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AlternativEEnlightenmentS

An interdisciplinary conference in the humanities.

26-28 April 2013Ankara, Turkey

Sunday — 28 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130

11:00-11:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks

13:15 — Lunch at Sözeri Restaurant

10:00-11:00 — Perspectives on European Enlightenment

Moderator: Michael MeeuwisDavid Alvarez The Formation of Liberal Religious Tolerance in Enlightenment En-

gland: Locke, Shaftesbury, and a Tale of Two LettersAlicia C. Montoya Middlebrow Literature and the European Enlightenment

11:15-13:15 —Enlightenment and Contemporary Thought

Moderator: Andrew J. PloegAndrea Rehberg Delectare aude: On a Non-Rational Requirement of Enlightenment

According to KantCarsten Meiner andMorten Dyssel

The Cartoon Controversy and the Enlightenment Legacy

Francis Halsall Systems of Enlightenment/Systems of ModernityGiovanni Mascaretti Foucault and the Project of Enlightenment

14:30 — Bus leaves from Sözeri Restaurant for visit to the Anıtkabir

09:30 — Coffee and Tea

13:00-15:00 — Translation and Transposition in the Eighteenth Century

Moderator: Mihaela P. HarperFatih Durgun Between Enlightenment, Progressivism and Calvinist Orthodoxy:

Counter-Enlightenment Evangelical Discourse in ScotlandJonathan Haddad Inventing Turkish LiteratureBurcu Gürsel The Sublime Translator: Mouradgea d’Ohsson between the Savants and

the UlamaKhaled Aljenfawi Charlotte Brontë’s Alterative Enlightenment: The Muslim Other in

Villette (1853)

Friday — 26 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130

09:30 — Opening Address — Prof. Talat S. Halman, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Letters

15:00-15:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks

17:45-19:00 — Keynote Address — C Amphitheater

Felicity Nussbaum The Tragedy of Enlightenment

19:00 — Bus leaves from in front of H Building for informal dinner at Beer Garden

Saturday — 27 April 2013 — Building A, Room 130

09:30-11:30 — Klär mich mal auf!

Moderator: Cory StockwellWilliam Coker Nietzsche’s Homeric TheodicyGloria Colombo Enlightenment and its Others: Mysticism, Hermeticism and the ArcaneDorothea von Mücke The Surprising Origins of Enlightenment AestheticsYael Almog Mendelssohn, Herder, Asad: The Hebrew Language in 18th-Century

Germany and the Enlightenment’s Secularist Legacy

13:00-15:00 — Regional and National Enlightenments

Moderator: Katarzyna BartoszyńskaEduardo Madrigal-Muñoz Enlightenment, Colonial Elites and Political Processes in Costa Rica:

From the Colony to the Nation (1750-1824)Manolis Patiniotis Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European IdentityAlp Eren Topal Social and Political Concepts in the Tanzimat Era: An Indigenous

Enlightenment?

15:15-17:15 — Islam and Enlightenment

Moderator: Mehmet KalpaklıZaur Gasimov Maarifçilik. Discourses on Enlightenment Among the Muslims in the

Russian Caucasia (1906-1907)Donna Landry What is Enlightenment? Evliya Çelebi and Ottoman AlternativesSura Qadiri Malek Chebel and Rachid Benzine: A Contemporary Enlightenment in

Muslim Thinking?

11:30-13:00 — Open Lunch on campus

15:00-15:15 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks

17:15-17:45 — Coffee, Tea and Snacks17:15-17:45 — Coffee and Tea

09:45-11:45 — Lumières, in a New Light

Moderator: Gerald MacleanCharles T. Wolfe Vital Materialism and the Radical EnlightenmentDaren Hodson Tarare (1787): Courtly Art and Radical EnlightenmentDaniel Leonard Fetishism and the Cult of Universal ReasonSandrine Berges Emotionally Enlightened: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Relation-

ships and Social Justice

19:00 — Bus leaves from Lojman 105 bus stop for dinner at Kınacızade Konağı

11:45-13:00 — Open Lunch on Campus

15:15-17:15 —Traveling Ideas

Moderator: Michael SubialkaKatarzyna Bartoszyńska A Brief History of Unhappy Endings: Some Problems with Enlighten-

ment UtopiasJ. Marc MacDonald Quiet Cultivators of Late Enlightenment Gardens: International Traffic

and the Delesserts as a Challege to Insular InterpretationsMichael Meeuwis On Booty and Being Just: Aesthetic Piracy and Theatrical Emulation in

the 1720s

08:30 — Registration, Coffee and Tea

09:00 — Coffee and Tea