Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 3.2 (Day 3)

D3-S3-A7

15 May 2026, 13:15

A7 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 3.2 (Day 3): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Hasine Şen Karadeniz (İstanbul University)

Alternate Reality as a Therapeutic Strategy for Confronting Crisis in Contemporary Fiction (D3-S3-A7)

Kerem Aras (Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University)

15/05/2026, 13:15

Oral Presentation

Contemporary narrative fiction often engages with realities that do not exist in the empirical world, yet remain psychologically conceivable and emotionally resonant. These imagined domains, constructed through literary imagination, offer an expanded terrain in which human consciousness may explore and withstand circumstances too painful to endure directly. This study examines the therapeutic...

Extracting the Unknowable: Order-Violation and Prospecting in the Zone Narrative (D3-S3-A7)

Berkay Üstün (Fenerbahçe University)

15/05/2026, 13:35

Oral Presentation

The zone of exception is a modern figure of speculative literature that conjures imaginary spaces where natural and social laws are suspended—from the boundaries of species and the stability of ecologies to the very laws of physics, a simultaneity and indistinction of violations that run against the ancient separations of phusis and nomos and demand to be read in the light of a conjoined...