[Bilimsel Haber] conference on memory at Bahcesehir University

[Burcin]

*Dear Colleague,*

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*The Department of American Culture and Literature at Bahcesehir
University*is pleased to announce a call for papers for
*Facing the Past/ Facing the Future: History, Memory, Literature*, a
conference on memory, history and literature.



*Place: Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey*



*Date: May 6-9, 2009.*



In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of
evaluating history, memory, literature, and culture on the same ground. A
rapidly growing interest in memory studies is shared today by different
academic disciplines. French sociologist and master of memory studies
Maurice Halbwachs writes that "remembrance is paramount." Many scholars from
different academic fields examine the past and memory in order to analyze
current politics, ideologies, and identities. The most popular sources for
looking at the past are documentaries, historical novels, fictional
biographies, fiction, fine arts, and museums. Literary, cultural,
intellectual, and political studies of history are highly interested in
individual, collective, national, and cultural memories and how we come to
terms with history and society.



This conference will discuss how practices of representing and interpreting
the past are being reshaped by different disciplines. Opting for an academic
view of the creation, transmission, causes, and consequences of memory, it
focuses on the ways in which memories recur and are applied in the
discourses and practices of various academic disciplines.



Researchers from all disciplines are invited to participate: literary and
historical studies, women and gender studies, museum studies, media and
cultural studies, political sciences, philosophy, sociology, geography, and
history. Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since all of
these topics in themselves cover several disciplines: history, literary
studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, cultural studies,
anthropology, and sociology.



The conference aims to develop into a unique international academic forum
the interpretative approaches used in the humanities and social sciences and
is designed to be a forum for discussing literal, historical, and political
memory and the ways in which the past is remembered *and* forgotten.



*Within this general framework, papers should address one of the following
themes:*



   - Autobiography/biography as/and memory
   - War and memory (war literature)
   - Holocaust and memory
   - Novel and/as memory
   - Film and film adaptation and/as memory
   - Imperialism, colonialism, and memory (imperial colonial literature)
   - Traumatic events and memory (memory of catastrophe)
   - Space, environment, landscape, and memory
   - Ideologies and memory (religion and politics)
   - Re-imaging history
   - Oral history and memory
   - Race and memory
   - Representation and memory
   - Museum as an artifact of memory
   - Diaspora and memory as placement and displacement
   - Collective/individual memory
   - Communal heritage and uses of memory
   - Origin, text, memory
   - History, literature and memory of gender
   - Poetics of remembrance and forgetting
   - Studies that address the development of consciousness in literary texts
   - Memory and metaphor in the literary works
   - Poetics and politics of memory
   - Myth, memory, and history
   - Identity, culture, and memory
   - Migration, ethnicity, and memory
   - Iconography, cult, heroism, and memory

*Conference attendees are asked to submit the following: *

 1. Paper title
 2. 1000-word abstract (accepted formats are Word and PDF)
 3. Short biography for each participant and panel chair (100-150 words)
 4. Institutional affiliation and address for each participant
 5. Audio-visual and other technical requirements if needed

*Please send proposals of not less than 1000 words (for 20-30-minute
duration papers) to: burcin.cakir at bahcesehir.edu.tr *

Abstract submission deadline: *January 15, 2009*
Paper acceptance notification: *March 1, 2009*

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Gönül Ucele, Yar. Doc. Dr. Gönül Bakay, Dr. Övgü
Tüzün,

Ögr. Gör. Burçin Çakır,  Dr.Carl Boon. Ogr.Gor.Elif Baş, Assistant. Özum
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