The IMAGES Project 2012 Conference
IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor
Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul, 5-7 September 2012
Provisional Programme (draft; 21-06-2012)
Day 1 (5 September 2012)
09.30-10.00: Registration
Welcome and Opening (10.00-10-30)
10.00-10.15: Welcome by Doris Danler, Head of the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul
10.15-10.30: Welcome by Veronika Bernard and Serhan Oksay, IMAGES project directors
10.30-11.00: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The IMAGES project and the IMAGES project 2012 conference “IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor”
Session (1): The relativity of poverty (11.00-12.30)
Chair: Michelle M. Tokarczyk
11.00-11.30: Naji Oueijan (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Images of the Poor as Rich and the Rich as Poor
11.30-12.00: Bann Saka (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Rich and Poor – Borderlines or Meeting Points
12.00-12.30: Chantal Aflak (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Lebanon: Are You Rich or Poor?
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
Session (2): Social and communicative approaches to poverty (13.30-15.00)
Chair: Naji Oueijan
13.30-14.00: Diğdem Sezen (Istanbul University and Digital Games Research Association Turkish Chapter, Istanbul/ Turkey): Playing with problems. How game play can make us understand community problems and help us to solve them
14.00-14.30: Tonguç İbrahim Sezen (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Poverty in Digital Games
14.30-15.00: Sybille Kershner (University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Zwickau/ Germany): Images of restraint. The Mettray colony
15.00-15.30: Coffee Break
Session (3): Images of the poor in the arts and as seen by photographers (15.30-17.00)
Chair: Naji Oueijan
15.30-16.00: Sabiha Göloğlu/ Will Harper ((Koç University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Images of the Poor in Surname-iHümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582
16.00-16.30: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The IMAGES exhibition “Images of the Poor” – A Guided Slideshow
16.30-17.00: Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Title to be announced
17.00-17.30: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria): Staging poverty as a counter culture by aesthetisizing it in journalistic photography? Thoughts developed on analyzing World Press Photo contributions
Day 2 (6 September 2012)
Session (4): The impact of the media on images of the poor (10.00-12.00)
Chair: Cangul Ornek
10.00-10.30: Elisabeth Kapferer (University of Salzburg, Salzburg/ Austria): Imaging Processes. Pictures of the Poor in Our Minds
10.30-11.00: Z. Nilüfer Nahya (Independent researcher/ Turkey): The Images of poverty and poor in Somalia and Other African Countries in the context of Aid Campaign in Turkey
11.00-11.15: Özlem Gündüz Kalan (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Contradictory Presentation of Poverty in Advertisement: An Examination of the TV Commercials of Turkcell Under the Advertising Campaign Named “Life is Beatiful When Shared”
11.15-11.30: Duygu Özsoy (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Katık: A Magazine Belongs to Scavengers
11.30-12.00: Jakub Kosciolek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): Africa – the land of poverty. The distorted media’s view on the continent
12.00-13.00: Lunch Break
Session (5): Images of the poor in feature films (13.00-14.00)
Chair: Gönül Bakay
13.00-13.30: Małgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): (Un)Visibile Poor Europeans in films of 2000s
13.30-14.00: Cangul Ornek (Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies of New York University, NY/ U.S.A.): The Thin Social Vein in the New Turkish Cinema: The Urban Poor in Zeki Demirkubuz and Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Movies
14.00-14.30: Elżbieta Wiącek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): Poverty – Spécialité de la maison of Polish cinema? Strategies and ideology in the representations of the economic crises in the films of Polish directors after the democratic transition (1989) until present
Session (6): Images of the poor in literature (14.30-16.30)
Chair: Veronika Bernard
14.30-15.00: Sinan Dinçer (Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum/ Germany): Supermen or Savages: Ottoman Porters in the Age of Imperialism
15.00-15.30: Savo Fouad Karam (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Ameen Rihani’s Perception of the Rich and the Poor
15.30-16.00: Vanessa Mouawad (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Juhan and Freedom as Wealth
16.00-16.30: Michelle M. Tokarczyk (Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland/ U.S.A.): Notorious Families: Images of Impoverished People in Carolyn Chute’s The Beans of Egypt, Maine and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina
16.30-17.00: Coffee Break
Session (7): Images of the poor in literature (17.00-19.10)
Chair: Veronika Bernard
17.00-17.30: Rita Bou Khalil (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Conquered and Conqueror
17.30-18.00: Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The Rich and the Poor: Class Dynamics in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone
18.00-18.30: Gönül Bakay (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Poverty and Crime: The Case of Moll Flanders
18.30-19.00: Franziska Jekel/ Nina Peter (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin/ Germany): Seeing (the) eyes of the other’. Images of the Poor in Baudelaire and McCourt
19.00-19.10: Closing Remarks by Organizers
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