1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION, TURKEY
May 25-27, 2007, Istanbul-Turkey
Conference Program
Congress Center
Halis Kurtça Culture Center / Kadıköy / İSTANBUL
RECONSIDERING EUROPEANNESS FROM
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
BOUNDARIES, IMAGES, CULTURES
1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION, TURKEY
May 25-27, 2007, Istanbul-Turkey
Conference Program
FRIDAY, May 25, 2007
09:00 - 10:00 OPENING
Opening Speech: İlber Ortaylı
10:00 - 13:15 SESSION I
Chair: Bozkurt Güvenç
10:00 - 10:30 Nedret Kuran Burçoğlu
Europe and Europeanness
10:30 - 11:00 Ulf Hannerz
Changing Europe, Changing Anthropology
11:00 - 11:30 Discussion
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Michael Herzfeld
Europe and the Global Hierarchy of Value: Geographies and Dynamics of Cultural Anthropology
12:15 - 12:45 Barbro Klein
Anthropology, Ethnology and European Disciplinary Landscape
12:45 - 13:15 Discussion
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION II
Chair: Ulf Hannerz
14:00 - 14:30 Akile Gürsoy
Anthropology and Anthropologists in Turkey
14:30 - 15:00 Ubaldo Martinez Veiga
Effects of the Last Regularization Process of Foreign Immigrants in Spain: Labor Market,
Integration and Differential Racism
15:00 – 15:30 Discussion
Saturday, May 26 2007
SESSION III
Chair: Akile Gürsoy
10:00 – 10:30 Jenny B. White
Urban Anthropology of Turkey
10:30 - 11:00 David Shankland
The Anthropology of Rural Turkey
11:00 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:15 Henry Rutz
Education and the Reproduction of the İstanbul Middle Class
12:15 – 12: 45 Levent Soysal
Viewing Europeanness from İstanbul: City, Spectacle and “Civilizing Process”
12: 45 – 13:15 Ayşe Durakbaşa, Meltem Karadağ, Gül Özsan
Eşraf Families in Provincial Cities in Turkey: Family Strategies and Narratives
13:15 – 13:45 Discussion
13:45 – 14:45 Lunch Break
SESSION IV
Chair: Sibel Özbudun
14:45 – 15:15 Sibel Özbudun
Multiculturalism
15:15 – 15:45 Belkıs Kümbetoğlu
“Be European, Be Different”
15:45 – 16:15 Discussion
16:15 – 16:30 Coffeebreak
16:30 – 17:00 İnci User
Reflection of a Multicultural Society: Turkish Writers in the Contemporary German Literature
17:00 – 17:30 Erdoğan Gedik
Different Perceptions of the “Almancı” Identity
17:30 – 18:00 Discussion
Sunday, May 27, 2007
SESSION V
Chair: Michael Herzfeld
09:00 – 09:30 Hürriyet Konyar
Hybrid Identities and New Cultural Environments Reflected in the Turkish Media in the
Context of Postcolonial Relations
09:30 - 10:00 Suavi Aydın
Being Minority in Turkey
10:00 – 10:30 Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Intersecting Anthropologies: Anthropology of Turkey and Anthropology of Europe
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:45 Coffebreak
11:45 – 12: 45 Panel (Postgraduate Students):
Contemporary Developments and Reflections about Anthropology from
Different Countries of Europe
Moderator: Esma Özge Talaş (ODTÜ)
Speakers: Sandra Finger (Sabancı University)
Merve Çağşırlı (ODTÜ)
Nicolas Kosmatopoulos (Zurich University)
Fabio Vicini (University of Milano Bicocca)
Manuela Pellegrino (UCL, UK)
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break
14: 00 –15:00 PANEL:
Recent Trends and Issues in the Anthropology of Turkey
Moderator: Hande Birkalan-Gedik
Speakers: Ayfer Bartu Candan
Jenny B. White
David Shankland
15:00 – 15:30 Closing Speech: Bozkurt Güvenç