Middle East Technical University Faculty of Education Department of Foreign Language Education

 

 

THE 16TH METU BRITISH NOVELISTS SEMINAR
IRIS MURDOCH AND HER WORK
December 15-16, 2008
Department of Foreign Language Education at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY, is convening a 2-day conference on Dublin-born writer and philosopher Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) and her fiction, and her other critical and creative work. It is a conference intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and participants who descend from different backgrounds and to encourage dialogue between them. We encourage proposals on a wide variety of topics related to Murdoch which might include Murdoch’s interrogations of gender and sexuality, identity and difference, and conflicts between good and evil from a variety of literary, historical, political, and cultural perspectives. We also welcome new comparative theoretical approaches offering provocative insights into Murdoch. As usual, we plan to publish the papers presented at the Conference.

 

Organizing committee:

Prof. Dr. Meral Çileli

Dr. Deniz Arslan

Assist. Prof. Dr. Nurten Birlik

Assist. Prof. Dr. Margaret Sönmez

Assist. Prof. Dr. Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro

 

Honorary committee:

Prof. Dr. Nursel İçöz

Prof. Dr. Ayten Coşkunoğlu Bear

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ünal Norman