Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 5.1 (Day 2)

D2-S5-A6

14 May 2026, 16:30

A6 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 5.1 (Day 2): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Özlem Karadağ (İstanbul University)

Historia (Non) Est Magistra Vitae, or What We Have (Not) Learnt from the Past (D2-S5-A6)

Vesna Suljic (International University of Sarajevo,)

14/05/2026, 16:30

Oral Presentation

Nineteen Ninety-Two written by the Bosnian journalist Mirko Jeleč is a collection of 25 stories written in the documentary prose genre. The stories are told by witnesses and victims of events happening in Doboj, a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when the war started in 1992. These personal accounts, first published in 2022 in the Bosnian edition, but translated into English and...

“Error-Sphaericus”: The Sublimity of Crisis in The Dunciad (D2-S5-A6)

Selena Özbaş (İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University)

14/05/2026, 16:50

Oral Presentation

This paper examines the interplay between astronomical crisis and Scriblerian sublime in Alexander Pope’s mock-epic, The Dunciad. Pope’s fascination with contemporary astronomical debates, controversies, and discoveries asserts his position as a science-conscious writer. Despite his Scriblerian connection, which often targeted the arrogance of the contemporary scientist, his possible...

Reading Landscapes as Revisionist History (D2-S5-A6)

Berna Artan (Istanbul University)

14/05/2026, 17:10

Oral Presentation

With droughts, freezing temperatures, and hailstorms, the French population experienced great loss often due to lack of resources like flour, timber, and crops before the revolution of 1789. In 1788, if the already famished people had managed to survive, they led revolts, protesting the financial crises that the King and the elite wrought on with political reforms. Shifts in climate conditions...