Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 5.7 (Day 2)

D2-S5-K1

14 May 2026, 16:30

Kurul Odası (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 5.7 (Day 2): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Habib Tekin (Marmara University)

From Crisis to Creation: Migration and Identity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Work (D2-S5-K1)

Gabriella Pelloni (University Of Verona)

14/05/2026, 16:30

Oral Presentation

My paper aims to analyze the writings of E. S. Özdamar as a laboratory for reflecting on migration in its dual nature as both crisis and possibility. Özdamar’s oeuvre, awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 2022, is rooted in the experience of crossing languages, cultures, and borders, staging both the traumatic dimension of migration and its transformative potential.
First, I will read migration...

A Blue Humanist Reading of Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı’s Aganta Burina Burinata: Mahmut's ‘Blue Crisis of Belonging’ (D2-S5-K1)

Gökben Güçlü (Istanbul Atlas University)

14/05/2026, 16:50

Oral Presentation

Aganta Burina Burinata is a novel by a Turkish novelist and short story writer, Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, also known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, who portrays the protagonist Mahmut’s close but paradoxical relationship with the land and the sea. This paradox evolves into a crisis, as Mahmut oscillates between the sea that forms and soothes him and the land that confines and suffocates...

Linguistic and Literary Resonances amid Contagion and Public Health Crisis in Pamuk’s Nights of Plague (D2-S5-K1)

Pınar Umman (Independent Researcher)

14/05/2026, 17:10

Oral Presentation

Through a plague epidemic taking place in the early 20th century in an imaginary Ottoman island, Orhan Pamuk’s postmodern historical novel Nights of Plague envisions a moment of political, social, and ideational crisis. Undermining existing authority structures to create a vacuum in which new structures can arise, the plague epidemic is not just the driver of transformation in the novel, but...