<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: ArialMT; ">Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication is organizing an international conference titled <i>Topographies of “Turkish Cinema”: Hybrids, Hyphens and Borders</i></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: ArialMT; "> on April 21-22, 2011. The aim of the conference is to generate new discussion on Turkey-related migrant/diasporic/hybrid films, filmmakers and audiences. To encourage those who missed the 1</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: ArialMT; "><sup>st </sup></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: ArialMT; ">circular or those who would like to open new discussions on the issue we have extended the deadline for abstract submission to 27</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: ArialMT; "><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: ArialMT; "> December 2010. You can find the call for below. For further details please visit the conference website.</span></p>
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<font face="ArialMT" size="5"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><b>Topographies of ‘Turkish cinema’: Hybrids, hyphens and borders</b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">International Conference<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">İzmir University of Economics, Department of Media and Communication</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">İzmir / Turkey</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">21-22 April 2011</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Over the past few decades the concept of national cinema has become a hotly debated topic. The global circulation of cultures, finances, people and commodities has come to render impossible the delegation of fixed national affiliations to films, filmmakers and audiences. Furthermore, as a more recent development, the way films are being produced/co-produced, distributed and consumed are now raising new questions for, and requiring new vocabularies from film, scholars. When we look at the literature in this area the concept of national cinema is being contested increasingly. At the heart of these discussions we encounter notions such as transnationalism, globalization, diaspora, migration, post-nationalism, hybridity, exile, post-colonialism etc. Interestingly, with a few exceptions, the literature on Turkish cinema seems to have missed, or at best neglected, these discussions.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">The<i> Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> conference is intended to be an intervention into these issues, aiming to shed light on Turkey-related films, filmmakers and audiences. There are approximately four million Turkey-related migrants living in western European countries, and many filmmakers with links to Turkey dispersed around the world, producing films that portray hybrid, diasporic subjectivities and experiences. These audiences, films and filmmakers are forging new transcultural fields, which scholars and critics of Turkish Cinema have yet to properly engage with. The<i> Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> conference will bring together filmmakers, researchers and academics to initiate a discussion that probletamises the concept of what ‘Turkish Cinema’ might be. Within this context the position of Turkey-related filmmakers, films and audiences will be reconsidered and the impact of its cinema on diasporic/transnational viewers will be scrutinized.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">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.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Films and their nationalities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hyphenated identities, belongings and films</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Theorizing the concepts of <i>nationality</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">, <i>transnationalism, migrant, exilic</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> and <i>diasporic</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> within the scope of Turkish cinema</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Rethinking conventional vocabulary used for stereotyping particular films, filmmakers and audiences (Türk asıllı/Turkish-origined, gurbetçi/expatriate etc.) – their contestations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Film as a bridge/breach between host/guest cultures and societies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Migratory filmmakers - their biographies, cinemas and films</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Non-conventional migrants/migrations: exiles, sojourners, etc.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Short and documentary films</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">·<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Migratory Turkish filmmaking as a transnational industry. (Distribution, co-production, etc.)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Abstracts of up to 400 words can be sent to <a href="mailto:gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr</a> or <a href="mailto:serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr</a>. The abstracts should include the full name, institutional affiliation (if any) and the contact information of the author(s) along with an e-mail address. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 27<sup>th</sup> of December 2010. There will be a registration fee of 50 Euros for those presenting a paper. The language of the conference will be English. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present her/his work.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">As a parallel project to the <i>Topographies of ‘Turkish Cinema’</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> conference, we are planning to publish an edited collection which will include selected papers from the conference presentations. Those who are interested in contributing to this collection with their articles will need to send in the drafts of their full papers by the 1<sup>st</sup> of April 2011.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><b>Important dates</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><u>Deadline for abstract submission</u>: 27 December 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><u>Notification of acceptance:</u> 31 December 2010</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><u>Conference days:</u> 21-22 April 2011</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><b>Organizing committee</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Burak Doğu</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Assist. Prof. Dr. Ebru Uzunoğlu</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökçen Karanfil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Serkan Şavk</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Prof. Dr. Sevda Alankuş</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><b>Academic Advisory Board</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gürata (Bilkent University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Assist. Prof. Dr. Ashley Carruthers (Australian National University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; ">Dr. Daniela Berghahn (University of London)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "></span>Assist. Prof. Dr. David J. Gramling (University of Arizona)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nejat Ulusay (Ankara University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Prof. Dr. Nezih Erdoğan (İstanbul Bilgi University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Prof. Dr. Robert Cardullo (İzmir University of Economics)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">You can reach further details regarding the conference through the website located at <a href="http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/topographies</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Please don’t hesitate to contact the Conference Organizing Committee through the following e-mails should you have any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><a href="mailto:serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">serkan.savk@ieu.edu.tr</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; ">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; "><a href="mailto:gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">gokcen.karanfil@ieu.edu.tr</a></span></p><font color="#888888"><br></font><font color="#888888"></font><font color="#888888"></font></font><p>
</p></span>-- <br>Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökçen Karanfil<div>Izmir University of Economics</div><div>Faculty of Communication</div><div>Media and Communication Department</div><div>Sakarya street, No 156</div><div>Balcova, Izmir</div>
<div>Turkey</div><div>Tel:+902324888188</div><div><br></div><br>