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    The seminar report summarizes a cultural studies seminar that took place in İzmir, Turkey from May 16-17, 1996. The seminar was co-organized by Ege University, the American Studies Association of Turkey, and the British Council. It featured keynote speeches on political cartoons in the classroom and high culture in the UK and US. Over 20 presentations were given on various topics comparing cultural aspects of the UK and US, such as representations of women, the impact of world wars, and American media studies. Over 70 people from various places attended the seminar, which was the first of its kind in Turkey and brought together scholars of American and British studies. Ege University expressed interest in organizing another cultural

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    The seminar report summarizes a cultural studies seminar that took place in İzmir, Turkey from May 16-17, 1996. The seminar was co-organized by Ege University, the American Studies Association of Turkey, and the British Council. It featured keynote speeches on political cartoons in the classroom and high culture in the UK and US. Over 20 presentations were given on various topics comparing cultural aspects of the UK and US, such as representations of women, the impact of world wars, and American media studies. Over 70 people from various places attended the seminar, which was the first of its kind in Turkey and brought together scholars of American and British studies. Ege University expressed interest in organizing another cultural

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    Journal of American Studies of Turkey

    3 (1996): 137-138.

    Conference Report

    The İzmir Cultural Studies Seminar

    A cultural studies seminar entitled "Crossing the Boundaries: Cultural Studies in


    the UK and the US" took place in İzmir on 16-17 May 1996. The seminar was co-
    organized by Ege University, the American Studies Association of Turkey and the
    British Council.

    On May 16, after the welcoming address by Refet Saygılı, President of Ege
    University, David Marler, British Council Representative in Turkey, and David
    Arnett, counsellor for public affairs at the US embassy in Ankara, made opening
    speeches. The keynote speech was then delivered by Harald Husemann, who had
    come especially from Germany at the invitation of the British Council. He spoke on
    "Political Cartoons in the Classroom." The other keynote speaker invited by the
    British Council was Piotr Kuhiwczak, a Pole who has been living in the UK for
    twelve years, who spoke on May 17 on "High Culture in the UK and the US."

    As there were no panels but individual presentations in concurrent sessions, we list


    below, in alphabetical order of the presenters' names, the topics of papers delivered.
    The proceedings will be published jointly by the American Studies Association of
    Turkey and the British Council.

    Can Abanazır, "The Voices of the Inner Cities: London and Los Angeles."

    Pelin Başçı, "Recapturing the Spirit of the Times: The Works of William T. Porter
    and F.O.C. Darley."

    Gülriz Büken, "The McDonaldization of Britain: The Impact of American


    Consumer Culture on Britain."

    Gülsen Canlı, "Prescribed Representation of Women and Feminist Dynamics in the


    Theatre."

    Sevda Çalıþkan, "The Fallen Woman: Hester."


    Burçin Erol, "The Impact of the Two World Wars on the Roles and Rights of
    Women in Britain and USA."

    Selim Eyüboğlu, "Authorship Lost and Regained in Mainstream Cinema."

    Dean Franco, "With Pistols in Their Hands: The Inscription of Chicano Culture in
    Criticism."

    Ayşegül Gürerk, "The Problems and the Pleasures One Can Find in the Process of
    Turkish-British Marriages in Turkey."

    John Higgins, "The Teaching of American Media Studies: Contributions from Latin
    America."

    Rüçhan Kayalar, "The Socio-Cultural Conflicts of the Colonial Individual: V.S.


    Naipaul and his Protagonists."

    Süheyla Kırca, "Reading Beauty Advertisements in Women's Magazines."

    Andreas Kitzmann, "Re-writing Culture: Hypertext and the Future of the Digital
    Text."

    Gülşah Konak, "The Literary Representations of National and Regional Identities


    in Britain."

    Oya Menteþe, "An Analysis of the 'other' in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and
    Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons of Cyprus. "

    Nüvit Mortan, "Allen Ginsberg's 'America.'"

    Ünal Norman, "The Fallen Woman: Tess."

    Johann Pillai, "Socratizing Discourses: The Limits of Cultural Studies."

    Gönül Pultar, "Cross-cultural Elements in Poetry in English by Poets of Turkish


    Origin in the UK and the US."

    Pete Remington, "Reflections on Growing Up Interculturally."

    Gülþen Sayın, "Representation of Ethnicity in American and British Drama."

    Günseli Sönmez İşçi, "Shakespeare Transformed."

    Himmet Umunç, "Arnold's 'Dover Beach': A Cultural Reading."


    Over seventy participants, coming from places ranging from California to Cyprus,
    attended the seminar, the first of its kind in Turkey. One of the benefits of the
    seminar was the coming together of Anglicists and Americanists.

    Ege University expressed the desire to organize another cultural studies seminar in
    May 1997. Those interested, please contact:

    Seçkin Ergin
    Department of American Culture and Literature
    Ege University
    Bornova
    İzmir, Turkey

    or

    Gülriz Büken
    Department of History
    Bilkent University
    Ankara, Turkey
    e-mail:[email protected]

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