[Commlist] CFP: New Directions in Turkish Film Studies XX: Cinema and Migration

*20th New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference:
"Cinema and Migration"
*
May 9-11, 2019, Kadir Has University, Faculty of Communication
Istanbul, TURKEY



Migration is one of the most controversial and pressing issues of our 
times. Due to economic deprivation, violence, human rights violations, 
political uncertainty and environmental problems, being on the road to 
somewhere has become the new norm. Yet in most cases, it is a departure 
without a certain arrival. According to the figures of UNHCR, 68.5 
million people across the world are forcibly displaced and Turkey ranks 
first among top refugee-hosting countries. Between 2011-2016, the number 
of migrants in Turkey has reached 3.5 million. In this landscape, the 
significant questions of integration and harmonization arise, as 
discussed in M. Murat Erdoğan’s (2015) work on Syrians in Turkey.

Research on migration in Film Studies has had an interdisciplinary 
outlook, using mainly the perspectives of sociology, psychology, 
cultural geography and anthropology, gender, media, migration and 
diaspora studies and law studies, whereas Turkish Film Studies has 
started to discuss migration through Hamid Naficy’s theories on 
“transnational cinemas”. Referring to Homi K. Bhabha’s theories, Deniz 
Göktürk’s article “Turkish Delight-German Fright: Unsettling Oppositions 
in Transnational Cinema” (2003) focused on a new way of communication: 
“speaking from the margins to the center”. Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 
(1994) contributed to the study of immigrant filmmakers in national 
cinemas. More recently, in the context of Turkish-German and European 
cinemas, Nilgün Bayraktar’s (2015) work discusses representations of 
migration and mobility in Europe since 1990s, along with Isolina 
Ballesteros’s/Immigration Cinema in the New Europe/(2015), Daniela 
Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg’s/European Cinema in Motion/(2010), and 
Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel’s/Turkish German Cinema in the New 
Millennium/(2012).

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, this year’s New Directions in Turkish 
Film Studies Conference scrutinizes the socio-cultural, political and 
economic aspects of migration and its influence on contemporary film and 
TV production in Turkey and abroad. Focusing on migrant narratives 
across audiovisual media, we aim to explore broader topics such as 
social media, mobility, citizenship, identity, integration and 
harmonization, refugee crisis, irregular migration/trafficking, 
insecurity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and migrant rights.

Within this perspective, the conference aims to bring together film 
scholars to discuss issues related to “cinema and migration”. Potential 
topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
• Transnational and diasporic cinemas
• Images of migration
• Histories of migration
• Language and communication in migrant cinema
• Production modes of migrant filmmakers
• Aesthetics, genres and styles in migrant film experience
• Globalization, national cinemas and migration
• Experimental film and video works on migration
• Spaces, times and landscapes of migration
• Migrant identities
• Gender, mobility and migration

Confirmed Keynote Speakers include*Dudley Andrew*(Yale University),*John 
Hill*(Royal Holloway, University of London),*Deniz Göktürk*(University 
of California, Berkeley),*Robert Burgoyne*(University of St 
Andrews),*Nevena Dakovic*(The University of Arts in Belgrade), 
and*Nilgün Bayraktar*(California College of the Arts).
The conference will be held in English. Individual proposals should 
consist of an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a bio (maximum 100 
words). Panel proposals should include the abstracts of each paper, bios 
of the panelists and a short description of the panel (max. 200 words). 
All proposals will be evaluated through a blind-review process.
To submit a proposal, please send the abstracts and bios to the 
following email address:(tfayykonferans /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(tfayykonferans /at/ gmail.com)>
The deadline for submission is*February 10, 2019*.

For more information, please see the link below:
http://tfayy.org/callforproposals.html


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