World Literature Webinar Series 2026 : "Unsettling Time-Lag in Modernist Literatures from Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Landscapes" by Hülya Adak — Online, 25 February 2026

World Literature Webinar Series 2026Assoc. Prof. Hülya Adak (Free University of Berlin / Orient-Institut Istanbul (OII) & Max Weber Stiftung)."Unsettling Time-Lag in Modernist Literatures from Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Landscapes" Adak proposes to map out fiction within Ottoman and Post-Ottoman literary landscapes that illustrates a contemporaneous movement with European and Anglo-American modernists. Analyzing works from 1909-1960, she illustrates how to overcome the limits of theoretical ...