Im Rahmen der Konferenz „Mimesis in Transl/national turn“
Programm
MIMESIS IN TRANSL/NATIONAL TURN. International Conference, Istanbul, 17–18 December 2015
17.12. 2015
Opening
10.30–11.00
Opening Lecture
11.00–12.00
Azade SEYHAN (Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College)
Exile in Translation: Exodus of German culture to Turkey and the United States (1933-1945)
LUNCH
1. Panel: TransL/National Turn in Cultural Studies
13.00–15.00
Doris BACHMANN-MEDICK (GCSC, University of Giessen)
Models of translation: Trans/Cultural practice and analytical category
Dilek DİZDAR (Intercultural German Studies and Translation Studies, University of Mainz)
Ambivalence and translation
COFFEE BREAK
2. Panel: ‘Translations’ of Mimesis I
15.30–17.30
Yiğit TOPKAYA (Department of History, University of Basel)
Between style and temporality: realism as a translation of Mimesis?
Hanna ENGELMEIER (Institute of Media Studies, University of Bochum)
Erich Auerbach: Figura. History, historiography and Mimesis
Second day (18.12.15)
3. Panel: ‘Translations’ of Mimesis II
10.00–12.30
Pascale ROURE (Department of German Studies, University Paris-Sorbonne)
„Conservative innovation“. Leo Spitzer’s mimetic semantics and language politics.
Matthew GUMPERT (Department of Western Languages and Literatures, BoğaziçiUniversity)
Beware those bearing metaphors
Hüseyin ÇİÇEK (Center for Islam & Right in Europe, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
To be like the other. Mimesis, violence and society
LUNCH
4. Panel: Translators In-Between
13.30–15.30
Saliha PAKER (Translation Studies, BoğaziçiUniversity)
On a poem by Behcet Necatigil, with an English version, and the poet’s conception of ÇEVİRİ as “a turning” (translation)
Zaur GASIMOV (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Between popularization and translation? Turcologists‘ translationist activities in the 1920-40s in Turkey
COFFEE BREAK
16.00–17.00
Till LUGE (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Inscribing Humanism through translation? On the confluence of ideas among Emigré scholars, the DTCF, and the Translation Bureau
17.00–17.30
Plenary discussion