Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 1.4 (Day 1)

D1-S1-A9

13 May 2026, 14:40

A9 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 1.4 (Day 1): Tiyatro Çalışmaları / Theatre Studies

• Hakan Gültekin (Artvin Çoruh University)

Radical Democracy against State Crises: The Case of The Jungle (2017) (D1-S1-A9)

Pelin Doğan Özger (Munzur University)

13/05/2026, 14:40

Oral Presentation

This study examines Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s 2017 play The Jungle within the context of the human rights and democratic crises resulting from states’ refugee and asylum policies. The play lays bare the uncertainties and social invisibility that shape the everyday experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. At the same time, by revealing the crisis conditions produced by sovereign...

Yaël Farber’s Salomé: The End of a Representational Crisis? (D1-S1-A9)

Florentina Gümüş (Artvin Çoruh University)

13/05/2026, 15:00

Oral Presentation

The figure of Salomé has captivated artists for centuries, evolving from a nameless character in the New Testament into one of the most iconic figures in Western culture. In Yaël Farber's recent adaptation, Salomé (2017), this ancient narrative is radically reimagined. The young female protagonist gains multiple voices: an older version of herself who narrates her story and a chorus of women...

Crisis and Fluid Identities: Ghalia and Gertrude in A Museum in Baghdad (D1-S1-A9)

Aslı Nur Kahraman (Doğuş University)

13/05/2026, 15:20

Oral Presentation

Hannah Khalil’s play A Museum in Baghdad (2019) centers on the identity crises of Gertrude, a British archaeologist assigned to open a museum in Iraq, and Ghalia, an Iraqi archaeologist living in England who is assigned to open the same museum years later. The aim of this study is to examine Gertrude and Ghalia’s identity crisis within the framework of Bauman’s understanding of identity and...