Erol M Boran

2008

2007

"Enter the Turk - Establishing Germany's First Migrant Theater" / Berlin:
Divided City - 2nd German Studies Symposium, Univ. of Texas at
Austin

"Identität-Ethnizität-Authentizität: Selbstdarstellung im türkisch-deutschen
Kabarett" / Invited Lecture at Waterloo Centre of German Studies, Univ.
of Waterloo

"Theatralischer Fremdsprachenunterricht: Herausforderungen & Strate-
gien am Beispiel der Deutschland-Seifenoper" / CATG Annual Meeting,
Saint Mary's Univ. Halifax, Canada

2006

"Theaterelemente im Deutschunterricht" / Congress of German Teachers,
organized by the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Greece

"East Meets West – Migrating Theater Traditions" / Job Interview, Dept.
of German, Univ. of Toronto

2005

"Turkish-German Identities at the Crossroads" / Colloquium for Compa-
rative Studies, Aristoteles Univ. Thessaloniki

2004

"Probing the Millennium – Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Ka-
barett" / The Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State Univ.

2003

"Transformations in the Portrayal of Turks in Turkish-German Political
Kabarett" / The New Europe at the Crossroads, Berlin (organized by
Loyola College, Maryland)

2002

"Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Her German Critics - Issues of Language
and Ethnicity" / Eyes on the Mosaic Student Conference, Univ. of Chi-
cago, IL

2001

"Vampire wie wir: Die Vampirfigur als Spiegel ihrer Zeit" / Deutsche
Sommerschule in Taos, NM

"Minoritäten in Deutschland am Beispiel der Deutschland-Türken: Politik
und Kunst" / Deutsche Sommerschule in Taos, NM

2000

"No Place for Love: A Postmodern Reading of Gottfried's Minnegrotte" /
SC/MLA, San Antonio, TX

1999

"Dracula and His Heirs: Past and Present Reflections of the Vampire in Lite-
rature" / Characters in Context, Literary Circle, UT Austin

"Fausts Weg von Wort zu Tat: Goethes Drama im Lichte seiner Naturphilo-
sophie" / Characters in Context, Literary Circle, UT Austin

"Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49: Constructing and Reading
Official Reality" / Interdisciplinary Conference The Image of America,
Colorado Springs, Univ. of Southern Colorado

"The Dilemma of the Austrian Feminist Writer: Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano
Player" / Conference on Feminist Identities, UT Austin

1997

"The Whiteness of the Whale: Melville's Moby Dick as a Multiple Signifier" /
Invited Lecture at Univ. of Würzburg, Germany