International Conference
Izmir University of Economics
Department of Media and Communication
Izmir / Turkey

21-22 April 2011

The conference is intended to foster discussions at the interface of issues such as migration, diaspora, transnationalism and Turkish cinema. Within this context, the position of Turkey-related filmmakers, films and audiences will be reconsidered

Below is a non exhaustive list of topics and themes around which interested film scholars, filmmakers and cinema professionals may give their presentations. The list is intended to be a guide; we are open to papers on topics other than the ones listed below as well.

* Films and their nationalities
* Hyphenated identities, belongings and films
* Theorizing the concepts of nationality, transnationalism, migrant, exilic and diasporic within the scope of Turkish cinema
* Rethinking conventional vocabulary used for stereotyping particular films, filmmakers and audiences (Türk asıllı/Turkish-origined, gurbetçi/expatriate etc.) – their contestations
* Film as a bridge/breach between host/guest cultures and societies
* Migratory filmmakers – their biographies, cinemas and films
* Non-conventional migrants/migrations: exiles, sojourners, etc.
* Films and audiences
* Short and documentary films
* Migratory Turkish filmmaking as a transnational industry. (Distribution, co-production, etc.)
* Celebrities and spectacles of diasporic/transnational Turkish cinema
* Screening of Turkish films abroad and their reception among audiences (theatres, premieres, festivals)

You may send abstracts of no more than 400 words by the 10th of December 2010 to gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr or serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr