The International and Interdisciplinary Conference Series 2011-2014
A 3-day conference with about 50-60 speakers to be co-organized by Universities of Innsbruck and Kadir Has University Istanbul, supported by Hochschule für Medienkunst Köln and Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul
Conference venue: Kadir Has University Cibali Campus, Istanbul
A 3-day conference with about 50-60 speakers to be co-organized by Universities of Innsbruck and partners
Conference venue: Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
A 3-day conference with about 50-60 speakers to be co-organized by Universities of Innsbruck and partners
Conference venue: Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
A 3-day conference with about 50-60 speakers to be co-organized by Universities of Innsbruck and partners
Conference venue: Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
A 2-day conference with about 30-35 speakers to be co-organized by Universities of Innsbruck and partners
Conference venue: SUPA Salon by Manzara Istanbul
The Conference Short Descriptions
The conference “IMAGES – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters” will be co-organized as a 4-days English speaking international and interdisciplinary conference by CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfer (Innsbruck) and Kadir Has University (Istanbul). It will be supported by Hochschule für Medienkunst (Cologne) and the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul.
The conference “IMAGES – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters” will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, and postdoctoral academics, without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20-30 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
Paper and panel proposals may include all topics analyzing films as spaces of cultural encounters from a cultural studies perspective in general, and an inter-cultural, multi-cultural, trans-cultural, semiotic, communication centred, linguistic, sociological, historical, comparative, educational, and political perspective in particular, and from all related perspectives.
There will also be room provided for presentations of creative works focussing on the topic.
IMAGES – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters
A 4-days international and interdisciplinary conference
Kadir Has University Cibali Campus, Istanbul
1 – 4 June, 2011
Programme
Day 1 (1 June, 2011)
Registration (9.00-9.30)
Welcome and Opening (9.30-10.00)
Welcome by Rector of Kadir Has University
Welcome by Conference Coordinators
Welcome by Representative of Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul
Paper presentations (10.15-12.50, 14.00-17.40)
Session 1: Media of film analysis
10.15-10.30: Serhan Oksay (Turkey) and Vedat Akman (Turkey): CINEJ – the e-journal for film and photography
Session 2: Cinematic language and aesthetics of conveying cultural encounters (Part I): theory, architecture, landscape and imagery
10.40-11.20: Andreas Stuhlmann (Germany) and Benjamin Fellmann (Germany): Walter Benjamin’s Language of Things and the Theory of Intercultural Visual Aesthetics
11.20-12.00: Inci Uzun (Turkey) and Didem Akyol Altun (Turkey): Architectural Design as a means of creating composition in cinema
12.00-12.30: Asu Besgen Gencosmanoglu (Turkey): To find is to choose, to choose is to create: Culture(s) in Cinematic Space(s)
12.30-14.30: Lunch break
14.30-15.00: Solen Koseoğlu, Kubra Değer, Burcu Ziyrek (Turkey): Images as films = spaces as cultures
15.00-15.30: Veronika Bernard (Austria): The language of colours. A semiotic analysis of the imagery in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula”
15.30-15.50: Coffee break
15.50-16.20: Ute Lischke (Canada): Cultural Encounters: Performance and Storytelling as Remediation in Sibylle Schönemann’s documentaries
16.20-16.50: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (US): Ksenia Rappoport’s transnational identity on and off screen
16.50-17.20: Agnieszka Ayşen Kaim (Poland): Turkish New Cinema - Threshold Cinema of Asia Minor
Session 3: Film projects of cultural encounters
17.20-17.40: Serhan Oksay (Turkey) and Vedat Akman (Turkey): The short film festival “Istanbul Crossroads”
Creative Works (17.50-19.40)
Session 4: Film screenings – Istanbul Crossroads Festival selection
Session 5: Panel 1 – Film authors discussion (Istanbul Crossroads Authors)
Day 2 (2 June, 2011)
Paper presentations (10.00-12.10, 14.00-18.20)
Session 6: The cultural encounters of migrations
10.00-10.40: Phoebe Giannisi (Greece) and Ioanna Laliotou (Greece): Space Oddity: mobility, subjectivity and the politics of landscape in films
