[Bilimsel Haber] Ege Üniversitesi 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 Silkü 
          Ege Üniversitesi,  Edebiyat Fakültesi, 
          Amerikan Kültürü ve  Edebiyatý Bölümü, 
          35100-Bornova, Ýzmir, 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 Silkü (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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