PALA 2003
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Monday
Sabih
Tansal (President of
Willie van Peer
(Chairperson of PALA)
Oya Baþak (Chairperson of Western
Lang. and Ling. Dept,
Talat
Halman (Chairperson of Turkish Language and
Literature Dept., Bilkent Univ.)
“Foucault, penseur des limites"
(Foucault, thinker of the boundaries)
Chair: Oya Baþak
“Constructing a text”
Chair: Dilek Doltaþ
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BTS
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Rector’s Hall
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Seminar Room
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Kriton Curi
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Chair: |
Peter Stockwell
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Nüket
Esen
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Martin Wynne
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Lesley Jeffries
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“How
bounded is human cognition in literary interpretation” M.
Burke |
“East-West
intermixture in Orhan Pamuk’s
novels” A.B.
Kesim & D. Randall |
“
‘One good story, that one’: Deixis and displacement
in the short fiction of Thomas King” M.
Green |
“The
boundaries of narrative: The problems, possibilities, and politics of
accommodating the lyric mode in narrative fiction” N.
Korkut |
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14.45-15:15 |
“Plot
inferences and attention –controlling devices in narrative fiction:
Psychological and stylistic perspectives” C.
Emmott, A.
J. Sanford, L. I. Morrow |
“Stylistic
dialogue of the East and the West in Orhan Pamuk’s White
Castle” D.
Kantar |
“Deixis in drama” D.
McIntyre |
“Removing
boundaries and renegotiating contracts: A new theory of genre?” A.
Johns-Putra |
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“Crossing
the boundaries of time: Merleau-Ponty’s
phenomenology and cognitive linguistic theories” M.
H. Freeman |
“The
Ottoman phenomenon versus Edward Said’s monolithic
discourse on the Orient” E.
Akalýn |
“Point
of view in The Star by Alasdair Gray S.
Breem |
“Challenging
genre boundaries” I.
Moutinho |
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BTS |
Rector’s Hall |
Seminar Room |
KrIton Curi |
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CHAIR |
Eser Taylan |
Iþýl Baþ |
Suat Karantay |
Sonia Zyngier |
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“Parable,
allegory, and myth: The effects of writing on the expression of conceptual
metaphor” P.
Crisp |
“Original
Sin(s): Queer(y)ing originality and the naturalness
of naturalistic dramatic dialogue” K.
Dorney |
“Challenging
voices: Polyvocal storytelling in Louise Erdrich’s Love
Medicine” A.
Silku |
“’ESL
Students’ perceptions and experiences of literature use in the ESL classroom” P.
C. Bernaschina |
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“To
shake the boundaries of metaphor- a new
definition for metaphor” M.
Benari |
“Challenging
/ crossing the boundaries of Turkish academe through the internet: Legato and
the ‘problem’ of gay student organizations in Turkish universities” S.
Gorkemli |
“The
gaze of a diasporic, the voice of a subaltern: Amitav Ghosh’s articulation of
the Indian labor experience in The Glass Palace” S.
Pillai |
“”Linguistic
environmental considerations in second language acquisition: natural vs.
formal environment” V.
C. Walter |
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“A redefinition of the ‘Understanding Is
Seeing’ metaphor” N.
A. Martinez |
“From
divergence to convergence: The construction of gay-lesbian identity in
Turkish society” S.Delice, E. Kaya, Z. Atalay, B.
Sonmez |
“Touching
the language of citizenship: Dissolving the divide” S.
Sanghera |
“Teaching
English or imposing a high culture? Let us learn how to listen!” B.
Behin |
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
ALPHA |
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chaýr |
Didar Akar |
Zeynep Ergun |
Catherine
E. Davies |
Willie Van Peer |
Sýrma Soran
Gumpert |
Özlem Görey |
Peter Crisp |
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“Text
World Theory beyond the boundaries” J.
Gavins |
“Vatic Craft: The science and poetics of
perception” S.
Lattig |
“
Poetic parallelism in ‘The Knight in Panther’s Skin’
” T.
Bolkvadze |
“Literary
experience, enjoyment...and facts: A comparative empirical study” S.
Zyngier & |
“Towards
an anatomy of truth in Antjie Krog’s
Country of My Skull” B.de Vasconcelos |
“Emily
Dickinson: Inner and / or Outer? Where is the boundary?” A.Chesnokova |
“Analyzing
conceptual metaphor along different parameters: Some notes on methodological
aspects” F.
Santibanez |
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“Creating
a text world of M.
Attia |
“Mirror
image or illusion?: Narrative practice in two cultures” J.
