trauma in transference: Patterns in
the transmission of the lived experiences of Holocaust survivors.”
(2) Jutta Birmele (California State University, Long Beach) jbirmele@csulb.edu: “An attempt at
restitution: W.G. Sebald’s literary mission.”
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(Moderator: John Wall, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Anat Tesler Mesika (Tel Aviv University) teslerme@post.tau.ac.il: “Feminism and the
technology of the body: The gendered cyborg and dichotimic patterns.”
(2) Ayşe Erek (Istanbul Technical University) aerek2002@yahoo.com: “Real life metaphors in
digital media.”
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(Moderator: David Walters, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Matthew Valnes (Youngstown State University) matthewvalnes@hotmail.com: “Music past and
present: The changing roles of pedal points in twentieth-Century music.”
(2) Dylan Robinson (University of Victoria) dylan76@telus.net: “Interdisciplinary performance and
contemporary performance practices for concert music.”
3:15-4:15 p.m. PANEL 5: COUNTER AND SUBCULTURES II Library Auditorium
(Moderator: Donna Ruzzano, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Rodney Sharkey (Eastern Mediterranean University) rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr:
“The Bowie business: capitalizing on subversion?”
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3:15-4:15 p.m. PANEL 5A: PANOPTICISM: ARCHITECTURE/IDEOLOGY I Blue Hall
(Moderator: Paul Davies, University of Passau, Germany)
(1) Mehdi Mansouri (The University of Liverpool) m.mansouri@liverpool.ac.uk: “Architecture:
A cumulative phenomenon?”
(2) Nalan Içten and Aysun Kahraman, (Eastern Mediterranean University) nalan.icten@emu.edu.tr:
aysun810515@yahoo.com: “De-humanizing my-self: Experimenting to estrange.”
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4:15-5:15 p.m. PANEL 6: ART AND PORNOGRAPHY I Library Auditorium
(Moderator: Anita Nicholson, Cornell University)
(1) Andrew Hurle (Sydney College of the Arts) andrew_hurle@yahoo.com.au:
“Hard-core reprography - three works regarding the printed image and the pornographic object”
(2) Kerstin Mey (University of Ulster) K.Mey@ulster.ac.uk: “‘Know Thyself’?”
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(Moderator: Sharon Wilson, University of Northern Colorado)
(1) Catherine Gaughan (University of Toronto) catherinegaughan@hotmail.com: “The world of
objects according to Jean Cocteau: A reading of artistic objects within the film The
Blood of a Poet.”
(2) Turhan Uludaĝ (Eastern Mediterranean University) turhan.uludag@emu.edu.tr: “Free will and
determinism? An incompatible approach to human behaviour.”
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5:15 p.m. - Dinner at EMU Beach Club
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(Moderator: Jutta Birmele, California State University, Long Beach)
(1) Herman Paul (University of Groningen) H.J.Paul@let.rug.nl: “Visions of sublimity: Theologies of
history in contemporary historiological discourse.”
(2) Verena Theile (Washington State University) vtheile@hotmail.com: "Comus's bare magic
wand and the magical problem-solving capabilities of free will in Milton's Comus: A
Maske presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634."
(3) Bilge Mutluay (Hacettepe University) mutluay@hacettepe.edu.tr: “Don DeLillo’s Libra
as historiographic metafiction.”
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(Moderator: Ulrike Lerner, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Kelly Todd Brewer (Sabancı University, Istanbul) brewer@sabanciuniv.edu: “Political poetry and
(non)ethnicity: Rafael Alberti and Nicolás Guillén.”
(2) Nicholas Pagan (Eastern Mediterranean University) nicholas.pagan@emu.edu.tr: “Arthur
Miller and the politics of national self-expression.”
(3) Ipek Halim (Eastern Mediterranean University) ipek.halim@emu.edu.tr: “The collage of the local
and the global.”
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(1) Susan Hopkirk (Middle Tennessee State University) shopkirk@mtsu.edu: “Harlequin
readers know it when they see it: Is erotica simply pornography for women?”
(2) Aylin Atilla (Ege University) atillaaylin@hotmail.com: “Pornography in the service
of women: Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Woman - an exercise in cultural history.”
(3) Anita C. Nicholson (Cornell University) anita.nicholson@villanova.edu: “Just whip it:
Sadomasochism and gendered subversion in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher.”
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(Moderator: Robert D’Alonzo, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Emily Moore (University of British Columbia) birdie_numnums@hotmail.com: “Dancing the friable edge:
The interrelation of jazz improvisation and madness in Ondaatje's Coming Through
Slaughter and Mingus' Beneath the Underdog".
(2) Vincent Meelberg (Leiden University) vincent.meelberg@wanadoo.nl: “Frustrated Listening?
Music, Noise, Trauma.”
(3) Seda Ergul (Istanbul Bilgi University) sedae@bilgi.edu.tr: “I am Sitting in a Room.”
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11:45-1:00 p.m. PANEL 9: CYBORGS/CULTURAL SYSTEMS Library Auditorium
(1) Mike Field (University of Toronto) mike.field@utoronto.ca: “Iberia, art, and biotechnology.”
(2) Paul Davies (University of Passau, Germany) Paul.Davies@Uni-Passau.De: “Good architecture
needs to be applauded? Buildings and bodies in Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an
Architect.”
