Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 4.4 (Day 2)

D2-S4-A9

14 May 2026, 15:15

A9 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 4.4 (Day 2): Tiyatro Çalışmaları / Theatre Studies

• Bülent Sezgin (Bahçeşehir University)

Examining Late Ottoman Empire Labor Assemblies Through Theatre Historiography (D2-S4-A9)

Fatine Bahar Karlıdağ (Yeditepe University)

14/05/2026, 15:15

Oral Presentation

Before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Regime (1908), marked with severe authoritarian prohibitions, Ottoman workers resorted to seeking their rights in rather compelling ways that attract a theatre historian’s gaze. The pre-constitutional years (1901-1902) saw the exiled labor leaders of the Ottoman Workers’ Association succeed in arranging a Labour Congress in an Istanbul...

Staging Crisis in Deliberation: Twelve Angry Men Reimagined Within Turkish Political History (D2-S4-A9)

Burak Urucu (Istanbul University)

14/05/2026, 15:35

Oral Presentation

Reginald Rose’s play Twelve Angry Men (1955) has inspired several stage and film adaptations worldwide, with its political, ethical, and affective layers. Turkish playwright and director Murat Karahüseyinoğlu, known for his radical retellings of Western canonical works in the Turkish context, relies on Rose’s chassis to restructure the play around the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye's...

Desperate Remedy for a Desperate Disease: Gender Crisis as Moral Anaesthesia in Macbeth (D2-S4-A9)

Açelya Su Türkeli (Manisa Celal Bayar University)

14/05/2026, 15:55

Oral Presentation

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth plays a crucial role in reflecting the gender and moral norms of the Elizabethan Age, in which it was written and staged. Through a textual analysis of gender and moral crisis as intertwined dynamics in the light of Butler’s concept of performativity, which suggests that gender is not innate, but constructed through performative norms socially imposed on the...