Ege University 7th Cultural Studies Symposium
(in co-operation with the Cultural Office of the U.S. Embassy, BC and ASAT)
May 8 - 10 , 2002
Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, TURKEY
CALL FOR PAPERS
" Selves at Home, Selves in Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement”
"The global village" of 21st century is being formed and reformed through the
rapid advance of transnational capital, technology, people, and mediatic or
cybernetic images. Along with such globalizing processes flourish
representations and discourses of individuality or selfhood that give rise to
alternative expressions of home and exile: janus-faced senses of
attachment/detachment, displacement/emplacement, in (or and?) complex forms,
sites and states. How do our selves respond to a world like this? How do we
configure territorial, spatial, or relational aspects of our beings, our senses
of becoming or belonging? Are contemporary cultural expressions of
emplacement/displacement any different from past formulations? Is the human
experience of home and belonging, being absorbed by globalizing cultural
practices?
This topic is of particular interest to this conference, which since 1995 has
taken place in Izmir, a city which for centuries has accommodated citizens from
other cultures who have experienced similar contradictions of being and
belonging, emplacement and displacement. Communities have come and gone; and
still reside in the city; one only has to think, for instance of the Levantine
and Jewish communities, which settled as a result of Izmir (or Smyrna)'s status
as a trading city.
We hope that this conference will provide an up-do-date perspective on the
topic, with the focus of attention covering both Turkish communities and their
experience of being and belonging, as well as other communities around the
globe.
You are invited to address such issues as:
*what is home? What does home represent? This could focus on home making and/or
individual / social responsibilities for the “home” (this could mean a physical
or an intellectual home)
· what do the terms “yerli” (person who is a native of a place) and “gurbet”
(living away from one’s native land)and “sıla” (homeplace, homesickness) mean
within Turkish culture?
·how the term “cosmopolitan” translates into different contexts
·cultural constructions of home and exile (and, yes, self-exile)
·contemporary expressions of exilic emplacement/displacement in music,
literary, visual or performing arts,
·political discourses of emplacement/ displacement
·media constructions of difference
·home / exile / “abroad” as sites of cultural politics
·how (and whether) notions of home and exile relate to western-formulated ideas
of multiculturalism
·being/belonging as expressed through place
·senses of belonging and alienation / nostalgia
·Izmir as a port and a site for exchange of cultural / intellectual /material
property
·an academic conference as a site for cultural negotiations
·home and exile as experienced by academics and students who are teaching and
learning about other cultures
·and much more.
We welcome proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations,
performances, films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or alternative
formats
Deadline for proposals (as abstracts): January 18, 2002
Please e-mail your proposals and CVs to: cultural@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr or
egecultural@yahoo.com or mail them / fax them to:
Ayse Lahur KIRTUNC
Ege Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakultesi
Amerikan Kulturu ve Edebiyati Bolumu
35100 Bornova, Izmir, TURKEY
Fax: +90 232 388 11 02
Seminar Registration Fee:
20 USD regular , 25 USD late registration
* Graduate students, research assistants and applicants under the age of 25 are
exempt from registration fee.
Mail or fax your registration form and a copy of your bank receipt to: Ayse
Lahur KIRTUNC (address above)
Please deposit the non-refundable seminar fee 20 USD to:
Turkiye Is Bankasi, Ege Universitesi Subesi
Account No: 3499 - 301000 - 23597
The call for papers and the registration form will also be available on the web
Ege University; http://www.ege.edu.tr/announcements - The British Council;
http://www.britcoun.org.tr
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REGISTRATION FORM
Ege University 7th Cultural Studies Symposium
(in co-operation with the Cultural Office of the U.S. Embassy, BC and ASAT)
May 8 -10 , 2002
Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, TURKEY
“Selves at Home, Selves in Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement "
Please complete and return this form by March 15, 2002 to Ayse Lahur KIRTUNC,
Ege Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakultesi, Amerikan Kulturu ve Edebiyati Bolumu,
Bornova 35100 Izmir, TURKEY.
Fax:(+90 232 388 11 02) E-mail: cultural@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr or
egecultural@yahoo.com
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ORGANIZERS: Ege University, Department of American Culture and Literature,
Department of English Language and Literature, The Cultural Office of the U.S.
Embassy, The British Council, The American Studies Association of Turkey, and
Guest Co-organizers Gonul Ertem and Laurence Raw
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