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Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

13–15 May 2026
Istanbul University Faculty of Letters
Europe/Istanbul timezone

Congist'26

Session

Session 2.1 (Day 3)

D3-S2-A6
15 May 2026, 11:15
A6 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

A6

Istanbul University Faculty of Letters

Conveners

Session 2.1 (Day 3): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

  • H. Necmi Öztürk (Istanbul University)

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  1. Show, Hide and Reveal: Visual Crisis in Contemporary French Dystopian Novels (D3-S2-A6)
    Julie Crohas (Carroll College)
    15/05/2026, 11:15
    Oral Presentation

    Constant video surveillance, facial recognition, instant media and quest of the perfect shot: visual overabundance are pervasive in our daily life to facilitate, admire, protect as well as control, press and manipulate individuals. In the past few years, the causes and consequences of such a visual crisis emerged as a recurrent topic in many contemporary French dystopian novels reflecting on a...

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  2. From Dystopia to Utopia: Sibylle Berg's ‘La Bella Vita. PNR’ and the Possibility of a Beautiful Life (D3-S2-A6)
    Susanne Lorenz (Istanbul University)
    15/05/2026, 11:35
    Oral Presentation

    In October 2025, Swiss author Sibylle Berg published the final part of her trilogy, which begins in a dystopian England in the near future (GRM. Brainfuck, 2019), escalates into a Europe-wide crisis and ends in revolution (RCE #RemoteCodeExecution, 2022). In La Bella Vita. PNR, she now describes the period two years after the revolution, which prevented the great collapse and forced a...

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