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<div dir="ltr">Dikkat: "deadline" 30 Haziran 2014.<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">CFP: Comparative Literary and
Cultural Studies Symposium:</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">“Remnants of the Nation,”
30-31
October, 2014</span></strong><span
style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">Yaşar University, English
Language and Literature Department, Izmir, Turkey</span></strong><span
style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)"></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></strong><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Is
all that is left of the nation a set of remnants to be
mourned, or is mourning over remains precisely a sign of our
captivation by the
form of the nation? Posing the question of the remnants of
the nation within
the field of literary and cultural studies in 2014, this
two-day seminar aims
to raise a number of contemporary—or contemporarily
exacerbated—problems of
national form, and it intends to do so from a comparative
perspective.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">We
invite proposals for paper presentations that discuss the
nation and its margins in relation to remnants, memories,
and memorializing
from the fields of literary and cultural studies and/or
interdisciplinary
studies that incorporate insights from other social sciences
and humanities
disciplines. Topics can include, but are not limited to, </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Nation,
nationalism, trans-/post-nationalism, post-coloniality</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Memory,
mourning, nostalgia</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Minority
and migrant fictions</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Diasporic
memoirs, auto/biographies, life writing</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Empire,
state violence, and collective trauma</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">The
gendering of home and homeland</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Alternative
paradigms: regionalisms, globalism, atlanticisms,
hybridity</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Depictions:
remains of the nation in visual culture</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Exchanges
(population, cultural, linguistic), translations, and
transpositions</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Architecture,
(urban) space, and national identity</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Immigration/ethnicity
and gentrification/displacement in postmetropolis</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">Media:
discourse and nationality</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">The
seminar and subsequent workshop on cultural pluralism and
academic literary
studies in Turkey will take place on 30-31 October 2014 on
Yaşar University’s
central campus in Bornova, Izmir. Confirmed keynotes include<span
class=""> </span><strong><span style="border:1pt none
windowtext;padding:0in">Prof.
Meyda Yeğenoğlu</span></strong><span class=""> </span>(Cultural
Studies
and Sociology, Istanbul Bilgi University),<span class=""> </span><strong><span
style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Prof.
Kader Konuk</span></strong><span class=""> </span>(Turkish
Studies,
University of Duisburg-Essen), and Emeritus<span class=""> </span><strong><span
style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Prof.
Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç</span></strong><span class=""> </span>(Ege
University,
Faculty of Letters).</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74);border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">Please
send proposals of 250 words, with a 100-word biography in
MS Word format to </span></strong><a
href="mailto:clcs@yasar.edu.tr"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">clcs@yasar.edu.tr</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)"> <strong><span
style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">by June
30th 2014.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">The
language of the symposium will be English.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)">For
the
complete version of the seminar description, visit our
website at<span class=""> </span></span><a
href="http://clcs.yasar.edu.tr/"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in">http://clcs.yasar.edu.tr</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(74,74,74)"></span></p>
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