M. Donna |
“Challenging
the arbitrary sign: Rhyming monosyllables with coherent meanings” D.
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“Authorial
prestige and reader’s response. An empirical study” O.
De Almeida Menezes& M. Pereira Mendes (Supervisor: S. Zyngier) |
“Faithfulness
in speech presentation and the Holocaust” M.
Wynne |
“Dismantling
the letters and crossing the boundaries of language: The poetry of Medbh McGuckian” H.
Blakeman |
“A
cognitive analysis to narrative structure and characterization in fiction” L.
P. Hernandez |
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“The
Poetics of Negative Dialectics in Celan’s Winter
Poems and Seagreen Words” P.
Batu |
“Do
the interpretations support the poet’s opinion about the translation of her
poems?” A.
Kenesei |
“Metrical
boundaries” K.
Hanson |
“The
effect of pictures on text comprehension” O.
Tsiknaki |
“Muslim
African slaves in the new world: Autobiographical data” G.
Junne |
“Apophasis
in W.
P. Franke |
“Exploring
frontiers in space” C.
Xu |
“A DAIMEN
ICKER IN A THRAVE: something rotten in the state of English”
Chair: Cevza
Sevgen
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
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chaýr |
Cathy Emmott |
Paula Bernaschina |
Geoffrey Hall |
Michele Reese |
Bronwen Thomas |
Didar Akar |
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“From
inner space to outer Space: Cognitive poetics and science fiction” P.
Stockwell |
“Foreigners
in Swiss-German sketches” R.
Muller |
“Finding
the interface between language and visual images: Where the two modes meet” R.
O. Mercer |
“The
representation of females in English and Arabic proverbs” S.
M. Farag |
“Stylistics
for language teaching: The lesson of lessons” J.
Zerkowitz |
“Orient
– Occident where is the boundary about the Romanian postmodern poetry” M.
Alexe |
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“Beckett’s
revolution of the syntacticon” A.
Banfield |
“Foregrounding
across cultures” J.
Hakemulder and W. Van Peer |
“Free
verse-poetic rhythms between music and painting” E.
Lilja |
“Speaking
and writing from the peripheries: The ex-centric female and native in Foe” E.
Melikoglu |
“Self-
assessment in a web-based stylistics course” D.
McIntyre,C. Alderson, G.
Hughes, M. Short |
“The
road to post-modernism: Linguistic and stylistic influences in the Romanian
literature of the last two centuries” C.
Ardelean, M. Alexe, S. Cismas |
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“A
cognitive appraisal of lexical items ending in –ful and -less” S.
P. Cervel |
“A
post-colonial view on the Turkish-Hungarian martial relationship during the
16th century” G.
Hima |
“Facade:
Between verse and music” T.
Barney |
”A. S: Byatt’s
Melusine goddess in myth and legend” G.
Alban |
“Piloting
the web- based ‘language and style’ course at D.
Archer; S.
Strong; M. Short |
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
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Esra Melikoðlu |
Esin Akalin |
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15:45-17.45 |
“Oh,
how I lang(uage) to be free!” N.
Aðýl (Workshop) |
“Web
Based ‘Language and Style’ D.
Archer; S. Strong; M.
Short (Workshop) |
“Challenging
the boundaries around O.
M-Manor; A. Goldberg, K. Neuburger, N.
Gordinsky, S.
Chen (Workshop) |
15.45
– 16.15 |
“Disciplining
Interdisciplinarity” A.Gerbig and A. Muller-Wood |
“(Re)
Constructing the past: A consideration of literature and testimony” G.
H. Bodger |
Meeting
of the REDES project W.Van
Peer, S. Zyngier, J Hakemulder |
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16.15-16.45 |
“What
can literature do for linguistics? Metaphorical synonymy and distant cohesion
in James Joyce’s Ulysses” N.
Norgaard |
“Grand
principles of narratology” H.
Scharfe |
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16.45-17.15 |
“The
gothic violence of the letter: James Hogg, Walter Scott, and the border” M.
Russett |
“Challenging
the boundaries of narratives” D.
Yakalý |
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Wednesday
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
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chaýr |
Margaret Russett |
Nazan Aksoy |
Gülþen Teker |
Christina Wright |
Adeline Johns-Putra |
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9:30-10.00 |
“Writing
and flesh: The boundary between narrative and the pre-reflective” F.
Tomkinson |
“The
Sly Inviting Smile into the Labyrinth” M.
D. Sheridan |
“Playing
with textual boundaries: ‘Variations on a theme by Clara Schulman’ ” Ö.
