New Voices: Literature Conferences for Students

"Once Upon a Time: The Literary, Cultural, Social and Psychological Significance of Fairy Tales" Student Conference organized by the English Language and Literature Department of TOBB University of Economics and Technology will take place on March 25 between 14.30-18.45 in TOBB ETU Main Building, 5th floor, Amphitheatre 1.

Senar Arcak, who is a member of our research group will be one of the speakers in New Voices Literature Conference this year with her presentation titled "'Here come two who shall not escape me'- The Witch Fantasy in 'Hansel and Grethel' from Grimms' Fairy Tales" .

Her presentation provides analyses why the witch figure is necessary for narrative progression within fairy tales and possible reasons for the immense fascination with the gruesome death of the witch figure.

Interview on Fulbright Experience

On Wednesday, February 23, at 12:00, Assistant Professors Tarık Tansu Yiğit and Melike Tokay Ünal will be informing the students on the Fulbright experience and answering their questions. The event will take place in G-401 in Başkent University, at Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature.

Reconstructing the Self and the American: Civil War Veterans in Egypt

Tarık Tansu Yiğit

Yiğit's work will provide a window into the network of ex-Confederate and Union veterans who served in the Egyptian army in the 1870s as mercenaries. Concerned about financial and professional anxieties during Reconstruction, these officers found a common cause far from home. Egyptian sojourn provided them with stability and opportunity to restore their dignity as fathers, husbands, or soldiers. The American version of the “Arabian Nights” proves that Reconstruction extended far beyond the US borders.