[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe - Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Beyond Boundaries: 
Media, Culture and Identity in Europe
 
2-3
October 2009, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
What is Europe according to its others? An essence, an
origin, a center? Or is it nothingness, a void or chiasm? Where is Europe? In
diasporic or migrant spaces? How is Europe different from the West? Can an
identity be made European? Could it be Eurocentric or Euro-chiasmic? Can one
leave one’s cultural frame  to take on
another? Can one transnationalize and/or regionalize a national identity or
vice versa? Can the European Union create a single entity or a grand signifier
of Europe out of multiple differences? What is the role of communication,
media, and culture in such exchanges, transformations, processes and practices?
Can we account for the similarities, proximities, and relations or should we
focus on the differences, cleavages, and tensions? 
 
This conference aims to explore the questions above and how
such questions surface in media and cultural texts, ranging from everyday
practices to media representations. The papers may deal with various meanings of Europe 
and its relation to non-European cultures, and how these are experienced or
altered at the level of media, culture, and identity. Possible paper topics
are:
 
Eurocentrism
and its alternatives
Transnationalism
and nationalisms
Global,
regional, and local media and culture
Diasporic
and migrant culture and identities
Gender
equality and cultural diversity
Tactics and
strategies of dialogue between cultures
Symbolic
representations of Europe in various cultural practices
Theories of
European cinema, media and culture
Challenges
for European cinema, media, and cultural studies
European
communication studies and strategies
The EU
policies on media, communication, and culture
 
Confirmed
Keynote Speakers (alphabetically listed):
 
Prof. Angela McRobbie (University of London, Goldsmiths
College, Media and Communications) editor
ofBack to Reality? Social Experience and Cultural Studies (1997);author of  In the Culture Society:
Art, Fashion and Popular Music (1999); Postmodernism and Popular Culture (1994); Feminism and Youth Culture: From 'Jackie' to 'Just Seventeen' (1991).
 
Prof. Kevin Robins (Based in Istanbul and a visiting fellow
at Goldsmiths College, University of London) author of Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual
Life (1999); Into the Image: Culture
and Politics in the Field of Vision (1996); Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural
Boundaries (co-author, 1995).
 
Prof. William Uricchio (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Comparative Media Studies), author of We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009); Reframing Culture: the Case of the Vitagraph
Quality Films (1993, co-author); The
Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and His Media (1991, co-editor).
Other
speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. 
 
Please send
a 300-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker
(mailing address & email address) to emcs at bahcesehir.edu.tr
 
Deadline
for abstracts: June 15, 2009.  
Deadline
for acceptance information: June 29, 2009.
Deadline
for submitting the completed papers: September 20, 2009.
Deadline
for papers for conference proceedings: October 18, 2009.
 
 
Organizing
Committee:
Prof. Haluk
Gürgen ( Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey )
Prof.
Dieter Mersch ( University of Potsdam , Potsdam , Germany )
Prof.
Winfried Gerling (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam , Potsdam , Germany )
Assoc.
Prof. Süheyla Schroeder (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; visiting
fellow at University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
Assoc.
Prof. Savas Arslan ( Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey )
Assist.  Prof. Defne Karaosmanoglu ( Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey )
Assist.
Prof. Christine Hanke ( University of Potsdam , Potsdam , Germany ; visiting fellow at Bahcesehir University , Istanbul , Turkey )
 
The
conference is organized by an EU funded project, “European Media and Cultural
Studies and Media Awareness,� jointly run by Bahcesehir University (Istanbul,
Turkey), University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany) and University of Applied
Sciences Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany). 
 
For further
details about the conference please visit:
http://www.emcs.bahcesehir.edu.tr/conference.html
 
For further
details about the project please visit:
http://www.emcs.bahcesehir.edu.tr/
 
Please
note: There is no fee for the conference registration. 
                       The language of the conference is English.
 
If you have
further questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us. 
E-Mail:
Aysegul Kesirli (conference assistant) aysegulkesirli at yahoo.com
Phone: +90
(212) 381 0764


      
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