[Discussion] CFP: Counter- and Sub-cultures (Cyprus) (2/11/05; Inscriptions, 5/12/05-5/13/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Counter- and Sub-cultures
A Panel Discussion at the
Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference
INSCRIPTIONS '05: an arts and culture conference and festival at
Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th - 13th, 2005

The Eighth annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '05, an Arts
and Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between
May 12th - 13th, 2005. In conjunction with a wide selection of music,
performance and film events, discussion friendly papers are being
solicited for our symposium. Although we will be publishing selected
presentations from Inscriptions '05, we encourage participants to
move away from the standard prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards
a more open-ended presentation, which will provoke and contribute to a
genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel sessions. Our
aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring work in
progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics
participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of
participants' work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine
the current status of critical thinking on counter- and sub-cultures.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
-           the intellectual as counter-culture icon
-           the sub-cultural politics of music/fashion/art/literature/foo=
d
-           resistance cultures: gay, lesbian and transgendered
-           HMV cult classics: Irving Welsh, Kevin Sampson
-           fashion as capital subversion/complicity
-           sub-cultural prohibitions and counter-culture taboos
-           civic duty\work ethic vs. the "idle hands" of sub-culture
-           representations of youth in the media
-           the poetics of sub-cultural identity
-           sub-culture and alternative music: counter-culture or the
             new hegemony?
-           counter-culture and questions of taste and value.
-           urban and rural counter-cultures
-           snuff films and serial killers
-           literary theory/deconstruction as sub-culture
-           Waco or Wacko? Evangelist extremes and counter-culture
-           criminal cultures: organised crime, informers, money
launderers etc.
-           hip hop, punk, rap, reggae, ragga, drum and bass, and jungle
-           the politics of clubbing
-           PlayStation II  and the hyper-real
-           drugs and sub-culture
-           hackers and counter-cultural resistance
-           sub-culture and age
-           the revolutionary cell
-           underground publications
-           the fate of caf=E9 culture
-           skaters and (cyber)surfers
-           sex in sub-culture
-           the politics of smoking
-           the legacy of Dick Hebdige
-           Marilyn Manson and the gothic as sub-culture
-           Slipknot to The Stooges? The longevity and performativity of
sub-culture.

Please send 250 word abstracts by 11th February, 2005 to
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr and please visit
http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions for more information.



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