[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Migrations (UK) (12/15/06; 4/27/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers

MIGRATIONS

A conference sponsored by the University of Reading and the Classical
Reception Studies Network

Date: Friday, April 27, 2007
Location: University of Reading (England, UK)


As globalization and multiculturalism flourish in the modern world,
there is an increasing need to understand the nature of cross-cultural
encounters, exchanges, and interactions. What happens to peoples and
traditions when they come into contact with each other? How useful is it
to talk about a clash of civilizations? How can cultures or
civilizations connect with each other in ways that are mutually
beneficial? Was there a time when demarcations of East and West were
less divisive, imposing, and rigid than they seem today? These questions
have gained a certain urgency in an era when groups appear to meet and
collide with increasing rapidity.

It is the aim of this conference to examine cultural encounters from
the perspective of the reception of antiquity. The papers in the
conference will explore how the reception of the ancient past has
informed modern discussions about globalization and cultural contact.
While the conference will focus on the modern engagement with the past,
it will be limited to no one discipline, however, and will promote work
in history, literature, philosophy, visual culture, archaeology,
reception studies, and other fields. Among the themes to be addressed
are migration, globalization, exile, asylum, and cosmopolitanism.

The Classical Reception Studies Network, a co-sponsor of the conference,
is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). A small
amount of funding is available from the CRSN to help graduate students
with travel-related expenses for the conference.

We will have a workshop format with papers of 20 minutes each. Please
send abstracts of about 350 words to Phiroze Vasunia at the address
below by December 15, 2006.  There is no registration fee. The
conference is open to all.


http://www.rdg.ac.uk/classics/


Department of Classics
The University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading, RG6 6AA
U.K.


Telephone: +44 (0)118 378 8420
Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 6661
Email: p.vasunia at reading.ac.uk

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