CALL FOR PAPERS

Cultural Studies Association and the Center for Strategic Studies of Koç University invite proposals for a cultural studies conference entitled "Identity and Culture" they are co-organizing on 14-17 June 2005 in Istanbul ( Turkey ). Seeking to explore the topic of identity from a wide range of scholarly points of view by focusing on issues of identity in its multiple relationships with various facets of culture, the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary conference aims to interrogate established notions of identity both in Turkey and outside of Turkey .

 

We welcome proposals for papers that break new ground in generating theory, or constitute innovative critical or comparative work that would lead to theoretical formulations and methodology. The conference intends to examine issues of identity in Turkey, among the peoples in the lands of the former Ottoman empire, among the Euro-Turks (and Turkish-Americans, Australasian Turks, etc.), among the Turcophone peoples in countries and regions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Russian Federation) and those Turcophone minorities in such countries as Iran and China. We welcome submissions related to identity including, but not limited to, the following:

 

•  Cultural identity Ethnic identity

•  Identity and belonging /Identity and difference

•  Building identity/"social engineering"

•  Identity and nation building myths

•  National identity /national identity building projects

•  Transnational identity

•  Religious identity

•  Linguistic identity

•  Sexual identity

•  Gender/heterosexual/homosexual/metrosexual identity

•  Identity within the context of hybridity/diaspora/ migration/exile

•  Fluidity of identity

•  Historical identity/identities in history

•  Enculturation/ acculturation/transculturation and identity

•  Political identity

•  Imperial(ist) identity

•  Hegemonic identity/subaltern identity

•  Identity in the private and public spheres/identity and private and pulic spheres

•  Identity in multicultural societies

•  Identity and "minorities"/Being of the minority in the Republic of Turkey /Being a Turk as a member of a minority group (Azeri in Iran, Uyghur in China, etc.)

•  Post-Soviet Turk(ic) identity

•  Ottoman identity

•  Mughal identity

•  Devşirme identity

•  "Sabetayist" identity

•  Identity forged by the Republic of Turkey/Identity formation during the establishment of the Republic of Turkey (reforms, laws, measures, institutions, etc.)

•  Ethnic identities in the Republic of Turkey

•  Being a Turk in Europe/ USA/Australia /Asia/Africa

•  Having the identity of a foreigner in the Republic of Turkey

•  Being a Turk today in the former Ottoman lands

•  Being the "other" of the Westerner

•  "Western" identity/"Eastern-Oriental" identity

•  Muslim identity in the eyes of the Westerner/Turkish identity in the eyes of the Westerner

•  Identity forged by the media

•  Identity in cyberspace

•  Super-identity/sub-identity

•  Imagined identity

•  Invented identity

•  Identity of the terrorist/anarchist/revolutionary

•  Identity of the reformist/reform and identity

•  "Islamist" identity

•  " Tanzimatçı" identity

•  Identity and ideology

•  Regional/local identity

•  Space and identity /habitus and identity

•  "Modern" identity/identity and modernity/identity formed by modernity

•  Relationship of identity with rationalism and positivism.

•  Symbolic identity/identity as symbol

•  Memory and identity/identity and memories

•  Narrative identity

•  Body identity

•  Identity as object of desire

•  Frozen/ossified identity

•  Crystallized identity

•  Representation/representations of identity

•  Representation/representations of identities

•  Racial identity

•  Social identity/Class identity/Identity and democracy

•  Identity in the globalized world/Global identity

•  Consumer identity

•  Capitalist identity /socialist identity

•  Karaim/Khazar/Jewish Turkish identity

•  Syriac/Orthodox/Protestant/Christian Turkish identity

•  Alewite identity

•  Identity of tarikat /freemason lodge member

•  Professional identity/familial identity

•  Identity of the intellectual

•  Social change and identity

•  Identity of the captive/interned: the jailed, the asylum intern, etc.

•  Identity and popular culture

•  Conservative/reactionary/status-quo-loving identities and their reasons

•  Is there an "Anatolian identity"?

•  Identity and "master narratives"

•  Identity of the émigré/emigrant/immigrant/exchangee (mübadil)

•  Fragmentation of identity/fragmented identities

•  Turkish identity since the "Hyung-nus": phases/history/theories

•  Theoreticians of Turkish/Turkic identity (Yusuf Akçura, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, İsmail Gaspralı, Ziya Gökalp, Mirsait Sultangaliyef, etc.)

•  Trauma experienced in identity change (from Ottoman subject to citizen of the Republic of Turkey , from citizenship of the Republic of Turkey to citizenship of EU/USA/Canada/Australia/from homo sovieticus to citizenship of the Republic of Turkey /of Western states, etc.)

•  As factor(s) in identity formation :

Language/media/literary text/biography - otobiography - festschrift /

visual material (art works, photography, film, etc.)/

material culture (artifact, lieu de mémoire , building)/

intangible culture - oral text/heritage/

official history /state/societal "icon"s/

alphabet/educational institutions/publishing houses/museums/

tradition/dance - music - songs - folk songs, tradition of âşık /

show business/sports - games/

law/social sciences/religion (and its institutions)/

family (and its members)/society (and its institutions)

The working language of the conference is Turkish. Abstracts of 100-200 words or complete papers, containing five key words, should be sent along a brief curriculum vita. Panel proposals with three to four papers should include, besides the panel proposal and five key words, abstracts of the papers in the panel, and brief curriculum vitae of the chair, presenters, and discussant(s) if any. Send no later than 31 October 2004 by e-mail to programk@cstgroup.org ; by fax to +90 212 292 2229 (Attn.: Cultural Studies Conference).

Letters of acceptance, along with further details of the conference, will be mailed by the first week of December 2004.