[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: 5th Annual European Symposium on Turkey: The Concept of Culture and its Politicization in Turkey and the Diaspora, Vienna, 29-30 November 2019

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CfP: "5th Annual European Symposium on Turkey: The Concept of Culture 
and its Politicization in Turkey and the Diaspora"

Vienna, 29-30 November 2019

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    Reminder: CfP: 5th Annual European Symposium on Turkey: The Concept
    of Culture and its Politicization in Turkey and the Diaspora, 29-30
    November 2019

by Ayse Dilsiz HARTMUTH


Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey

Call for Papers – 5th Annual European Symposium on Turkey:

The Concept of Culture and its Politicization in Turkey and the Diaspora

Even though in its core the emergence of ‘Modern Turkey’ could be 
considered a cultural revolution, some discourses on culture as well as 
fundamental transformations in the field of culture can arguably be 
traced back to the late Ottoman period. This symposium inquires the ways 
in which the concept of culture and the idea of its homogeneity featured 
in late Ottoman and Turkish discourses. It seeks to unearth the methods 
culture was and is used as a tool for implementing and legitimizing a 
political project. Yet, the imposition of, for example, the humanist 
cultural project in the 1930s and 40s never was all-encompassing nor 
uncontested by members of the multiethnic and -religious society. Even 
in today’s Turkey in which the implementation of a new political regime 
has had massive repercussions for the functioning of institutions and 
the relationship between state and society, the state still failed to 
gain an all-inclusive control in cultural realm and “pockets of 
resistance” continue to exist.

Culture is understood as a highly contested resource, yet, something 
which is continuously in process and hence not fixed. Culture serves as 
the field for affirming hegemonic discourse but also as a space to 
create and perform resistance strategies. For that, culture is not an 
exclusive term which only applies to high culture, it also includes all 
sorts of mundane and everyday practices, performances and expressions.

The meeting will investigate and discuss the various forms of “cultural 
engineering” through history, the different discourses on culture and 
the numerous practices of articulating, performing and producing culture 
as well as cultural identities/resources – be it in line with or against 
the cultural policy of the state. Turkey’s official cultural policies 
aimed at Turkish citizens living abroad will also be a focus of the 
symposium.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

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    Literature, Theatre, Cinema, Visual Arts, Music

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    Emerging “traditional” arts and the folklorization of tradition

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    Culture and civil society

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    Minority cultures / Minoritization of cultures

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    Subcultures

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    Culture and heritage

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    Dichotomies between nature/culture, urban/provincial cultures,
    high/low culture

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    Culture and memory

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    Culture and politics / Culturalization of politics

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    Transnational cultures

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    Gender and culture

We welcome contributions from all disciplines of the humanities and 
social sciences (both quantitative and qualitative) and encourage 
interdisciplinary and comparative work in collaborative form.

*Abstract submission: *

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a brief 
academic CV. Abstracts should include a research question and 
information about data/empirical material, methodology and 
expected/preliminary findings. Selected papers will be published in a 
special issue of a peer reviewed journal.

The language of the symposium is English.

Abstracts and CVs should be submitted via email to: 
_ayse.dilsiz at univie.ac.at_

*Funding*

Selected participants are eligible for the funding of flight tickets 
(plus local public transportation) and accommodation. Flight tickets 
will be reimbursed up to 300 Euros. (For co-authored papers, funding 
will be available for one of the presenters.)

The event is being co-organized by the Consortium for European Symposia 
on Turkey (CEST). CEST is committed to the study of modern Turkey by 
bringing together the expertise of leading European research 
institutions. It convenes annual high-quality academic events that 
create new ways of engaging with the study of Turkey and make this field 
more accessible to the debates in the social sciences. It, in 
particular, aims at creating platforms of networking and visibility 
particularly for younger academics. CEST is supported by Stiftung 
Mercator (_http://www.network-turkey.org/cest/_).

*Deadlines and dates: *

Call posted: 15 March

Deadline for submissions: 12 June

Decisions announced: 15 July

Papers submitted: 15 November

Symposium: 29 November to 30 November 2019

Questions can be directed to Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth at 
_ayse.dilsiz at univie.ac.at_


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