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ISIH International Conference
Alterity and the Experience of Limits
10-13 December 2003, Istanbul
History Department, Bogaziçi University
PROGRAMME :
December 10, Wednesday
18.30 Transfer to Bogaziçi University ;
Registration.
19.00 Welcoming remarks : Selçuk Esenbel
(Bogaziçi University, Turkey).
19.15 Introduction : Levent Yilmaz (Centre Louis
Gernet-EHESS, France).
19.30 Opening Lecture : Donald R. Kelley (Rutgers
University, USA), Alterity across the Ages: "Barbarism"
in Space and Time.
20.30 Welcome Cocktail, Kennedy Lodge.
December 11, Thursday
09.00
A: Origins. Chair: Donald Kelley
Dean Miller (University of Rochester, USA): The Other Warrior :
The Conceptual World of the Combatant from Homer to Albert Lord
; Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University-Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
: The Limits of Alterity and the Thinkability of Equality ; J.J.
Beneitez Prudencio (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain): Significant
Alterity in a Figure: Herodotus Philobarbarous and the Malice of
Ancient Sources.
B: Literature. Chair: Lia Yoka
William E. Duvall (Willamette University, USA): Albert Camus Against
History ; Yianna Liatsos (Rutgers University, USA): Remembering
historical limit events: alterity in post-apartheid fiction ; Ariela
Freedman (Concordia University, Canada): Bearing Witness for the
Other: H.D., Alterity and Trauma.
C: Politics. Chair: Ulrich Schneider
Matthew DeCoursey (American University, Bulgaria) : Alterity as
a Problem for Classical Rhetoric in Erasmus of Rotterdam ; Cemal
Bali Akal (Université de Galatasaray, Turquie) : Du droit
de communication à la liberté d'expression ; Matthew
Maguire (Kenyon College, USA): The 'Ocean of Imagination': Rousseau
Between the Human and the Infinite ;
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00
A: Philosophy. Chair: Ferda Keskin
David Marshall (Johns Hopkins University, USA): Identity and Alterity
in the Autobiography of G.B. Vico; Constance Blackwell (Foundation
for Intellectual History, UK): The reputation of seventeenth century
philosophers in the German eighteenth century. Jozef Matula (Palacky
University, Czech Republic) : Otherness according to John Amos Comenius
and modern philosophy.
B: Border narratives. Chair: Daniel Dauvois
Zehra Ayman (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey): Memory Space as
a Boundary and its Beyond. Arakel Eloyan’s Boundary and Migration
Experience ; Georges Fréris (Université Aristote de
Thessalonique, Grèce) : Altérité et identité
nationales : utopie et réalité. Le cas d’Histoire
d’un prisonnier de Stratis Doukas ; Farid El Massioui (Université
de Paris 8, France) : Le soi ne commence pas forcément là
où s’arrête le moi. Le soi commence-t-il là
où s’arrête le moi ? Où s’arrête
le moi et où commence le soi?.
C: Historiography. Chair: Steven Lestiton
Joanne Miyang CHO (William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA)
: The Other and Historicism in the German Debate on Civilization:
Troeltsch, Schweitzer, and Jaspers ; Özlem Çaykent (Bilkent
University, Turkey) : Unionist “Others” in Early Nineteenth
Century Scotland: John Galt’s Scottish History ; Benjamin
C. Sax (University of Kansas, USA) : The Question of the Historical
Other.
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00
A : Orientations. Chair: Derin Terzioglu
Bonnie Smith (Rutgers University , USA) : A view of Alterity to
refute ; Bülent Somay (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) :
Cultural Transvestitism: Across the Border and Within the Limit
; Vincenzo Matera (University of Milan-Bicocca) : Writing Alterity:
The Other Term.
B : Religion. Chair: Colette Nativel
Michael Carhart (University of Nevada, USA) : Captain Cook and the
Cannibals: Alterity in the 1770s ; Derya Gürses (Bilkent University,
Turkey) : Establishment Religion and its Others in the Eighteenth
Century England: A Case Study of Hutchinsonianism ; Sergei Zenkin
(Russian State University for the Humanities-Moscow, Russia) : Alterity
and sacrality in the 19th century.
C : Art. Chair: Cordula Grewe
Walter L. Adamson (Emory University, USA) : Art, Alterity, and the
Politics of Commodification and Cultural Democratization: The European
Avant-garde from Baudelaire to Marinetti and Beyond ; Frédérique
Villemur (EHESS, France) : Altérité chez Louis Marin
; Lia Yoka (University of Thessaloniki, Greece) : From one and the
same to so many others: A genealogy of alterities in modern culturalisms.
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00
A : Culture. Chair: Siep Stuurman
Frances Nethercott (University of St Andrews, England) : The Russian
Odd Couple: The Categories of ‘my/ony’ (We/They) and
Sobornost’ (Conciliarity) in Intellectual and Popular Culture
(1830s-1990s) ; Pablo Asuero (Instituto Cervantes, Turkey) : The
Image of the Turk in the Spanish Press, 18-19th Centuries ; Roberto
Malighetti (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy) : Stat identitas
pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
B : Philosophy II. Chair: Stephen Gaukroger
Daniel Dauvois (CNRS, France) : De l'altérité chez
Descartes ; Sven-Eric Liedman (Göteborg University, Sweden)
: The Self as the First Stranger: Hegel and some of his followers.
; Steven Lestiton (Princeton University, USA) : Ricoeur for Historians:
Why Should an Ontology of Otherness Matter?
C : Art II. Chair: Edhem Eldem
Colette Nativel (Université Paris I-Sorbonne, France) : Le
portrait : la représentation de l’altérité
; Ivan Bargna (Université de Milan-Bicocca, Italie) : Rebondir.
