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Ege University 7th Cultural Studies Symposium
| Location: | Turkey |
| Symposium Date: | 2002-01-18 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-10-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
128800 |
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"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?
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)
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
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
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Ayse Lahur Kirtunc
Secretary, Ege University Cultural Studies Symposium
Phone: +90 232 388 4000 / 3925
+90 232 388 0110 / 3925
Fax: +90 232 388 1102
E-mail: cultural@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr
Email: cultural@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr
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