[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Migrations, Connections, Perspectives:Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions in the Twentieth Century (May 30 - June 1, 2008, Sabanci University)

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The History Program at Sabanci University would like to post the following
announcement.

- CALL FOR PAPERS -

*HRANT DINK MEMORIAL WORKSHOP SERIES*
*Frameworks of Diversity, Modalities of Interaction*
*Workshop I*

Migrations, Connections, Perspectives:Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions
in the Twentieth Century
May 30 - June 1, 2008
Sabanci University, Istanbul

We are pleased to announce that a series of workshops under the general
title of "Frameworks of Diversity, Modalities of Interaction" are being
launched under the auspices of Sabanci University in memory of the late
Hrant Dink.

The twentieth century has witnessed hot and cold wars, resulting in physical
and imagined borders that entailed the separation of people, ideas and
processes. Despite these facts, however, the twentieth century has also been
a time of coexistence, dialogue and exchange. While not trivializing
historical and contemporary experiences of conflict and violence, the
workshops also seek to explore untold or silenced stories as well as
obscured structures of empathy, interaction, and interdependence.
Drawing on Hrant Dink's legacy of highlighting existing human connections
and imagining new ones across presumed or imposed borders, the first of our
Hrant Dink Memorial Workshops is entitled "Migrations, Connections, and
Perspectives: Anatolia and its Neighboring Regions in the Twentieth
Century."

Suggested paper topics for this year's workshop include the following:

* Histories of voluntary and forced migrations and population movements in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
* Migrations in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union
* Labor migrations, including seasonal migration, migrant domestics, and the
feminization of migration
* Student migrations and "brain-drain"

This workshop will commence on Friday, May 30, 2008,^ with a public session
to be held at the Sabanc? Communication Center in Karaköy, Istanbul, and
will be followed by panels on Saturday and Sunday at the Sabanci University
campus. Panel presentations are not to exceed 20 minutes, so as to leave
ample time for discussion. Submissions from all disciplines are welcome, and
submissions from advanced graduate students 
are strongly encouraged.

The workshop language is English. **

Travel expenses of the panelists coming from countries of the former USSR
will be covered by the workshop organization. Sabanci University will
provide accommodation for all panelists from abroad.

Please send the provisional title of the paper and an abstract (500 words
maximum) by March 21, 2008, to the following address:

Prof. Dr. Fikret Adanir
Sabanci University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
34956 Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: adanir at sabanciuniv.edu
Fax: +90 (216) 483 92 50