Program of Yaşar Kemal Symposium Announced

The program of the symposium “Yaşar Kemal and a Thousand and One Flowers in the Garden” to be organized by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and Yaşar Kemal Foundation on 2-3 December has been announced. Many academicians, journalists, artists and literary figures will attend the symposium as speakers.

Preparations for the “A Thousand and One Flowers in the Garden with Yaşar Kemal” symposium in İzmir continue at full speed. The program of the symposium on “Nature, Environment and Ecological Reality in Yaşar Kemal's Narrative World” organized by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and Yaşar Kemal Foundation has been announced. The symposium to be held on 2-3 December at İzmir Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center (AASSM) will host friends of many academics, journalists, artists, men of letters and master writers.

Coordinated by writer and critic Feridun Andaç, the symposium will focus on the "nature" and "human" elements in Yaşar Kemal's narrative world. Speakers will evaluate Yaşar Kemal's literature from aspects such as social memory, social conscience and a pioneering understanding of nature in a preliminary and 6 thematic sessions.

In the preliminary session, Yaşar Kemal will be told by his friends

The two-day symposium will start on December 2 with the “Hello to Yaşar Kemal” preliminary session. Türkan Şoray, the director of the film, which was adapted from Yaşar Kemal's novel "The Snake Kills" with the same name to the big screen, American composer Michael Ellison, who adapted the master author's novel "Deniz Küstü" into a musical theater play, Lucien, the manager of Union Publishing, which publishes the books of the master author in Switzerland. Leitess and poet Ataol Behramoğlu will attend as speakers. His close friends will talk about both Yaşar Kemal and his literature.
After the symposium, Kardes Turkuler will give a concert.

“The end of the corruption of nature is the corruption of mankind”

Master writer Yaşar Kemal describes the point of the relationship between man and nature as follows: “The end of the corruption of nature is the corruption of human beings. Can we predict in advance what the corrupt, depraved, rotten humanity will do and not do? Can humanity overcome its madness and recreate nature and return to its own creativity? Shall we start crying to the end already? Or should we put our heads in our hands and join forces to save nature, to this madness?"

The program of the symposium “In the Garden with a Thousand and One Flowers with Yaşar Kemal” is as follows:

Friday, December 02, 2022
11:00 - 12:30 Hello to Yaşar Kemal
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer
Ayşe Semiha Baban Gökçeli, Chairman of the Board of Yaşar Kemal Foundation
Actress and director Türkan Şoray
Poet and writer Ataol Behramoğlu
Composer Michael Ellison
Publisher Lucien Leitess

12:30 - 14:00 From food

14:00 Nature/Environment/Ecological Reality in Yaşar Kemal's Narrative World”
Opening Speech: Feridun Andaç

14:15 - 15:45 SESSION ONE: JOURNALIST YAŞAR KEMAL
Chairperson: Umur Talu/ Yaşar Abim from Basınköy
Yaşar Kemal's Literary Journalism: Anatolian Interviews / Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu
Yaşar Kemal Looking at Anatolia: Understanding Geography and Guiding by Kenan Mortan
Why Didn't You Have İnce Memed's Grave Constructed Yaşar? / Derya Sazak
Yaşar Kemal The Color of Narrative World: Language/ Barış İnce

15:45 - 16:00 Search

16:00 - 17:30 SECOND SESSION: THE COLOR OF THE SOIL, THE VOICE OF PEOPLE
Chairperson: Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan Contemporary Commentator of Nature in Turkish Oral Culture Yaşar Kemal
“Akçasaz's Aghas”: The Literaryization of the Reflections of Economic and Social Change on Nature and Human Behavior / Onur Bilge Kula
Exchange and Abandoned Properties in the Novel "The Euphrates Water Is Flowing, Look" / Kemal Arı
Yaşar Kemal: The Writing of Nature, The Nature of Writing/ Haydar Ergülen
History and Nature: The Relationship between Man and Soil in the Anti-War Discourse of the Quartet “An Island Story” / Erol Köroğlu

December 2022, Saturday

11:00 - 12:30 THIRD SESSION: COLOR OF NATURE, VOICE OF HUMAN
Chairperson: Arzu Öztürkmen/ Yaşar Kemal through the Lens of Oral History, Folklore and Ethnography: The Poetics of a Life Story
Yasar Kemal; The Author Who Knows the Secret Life of Nature / Buket Uzuner
The Establishment and Transformation of Physis in Abused Memory: “The Legend of the Binbulls”/ Christina Zenginoğlu
Reading Yaşar Kemal in the Context of Ecocriticism: “On the Trail of the Sacred Tree”/ Ece Onural
An Anatomy Lesson: “Sea Confused”/ Aslan Erdem

12:30 - 13:45 Search

13:45 - 14:15 SESSION FOUR: THE NATURE OF NATURE IN YAŞAR KEMAL NARRATORS
Chairperson: Seza Yılancıoğlu / Change of Nature and Human in the Writing of Yaşar Kemal
The Secret of the Sound/Color of the Sea, Trouble / Mustafa Sarı
What Do Plants Tell Us In Yaşar Kemal's Novels? Inferences from „İnce Memed“ Series, Cihan Erdönmez
Water Ethics at Yaşar Kemal / Ufuk Özdağ
Yaşar Kemal is on Eros's Side / Ayşegül Tözeren

14:15 - 15:30 From food

15:30 - 17:00 FIFTH SESSION: FROM PAST TO TOMORROW IN LITERATURE WITH YAŞAR KEMAL
Chairperson: Hidayet Karakuş “Yaşar Kemal's Public Resources”
Understanding Yaşar Kemal Correctly / Semih Gümüş
A Standing Glance in Yaşar Kemal / Feridun Andaç
Yaşar Kemal is a Timeless School / Murat Sabuncu
The Decent and Literary Reality of Yaşar Kemal Master / Şeyhmus Diken

17:00 – 17:15 Search

17:15 - 18:45 SIXTH SESSION: WITH YAŞAR KEMAL IN THE GARDEN WITH A THOUSANDS OF FLOWERS
Chairperson: Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu/ With Yaşar Kemal in the Garden with Binbir Flowers
The Author and His Geography / Gürsel Korat
Soil, Bird and Child: Transforming Nature in Yaşar Kemal / Metin Turan
Musical Elements in Yaşar Kemal Article/ Evin İlyasoğlu
Yaşar Kemal's Heroic Narrative / Yalçın Karayagiz

20:00    Brothers Song Concert