[ecrea] CfP: Globalization, Transnationalism and Narration /24-26 November, Istanbul

> The English
> Language and Literature Department of Doðuþ University is pleased to
> announce
>
> an international conference,
> Globalization,
> Transnationalism and Narration, to be held on 24-
>
> 26 November, 2010 at Doðuþ University, Istanbul, Turkey. While grounded
> in literature, the
>
> conference engages the intersections between literature and other
> disciplinary fields, including
>
> history, sociology, politics, anthropology, film studies, gender and
> cultural studies and how
>
> these fields read narrative texts. The keynote speakers are Professor Rey
> Chow, Anne Firor
>
> Scott Professor of Literature, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke
> University and
>
> Professor Suman Gupta, Open University, UK, author of
> Literature and
> Globalization.
>
> We are currently soliciting proposals for 20-minute presentations in the
> conference. Possible
>
> topics may include but are not limited to:
>
> -globalization as thematized in film and literature
>
> -globalization processes and narrative texts
>
> -transnational migrations and nation states
>
> -transfiction and transnational communities
>
> -displacement, dispersion and diaspora
>
> -literature of exile
>
> -travel literature
>
> -inhabiting multiple identities
>
> -identities and border crossings: double encounters
>
> -gender across borders
>
> -colonialism, postcolonialism and nationalism
>
> -multiculturalism and narrative
>
> Please submit a proposal of 250 to 300 words, including title, abstract,
> presenter, academic
>
> affiliation, as well as phone and e-mail contact, by May 3, 2010 to Hülya
> Güler at
>
> (hguler /at/ dogus.edu.tr). If you are interested in
> organising a panel or a workshop, please send
>
> your proposal to the same address.
>
> Presenters will be notified of acceptance by May 14, 2010.
>
> Selected presentations from the conference will be considered for
> publication.
>
> Registration fee: 140 USD/ 100 Euro/ 200 TL for academics; 100 TL for
> graduate students;
>
> 100 TL for single-day attendance.
>
> Further information will soon be available on the following website:
>
> http://internationalconference.dogus.edu.tr/
>
> Organizing Committee
>
> Assist. Prof. Oya Berk
>
> Assist. Prof. Mine Ozyurt-Kilic
>
> Dr. Amy Newlove Schroeder

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