[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe - Update

[aysegul kesirli]

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):

Emine Bozkurt, (Member of the
European Parliament for the PvdA), member of the Committee on Civil
Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality; member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Turkey;
substitute member of the Culture and
Education Committee; Vice-Chair of the
Diversity and Integration Network for the Socialist Group.
 
Prof. Angela McRobbie(University of London, Goldsmiths College, Media
and Communications) author ofBe Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, forthcoming (2010); Feminist Cultural
Studies:  Essays on Post-Feminist Aesthetics, Literature and Popular Culture,
forthcoming (2010); The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and
Social Change(2008); The Uses of Cultural Studies (2005); In the Culture Society (1999);British Fashion Design (1998).
 
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); Media Cultures (2006);Media, Technology, Convergence (1997);Reframing Culture: the Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films (1993,
co-author).
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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