[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Fusion Cultures (UK) (9/7/06; 12/9/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Final call  for papers: submission of abstracts extended until
7th September 2006

Fusion  cultures: 'memory, migration, [re]mediation, mobility' - 9th
december 2006

A one-day  multi-disciplinary conference, to be held  at the maritime
campus, University of Greenwich, London, United  Kingdom

The Asian  Research Group at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University
College in collaboration  with the Department of English and Performance
Studies at The University of Greenwich, London

'Rather  than a manufactured clash of civilizations, we need to
concentrate on the slow  working together of cultures that overlap,
borrow from each other, and live  together in far more interesting ways
that any abridged or inauthentic mode of  understanding can allow.'
(Edward Said, 2004)

Keynote  Speaker:Sue  Clayton (Royal Holloway],'In Dialogue with Shangri
La: Working with Bhutanese Film Makers'

The aim  of this conference is to examine the complex nature of the
relationships and  encounters between the imaginary and the real 'East'
and 'West', in the present  and recent past. We invite papers  that
utilise the term 'fusion' as a place from which to explore the concept
of interactions and exchanges beyond traditional theoretical mappings
such as post  colonialism and post-modernism. Our focus is primarily,
but not exclusively, upon the interactions between 'East Asia' and 'the
West' over the last 25 years with reference to the development of new
media - eg, computer games and the development of a global matrix of
'fusions' which move beyond the art world to the everyday.

We also welcome papers which seek to re-examine past encounters  with an
awareness of cultural fluidity.

Suggested  topics, include, but are not limited to the following:

1] Travel,  Diasporas and mobile communities/identities
* Community, migration and national identities
* Memory,  and identity: between here [new home spaces] and there [place
of origin] - and  back again.
* The  relationship between 'imagined' and 'real' pasts in the
construction of  diasporic communities
*  Autobiographies: Hybridity, post modernity and fusion  subjectivities
*  Literatures of encounter. - e.g. Angela Carter, Peter Carey, Natsume
Soseki

2]  Orientalism, Occidentalism.
*  Performance and Techno-Orientalism
* Fashion,  design and architectures of style and home
*  Cyberpunk, fantastic and future fictions
*  Intertextuality and the influence of Asian cinema on  Hollywood
* Theatre  & Performance from East to West: Noh, Kabuiki, Butoh, Brecht
* Theatre  and Performance from West to East - Shakespeare & Co
*  Games.  Sony Play Stations &  beyond.
* The  aesthetics of Manga and Anime
* Web  sites and fandom

3]  Imaginary Homelands/ Imaginary Others
*  Histories, films and stories of the Orient: the transmission and
translation of  East to West including travel writing, postcolonial
literature and cinematic  co-productions
*  Revisionist histories
*  Theorising encounters between East and West, and  back
*  Geographies, philosophies and mental cartographies
* Eastern  landscapes and their aestheticization
* Eastern  Gardens and design
* Food and  transformation - the foreign as the everyday
* Fantasy  Fictions. -e.g. Neil Stephenson, David Mitchell

4]  Literature: Globalisation, Urbanisation and Memory
* New  cities, Nostalgic cities. - esp Murakami
*  Connecting through the avant-garde - esp Kobo Abe
*  Literatures of trauma and memoralisation of trauma
* The  language of ancestry, memory and ghosts.

5]  Language and philosophy : between the translatable and the
untranslatable.
* We  especially welcome contributions which consider 'continental
philosophy' with  their influence of Eastern philophy - and back
* We are  interested too in papers which address the blindness and
insight of  'continental' philosophy of the last century - eg Kristeva
-On Chinese Women, Derrida, Barthes, Deleuze.

6] Seas,  Islands and Peninsulas
* We are  thinking here of Conrad and his legacy- but doubtless there
are more imaginative  'takes' on this.

Submissions are invited from scholars and students of film,  media,
gender and cultural  studies, literature,  architecture,  design and
fashion, history and art history, music, history, sociology and
cultural geography.

Please  submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio by 7th September
2006, to the joint  organisers:
Dr Colette Balmain: (colette.balmain at bcuc.ac.uk)  and
Dr  Carolyn Brown: (C.M.H.Brown at greenwich.ac.uk)

Registration Fee: Standard =A340,  Student/Unwaged =A315 (conference fee
includes tea/coffee and  lunch)

Student/Unwaged =A315.
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