Please join Keyman MTS for day two of our conference "Freedom and Unfreedom in James Baldwin's Istanbul" on May 23, 2026 in Harris 108.
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Saturday, May 23
8:30 - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 Begüm Adalet — ”‘A certain silence, a certain privacy’: A Collective Reconsideration of Baldwin’s Turkey Decade”
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 (Library) Film: James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973)
Can Candan — “On Sedat Pakay's James Baldwin: From Another Place”
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Panel III: Transit Migration, Queer Mobility, and Cultural History
Alize Arıcan — “Transience in Black Istanbul: From Transit Migration to Exile”
Mert Koçak — “Selective Visibility: James Baldwin, Düşenin Dostu, and Queer Mobility in the Turkish Press”
2:00 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 4:00 Panel IV: Discourses of Race in Turkey (Hybrid)
Jason Rodriguez Vivrette — “Afro-Kurdish Correspondences: Intersectional Unfreedom in James Baldwin and Yaşar Kemal’s Turkey”
Enes Osman Sayın and Emirhan Mutlu — “Beyond Baldwin’s Istanbul: American Connections in the Making of Race Discourse in Modern Turkey” (presenting via Zoom)
Andre Yarborough — “A Nest of Hyacinth: Artists of African Descent in Istanbul (1870-1970)”
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Closing Lecture: Maureen Freely — “The Other Side of Elsewhere: Istanbul's Debt to James Baldwin”
5:30 - 6:30 Closing remarks, open-ended discussion
6:30 Reception and dinner
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