10.40-11.10: Mário Matos (Portugal): Wim Wenders’ stories about intercultural and intermedial mobility
11.10-11.40: Julia Binter (Austria): Diasporic Film as Third Space. Arash T. Riahi’s „Exile Family Movie“
11.40-12.10: Qijun (Cynthia) Han (NL): Across Cultural and National Borders: Diasporic Chinese Family in Pushing Hands
12.10-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-14.30: Vivian Wong (US): Documenting “home” in the diaspora: Memory, records, and identities in the archival imaginary
14.30-15.00: Alda Terracciano (UK): Street of... - Researching memories and the everyday life in 7 cities around the world
Session 7: The image of the outsider and the outcast vs. the image of mainstream society
15.00-15.30: Petruta Tatulescu (Germany/ Ireland): Lesbian Lives at Boarding Schools: Outcast Teachers in Maedchen in Uniform (1958) vs Loving Annabelle (2006)
15.30-16.00: Rustem Ertug Altinay (US): Glamor, sexuality and honor. Remembering the prostitution melodrama
16.00-16.30: Johannes Felder (Austria): The Madman as an outsider to identify with. The films Peeping Tom (1960) and Clockwork Orange (1971)
16.30-16.50: Coffee break
16.50-17.20: Akshaya Kumar (India): Changing Landscape of Moral Registers and Urban Pathology in ‘Bombay’ Cinema: Decline of Biological Family & Birth of the Individual through Awara (1951), Deewar (1975) & Satya (1998)
17.20-17.50: Maria Morrison (US): Of Men and Mud. Masculinity in “Shrek”
17.50-18.20: Sandra Berchtel (Austria): Identity, cultural representation and feminism in the movie Head-On (Fatih Akin)
Creative Works (18.30-20.50)
Session 8: Film screenings – Migrations
Alda Terracciano (UK): Street of... - Researching memories and the everyday life in 7 cities around the world (21 minutes)
Vivian Wong (US): A community of Friends. Documentary on Chinese immigrant and Chinese American communities in Los Angeles (25 minutes)
Persheng Vaziri (US): CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. Documentary on Iranians in the US (60 min)
Session 9: Panel 2 – Film authors discussion
Alda Terracciano (UK)
Vivian Wong (US)
Persheng Vaziri (US)
Day 3 (3 June, 2011)
Paper presentations (10.00-12.30, 14.00-17.30)
Session 10: Cinematic language and aesthetics of conveying cultural encounters (Part II): music
10.00-10.30: David Ryan (UK): Sedimentations - Film, the City, and History
10.30-11.00: Vlad Dima (US): Images of Sound: the Sonic Jump-Cut and the Sonic Rack-Focus
11.00-11.30: Paul Hartley (US): Underscoring the ‘Return to Home’: How filmmakers use music to present the past, present, and origins of Turkey
Session 11: The enemy vs. the friend in cold war and post-cold war film production
11.30-12.00: Derya Değer (Turkey): The Relation between Hollywood and the New Threat Perception of the USA after the end of Cold War from the Perspective of Postmodernism
12.00-12.30: Tatjana Simeunović (Switzerland): The enemy vs. the friend in the Soviet/Yugoslav war film „In the Mountains of Yugoslavia“ (В горах Югославии - V gorach Jugoslavii , 1946) directed by Abram Room
12.30-13.00: Maria Chevrekouko (Switzerland): The idea of co-existence in block buster animation films: The Russians and their Neighbours in post Soviet animation series
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
Session 12: The violence of cultural encounters
14.00-14.30: Aysun Kıran (Turkey): Barda: A Violent Encounter in A City of Clashing Opposites
14.30-15.00: Vahid (Denmark): Language of War vs. Language of Cinema. An analysis of B. Beyzaei’s “Bashu, the Little Stranger”
15.00-15.30: Elżbieta Wiącek (Poland): Biology and Culture: Emotions’ Case Afghan refugee in Polish Forest – “Essential Killing” by Jerzy Skolimowski
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-16.30: Katharina Kim Wolff (Germany): Violent Outbursts of Cross-cultural Encounters – Fatih Akın’s Head-On (2004)
16.30-17.00: Melissa Meade (US): Violence, Oppression, and Double Standards in Three Colombian Films
17.00-17.30: Judith Michelmann (Switzerland): Re-Organizing Cultural Values: Vers le Sud by Laurent Cantet
Creative Works (17.30-19.30)
Session 13: Film and video screenings – Encounters
Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association/ Nandita Dowson (UK): ‘Stories from our Mothers: Meetings of British and Palestinian women’ (20 min)
Jana Hunterova (Czech Republic): OMNIA. Video from Egypt (5 min)
Tim Kennedy (Dubai): Dubai – old and new (20 min.)
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Thailand): “Untitled” (Wishes, Lies and Dreams). Video Art Project (duration:?)
