Welcome to ICCCEIM ’ 2015
The conference will provide excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and experience of the student, researchers and also interested persons.
Historical and contemporary global migration involves a range of cross-cultural encounters, but how are these interactions discussed, debated, and defined? Identities are various: personal, national, religious, regional, racial, gender etc., and it is very difficult to determine which identity is affecting us most. Sometimes it can be one, and sometimes the other. The notion of identity is often ending up in stereotyping and othering of those who have different identities, and irrespective of the approach we take in identity studies we always end up with the same dilemma: why are identities and identifications so important? These and other issues will be a subject of our conference.
This two-day multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine past and present migrant encounters with other peoples in a diverse range of locations.
Papers from various disciplinary angles are welcome from both academics and other researchers across a variety of themes from any historical period or region.
The conference will take place in the period of 26-28 July, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Themes may include but are not limited to:
Cross-Cultural Encounters
- Race, ethnicity and citizenship
- War, migration and cross-cultural contact
- Labour, migration and cross-cultural encounters
- Empire, contact and mobility
- Gender, migration, and cross-cultural encounters
Identity
- Identity and Identifications: theory and methodology
- Identity and Nationalism
- Gender identity
- The arts, literature and Identity
- Cultural identity
- Media and Identity
- Identity and Memory
- Identity and Critical theory
Literature of the Marginalized
- The Margin vs. the Mainstream
- Literature: Space for the Marginalized
- The Margin: Spaces within Spaces
- The Margin: Negotiating Spaces
- Voices of the Marginalized
- Minorities and Literature
- The Margin and the Canon
- Cultures and Sub-cultures
- The Marginalized in Translation
- Literature and Empowerment
- Teaching Literature to the Underprivileged
