Cultural Images and Objects in Everyday Life

2nd TURKISH - GERMAN FRONTIERS OF HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM 2014
“Cultural Images and Objects in Everyday Life”
27 – 30 November 2014
»List of sessions«
 PROMOTING CULTURAL CHANGE BY CRAFTING OBJECTS
Organizers:Diana Modarressi-Tehrani & Adnan Baysal
The Coming of the Literate Vizier. Visual Politics and Levels of Meaning at Iron Age
Carchemish
Alessandra Gilibert, Freie Universität Berlin
Stoneage comedies, Agents and Networks - About the subordinate role of objects in
archaeology
Patricia Rahemipour, Freie Universität Berlin
Painted Pots from the Past: Shifting Contexts and New Meanings
Rana Özbal, Koç University
Images and Objects: Discourses of Identity and Politics of Power in the Neolithic
Cigdem Atakuman, Middle Eastern Technical University
 THE POWER OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS: ART AS PROPAGANDA
Organizers:Yvonne Petrina & Elif Keser-Kayaalp
Propaganda in an international perspective: the case of Sergei Tshakhotin's red arrow
design against National Socialism
Margarete Vöhringer,Research area “Visual Knowledge”, Center for Literary and Cultural
Research Berlin
Erasing Identities by architectural propaganda: The urban redesign of Luxembourg
City during the Nazi occupation
Stefan Heinz, Chair of Art History, University of Trier
Political Images in the 17th Century Ottoman Manuscript Painting
Tülün Degirmenci, Pamukkale University
Reconciliation of Authority and the Subjects: Architecture of Roman Imperial Cult in
Asia Minor
Idil Üçer Karababa, Bilgi University
 VISUAL CULTURE IN MODERN HISTORY
Organizers:Barbara Lüthi & Bahar Gürsel
SECTION I: Violence and Visibility in US-American History
Normative Readings of Photographs of Violence in US History: Who gets the last word?
Greta Olson, University of Giessen
The Visibility of Death and Violence in American War Photographs of the 19th and early
20th Centuries
Silvan Niedermeier, University of Erfurt
SECTION II: The Visual Turn in the History of German-Turkish Relations
Reflections of the Ottoman-German Convergence on Cartoons during the Reign of
Abdulhamid II
Bayram Soy, Department of International Relations, Kırıkkale University
Changing Spatial Constructions and Representaional Strategies in Turkish-German
Cinema (from 1980s to 2000s) Ayça Tunç Cox, Izmir Institute of Technology
 CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Organizers:Yasar Aydin & Murat Ergin
Individualization of class – Clothes as objects of self-presentation
Alexandra König, University of Wuppertal
Dynamics of everyday life in European border regions
Nils Müller, University of Oldenburg
The Rise of New Entertainment-Consumption Complexes: Urban Regeneration and
Political Imagination (A Case of Hamamonu District in Ankara, Turkey)
Olga Kravet, Bilkent University
The Entrepreneur City and Everyday Cosmopolitanisms
Meltem Karadag, Gaziantep University