Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 4.1 (Day 2)

D2-S4-A6

14 May 2026, 15:15

A6 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 4.1 (Day 2): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi (İstanbul University)

Religious and Apocalyptic Narratives of the Greek Economic Crisis (D2-S4-A6)

Katerina Schoina (University of Athens), Manolis Varvounis (Democritus University of Thrace)

14/05/2026, 15:15

Oral Presentation

The Greek economic crisis (2009–2018) triggered not only financial hardship and political unrest, but also a profound cultural and spiritual rupture. This paper explores how the crisis was interpreted through religious narratives, conspiratorial thinking and digital folklore. Many Greeks framed the crisis as divine punishment or a spiritual trial, echoing Orthodox themes of national sin and...

Re-enchanting the Landscape: The Crisis of Mobility in Paolo Rumiz’s Works (D2-S4-A6)

Ellen Patat (Istanbul University)

14/05/2026, 15:35

Oral Presentation

This paper analyses Paolo Rumiz’s travel writing—particularly Appia (2016), A piedi (2012), and La leggenda dei monti naviganti (2007)—through an ecocritical perspective on the crisis of mobility, mass tourism, and the revival of slow travel. Drawing on Augé’s notion of non-places and Ingold’s wayfaring, the study interprets Rumiz’s journeys as acts of resistance against the...

An Analysis of McDonald's Entry into Italian Culinary Culture in the Context of a Cultural Crisis (D2-S4-A6)

Beyza Şahin (Istanbul University)

14/05/2026, 15:55

Oral Presentation

This paper will examine the factors that enabled McDonald's, a global food chain, to become a part of the culture of Italy, a country with a deep-rooted culinary culture, through content analysis. While it is impossible to define it with a single definition, we can define the concept of culture as a holistic structure that unites all the values of a society. However, these social values that...