Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 2.2 (Day 1)

D1-S2-A7

13 May 2026, 15:55

A7 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 2.2 (Day 1): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Olgahan Bakşi Yalçın (Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University)

Ecological Collapse and Ecofeminist Resistance in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (D1-S2-A7)

Fatma Gamze Erkan (Artvin Çoruh University)

13/05/2026, 15:55

Oral Presentation

Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007) depicts a near-future dystopia shaped by environmental collapse, energy crises, and authoritarian control. In this devastated England, women’s reproductive rights are restricted, food and energy scarcity dominate daily life, and urban centers reflect the failures of industrial modernity. The protagonist, Rith, escapes this patriarchal and ecologically...

Flooded Landscape and Ecological Crisis in Sarah Hall’s Haweswater (D1-S2-A7)

Selin Yurdakul (Ordu University)

13/05/2026, 16:15

Oral Presentation

In an era increasingly characterised by environmental degradation and the escalating climate crisis, literature serves as an important medium for exploring humanity’s interaction with the natural world. Contemporary ecological fiction not only reflects the concerns of a threatened world but also invites readers to reconsider humanity’s interventions in natural landscapes and ecosystems. Within...

“Thoughts Were Had”: Cannibalism and the Crisis of the Human Subject in Post-apocalyptic Narratives (D1-S2-A7)

Bilge Ece Çizmeci (Brock University)

13/05/2026, 16:35

Oral Presentation

Drawing on “the anthropological machine” (Giorgio Agamben) and “arrogant anthropocentrism” (Lori Gruen), this article scrutinizes the crisis of the “Human”. Following Val Plumwood, crisis here is understood as the crisis of a cultural mind that is extractive, exploitative, and ecologically irrational (Environmental Culture 2013), manifesting itself, among other ways, in the ecological...