[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Non-archived: Balkan Modernisms (5/5/06; MSA, 10/19/06-10/22/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

***deadline extended***

NON-ARCHIVED: BALKAN MODERNISMS

We are soliciting papers for the panel on Balkan modernisms at the
upcoming convention of the Modernist Studies Association, held in Tusla,
Oklahoma, October 19-22, 2006. It is indeed with scant archival or
documentation support that researchers in Balkan modernisms approach
their topic. The area has reclaimed its modernist heritage only recently
and the long neglect has taken its toll. Already hampered by the
linguistic, cultural, and political division of this vibrant
geo-cultural space, the scholarly work on Balkan modernisms has been
additionally hindered by the disappearance of literary magazines,
leaflets, books, collages, programs, and other documents that may
testify to the modernist activities in the Balkans. Conditioned by
foreign and domestic cultural politics, the vanishing of the traces of
Balkan modernisms often went hand in hand with the disappearance and
change of political systems, which we would like to explore. We are
inviting the proposals for the papers that examine the silenced
modernist spaces of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and the
former Yugoslavia in comparative perspective. We are interested in
documented and undocumented traces of Balkan modernisms—personal
archives, legacies, journals, bans and declarations, as well as
alternative artistic activities (café-culture, performances, and so
forth), and their connections to the European, American, and global
modernist movements It is our aim to reflect on the history of cultural
omissions as we bring to light the modernist space of the Balkans.

Please send one page abstracts and brief vitas to Sanja Bahun-Radunovic
(bahunic at rci.rutgers.edu) by May 5, 2006.



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