Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 1.3 (Day 3)

D3-S1-A8

15 May 2026, 10:00

A8 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 1.3 (Day 3): Çeviribilim / Translation Studies

• Gözde Begüm Aküzüm (Marmara University)

Translating the Ecopolitical: Revoicing Carol J. Adams’ The Sexual Politics of Meat in Turkish (D3-S1-A8)

Özlem Gülen (Haliç University)

15/05/2026, 10:00

Oral Presentation

The intensifying environmental crises across the globe have been transforming and diversifying the ways of addressing the ecological issues, which have become highly political and have generated a distinct field of resistance. As part of this ongoing resistance, translation praxis not only challenges the hegemonic structures established by patriarchy, speciesism, and environmental destruction...

Rewriting the Earth: Ecological Crisis across Translation and Adaptation in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (D3-S1-A8)

Şaziye Çıkrıkcı (Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa)

15/05/2026, 10:20

Oral Presentation

Ecology has become a key issue across Translation and Adaptation Studies, reflecting how culture mediates environmental crisis. Bassnett and Johnston (2019) argue that translation needs to move “beyond the linguistic” toward a planetary perspective, engaging other disciplines and reshaping global communication. Similarly, Cronin (2017) defines “eco-translation” as practice that responds to...

Translation as Guidance in the Climate Crisis: Contextual Voices in a Children’s Climate Book Series (D3-S1-A8)

Halise Gülmüş Sırkıntı (Marmara University)

15/05/2026, 10:40

Oral Presentation

The climate crisis is not only a scientific phenomenon but also a communicative emergency in which translation can either widen or narrow the gap between knowledge and action. While “translation” is frequently used metaphorically in climate discourse, as knowledge transfer or behavior change, its interlingual and intercultural dimensions remain underexamined in practice (see Susam-Saraeva,...