[Discussion] Cultural Studies Symposium

[Gonul Pultar]

EGE UNIVERSITY

9th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium

May 5-7, 2004



Call for Papers


 [CITY IN (CULTURE] IN CITY)


Venue: Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey



This year's topic aims to explore the interaction(s) between the city
and
culture.

We offer the following notes with the hope that they will inspire but
not
limit you.




* urbanism / urbanization / new urbanism

* alternative definitions of time and space in the city

* urban space and memory / cultural memory in the city

* city reconstituted / reconstructed through memory (ies)

* urban utopias / urban dystopias

* spatialization of politics / politicization of space: ghettoization /
residential segregation

* city, the great equalizer (?)

* segregation / integration as it relates to public space

* urban metaphors

* landmarks as markers of identity

* urban identity / urbanity

* public space and public life: streets, markets, parks

* gendered city / divided city / gender, race, ethnicity and class in
urban
landscape

* the male city / the female city

* city: reflections/ images/ landmarks/ legends / urban legends

* downtown(s) and uptown(s)

* urban semiotics / city as legible text / city as narrative and
metanarrative

* improvised city

* city behind walls / city behind bars / city within a city / invisible
cities, invisible borders

* city as Eden  / city as Purgatory

* city: from Babylon to Boswash

* city as the spiritual site / faiths / organized religions / etc.

* urban quests

* city as masquerade

* the polarized city: city as ash heap / city as promised land

* city ethics

* cities of the mind / cognitive mapping




Deadline for 500-word paper, panel, performance or exhibition proposals:

January 9, 2004

Proposals and short bios can be submitted via mail, email or fax to:



Ayse Lahur Kirtunc

Faculty of Letters

Ege University 35100 Bornova Izmir Turkey

culture@bornova.ege.edu.tr

egeculture2004@yahoo.com

+ 90 232 388 1102



Information on the history of the Ege University Cultural Studies
Symposium
can be found online at the Symposium website: http://css.ege.edu.tr

Registration and accommodation information will be posted later at the
Symposium website.



Co-organized by:

Ege University Department of American Culture and Literature

and Department of English Language and Literature

The American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

The Cultural Office of the US Embassy

The British Council

Murat Erdem
<merdem@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr>