[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Symposium

[Gonul Pultar]

Dikkat: "deadline" 30 Haziran 2014.

*CFP: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Symposium:*

*“Remnants of the Nation,” 30-31 October, 2014*

*Yaşar University, English Language and Literature Department, Izmir, 
Turkey*

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Is all that is left of the nation a set of remnants to be mourned, or is 
mourning over remains precisely a sign of our captivation by the form of 
the nation? Posing the question of the remnants of the nation within the 
field of literary and cultural studies in 2014, this two-day seminar 
aims to raise a number of contemporary—or contemporarily 
exacerbated—problems of national form, and it intends to do so from a 
comparative perspective.

We invite proposals for paper presentations that discuss the nation and 
its margins in relation to remnants, memories, and memorializing from 
the fields of literary and cultural studies and/or interdisciplinary 
studies that incorporate insights from other social sciences and 
humanities disciplines. Topics can include, but are not limited to,

Nation, nationalism, trans-/post-nationalism, post-coloniality

Memory, mourning, nostalgia

Minority and migrant fictions

Diasporic memoirs, auto/biographies, life writing

Empire, state violence, and collective trauma

The gendering of home and homeland

Alternative paradigms: regionalisms, globalism, atlanticisms, hybridity

Depictions: remains of the nation in visual culture

Exchanges (population, cultural, linguistic), translations, and 
transpositions

Architecture, (urban) space, and national identity

Immigration/ethnicity and gentrification/displacement in postmetropolis

Media: discourse and nationality

The seminar and subsequent workshop on cultural pluralism and academic 
literary studies in Turkey will take place on 30-31 October 2014 on 
Yaşar University’s central campus in Bornova, Izmir. Confirmed keynotes 
include*Prof. Meyda Yeğenoğlu*(Cultural Studies and Sociology, Istanbul 
Bilgi University),*Prof. Kader Konuk*(Turkish Studies, University of 
Duisburg-Essen), and Emeritus*Prof. Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç*(Ege University, 
Faculty of Letters).

**

*Please send proposals of 250 words, with a 100-word biography in MS 
Word format to *clcs at yasar.edu.tr <mailto:clcs at yasar.edu.tr>*by June 
30th 2014.*

The language of the symposium will be English.

For the complete version of the seminar description, visit our website 
athttp://clcs.yasar.edu.tr <http://clcs.yasar.edu.tr/>

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