Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 3.3 (Day 3)

D3-S3-A8

15 May 2026, 13:15

A8 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 3.3 (Day 3): Çeviribilim / Translation Studies

• Halise Gülmüş Sırkıntı (Marmara University)

Cries Amid the Crisis: Translating Socialism in a Decade of Turmoil (D3-S3-A8)

Barbaros Uzunköprü (Istanbul Beykent University)

15/05/2026, 13:15

Oral Presentation

Socialist ideas which gained a relative freedom and even the opportunity to be represented in Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1960s, were oppressed in a massive scale in 1970s. After the military coup by memorandum in 1971, socialist student leaders were executed or arrested; The Worker’s Party of Turkey (TİP) were shut down; ultranationalist groups waged a violent street war against the...

The Transition from Crisis to Transformation in Amak-ı Hayal and Its Intralingual Translations (D3-S3-A8)

Gözde Büklüm (Uskudar University)

15/05/2026, 13:35

Oral Presentation

Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi's work, Amak-ı Hayal, presents a complex narrative about the intellectual and epistemic crises faced by individuals with a series of encounters commencing as a Sufi journey. Raci is a meticulously developed character who embodies the psychological disintegration resulting from the modernization process he is experiencing. The work can be regarded as a...

The Performativity and Iterability of Suicide as a Crisis Response in Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan (D3-S3-A8)

Samindokht Ronaghzadeh Şahin (Middle East Technical University)

15/05/2026, 13:55

Oral Presentation

Suicide can be represented as the tragic outcome of an iterable performative malady that both resists and resignifies the prescribed and restrictive cultural norms. This paper dissects Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan (1996) as a dramatic embodiment of a profound social and psychological crisis, arguing that the play stages melancholia as a form of gendered vulnerability that culminates in the...