L’anthropologie de l’art entre le Même et l’Autre
; Cordula Grewe (Columbia University, USA): The Other as Self: Visual
Piety and the Politics of Alterity in German Romanticism ; Duygu
Köksal (Bogaziçi University, Turkey) : Fine Arts and
Cultural Alterity during Turkey’s early republican era.
18.00 ISIH MEETING
December 12, Friday
09.00
A: Metaphysics. Chair: Tugrul Artunkal
Graham Pendreigh (University of Kansas, USA) : The Sacred Light:
Heidegger and the Untruths of Metaphysics ; Camille Fallen (EHESS,
France) : L’adresse testamentaire du Tout Autre ; Leena Taneja
(The George Washington University, USA) : The Liminal Space of Alterity
and Faith: Relationality in Martin Heidegger and Gaudiya Vaishnava
Theology.
B: Gender. Chair: Yavuz Selim Karakisla
Sarah H. Marquardt (University of Chicago) : The Neutral Gender:
Gabrielle Suchon's Catholic Feminism ; Márton Szentpéteri
(Budapest) : On the Nobility and the Preeminence of the Female Sex.
A 17th-Century Transylvanian Interpretation of Agrippa’s De
Nobilitate.
C: Difference. Chair: Ann Moyer
Yaël Dagan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
: Civilisation et barbarie : d’une culture de guerre à
une idée d’Europe, France, 1914-1933 ; Meyda Yegenoglu
(Middle East Technical University, Turkey) : The Islamic Other in
the European Union: Different Cultures or Different Religions? ;
Anki Dellnäs (University of Göteborg, Sweden) : Imagining
Other People.
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00
A: Nietzschean Variations/Bodily Alterities.
Andrea Rehberg (Bilkent University, Turkey); Müge Telci (Istanbul
Bilgi University, Turkey) ; Trevor Hope (Bilkent University, Turkey).
B : Narratives. Chair: Asli Özyar
Helena Wessels (Potchefstroom University, South Africa): Interpretation,
Alterity and Narrativity ; Lanette Grate (University of Central
Arkansas, USA) : Axiology and Alterity in Jane Addams’s Peace
and Bread in Time of War ; Funda Soysal (Bogaziçi University,
Turkey): Defining otherness, embracing modernity – Ahmet Ihsan’s
What Have I seen in Europe.
C: Representations. Chair: Nevra Necipoglu
Gordon M. Weiner (Arizona State University, USA) : The Christian
Kabbalah and Jewish Otherness: Origins of Modern Antisemitism ;
Tugrul Artunkal (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey; Université
de Paris III, France) : L’autre, le transcendant ; Allison
P. Coudert (Arizona State University, USA) : The Christian Kabbalah
and Jewish Otherness: Roots of Enlightenment Tolerance.
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00
A : Critics. Chair: Aydin Ugur
Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania, USA) : Society is the
Discourse of the Other: The Fate of Alienation in Post-Marxist Thought
; Ferda Keskin (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) : Limit-Attitude
and Subjectivity ; Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Herzog August Bibliothek
Wolfenbüttel, Germany) : The past as a foreign country? Foucault's
historiographical hermeneutics.
B: Contemporary world. Chair: Huricihan Islamoglu
Ben Dorfman (Institute for Languages and Intercultural Studies,
Aalborg University, Denmark) : The Alterity of Alterity: World-Systems
Theory as a Case Example ; Björn Andersson (Göteborg University,
Sweden) : On polarisation and alterity in modern societies with
representative democracy
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00
A : Heavens. Chair: J. Paul Hunter
Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney, Australia) : Unreconciled:
the problem of parallel discourses about the cosmos ; Leif Pierson
(University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA) : The Otherness of God in
Gregory Palamas and Dante ;
B : Politics II. Chair: Warren Breckman
Aydin Ugur (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) : Esquisse préliminaire
d’une théorie de l’identité sociale ;
Martin J. Burke (City University of New York, USA) : Intellectuals
and Anti-Intellectualism in Twentieth-century American Public Discourse.
20.30 Farewell Dinner
December 13, Saturday
09.00
A : Cognition. Chair: Martin J. Burke
Donald Beecher (Carleton University, Canada) : What Alterity Mean
to a Cognitivist ?; Amit Pinchevski (Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel) Alterity as Incommunicability: Towards a Critical
History of Autism ; Robert Martensen (Tulane University, USA) :
What is Specific to the Western Body? ; Georgios Tzartzas (Education
Research Center, Greece) : Alterity and the educational paradigm.
B : Culture II. Chair: Constance Blackwell
Ann Moyer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) : Distinguishing Florentines,
Defining Italians: the Language Question and Cultural Identities
in Sixteenth Century Florence ; Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia,
USA) : The Gentrification of Description ; J. Paul Hunter (University
of Chicago, USA) : A Short History (and Defense) of Rhyme.
C : Encounters. Chair: Levent Yilmaz
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University,
USA) : Enlightenment and 'Otherness': The philosophical Debate in
early Enlightenment western Europe about how to classify classical
Chinese Thought (1690-1740) ; Theodore Christov (University of California
at Los Angeles, USA) : Difference and the Skeptical Challenge of
Diversity: Grotius and Vattel on the International Order of States
; Beatriz H. Domingues (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)
: The perception of the Americas and the Americans by the exile
Jesuits in Italy in the second half of the Eighteenth Century. Cemal
Kafadar (Harvard University, USA), Identity and Alterity in Ottoman
Political Thought: Twenty Virtues Peculiar to the Ottoman State
According to an Imperial Chronicle, ca.1596
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 Closing Lecture : Jack Goody (University
of Cambridge), Alterity and Modernity.12.00 Conclusive remarks:
Stephen Gaukroger (President, ISIH).
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