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<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">EGE UNIVERSITY</font></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri">15th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM</font></span></b></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><font face="Calibri">culture and space</font></i></b></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">May 06-08, 2015 </font></div>
<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Izmir, TURKEY</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Edward Soja in his book Postmodern Geographies says
that “We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide
consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into
the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become
filled with politics and ideology”. It is assumed that the spatiality of social
life is under the threat and disguise of authoritarian ideologies and practices
which may hide the realities of power relations on every level of space in a
given culture and society or between the countries of the world. “Space” in the
context of our symposium encompasses all sorts of
space/places/domains/geographies that human cultural practices directly or
indirectly share. The symposium seeks to explore all dialectics and realities
of space and culture.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Since the nature of our symposium has traditionally
been cross/interdisciplinary, research and studies from all disciplines in the
social sciences along with relevant applied sciences are invited. We will have
a limited number of Turkish sessions for those who would prefer to present in
Turkish (no simultaneous translation will be available).</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">We welcome proposals for individual papers, entire
sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops,
conversations or alternative formats, and topical issues including but not
limited to the suggested topics listed below.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digital/Cyber/Virtual
Spaces and Politics</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spaces of Power and
Politics</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>History and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Film Studies and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gender and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Space and Resistance</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Utopia/Dystopia/Neverland</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Postfordism/Economics and
Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Postcolonial Spaces</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion and Sacred Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art, creativity and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Memory and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paraspaces and Literature</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Architecture and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trauma and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diaspora and Space</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">•<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Body and space</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Deadline for 250-word proposals (as abstracts):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 30, 2014</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Please e-mail your proposal and a short BIO (50 words) to:
egecss2015@gmail.com</font></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://css.ege.edu.tr/">http://css.ege.edu.tr/</a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Assist.Prof.Dr. Murat Erdem</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Symposium Coordinator</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Ege University, Faculty of Letters</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Department of American Culture and Literature</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Bornova, Izmir, TURKEY</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Phone: +90 232 311 2273</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">Fax:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>+90 232 388 1102</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri">ORGANIZERS: Ege University, Department of American Culture and
Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, The Cultural Office
of the U.S. Embassy at Ankara</font></div>
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