<br> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">EGE UNIVERSITY</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">11th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">May 9-11, 2007 </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ege University , Faculty of Letters, Izmir , TURKEY</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Memory and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The dialectic between ‘Memory’ and ‘Nostalgia’ has always been a significant issue for various disciplines like history, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, literature, etc. Especially nostalgia, as Sean Scanlan states, has an uncanny ability to exceed any constraining definition (1). As a Greek term, comprising the two parts nostos (to return home) and algos (pain), nostalgia, Linda Hutcheon explains, was coined in 1688 by a Swiss medical student as a sophisticated … way to talk about a literally lethal kind of severe homesickness (1). In Nicholas Dames’ terms, nostalgia is a form of retrospect that remembers only what is pleasant and only what the self can employ in the present; … [it is] an absence; what it lacks is what… has come to be regarded as memory in its purest form (4). Nostalgia, then, is a memory that is always only the
necessary prehistory of the present [which] consists of the stories about one’s past that explain and consolidate memory rather than dispersing it into a series of vivid, relinquished moments and … [which] can only survive by eradicating the ‘pure memory’ (Dames 4). </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nostalgia has always been a useful compensatory tool to construct an alternative historical reality created by the images of the golden past, especially when there is discontent with the present socio-economic situation in any culture. Just like governing bodies, modern global corporations also use nostalgia to advertise their commodities by relating either their products or companies to a more desirable time in the past. By implanting modified images in the prospective clients’ minds, such advertising strategies rewrite history through forged memories about the
good old days when prices were more reasonable, goods more durable, and services were more satisfactory. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As Dylan Trigg, the author of The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason (2006) claims, nostalgia demands … the fixation of the past … Thus, both static images – memories – and lived experience – place – serve as homogenous platforms for the nostalgic conscious to impose and identify itself (1). Both memory and nostalgia, then, have always had some spatial and territorial connotations, whether real or ideal, either in some negative or positive sense. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This symposium, then, aims to explore how memory and nostalgia collaborate to construct a meaningful space
in a given culture, both individually and collectively, either through the willing suspension of disbelief or as a state apparatus, with reference to such issues as globalism, consumerism, nation-states, neo-conservatism, etc. During the symposium we hope<span style=""> </span>such questions as Linda Hutcheon raises about the relationship between postmodernism and nostalgia will also be discussed: Was [the] postmodern recalling of the past an example of a conservative – and therefore nostalgic – escape to an idealized, simpler era of ‘real’ (1). Or, if nostalgia is given surplus meaning and value at certain moments – millennial moments, like our own, has nostalgia become an obsession of both mass culture and high art or is it only the media’s obsession (Hutcheon 1). </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Proposals might include, but are not limited to: </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia and Collective Memory </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Cultural Memory as Cultural Repression </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Cultural Memory = Nostalgia
</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Culture as Nostalgic Object and Commodity </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia, Consumerism, and the Heritage Industry </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia and Ideology </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Diaspora and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Diaspora as Temporal Displacement </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia and Ideology </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Homologies of Religious Faith and Cultural Memory or Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia as a Social Disease </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>The Violence of Cultural
Memory </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia as the Abdication of Memory </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Community without Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Trauma, Collective Memory, and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Pain and Authenticity </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgic Structures of Feeling in Cultural Studies </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Mourning and Melancholia in Cultural Memory </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nation, Narration, and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Counter
Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Literature and Art as Cultural Memory </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Media of Memory (Historical Monuments, Public Archives, Oral Histories, etc.) </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Popular Culture, Amnesia, and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Personal Memory, Collective Identity, and Nostalgia </span></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Historiography, Autobiography, and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Memory as a Means of Cultural Regeneration </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nostalgia, Memorabilia, and Subcutaneous Advertising </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Values and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">·<span style=""> </span>Nationalist Interests and Nostalgia </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The deadline for submission of proposals: January 05, 2007. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The notification for acceptance of proposals: January 22-26, 2007. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span
lang="EN-US">We welcome proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats both in English and Turkish. However, there will be no simultaneous translations during the conference. The time allowance for any presentation is 20 minutes. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words in length and should include a title. Please e-mail your proposals and short bios to: css2007@mail.ege.edu.tr and egeucss@gmail.com or mail/fax them to: </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Atilla Silku </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span
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