[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: "After Kemalism? What was/is Kemalism? What did/does It Mean to Different People?" (University of California, Berkeley, in April 4-5, 2008)

[Onur Inal]

"After Kemalism? What was/is Kemalism? What did/does It Mean to
Different People?" will be the first of its kind international and
interdisciplinary conference solely devoted to the investigation of
different aspects of Kemalism. The conference will be held at the
University of California, Berkeley, in April 4-5, 2008. This
conference is sponsored in part by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the
Humanities and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, both located at
the University of California, Berkeley.

The conference organizing committee invites submissions for
presentations/papers pertaining to the ways in which Kemalism
operates/operated in different social, political, artistic and academic
discourses and fields. Apart from providing an interdisciplinary forum
for discussing various meanings of Kemalism, its historical trajectory
and legacy, and its current manifestations, this conference aims to
collect and organize a select number of outstanding papers into an
edited volume to serve as a reference book in English about Kemalism.
Papers are invited on topics including but not limited to the following:

-Kemalism and/in Archeology,
-Kemalism and/in Art History,
-Kemalism and/in Architecture and Urban Planning,
-Kemalism and/in Cinema,
-Kemalism and/in Theater and the Performing Arts,
-Kemalism and Religion,
-Kemalism and Democracy,
-Kemalism and Ethnicity,
-Kemalism and/in Music,
-Kemalism and/in Literature,
-Kemalism and/in Poetry,
-Kemalism and/in the Economy,
-Kemalism in Foreign Policy and International Relations,
-Kemalism and/in everyday language and Linguistics,
-Kemalism and/in everyday life
-Kemalism and Ataturk's personality cult,
-Kemalism and Socialism,
-Kemalism and Nationalism, 
-Kemalism and Liberalism,
-Kemalism and/in the Village,
-Kemalism and/in the Dress code,
-Kemalism and/in Historiography,
-Kemalism and/in the Military,
-Kemalism and/in/after the 1960 coup,
-Kemalism and/in/after the 1980 coup,
-Kemalism and Kemalists in the 21st century,
-Kemalism and Central Asia,

Please submit an abstract between 200 and 500 words, along with your
name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, and a one page CV, by
JANUARY 1, 2008. Authors of selected paper abstracts will be notified by
JANUARY 30, 2008, and full papers, which should not be longer than 5,000
words, need to be e-mailed by MARCH 15, 2008. Please e-mail your
abstracts, or any questions you may have about the conference, to

Sener Akturk at 
sakturk at berkeley.edu 
and 
Nilgun Bayraktar at
nilgun at berkeley.edu 

simultaneously. We look forward to your participation.

Sincerely,

-Sener Akturk, Political Science, and Nilgun Bayraktar, Theater and
Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Sener Akturk
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
210 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
http://sener.akturk.googlepages.com/