[eccr] CITY IN (CULTURE] IN CITY - Turkey

>EGE UNIVERSITY
>9th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium
>May 5-7, 2004
>
>Call for Papers
>
>[CITY IN (CULTURE] IN CITY)
>
>Venue: Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey
>
>This year's topic aims to explore the interaction(s) between the city and
>culture.
>
>We offer the following notes with the hope that they will inspire but not
>limit you.
>
>- urbanism / urbanization / new urbanism
>- alternative definitions of time and space in the city
>- urban space and memory / cultural memory in the city
>- city reconstituted / reconstructed through memory (ies)
>- urban utopias / urban dystopias
>- spatialization of politics / politicization of space:
>- ghettoization / residential segregation
>- city-the great equalizer (?)
>- segregation / integration as it relates to public space
>- urban metaphors
>- landmarks as markers of identity
>- urban identity / urbanity
>- public space and public life: streets, markets, parks
>- gendered city / divided city / gender, race, ethnicity and class
>in urban landscape
>- the male city / the female city
>- city: reflections/ images/ landmarks/ legends / urban legends
>- downtown(s) and uptown(s)
>- urban semiotics / city as legible text / city as narrative and
>metanarrative
>- improvised city
>- city behind walls / city behind bars / city within a city /
>invisible cities, invisible borders
>- city as Eden  / city as Purgatory
>- city: from Babylon to Boswash
>- city as the spiritual site / faiths / organized religions / etc.
>- urban quests
>- city as masquerade
>- the polarized city: city as ash heap / city as promised land
>- city ethics
>- cities of the mind / cognitive mapping
>
>Deadline for 500-word paper, panel, performance or exhibition proposals:
>January 9, 2004
>
>Proposals and short bios can be submitted via mail, email or fax to:
>
>                         Ayse Lahur Kirtunc
>                         Faculty of Letters
>                         Ege University 35100 Bornova Izmir Turkey
>                         (culture /at/ bornova.ege.edu.tr)
>                         (egeculture2004 /at/ yahoo.com)
>                         + 90 232 388 1102
>
>Information on the history of the Ege University Cultural Studies
>Symposium can be found online at the Symposium website:
>http://css.ege.edu.tr
>
>Registration and accommodation information will be posted later at the
>Symposium website.
>
>Co-organized by:
>Ege University Department of American Culture and Literature
>and Department of English Language and Literature
>The American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)
>The Cultural Office of the US Embassy
>The British Council

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