[Discussion] Akdeniz'de Modernite

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Dr. Laurence Raw
Senior Lecturer in English
Department of American Culture and Literature
Baskent University
Baglica Kampusu
Eskisehir Yolu. 20 Km.
06530 Ankara, TURKEY



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          H-Gender-MidEast: CONF CFP: Modernity in the Mediterranean
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          Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:41:44 -0800
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Call for papers

"Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean World"

University of Toronto

Dates: 31 October - 1 November 2003

The conference aims at drawing a map of modernism taking as its centre
not the sites traditionally associated with it – Paris, London, Berlin,
Moscow – but the Mediterranean basin, an area usually relegated to the
periphery of modernist studies. Modernism is often described as a
complex series of cultural responses to the phenomenon of modernization.
The conference is interested in examining the dynamics and the
articulations of that response in a space in which different cultural,
as well as social, political, and religious traditions encounter,
intersect, and superimpose in both violent and peaceful ways, and in
which modernization itself is lived simultaneously and contradictorily
as, among other things, a colonial imposition, a liberating force, the
cause of the collapse of traditional social and cultural practices, the
means of re-asserting cultural and political dominance. We particularly
welcome papers on interdisciplinary topics.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
* the relationship between tradition and modernization
* exchanges between European and Arab cultures
* the representation of the Mediterranean world in modernist literature
and the arts
* orientalist modernism
* modernity in the European periphery
* the notion of "Latin culture" (e.g., in the so-called "renaissance
latine")
* travels between the modernist centres and the Mediterranean
peripheries
* modernism and colonialism in the Mediterranean
* modernism and nationalism
* the cultural, theoretical, and historical limitations of the notion of
modernism outside of a European context

To propose a paper, please send a 300 word abstract by e-mail or regular
mail to the organizers.
Deadline: 15 June 2003

Organizers
Luca Somigli                                    Domenico Pietropaolo
luca.somigli@uturonto.ca
chair.italianstudies@utoronto.ca
(416) 585-4416                                  (416) 926-2345

Mailing address:
Dept. of Italian Studies
University of Toronto
100 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1J4 Canada