Sozalan |
“Nonce
forms in Bridget Jones’s Diary by
Helen Fielding” I.
Tryshchenko |
“The
literariness in non-literary language” L.
Shisheng |
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10:00-10.30 |
“What
stories are made of” M.
Hansson |
“(Anti?)
Feminist reading of cappuccino fiction: The interface of fictional and media
discourses from a social-cognitive perspective” R.
M. Araque |
“What
is in a vocative? Or a functional analysis of vocative constructions in the
language of Shakespeare” B.
Busse |
“Challenging
a feminist myth in Adrienne Rich’s poems” N.
Bulamur |
“Revisiting
the scenario approach to directives: A cross – linguistic analysis” O.
I. Diez-Velasco |
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“The
boundaries of selfhood: The three paradoxes of story-telling” R.
B. Nair |
“The
use of language in journalistic texts: The case of Newsweek” B.Behnam & A.Behnam |
“A
‘business deal’ with God: A stylistic approach to ‘religious’ fantasies in
Tom Murphy’s plays” H.
Farrag K.A. |
“Transgressing
the linguistic boundaries: The feminine poetic discourse in Arundhati Roy’s The
God of Small Things” R.
S. Kocaoner |
“Sustainability
of phraseological image in discourse: D. H.
Lawrence’s short story ‘Rawdon's Roof’ ” A.
Naciscione |
“The exploitation of meaning”
Chair: Donald Freeman
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
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chaýr |
Michael Burke |
George Junne |
Özlem Ögut |
Didem Uslu |
Mine Nakipoðlu |
Greg Watson |
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“Setting
the scene-setting up the tension: The creation of opposition in the openings
of novels” L.
Jeffries |
“The
boat people and the sea people: Seamus Heaney’s
‘For the commander of the Eliza’ and the abandonment of the refugees” C.
Brandabur |
“Vocal
cultures, uncertain& imagined boundaries” J.
A. Gibbons |
“The
power of prestige” C.
Fuchs |
“Discoursal features of the Turkish official register: A
corpus based study” E.
Yarar |
“Chinese-character
tattoos on western bodies and the
rhetoric of graffiti” D.
Cahill |
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“Stylistic
Analysis of Lexical Patterns in Harry Potter series” S.
N. Melo |
“9/11
and beyond: American poets respond – or do they?” R.
Tillinghast |
“Boundaries
in contemporary music composition” J.
O. Clark |
“Teach
(with) style: The stylistic analysis of drama in the language classroom” J.
G. Anninou |
“Liars
or lawyers? The boundary between truth and fiction: An attorney’s
representation of ‘reality’” D.
Archer |
“The dilemma of
empowerment/disempowerment of present-day Turkish woman’s body in the contemporary novel” L. Gülçur |
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“Online
or on paper: emotional gain or loss?” C. Schweigert |
“Liminality and alienation in the construction of Irish
Literature” C.
T. Cairney |
“(Post)
Modernism and Transmodernism in the works of David
Bowie” J.
Szaniawski |
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“East
meets west: Shaking boundaries of formality in Hungarian urban discourse” E.
Solyom |
“ ‘My Body Thinking’: Roethke
Beyond Dichotomies of Body, Mind and Spirit” A.
Alkaç |
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
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GALAXY III |
MARS |
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chaýr |
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Iþýn Bengi |
Inge Boer |
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15:45-17.45 |
“Rhetoric
and / as terrorism: Before and after September 11” M.
Gumpert (Workshop) |
“Corpus
linguistic approaches to literature” M.
Wynne (Workshop) |
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“What
are the boundaries between poetry and prose processing today?” I.
Yaron |
“Influence
of cultural environment on the finding of coherence by reading a scientific
text: A comparative study between J.
Auracher, A.
Hirose, D.
Huber, |
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“Capturing
the present / glimpsing the future: Digital storytelling” B.
Thomas |
“Challenging
boundaries of text and of audience: The literary uses of cross-linguistic
differences” C.E.
Davies |
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“The
boundary between narrator and character in free indirect discourse” J.
Bray |
“Appraising
the literary experience: A change in methodology” M.
Mendes & S.
Zyngier |
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Thursday
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
ALPHA |
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chaýr |
Jeannine Donna |
Serra Görpe |
Süheyla Artemel |
Irina Tryshchenko |
John Mc Rae |
Gillian Alban |
Tom Barney |
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“Troubling
the boundary between fiction for adults and children: A study of the dystopian fantasy of contemporary British writer Melvin
Burgess” C.
