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EGE UNIVERSITY 13TH INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
May 04-06, 2011 - Izmir, TURKEY
CHANGE and CHALLENGE


I am not now That which I have been. Lord Byron
 Changeand Challengeare mutually inclusive, one breeding the other. Heraclitus 
as early as 480 B.C. analyzed the meaning of life to be the flux of change, and 
declared that this aspect of reality is the only experience that does not 
change. He based his observation on the hypothesis that flux is an interaction 
between binary oppositions bringing about new unities. His ideas after a 
considerable span of time attracted modifications by the German Idealists, 
especially by Hegel's philosophy of dialecticism. Thus, within Western 
philosophical inquiry influenced by Heraclitus, change came to be thought of as 
action challenged by reaction leading to synthesis. Karl Marx was later inspired 
to formulate historical process as class-struggle. All of these theories had 
been initiated by denying the credibility of any concept suggesting the 
existence of absolute truth. This denial had flourished in the Western mind 
following upon the Renaissance and found its best expression in William James' 
American pragmatism claiming that "ideas in an ever changing process" are 
valuable as long as they are adaptable to real life situations.


 After the 1950s, trauma-ridden human societies desperately searched for 
solutions and emphasized the discontinuity of all experiences. What once used to 
be appropriate about labeling biological features as 'female and male', for 
instance, changed in accordance with the cultural and historical times of 
rejecting absolute truth. Hence, we witness the transformative role of culture 
on literature, as coined by Raymond Williams, carried forward into the 
international sphere by Terry Eagleton. Furthermore, the absolute ground of 
being and existence have been challenged by Foucault's principle of reversal and 
discontinuity: When there is dominance, there also will be the modes of 
resistance to it. Dollimore's formula of "consolation", "subversion" and 
"containment" is the extension of the well-known earlier dialectical 
construction. The Saussurian relation of "signifier" and "signified" has come to 
be known as entities lending themselves to be re-interpreted as endless new 
"composition". Concisely, the dichotomy between "change" and "challenge" 
characterizes a wide range of social, aesthetic, economic, political, cultural, 
and literary phenomena lending itself to endless possibilities of discussions.


 In the view of this overarching construct, we therefore invite and welcome 
submissions of papers of varied import: papers of theoretical, interpretive or 
expository nature from disciplines across the spectrum of British-American and 
cultural studies enhancing our understanding of changes and transformations in 
relation to myriad aspects of literature, linguistics, fine arts, architecture, 
film/media, communication, gender and political studies, critical theory, 
literary criticism, history, psychology, philosophy and sociology - all 
exploring the notion of Changeas a Challenge.


 Topics(and suggestive subtopics):
-----Change and Challenge as Theme: stories, heroes, themes, images in relation 
to metamorphosis, adaptation, transformation, mutation, transition, 
transcendence, evolution, revolution etc..


-----Academic Adjustments and Theoretical Innovations:eco-criticism, 
eco-feminism, magic realism; post-modern, -feminist, -psychoanalytic, -colonial, 
- apocalyptic approaches and narratives; reconsiderations of language 
(bilingualism, heteroglossia, dialogism, pidgins); changing fields (i.e. Men's, 
Islamic, Arab-American, Middle-East Studies, Cyber-culture inter-, 
trans-disciplinary studies, feminist geography) etc..


-----Altered, Adapted and Appropriated Texts:Translations, adaptations; 
conflation of genres, (sub) genres, forms and techniques (i.e. non-, docu-, 
oto-, fictions, graphic novels, eco-poetry) "writing back" or responses to or 
revisions of earlier texts, meta-narratives; shifting techniques of 
intertextuality, borrowing, plagiarism, etc..


-----Redefining Spatial and Temporal Perceptions:alteration of territorial, 
geographical, historical, limits, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, 
changing spatial practices and space-power relations, fluidity, consumption of 
space, new spatial organizations and allocations, (i.e. malls, hypermarkets, 
theme parks), hybrid spaces, intercity relations and the evolution of the urban 
hierarchy etc..  



-----Alternating Cultural Paradigms and Politics:new cultural tensions in 
representations, adaptation of multi-, bi-, inter-, intra-, cross- and 
trans-regional/national/ cultural structures and values, cultural nomadism, 
digi-modernism, religion's changing role perforating cultural boundaries, 
multinational productions, alliances, globalization, glocalization, 
environmental, climatic change and changing political discourses etc..  



-----Liminal Nature of Body and Identity:modified, hybrid, mixed, post-human, 
cyber, trans-gender, queer bodies and identities, deviated gender roles, altered 
and/or conversed race, class identities, new landscapes of the self spatial 
identity etc.


-----Adaptation to Technological Advancements:Digital humanities, Hyper-media, 
cyber-texts, virtual reality, multimedia literacy, e-learning, nodes (social 
networks like Facebook, Twitter) etc..  



	* Along 	with individual papers, the conference committee welcomes 
	round-tables, workshops and performances.  

	* The 	languages of the conference are English and Turkish.  
(Please note that there will be no translations during the symposium.)
	* All 	abstract proposals are to be submitted to css2011 at mail.ege.edu.tr and 
cultural.studies2011 at gmail.com 

Submissions must contain the following fields: 
	* First 	Name, Surname of Applicant  
	* Title 	of Applicant  
	* Title 	of Applicant  
	* Institution and Country of Applicant  
	* Email 	of Applicant  
	* Title 	of Abstract  
	* Abstract 	- 300 words maximum  
	* Biography 	- 150 words maximum  
	* Keywords 	- 5 maximum  
Abstract Submission Deadline:DECEMBER 12th 2010
Acceptance Confirmation:JANUARY 16th 2011


Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Atilla Silkü and Asst. Prof. Seçil SaraçlıDept. of American Culture & 
Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ege University,
Tel:+90 232 311 19 74
Fax:+90 232 388 11 02
Websites:http://css.ege.edu.tr/ and http://ake.ege.edu.tr/new/


Seçil Saraçlı
CSS.2011



      
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