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

[Gonul Pultar]

Sener Aktürk ve Nilgün Bayraktar'a tesekkürlerimiz ile toplantinin cok 
basarili gecmesi dileklerimizle:

Yeni cfp:

"What is Kemalism? What 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, the Center for Middle Eastern 
Studies, and the Institute of European Studies, all 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. 
Also, at a more modest quality, the abstracts of all the papers 
presented in the conference will be published. 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.