[Bilimsel Haber] Hatı rlatma : CFP "Memory and Nostalgia" 11th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

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    EGE UNIVERSITY
       
      11th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES  SYMPOSIUM 
       
      May 9-11, 2007 
       
      Ege University , Faculty of Letters, Izmir  , TURKEY
       
      CALL FOR PAPERS 
       
      Memory and Nostalgia 
       
      The dialectic between ‘Memory’ and  ‘Nostalgia’ has always been a significant issue for various disciplines like  history, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, media  studies, literature, etc. Especially nostalgia, as Sean Scanlan states, has an  uncanny ability to exceed any constraining definition (1). As a Greek term,  comprising the two parts nostos (to return home) and algos (pain), nostalgia,  Linda Hutcheon explains, was coined in 1688 by a Swiss medical student as a  sophisticated 
 way to talk about a literally lethal kind of severe  homesickness (1). In Nicholas Dames’ terms, nostalgia is a form of retrospect  that remembers only what is pleasant and only what the self can employ in the  present; 
 [it is] an absence; what it lacks is what
 has come to be regarded  as memory in its purest form (4). Nostalgia, then, is a memory that is always  only the necessary prehistory of the present [which] consists of the stories  about one’s past
 that explain and consolidate memory rather than dispersing it  into a series of vivid, relinquished moments and 
 [which] can only survive by  eradicating the ‘pure memory’ (Dames 4). 
       
      Nostalgia has always been a useful  compensatory tool to construct an alternative historical reality created by the  images of the golden past, especially when there is discontent with the present  socio-economic situation in any culture. Just like governing bodies, modern  global corporations also use nostalgia to advertise their commodities by  relating either their products or companies to a more desirable time in the  past. By implanting modified images in the prospective clients’ minds, such  advertising strategies rewrite history through forged memories about the good  old days when prices were more reasonable, goods more durable, and services  were more satisfactory. 
       
      As Dylan Trigg, the author of The  Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason (2006)  claims, nostalgia demands 
 the fixation of the past 
 Thus, both static images  – memories – and lived experience – place – serve as homogenous platforms for  the nostalgic conscious to impose and identify itself (1). Both memory and  nostalgia, then, have always had some spatial and territorial connotations,  whether real or ideal, either in some negative or positive sense. 
       
      This symposium, then, aims to explore how  memory and nostalgia collaborate to construct a meaningful space in a given  culture, both individually and collectively, either through the willing  suspension of disbelief or as a state apparatus, with reference to such issues  as globalism, consumerism, nation-states, neo-conservatism, etc. During the  symposium we hope  such questions as  Linda Hutcheon raises about the relationship between postmodernism and  nostalgia will also be discussed: Was [the] postmodern recalling of the past an  example of a conservative – and therefore nostalgic – escape to an idealized,  simpler era of ‘real’ (1). Or, if nostalgia is given surplus meaning and value  at certain moments – millennial moments, like our own, has nostalgia become an  obsession of both mass culture and high art or is it only the media’s obsession  (Hutcheon 1). 
       
       
       
      Proposals might include, but are not  limited to: 
       
        
       
      ·     Nostalgia and Collective Memory 
       
      ·     Cultural Memory as Cultural Repression 
       
      ·     Cultural Memory = Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Culture as Nostalgic Object and Commodity 
       
      ·     Nostalgia, Consumerism, and the Heritage Industry 
       
      ·     Nostalgia and Ideology 
       
      ·     Diaspora and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Diaspora as Temporal Displacement 
       
      ·     Nostalgia and Ideology 
       
      ·     Homologies of Religious Faith and Cultural Memory or Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Nostalgia as a Social Disease 
       
      ·     The Violence of Cultural Memory 
       
      ·     Nostalgia as the Abdication of Memory 
       
      ·     Community without Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Trauma, Collective Memory, and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Pain and Authenticity 
       
      ·     Nostalgic Structures of Feeling in Cultural Studies 
       
      ·     Mourning and Melancholia in Cultural Memory 
       
      ·     Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Nation, Narration, and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Counter Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Literature and Art as Cultural Memory 
       
      ·     Media of Memory (Historical Monuments, Public Archives, Oral Histories,  etc.) 
       
      ·     Popular Culture, Amnesia, and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Personal Memory, Collective Identity, and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Historiography, Autobiography, and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Memory as a Means of Cultural Regeneration 
       
      ·     Nostalgia, Memorabilia, and Subcutaneous Advertising 
       
      ·     Values and Nostalgia 
       
      ·     Nationalist Interests and Nostalgia 
       
        
       
      The deadline for submission of proposals:  January 05, 2007. 
       
      The notification for acceptance of proposals:  January 22-26, 2007. 
       
        
       
      We welcome proposals for individual papers,  entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops,  conversations, or alternative formats both in English and Turkish. However,  there will be no simultaneous translations during the conference. The time  allowance for any presentation is 20 minutes. Abstracts for papers should be  250-300 words in length and should include a title. Please e-mail your  proposals and short bios to: css2007 at mail.ege.edu.tr and egeucss at gmail.com or  mail/fax them to: 
       
        
       
      Atilla Silku 
       
      Ege Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakultesi, 
       
      Amerikan Kulturu  ve Edebiyatı Bolumu, 
       
      35100-Bornova, İzmir, Turkey 
       
      Fax: +90 (232) 388 11 02 
       
        
       
      Please note that selected papers will be  published in the forthcoming proceedings. 
       
        
       
      Seminar Registration Fee: USD 50 regular,  USD 30 graduate students and research assistants. USD 75 On-site registration 
       
      Please deposit the non-refundable seminar  fee to: 
       
      Garanti Bankasi, Bornova Branch (Branch #  524), Izmir , Phone: +90 232 342 6002 
       
      USD Account   # 9093282   ( For International transfers: Swift Code: TGBATRISXXX ) 
       
      YTL   Account  # 6298461 
       
      Mail or fax your registration form and a  copy of your bank receipt to: 
       
      Atilla Silku (address above) 
       
        
       
      For further information please visit  symposium web site: 
       
      http://css.ege.edu.tr 
       
       
       
       
       
      Co-Organized by:
      Ege University Departments of American  Culture and Literature & English Language and Literature
      The Embassy of the United States of America
      The British Council 
       
      The American Studies Association of Turkey  (ASAT)
    

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