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conference organized jointly by the Cultural Studies Association of
Turkey and Bilkent University </big></big><br>
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AND CULTURE<br>
5-7 September 2013<br>
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey </big><br>
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<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><b><big>The
7<sup
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">th</sup><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cultural Studies Conference on
Memory and Culture, jointly organized by the Cultural Studies
Association of Turkey and Bilkent University departments of Political
Science and of Architecture, will be held on September 5-7, 2013 in
Ankara, Turkey. The international cultural studies conferences that are
organized every two years have been contributing to cultural studies in
Turkey and bringing together researchers who work in this area. Since
the first meeting in Kemer, Antalya (2001), the conferences have been
organized, jointly, in Van with Yüzüncü Yıl University (2003), in
Istanbul with Koç University (2005), in Şile with Işık University
(2007), in Zonguldak with Karaelmas University (2009), and in İstanbul
with Kadir Has University (2011).</big></b></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><b><big>The
purpose of this conference is to question existing paradigms in topics
that bring together the concepts of “memory” and “culture”; it aims to
present critical and analytical approaches, and to explore new
theoretical and methodological paradigms in cultural studies. It adopts
an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective that includes such
disciplines as sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science,
urban studies, architecture, design, and literary studies; it also
takes a gender perspective. Submissions, both domestic and
international, are invited on the sub-themes below but the conference
is open to a variety of themes beyond the suggested ones, as long as
these deal with memory and culture within the context of Turkey.</big></b></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Memory
is about the retreat to consciousness of experiences, accompanied by
awareness that it has happened somewhere sometime. Culture is its
concrete form; the term goes beyond its everyday connotation with art,
civilization and development; it is used in the anthropological sense
referring to a “way of life.”</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>The
relationship between memory and identity is an important one. The way
the individual remembers his/her own or family’s past determines to a
significant degree what s/he is. This is “discovering” oneself in a
particular way.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>The
relationship between memory and space is also important. We remember
everything with its location in space. But this can happen only in
relation to social frameworks, as M. Halbwachs puts it. Social
frameworks can be broadly classified as the family, religious / ethnic
groups and social classes. They are the instruments used to
reconstruct an image of the past which is in accord with the dominant
ideas of the society in a particular epoch. Therefore, memory is
selective.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Memory
is also a question of social and political power. What we remember
depends upon the context and the group(s) that we are part of.
Accordingly, the depth and contour of our collective memory reflect
also the competitive positions of power groups. Political power usually
has the tendency of reconstructing collective memory to reproduce its
legitimacy.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Today
the interest in the past and consequently in the collective memory has
intensified. In the processes of globalization, ethnic groups’ claims
of recognition in post-modern societies have brought the need for
ethnic groups to construct their past and hence their collective
memory. The collective memory written during the construction of the
nation state as a political project is today questioned and challenged;
and the past, which is forgotten or rendered forgotten, is today
brought to public attention, creating awareness about new collective
identities. This once again turns collective memory into a political
project, this time of ethnic groups.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>As
migration movements increase in our globalizing world, migrants tend to
construct their identities in their new societies using their
constructed collective memory, thus ending up keeping their identities
based on their places of origin, i.e., not forgetting who they
originally are.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>The
fact that cities have become important means of accumulation of capital
in the neoliberal economy has sharpened the competition among cities to
attract investment and tourism; and in the endeavor to create unique
identities for the cities, the concepts of cultural heritage and
nostalgia have gained much popularity. Thus, cities turn into sites of
consumption as their pasts are constructed in particular ways to create
special city images and identities. Moreover, the increased
environmental problems render important the collective memory
constructed about the issues of nature and disaster.</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><b><big>In
the framework given above, the sub-titles about Memory and Culture can
be as the following, which may be differentiated according to personal,
group and social memory:</big></b></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Identity
and memory (Family and memory; Biographical and autobiographical
studies; Migration, diaspora and memory);</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Space
and memory (Memory and culture in architecture; City, urbanization and
memory;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Gecekondu</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(squatter housing), village,
city, neighborhood, nature in collective memory);</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Politics,
political power and memory (Memory and culture in modernity /
modernization/ modernism; Construction of memory as a political
project; Nationalism and memory; Ethnic identity and memory; Minorities
and memory; Political trauma and memory);</big></p>
<p
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><big>Memory
and culture in everyday life (Traditions, memory and culture; Rituals,
memory and culture; Bodily practices, memory and culture; Recreation,
memory and culture; Disasters and memory; Nostalgia and memory);</big></p>
<p
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institutions / Cultural products and memory (Art / Literature, memory
and culture; Language, memory and culture; Religion, memory and
culture; Media and memory; Internet and virtual memory);</big></p>
<p
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to be submitted for the conference may be in the form of (a) individual
paper presentations, (b) pre-organized panels consisting of 3 to 4
individual presentations, (c) poster sessions, and (d) exhibitions.
Abstracts of individual papers to </big></b><span
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submitted</big></b></span></span><b><big> should not exceed 200 words,
and be written in Times Roman 12-point font, single-spaced. Also
expected are five keywords, as well as a short CV and contact address.
Proposals for panels should include individual abstracts as well as an
abstract for the overall panel, and CVs of chairs and discussants.
Proposals for poster sessions and exhibitions should also include CVs
and contact addresses.</big></b></p>
<p
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send your proposals to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="mailto:semp2013@kulturad.org"
style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(245, 122, 48); text-decoration: none;">semp2013@kulturad.org</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>no later than 15 January 2013</u>.
The results will be announced by 31 January 2013. You may refer to the
same e-mail address for inquiries.</big></b></p>
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will be published; and full papers will be distributed during the
symposium as CDs. Selected articles will be published by an established
publisher following the conference.</big></b></p>
<p
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registration fee (until March 1, 2013) is 100 TL for members of the
association and 150 TL for non-members; and after this date, it is 150
TL for members and 200 TL for non-members.</big></b></p>
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