(3) Matt Silva (Emory University) masilva@LearnLink.Emory.Edu: “Vineland, or the cultural
logic of Gravity’s Rainbow’s late capitalism.”
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11:45-1:00 p.m. PANEL 9A: TEXT/CINEMA/DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE II Blue Hall
(Moderator: Terry Kidner, New Jersey)
(1) Vasile Stanescu (Stanford University) mirroredshades@hotmail.com: “Putting on
“woman-face:” From black-faced minstrel shows to drag: Seeing gender as performance.”
(2) Matthew Stoddard (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) mattstod@hotmail.com: “The lives
of film: Negri, Deleuze and Cherchi Usai on temporality.”
(3) Tristan Fidler (University of Western Australia) fidlet01@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: “Visceral
anatomies: Music video auteur Chris Cunningham.”
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2:30-3:30 p.m. PANEL 10: PANOPTICISM: ARCHITECTURE/IDEOLOGY II Library Auditorium
(Moderator: Isaac Lerner, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Elisabeth Schmidle (University of Karlsruhe) schmidle@ifb.uni-karlsruhe.de: “Böttcher-Street
in Bremen: From aestheticization of a customer-brand relationship to ideological manipulation
in inter-war Germany.”
(2) Courtney Martin courtney.martin@yale.edu: “A modernist apparition: The third Rome at
home and abroad.”
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2:30 -3:30 p.m. PANEL 10A: ALTERNATIVE REALITIES; FANTASTIC LITERATURE Blue Hall
(Moderator: John Wall, Eastern Mediterranean University)
(1) Sharon Wilson (University of Northern Colorado) Sharon.Wilson@unco.edu: “Margaret
Atwood and the fairy tale: Postmodern revisioning in The Robber Bride and
Morning in the Burned House.”
(2) Suzannah Mirghani (Eastern Mediterranean University) suzannah.mirghani@emu.edu.tr:
“‘Thus Spake Gaylord’: Angels In Dire Straits.”
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3:30-4:45 p.m. PANEL 11: JAZZ: ATONAL MUSIC: NOISE III Library Auditorium
(1) Callie Maidhof (Florida State University) callie.maidhof@gmail.com: “Which punk?
Appropriations of newness and monstrosity in 20th century music.”
(2) Paul Carr (Glamorgan University) pcarr@glam.ac.uk: “An analysis of post 1970s jazz electric
guitarist composers who have fused the jazz aesthetic with other music forms.”
(3) Erdmute Wenzel White (Purdue University) ewhite1@purdue.edu: “Hugo Ball’s ‘Concert
Bruitiste’ (1916): A nativity play for early summer.”
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(Moderator: Courtney Martin, Yale University)
(1) Felipe Hernandez (University of Liverpool) felipehm@liverpool.ac.uk: “The museum and the
politics of avoidance: Architecture in the construction of national identity.”
(2) Lea Allen (Brown University) Lea_Allen@brown.edu: “When the Thames is not the Thames,
or the poetics of displacement in early modern London.”
(3) Burak Sevingen (Yeditepe University) catmyser@hotmail.com: “Initial exploration of how the
architecture of science and hospital architecture might reinforce medical discipline and regulate,
co-opt or undermine bioethics’ ‘safe spaces’: A comparative view from Turkey and the United
States.”
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4:45 p.m. Concluding Remarks
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5:00 p.m. - Ongoing exhibitions, performances, and multi-media installations in Famagusta’s Twin
Churches, EMU Cultural Centre and other venues.
8:30 p.m. - Musical Recital, Othello Tower, Famagusta.
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* “Shades of Remembrance” by Benjamin Morris will be open to view on
Thursday May 12th and Friday May 13th in the Library Auditorium.
Conference participants please note: You will be transported to the following events in the old city on
Friday and then back to the hotel afterwards, should you so wish to attend.
* “Sang Real” by Craven Allsorts, “The Wall” by Elif Akşit et al. and “Scum of the Earth” by Garrett Phelan
will be open to view on Friday May 13th from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and on Saturday May 14th from
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Twin Churches, Famagusta.
* “Baggage” by Fateh Azzam will be performed on Friday May 13th at 5:30 p.m. in
the old Nestorian Church, Famagusta.
* “Electronic Composition” by Duo 46 will take place in The Othello Tower, Famagusta on
Friday May 13th at 8:30 p.m.
* The Shards of Light film programme will take place on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th of May
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Arts and Sciences screening theatre.
Thursday, May 12th, 2005.
8:30 a.m. The Butterfly Effect
10:30 a.m. Angels in America: Millenium Approaches
1:30 p.m. Mr. Vampire
3:30 p.m. L’Eclisse
5:30 p.m. Cookie’s Fortune
Friday, May 13th, 2005.
8:30 a.m. The Blood of a Poet
9:30 a.m. The Art Ship
10:30 a.m. The Piano Teacher
1:00 p.m. The Videos of Chris Cunningham/David Bowie/U2
2:00 p.m. The Belly of an Architect
Rodney Sharkey would like to acknowledge his enormous gratitude to Lorraina Pinnell, Meliha Onbaşi,
Murat Bülbülcü, Nalan Içten, Ahmet Gildir, Turhan Uludağ, James Fleming, Ersev Sarper and
Suzannah Mirghani for their hard work in the organization and presentation of Inscriptions ’05.