[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: E/Im/Migration and Culture (Turkey) (10/1/06; 9/15/07-9/17/07)

[Nazan Haydari]

Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture
15-17 September 2007
Isık University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fourth Cultural Studies Conference
co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association
(Turkey) and the Department of International Relations
of Isık University


The Cultural Studies Association of Turkey and Isık
University invite proposals for an international
cultural studies conference entitled “E/Im/Migration
and Culture” they are co-organizing on 15-17 September
2007 in Sile
(Istanbul, Turkey). Seeking to explore the topic from
a wide range of 
scholarly
viewpoints by focusing on issues of migration in its
multiple 
relationships with
various facets of culture, the inter/multidisciplinary
conference aims to established notions of migration
both in Turkey and outside of Turkey. We welcome
proposals for papers that break new ground in 
generating theory, or constitute innovative critical
or comparative work that would lead to theoretical
formulations and methodology, as well as for papers on

specifi
cases. The conference intends to examine issues of
migration in Turkey, 
among
the peoples in the lands of the former Ottoman empire,
among the 
Euro-Turks (and
Turkish-Americans, Australasian Turks, etc.), among
the Turcophone 
peoples in
countries and regions in Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union (in 
Central
Asia, the Caucasus, and the Russian Federation) and
those Turcophone 
minorities
in such countries as Iran and China.

The story of migration is as old as the history of
humankin. Factors 
such as
geographic conditions, economic necessities,
socio-political 
developments and
wars have led to population movements for centuries.
Whether for refuge 
or as
exile, whether voluntary or forced, migration has
always affected both 
society
and the individual; and altered both the land that was
left behind and 
the land
that was reached. A phenomenon of modern times, the
nation-state as 
hegemonic
entity contributed to these migration flows through
bordering and 
re-bordering
processes that put visible and invisible boundaries on
people’s 
movements.
Additional factors leading to current population flows
are observed to 
be
primarily the challenge(s) of globalization and
transnationalism.

Migration within and out of countries continue in
great numbers as more 
and more
people in our global village look to either temporary
or permanent 
migration as
a path to freedom, the right to live, security,
employment, health and
education—while sometimes also encountering drama and
tragedy along the
way. E/im/migration has generated its own art, fiction
and cinema. 
Thus, it has
continued to be a force in culture, demography,
economy and politics in 
the
contemporary era, and constitutes, in its various
aspects, a matter of 
paramount
importance for the cultures of Turks and Turkey. This
reflection has 
led us to
select the topic of migration as the theme of the
fourth cultural 
studies
conference to take place in Turkey.

We welcome submissions related to e/im/migration
including, but not 
limited to,
the following:

- E/im/migration and culture: Theoretical approaches
- Art /Literature /Cinema generated by e/im/migration
- E/im/migration and urban space
- E/im/migration during the Republican era
- E/im/migration during the Ottoman era
- E/im/migration and the (former) Soviet Union
territories
- Cultural representation of e/im/migration resulting
from political
developments: The cases of Western Thrace and the
Balkans
- Cultural representation of e/im/migration resulting
from political
developments: The case of Cyprus
- Cultural representation of e/im/migration resulting
from political
developments: The case of Irak
- Cultural representation of e/im/migration resulting
from political
developments: The case of Jews and Palestinians


As the conference takes place in Turkey and takes up
the cultures of 
Turks and
Turkey, the working language of the conference is
first of all Turkish. 
However,
since experience has shown that non-Turkish speaking
colleagues doing 
studies
related to the cultures of Turks and Turkey also wish
to contribute, 
there will
be English-language sessions as well. Abstracts of
100-200 words, 
containing
five key words, should be sent along a brief
curriculum vita. Panel 
proposals
with three to five papers should include, besides the
panel proposal 
and five
key words, abstracts of the papers in the panel, and
brief curriculum 
vitae of
the chair, presenters, and discussant(s) if any.
Poster presentation 
proposals
containing noteworthy visual material are also
welcome.

Send no later than 1 October 2006, by e-mail to 
programgoc@kulturad.org, by fax
to +90 212 292 2229 (Attn.: IV. Cultural Studies
Conference). For more
information, write to the same addresses or look at
www.kulturad.org.

The results will be announced on 1 February 2007.

The registration fee will be 60 Euro for Cultural
Studies Association 
(Turkey)
members and students, and 100 Euro for all other
participants until 1 
May 2007;
and, after that date, 100 Euro for Cultural Studies
Association 
(Turkey) members
and students, and 160 Euro for all other participants.

The conference organizing committee regrets that it
cannot assist in 
travel or
accomodation fares in any way, but will provides
low-cost accomodation 
for all
participants on the Isık University campus (in Sile, a
popular sea 
resort on the
Black Sea coast). Further details will be sent later.
For information 
on Isık
University, please look at www.isikun.edu.tr


On behalf of the organizers

Sule Toktas                       Gönül Pultar
(sule@isikun.edu.tr)         (gpultar@kulturad.org)

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