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Azade Seyhan, Lecture: “Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel Between Tradition and Innovation” Workshop: “Critiques of Western Modernities: Migration, Exile, Scholarship” Workshop readings include the Introduction and Chapter 3 of Seyhan's Writing Outside the Nation and her essay "German Academic Exiles in Istanbul." Please click on the links for copies in .pdf format. Co-sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies Program and the UW-Madison
Mellon Workshop, "Cosmopolitan Cultures, Cosmopolitan Histories"
(sponsored by UW-Madison Center For the Humanities). Azade Seyhan is Professor of German and Fairbank Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College. Her wide-ranging research interests include German Classicism and Romanticism, cultural diversity in the modern German society, philosophical approaches to criticism, women’s writing, modern exile, migrancy, and diasporas. She is the author of Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism (University of California Press, 1992) and Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton University Press, 2001) as well as numerous scholarly articles. Professor Seyhan was the co-editor (with Russell Berman) of the special issue of New German Critique (Winter 1989), one of the very first publications in the US on minority/migrant literatures in post-Second World War German speaking world. She has written extensively on various aspects of Turkish-German literature, including essays on the Turkish-German author Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Her book Writing Outside the Nation (2001) is a multifaceted comparative study of literatures of migration in Germany and the United States. In her more recent scholarship, Seyhan performs “historical detective work” to unravel critiques of Western modernity. Focusing on scholarship crossing borders and scholarship in exile with special emphasis on the anti-Nazi Germans and German-Jews who had to flee the Third Reich, Seyhan investigates silent and at times silenced epistemological exchanges between Germany and Turkey. Through a discussion of these displaced scholars, Seyhan presents a complex critique of German modernity from a non-European site and the survival of scholarship in and as translation, and the role of translation in the economies of national culture. |
