[eccr] Special Transforming Cultures Seminar. Friday August 5th, 2005.

>Special Transforming Cultures Seminar. Friday August 5th, 2005.
>Room: 7065 (Building 2)
>Time: 4.00 - 5.30pm
>
>Constructions of the "West" in Recent Cultural Debates in Postsocialist 
>Hungary
>
>Dr. Anna Szemere
>Portland State University USA
>
>Chair: Tony Mitchell
>
>Can one talk of a coherent notion of the West in the discourse of 
>postsocialist Europe? The very act of carving out a space between East and 
>West and calling it Central Europe by Hungary, the Czech Republic and 
>Poland suggests that the West-East mapping of Europe is inadequate in the 
>post-Cold War era. Neither has the idea of the West remained unchanged in 
>this period. The political controversies of the Bush administration with 
>its traditional European allies, France and Germany and its unconcealed 
>attempts to re-divide a Europe by mustering support from former East 
>European nations are evidence of the cartographic and strategic 
>re-configuration of the West.
>There is a great deal of semiotic confusion about the signifier "Europe" 
>as well. While the West is being reconstrued almost daily, so is the East. 
>The new European identity is defining itself not only by 'generously' 
>incorporating much of Central and Eastern Europe but by creating the 
>Turkish, the Russian, and the Balkan Other. Are the wealthy Western 
>nations seen as civilizers or colonizers of local cultures? How such 
>constructions are made and challenged in and through the realm of cultural 
>production? My talk will look at the discursive construction of the West 
>in Central Europe through using the example of recent cultural debates in 
>Hungary.
>
>Bio
>
>Anna Szemere teaches cultural sociology at Portland State University. She 
>has published numerous articles and book chapters on popular culture 
>issues and politics in Eastern Europe. Her book Up from the Underground: 
>The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary came out in 2001. She 
>served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of 
>Popular Music (1997-99) and on the International Advisory Board of Popular 
>Music (1986-96).
>
>[keri glastonbury]
>transforming cultures centre
>university of technology sydney
>po box 123
>broadway nsw 2007
>ph +61 2 95142309
>www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au

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