Conference Program - Bilkent University
Conference Program - Bilkent University
Conference Program - Bilkent University
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Sunday — 28 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130<br />
10:00-11:00 — Perspectives on European Enlightenment<br />
Moderator: Michael Meeuwis<br />
David Alvarez The Formation of Liberal Religious Tolerance in Enlightenment England:<br />
Locke, Shaftesbury, and a Tale of Two Letters<br />
Alicia C. Montoya Middlebrow Literature and the European Enlightenment<br />
11:00-11:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks<br />
11:15-13:15 —Enlightenment and Contemporary Thought<br />
Moderator: Andrew J. Ploeg<br />
Andrea Rehberg Delectare aude: On a Non-Rational Requirement of Enlightenment<br />
According to Kant<br />
Carsten Meiner and<br />
Morten Dyssel<br />
The Cartoon Controversy and the Enlightenment Legacy<br />
Francis Halsall Systems of Enlightenment/Systems of Modernity<br />
Giovanni Mascaretti Foucault and the Project of Enlightenment<br />
09:30 — Coffee and Tea<br />
13:15 — Lunch at Sözeri Restaurant<br />
14:30 — Bus leaves from Sözeri Restaurant for visit to the Anıtkabir<br />
<strong>Bilkent</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>Program</strong> in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas<br />
AlternativE<br />
EnlightenmentS<br />
An interdisciplinary conference in the humanities.<br />
26-28 April 2013<br />
Ankara, Turkey
Friday — 26 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130<br />
09:30 — Opening Address — Prof. Talat S. Halman, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Letters<br />
13:00-15:00 — Translation and Transposition in the Eighteenth Century<br />
Moderator: Mihaela P. Harper<br />
Fatih Durgun Between Enlightenment, Progressivism and Calvinist Orthodoxy:<br />
Counter-Enlightenment Evangelical Discourse in Scotland<br />
Jonathan Haddad Inventing Turkish Literature<br />
Burcu Gürsel The Sublime Translator: Mouradgea d’Ohsson between the Savants and<br />
the Ulama<br />
Khaled Aljenfawi Charlotte Brontë’s Alterative Enlightenment: The Muslim Other in<br />
Villette (1853)<br />
15:00-15:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks<br />
Felicity Nussbaum The Tragedy of Enlightenment<br />
09:45-11:45 — Lumières, in a New Light<br />
Charles T. Wolfe Vital Materialism and the Radical Enlightenment<br />
Daren Hodson Tarare (1787): Courtly Art and Radical Enlightenment<br />
Daniel Leonard Fetishism and the Cult of Universal Reason<br />
08:30 — Registration, Coffee and Tea<br />
Moderator: Gerald Maclean<br />
Sandrine Berges Emotionally Enlightened: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Relationships<br />
and Social Justice<br />
11:45-13:00 — Open Lunch on Campus<br />
15:15-17:15 —Traveling Ideas<br />
Moderator: Michael Subialka<br />
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska A Brief History of Unhappy Endings: Some Problems with Enlightenment<br />
Utopias<br />
J. Marc MacDonald Quiet Cultivators of Late Enlightenment Gardens: International Traffic<br />
and the Delesserts as a Challege to Insular Interpretations<br />
Michael Meeuwis On Booty and Being Just: Aesthetic Piracy and Theatrical Emulation in<br />
the 1720s<br />
17:15-17:45 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks<br />
17:45-19:00 — Keynote Address — C Amphitheater<br />
19:00 — Bus leaves from in front of H Building for informal dinner at Beer Garden<br />
Saturday — 27 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130<br />
William Coker Nietzsche’s Homeric Theodicy<br />
09:30-11:30 — Klär mich mal auf!<br />
Moderator: Cory Stockwell<br />
Gloria Colombo Enlightenment and its Others: Mysticism, Hermeticism and the Arcane<br />
Dorothea von Mücke The Surprising Origins of Enlightenment Aesthetics<br />
09:00 — Coffee and Tea<br />
Yael Almog Mendelssohn, Herder, Asad: The Hebrew Language in 18th-Century<br />
Germany and the Enlightenment’s Secularist Legacy<br />
11:30-13:00 — Open Lunch on campus<br />
13:00-15:00 — Regional and National Enlightenments<br />
Moderator: Katarzyna Bartoszyńska<br />
Eduardo Madrigal-Muñoz Enlightenment, Colonial Elites and Political Processes in Costa Rica:<br />
From the Colony to the Nation (1750-1824)<br />
Manolis Patiniotis Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European Identity<br />
Alp Eren Topal Social and Political Concepts in the Tanzimat Era: An Indigenous<br />
Enlightenment?<br />
15:00-15:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks<br />
15:15-17:15 — Islam and Enlightenment<br />
Moderator: Mehmet Kalpaklı<br />
Zaur Gasimov Maarifçilik. Discourses on Enlightenment Among the Muslims in the<br />
Russian Caucasia (1906-1907)<br />
Donna Landry What is Enlightenment? Evliya Çelebi and Ottoman Alternatives<br />
Sura Qadiri Malek Chebel and Rachid Benzine: A Contemporary Enlightenment in<br />
Muslim Thinking?<br />
17:15-17:45 — Coffee and Tea<br />
19:00 — Bus leaves from Lojman 105 bus stop for dinner at Kınacızade Konağı
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