Walsh |
“Boundaries
in David Lodge’s Thinks” J.
Luo |
“Terminus:
A (post) modern fairy tale” C.
Wright |
“...
I literally like nearly broke my knee
and shattered it but I didn’t...” ‘Almost
heroes’ in the personal narratives of children’s ‘almost experiences’” M.
Lambrou |
“ ‘The Russian English’ of
the internet: Still culture – specific or global?” O.
Maksimenko |
“Space
in language and architecture: Different or similar?” E.
Chrzanowska-Kluczewska |
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“Winding
through Lynchville’s highway: Challenging curves of
A.Gündoðdu |
“Alternative
world within the intertext: The Handmaid’s Tale as a double intertext” F.
Civelekoðlu |
“Memory,
identity, and naming in the H.
Seçkin Tekdemir |
“Anomalous
textual worlds: Crossing the boundaries” O.
Vorobyova |
“Adrian
Mole’s saga or an instance of common readers’ emotional involvement with
satire?” A.
De Sousa |
“When
border crossing was not called border crossing” J.
B. Douthwaite |
“Correcting
in Language Teaching” A.Khuwaileh |
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“The
bedroom blues-love and lust in the lyrics of early female Blues artists” G.
Watson |
“What
are we going to do with all that rubbish? Prospects
for stylistics in the 21st century” G.
Hall |
“Goldsmith’s
voice: Genre, conversation style” A.
Henry |
“Transcription
of minds: George Eliot to D. H. Lawrence” V.
Sotirova |
“The
haunted pound!!! A study of satire in journalese” A.
El -Shazly |
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“ESP
in Jordanian institutions: Use, function, and attitude” Al-Khatib |
“The not-me in thee: Negative identification
through literature”
Chair:
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GALAXY I |
GALAXY II |
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GALAXY III |
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MARS |
JUPITER |
ALPHA |
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Chaýr |
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Martin Quinn |
Isabel Moutinho |
Clare Brandabur |
Sosi Antikacýoðlu |
Sumru Özsoy |
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13:30-15.30 |
“Cognitive
poetics / stylistics: Appraising the present configuring the future” M.
Burke (Workshop |
“A
corpus-based investigation into speech and thought presentation in spoken
British English” M.
Short, E. Semino, T.
McEnery, J. Heywood, D. McIntyre (Workshop) |
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“The
Moors in John Dryden’s plays: The
Conquest of Granada (1672) and Don
Sebastian (1689)” H.
Saab |
“The
language of advertising in cyberspace: Fluid gender identities within
dominant discursive boundaries” L.
Mullany |
“Sadness
in the shadow lines: Post- colonial melancholy in modern Indian fiction” I.
Almond |
“Body
and Soul” S.
Bulutsuz |
“The
creation of mental spaces across the partition in M.
Apprey |
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“Houses
as constructs of identity in The Africa
House by Christina Lamb and Ways of
Dying by Zakes Mda” M.
Wenzel |
“Don
DeLillo’s The
Body Artist: Constructing a pixilated cyber-discourse” E.
Kitis & C.
Kontoulis |
“You know a boundary when
you cross one: The poetics of border crossing in two 19th Century French
women’s travelogues” I.
Boer |
“Language
and gender research for distance learning: Presentation of a new course” O.
Goroshko |
“The
‘Sun-God’ and the ‘Sun-Language’: ‘Apollonian Tendency’ in Israeli, Mandarin,
Arabic, and revolutionized Turkish” G.
Zuckermann |
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“Moments
of thinness and suspension: The fertile voids of virtual imagery in Djibril Diop Mambety’s La Petite
Vendeuse de Soleil” B.Martin |
“The
posthumanist body in the flesh: Hypertext,
simulation and prosthetics” U.
Cronquist |
“Home,
identity, and travel in the work of
Derek Walcott” M.
Reese |
“Stepping
out of boundaries: from a fragmented body to a fragmented text. Written in
the margin: An interdisciplinary reading of Rainer Maria Rilke’s,
The Notebooks of Malte
Laurid’s Brigge” P.
Linden |
“National
identity: A view through a linguistic lens” N.
Kovalyova |
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GALAXY I |
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Closing Remarks PALA AGM MEETING |
GALA
CRUISE &
DINNER (registration required)
We would like to extend our special thanks to:
Boðaziçi
University Foundation
Boðaziçi University Language Center
L'Institut Français d'Istanbul, Consulat General de France
The
Public Affairs Section of the American Consulate General in Istanbul
for their invaluable contribution.