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The American Studies Association of Turkey has been founded to encourage the study of and research in all areas of American culture and society, and to promote cooperation and communication between scholars from various universities in Turkey and abroad. To this end, the Association organizes seminars,conferences, workshops and lectures;provides research material for its members, publishes books and conference proceedings; promotes arrangements for the travel of Turkish scholars to the United States; and contacts other institutions and organizations concerned with the study of the United States.The Association is composed of the Founding Members Honorary members and Active members. The governing body of the Association is The Executive Board consisting of seven active members elected by the General Assembly to serve for two years. The Board elects a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer; the other three members are the regional representatives from Istanbul, Izmir and Erzurum. Membership
is acquired through direct application to the Association and with the
approval of the Board upon payment of membership dues. All members enjoy
the benefits derived from activities of the Association and have a right
to attend the annual conference and to participate in its general meetings.
Membership fee also covers 2 issues of the Journal of American Studies
of Turkey The
Association organizes annual conferences that are held at various sites
in Turkey. In recent years, the annual conferences wee sponsored by a grant
from the Study of the US Branch, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs
United States. Besides, it organizes a monthly basis series of lectures
on a wide variety subjects ranging from literary studies to cultural studies,
history, politics and art. Among previous delivered lectures in this series
are: "After the Cold War: Implications of Recent Events for US Politics"
by William Chafe, American Archeologists: The Social Dimension" by Charles
Gates, "Hollywood; Multiculturalism and the American Dream" by Paul Levine,
"American Consumer Products and Postcolonial Identity" by Jeanne Dubino,
" Popular Culture and Its Influences on Language" by Damon Anderson and
"The Art of Silence: Asian-American Women Writers" by Nur Gokalp, "The
Images of Texas: The Myth and the Myth" Today
the Association has 91 active members majority of whom are the faculty
at various universities from all over Turkey. Since 1996 ASAT is an affiliated
member of EAAS-Eurepean Association for American Studies- and is represented
at the EAAS Board by the national delegate. President:
Gülriz
Büken, Department of History, Faculty of Economic, Administrative and Social
Sciences, Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey.
Vice President: Engin Sezer, Department of Turkish Literature,
Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey.
Secretary: Gülben Ulupınar, Deulcom Int., Atatürk Bulvarı
Bakanlıklar No:131 Kat 4, Ankara / Turkey
Treasurer: Gülriz Büken & Filiz Altın, Department of American
Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University. Ankara, Turkey.
Member: Sırma Soran Gumpert, Department of English Language and
Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ataturk University. Erzurum, Turkey.
Member: Dilek Direnç, Ege University, Faculty of Letters, English
Language and Literature, Bornova- İzmir
BOARD
MEMBERS (2002-2004)
President:
Gülriz Büken, Department of History, Faculty of Economic, Administrative
and Social Sciences, Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey.
Vice-President: Meldan Tanrısal, Department of American Culture
and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University. Ankara, Turkey.
Secretary: Sema Keskekci, Faculty Academic English Program, Bilkent
University. Ankara, Turkey.
Treasurer: Tuba Geyikler, Department of American Culture and
Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ankara University. Ankara, Turkey.
Member: Ahmet Bese, Department of English Language and Literature,
Faculty of Letters, Ataturk University. Erzurum, Turkey.
Member:Ozlem Gorey, Department of Western Languages and Literatures,
Faculty of Letters, Bogazici University. Istanbul, Turkey.
Member:Yesim Ceki Kuzanli, Faculty Academic English Program,
Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey.
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