[ecrea] Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe

Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe
2-3 October 2009, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
What is Europe according to its others? An 
essence, an origin, a center? Or is it
nothingness, a void or chiasm? Where is Europe? In diasporic or migrant spaces?
How is Europe different from the West? Can an 
identity be made European? Could it
be Eurocentric or Euro-chiasmic? Can one leave one¡¦s cultural frame to take on
another? Can one transnationalize and/or 
regionalize a national identity or vice
versa? Can the European Union create a single 
entity or a grand signifier of Europe
out of multiple differences? What is the role of 
communication, media, and culture in
such exchanges, transformations, processes and 
practices? Can we account for the
similarities, proximities, and relations or should we focus on the differences,
cleavages, and tensions?
This conference aims to explore the questions 
above and how such questions surface
in media and cultural texts, ranging from everyday practices to media
representations. The papers may deal with various meanings of Europe and its
relation to non-European cultures, and how these 
are experienced or altered at the
level of media, culture, and identity. Possible paper topics are:
Eurocentrism and its alternatives
Transnationalism and nationalisms
Global, regional, and local media and culture
Diasporic and migrant culture and identities
Gender equality and cultural diversity
Tactics and strategies of dialogue between cultures
Symbolic representations of Europe in various cultural practices
Theories of European cinema, media and culture
Challenges for European cinema, media, and cultural studies
European communication studies and strategies
The EU policies on media, communication, and culture
Confirmed Keynote Speakers (alphabetically listed):
Emine Bozkurt, (Member of the European Parliament for the PvdA), member of
the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; member of the
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality; member of the Joint
Parliamentary Committee on Turkey; substitute member of the Culture and
Education Committee; Vice-Chair of the Diversity 
and Integration Network for the
Socialist Group.
Prof. Angela McRobbie (University of London, Goldsmiths College, Media and
Communications) author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture
Industries, forthcoming (2010); Feminist Cultural 
Studies: Essays on Post-Feminist
Aesthetics, Literature and Popular Culture, 
forthcoming (2010); The Aftermath of
Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change 
(2008); The Uses of Cultural Studies
(2005); In the Culture Society (1999); British Fashion Design (1998).
Prof. Kevin Robins (Based in Istanbul and a 
visiting fellow at Goldsmiths College,
University of London) author of Times of the 
Technoculture: From the Information
Society to the Virtual Life (1999); Into the 
Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of
Vision (1996); Spaces of Identity: Global Media, 
Electronic Landscapes and Cultural
Boundaries (co-author, 1995).
Prof. William Uricchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative
Media Studies), author of We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities
(2009); Media Cultures (2006); Media, Technology, Convergence (1997);Reframing
Culture: the Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films (1993, co-author).
Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Please send a 300-word abstract with the name and 
institutional affiliation of the
speaker (mailing address & email address) to (emcs /at/ bahcesehir.edu.tr)
Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2009.
Deadline for acceptance information: June 29, 2009.
Deadline for submitting the completed papers: September 20, 2009.
Deadline for papers for conference proceedings: October 18, 2009.
Organizing Committee
?h Prof. Haluk Gurgen (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
?h Prof. Dieter Mersch (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
?h Prof. Winfried Gerling (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam,
Potsdam, Germany)
?h Assoc. Prof. Suheyla Schroeder (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul,
Turkey; visiting fellow at University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
?h Assoc. Prof. Savas Arslan (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
?h Assist. Prof. Defne Karaosmanoglu (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul,
Turkey)
?h Assist. Prof. Christine Hanke (University of Potsdam, Potsdam,
Germany; visiting fellow at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
The conference is organized by an EU funded 
project, ¡§European Media and Cultural
Studies Master¡¦s Programme and Media Awareness,¡¨ jointly run by Bahcesehir
University (Istanbul, Turkey), University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany) and
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany).
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.emcs.bahcesehir.edu.tr/conference.html
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.emcs.bahcesehir.edu.tr/
Please note: There is no fee for the conference registration.
The language of the conference is English.
If you have further questions about the 
conference, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
E-Mail: Aysegul Kesirli (conference assistant) (aysegulkesirli /at/ yahoo.com)
Phone: +90 (212) 381 0764

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