May 27, 2005

Arrival at Uyan Hotel and Empire Palace

Walk around historic area

       5:30 p.m.

Optional:  No Host cocktail hour

 Uyan Hotel Veranda

Meet other Participants

       7:00 p.m.

Optional:  Dine Around

Restaurant Hamdi

walking distance from Hotel

May 28, 2005

Theme 1.  Human Rights and Women’s Rights

 8:30 a.m.

Leave Hotel for University of Istanbul

Univ is 15 minutes from Hotel

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome to Institute

Karen Dugger

Demet Varoglu

 9:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Keynote speaker:

Berin Ergin

University of Istanbul

“Women’s Rights in the Turkish Legal System Regarding the International Conventions”

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Panel Presentations and Discussion

1)  Linda Bishai  - “Superpower &Under-privilege: How U.S. Legal Practice Undermines Protections for Women.”

2) Margaret Crouch – “Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Sexual Harassment: Turkey.”

3) Burcu Culpan Scherr & Courtney Adams Ghodrat – “Youthbridge: Model for Conflict Resolution and Peace.”

1:00 p.m.

Return to Hotel or Explore University Area

Free time

City/boat tours possible

 5:30 p.m

Bus from Uyan Hotel for Reception at  Baltalimani

Small Charge for Bus – Round trip

7:00 p.m

Buffet - Reception at Baltalimani

Univ of Istanbul’s Faculty Club overlooking Bosphorus

Law students will perform music and dance program

Note:  unregistered guests may attend for $25.00. Let us know if you plan to bring a  guest.

9:00 p.m.

Return to Hotel by Bus

May 29, 2005

Depart for Bodrum

Plane departs 4:45 p.m.

Free morning for city tours etc.

3:00 pm

Bus departs from Uyan Hotel for Airport

Charge for Bus

4:45 p.m.

Flight leaves Istanbul for Bodrum

5:45 p.m.

Arrive at Bodrum Airport - Milas Airport

6:15 p.m.

Bus departs Airport for Hotel Anka

Charge for Bus transport to hotel

7:00 p.m.

Check in Hotel Anka

8: 00 p.m.

No Host Cocktail Reception at

Hotel

Meals are included in price of room. Liquor is extra.

May 30, 2005

Theme 2: Feminism & Women’s Studies

8:30 - 9:00 a.m

Welcome  – Review Venue for Bodrum

Karen Dugger

Demet Varoglu

9:00 – 10:30 a.m

Presentation and Open Discussion

Karen Dugger

 “Controversies in Women’s Studies USA.”

Demet Varoglu

“Issues in Women’s Studies Turkey”

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Panel Presentations and Discussion

Women and Turkish History

1)  Elif Gozdasoglu - “The Historical Roots of the Turkish Women’s Movement.”

2)  Kathryn Libal – “International Dimensions of the Women’s Rights Movement in Early Republican Turkey: The Turkish Women’s Union and the International Women’s Alliance for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (IWSA)”

3) Bihter Somersan-Gemalmazoglu – “The Empowerment of Women and the Turkish State: A Dead-End?”

12:00 – 1:00

Research and Pedagogy Roundtables

1)Efe Basak,--  “Rape Myths, Violence in Intimate Relationships and Sexual Humor.”

2)Ruth Kershner – “Women as Perpetrators of Violence.”

3) Gulsum Baydar – “Room for a Newly Wed Woman: Making Sense of Gender in Ismail Hakki’s Historiography of early Republican Architecture.”

Free Afternoon

May 31, 2005

Theme 2 Continued:

 Feminism and Women’s Studies

9:00- 10:30 a.m

Keynote Speaker

Feride Acar.

METU

“Women’s Human Rights.”

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Panel Presentations

1)  Kim Shively – “Religious Bodies in Secular States: The Veil in Turkey and France.”

2)  Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks – “Modernity, Secularism and Muslim Feminism: A Multi Pronged Challenge.”

12:00 - 1:00

Research and Pedagogy Roundtables

1). Tulin Levitas – “Bringing Women Philosophers into the Classroom.”

2) Corinna Trogisch - “Research Perspectives on Islamist Women.”

3) Vanessa Allen-Brown – “Women of Harkers Island: Descendants of Whalers, Boat Builders and Hard Working Mothers.”

Free Afternoon

June 1, 2005

Theme 3. Women, Work and the State

9:00- 10:30 a.m

Keynote Speaker

Ayse Gunes-Ayata

METU

“Women and the State after the Establishment of the Turkish Republic (1923)”

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00

Panel Presentations and Discussion

1). Oya Culpan and Toni Marzotto - “Globalization Boom or Bust for Turkish Women in Banking.”

2)  Serap Palaz and Ali Riza Ozdemir, “What Determines Female Employment in the Informal Sector in Turkey.”

3) Roya Falahi, “The Myth of Gender Equality in the United States: Occupational Sex-Segregation its Costs and Consequences

12:00 – 1:00

Research and Pedagogy Roundtables

1). H. Elizabeth Coyle and Daniele D. Flannery – “Gendered Contexts of Learning: Female Entrepreneurs in Male-Dominated Industries within the United States.”

2) Janet DeLany - “The Meaning of Leadership for Black Women: The Responsibility to Serve.”

Free Afternoon

June 2, 2005

Theme 4 :Images of Women in Contemporary Society

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Keynote Speaker

. Ayse Gunduz Hosgor

METU

“Barriers to Girls’ Primary Education in Turkey: Communication Patterns and Decision Making Processes in the Family”

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Panel Presentations and Discussion

1) Barbara Mennel - “ Seyhan Derin’s Reworking of Genre.”

2) Mine Eren – “Hybridization and Migrant Cinema: An Exploration of Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand.”

12:00- 1:00

Research and Pedagogy Roundtables

1)  Brenda Bethman - “Discipline and Pervert: Female Pianism and Perversion in Elfride Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher.”

2) Eugenia Garbolevsky - “Voices from the Edge: Caught between the Madonna and the Whore – The Representation of the Prostitute in Modern Italian Cinema.”

Free Afternoon

June 3, 2005

Theme 4:  Images of Women in Contemporary Society

9:00-10:00

Panel Presentations and Discussion

1) Lydia Potts – “Mothers’ Dreams, Daughters’ Lives and the State.”

2) Jennifer Miller – “At Home with the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany.”

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 –11:30

Panel Presentations and Discussion

1) Sandra Carpenter & Zahide Karakitapoglu-Aygun - “ Identity Issues: How do the Identities of Turkish Women and Men Compare to those of American Women and Men?”

2) Stephanie Palmer – “Difference Feminism and the Intercultural Situation.”

11:30- 12:00-

Closing Comments and Follow-up

Karen Dugger

Demet Varoglu

Depart for Istanbul*

3:00 p.m.

Depart Hotel Anka for Airport

Charge for bus transport to Airport

5:00 p.m.

Depart Bodrum for return to Istanbul

6:00 p.m.

Arrive Istanbul