Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 3.4 (Day 1)

D1-S3-A9

13 May 2026, 17:10

A9 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 3.4 (Day 1): Tiyatro Çalışmaları / Theatre Studies

• Mesut Günenç (Aydın Adnan Menderes University)

Rituals of Eco-Refugee: Performing the Crisis of Displacement in David Greig's The Suppliant Women (D1-S3-A9)

Işıl Şahin Gülter (Fırat University)

13/05/2026, 17:10

Oral Presentation

This paper reconceptualizes the refugee crisis in David Greig’s The Suppliant Women (2016) by shifting the analytical frame from geopolitics and ethics of hospitality to eco-displacement. While scholarship has largely focused on democratic negotiation, gendered precarity, and the politics of reception, the play’s evocation of land, sea, and elemental forces invites a deeper reading that...

A Modern Crisis Narrative on British Stage: Representation of Individual and Social Fragmentation in David Greig’s The Events (D1-S3-A9)

İrem Molla (Marmara University)

13/05/2026, 17:30

Oral Presentation

Since the beginning of civilisations, societies have experienced political conflicts and crises that manifested themselves in various destructive and violent forms such as wars, terrorism, bombings and mass shootings. Not surprisingly, crises that permeate every aspect of societies found themselves a place on stage and became a widely encountered theme, especially in contemporary drama....