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From: Bilkent Announcements <announce@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
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Subject: Call for papers for CCI Symposium:=20
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:42:21 +0200
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CALL FOR PAPERS

"Displacing Canons, Dislocating Cultures"
to be held at Bilkent University on Friday/Saturday February 21/22, 2003

This symposium, organized by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations and
Ideas, attempts to rethink the often assumed relationship between
"place"-and especially the university as a place of learning-and the idea
of culture.  Specifically, what do the concerns of location-where we read=
,
watch, learn, teach-have to do with ongoing struggles over the canon and
other authorized narratives of cultural identity?   Such a re-examination
may seem timely in the context of increased scholarly and popular attenti=
on
to the crises of globalization, fears of economic and cultural
neo-colonialism, and exacerbated ethnic chauvinism, as well as the promis=
es
of new forms of cosmopolitan sentiment, transnational affinity and
mobility, and cultural hybridity (not least within universities).=20

Papers may well choose to examine the significance of such widespread
phenomena for the apparently more "particular" concerns of our cultural
locale (Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey...).  But can we still rely on the suppos=
ed
opposition between the global and the local, the universal and the
particular, to understand the specificities (and generalities) of Ankara =
as
a cultural and pedagogical locale?  And if such familiar coordinates of
culture, and of its study, are being displaced, what of others, such as t=
he
ancient or traditional vs. the modern/postmodern or homogenizing ideals o=
f
civility vs. the politics of difference/identity?

We very much welcome proposals from Faculty and Graduate Students from al=
l
disciplines, and we are interested in proposals addressing these question=
s

from a number of directions, potentially ranging, for example, from close

reading of particular cultural texts to discussions of classroom pedagogy
and the institutional history of universities to theoretical intervention=
s
on the shifting geopolitical, ideological, and affective contours of
"Culture," "Cultures" and "Cultural Studies."=20

Keynote speakers for this symposium will be Professor Meyda Yegenoglu of
ODT=DC Department of Sociology, and Professor Mahmut Mutman, of Bilkent
University Department of Communication & Design.

Possible topics include:

Culture Wars and/or "Civilized" Discourse?
"Great Books" and (Global) Cultural Capital
Univers(al)ity in Ruins
Situated Classrooms/Borderline Pedagogies
Canons and their (W)Holes
Beyond Particularism in the Transnational University?
Rerouting "Western Civ" and "World Literature"
Orientalism and its Counter-discourses
Cultural Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and Humanities in Turkey
Anglo(phono)centrism, Heteroglossia and the Ethics of Translation

1-page proposals for 20-30 minute papers by December 1, please, to: CCI
Symposium, CCI Program, Engineering Building 421, Bilkent University, 065=
33
Bilkent, Ankara, OR to thope@bilkent.edu.tr

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