Session 14: Panel 3 – Film authors discussion
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Thailand)
Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association/ Nandita Dowson (UK)
Jana Hunterova (Czech Republic)
Tim Kennedy (Dubai)
Day 4 (4 June, 2011)
Paper presentations (10.00-13.30)
Session 15: Cinematic encounters of tradition, nation, ethnicity and religion
10.00-10.30: Eva Binder (Austria): Post-Imperial Spaces in the Films of Sergei Dvortsevoi
10.30-11.00: Frank F. Scherer (Canada): Ufa Orientalism. The “Orient” in Early German Film: Lubitsch, Lang, May, and Osten
11.00-11.30: Arnika Fuhrmann (Hong Kong/ China): Under Permanent Exception: Buddhist-Muslim Intimacies in Contemporary Thai Cinema
11.30-12.00: Batır Xasanov (Israel): Filming Dastan: Reviving Tradition and Inventing Past in Kazakhstan by Means of Modern Technological Achievements
12.00-12.30: Abdouraman Halirou (Cameroon): Beyond the boundaries: The incidence of the Indian films on the African cultures (The case of the Northern Cameroon)
12.30-13.00: Fouhba Honoré (Cameroon): The movies rooms in the North - Cameroon: Means of sociocultural integration and of social control by the State (1955-1994)
13.00-13.30: Fouhba Honoré (Cameroon): Bako Moustapha, amateur film-maker, prize-winning of the national festival of Arts and Culture (FENAC) of Maroua-Cameroon 2008
Closing remarks by conference coordinators
The IMAGES Project 2012 Conference
IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor
Austrian Cultural Center, Istanbul, 5-7 September 2012
Programme (final version: 22-06-2012)
Day 1 (5 September 2012)
09.30-10.00: Registration
Welcome and Opening (10.00-10-30)
10.00-10.15: Welcome by Doris Danler, Head of the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul
10.15-10.30: Welcome by Veronika Bernard and Serhan Oksay, IMAGES project directors
10.30-11.00: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The IMAGES project and the IMAGES project 2012 conference “IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor”
Session (1): The relativity of poverty (11.00-12.30)
Chair: Michelle M. Tokarczyk
11.00-11.30: Naji Oueijan (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Images of the Poor as Rich and the Rich as Poor
11.30-12.00: Bann Saka (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Rich and Poor – Borderlines or Meeting Points
12.00-12.30: Chantal Aflak (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Lebanon: Are You Rich or Poor?
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
Session (2): Social and communicative approaches to poverty (13.30-15.00)
Chair: Naji Oueijan
13.30-14.00: Diğdem Sezen (Istanbul University and Digital Games Research Association Turkish Chapter, Istanbul/ Turkey): Playing with problems. How game play can make us understand community problems and help us to solve them
14.00-14.30: Tonguç İbrahim Sezen (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Poverty in Digital Games
14.30-15.00: Sybille Kershner (University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Zwickau/ Germany): Images of restraint. The Mettray colony
15.00-15.30: Coffee Break
Session (3): Images of the poor in the arts and as seen by photographers (15.30-17.00)
Chair: Naji Oueijan
15.30-16.00: Sabiha Göloğlu/ Will Harper ((Koç University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Images of the Poor in Surname-iHümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582
16.00-16.30: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria) and Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The IMAGES exhibition “Images of the Poor” – A Guided Slideshow
16.30-17.00: Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Title to be announced
17.00-17.30: Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria): Stabilizing Society by Making Images of the Poor Look Aesthetic? Thoughts Developed on Analyzing World Press Photo Contributions
Day 2 (6 September 2012)
Session (4): The impact of the media on images of the poor (10.00-12.00)
Chair: Cangul Ornek
10.00-10.30: Elisabeth Kapferer (University of Salzburg, Salzburg/ Austria): Imaging Processes. Pictures of the Poor in Our Minds
10.30-11.00: Z. Nilüfer Nahya (Independent researcher/ Turkey): The Images of poverty and poor in Somalia and Other African Countries in the context of Aid Campaign in Turkey
11.00-11.15: Özlem Gündüz Kalan (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Contradictory Presentation of Poverty in Advertisement: An Examination of the TV Commercials of Turkcell Under the Advertising Campaign Named “Life is Beatiful When Shared”
11.15-11.30: Duygu Özsoy (Istanbul University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Katık: A Magazine Belongs to Scavengers
11.30-12.00: Jakub Kosciolek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): Africa – the land of poverty. The distorted media’s view on the continent
12.00-13.00: Lunch Break
Session (5): Images of the poor in feature films (13.00-14.00)
Chair: Gönül Bakay
13.00-13.30: Małgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): (In)Visible Poor Europeans in Films of 2000s
13.30-14.00: Cangul Ornek (Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies of New York University, NY/ U.S.A.): The Thin Social Vein in the New Turkish Cinema: The Urban Poor in Zeki Demirkubuz and Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Movies
14.00-14.30: Elżbieta Wiącek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland): Poverty – Spécialité de la maison of Polish cinema? Strategies and ideology in the representations of the economic crises in the films of Polish directors after the democratic transition (1989) until present
Session (6): Images of the poor in literature (14.30-16.30)
Chair: Veronika Bernard
14.30-15.00: Sinan Dinçer (Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum/ Germany): Supermen or Savages: Ottoman Porters in the Age of Imperialism
15.00-15.30: Savo Fouad Karam (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Ameen Rihani’s Perception of the Rich and the Poor
15.30-16.00: Vanessa Mouawad (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Juhan and Freedom as Wealth
16.00-16.30: Michelle M. Tokarczyk (Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland/ U.S.A.): Notorious Families: Images of Impoverished People in Carolyn Chute’s The Beans of Egypt, Maine and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina
16.30-17.00: Coffee Break
Session (7): Images of the poor in literature (17.00-19.10)
Chair: Veronika Bernard
17.00-17.30: Rita Bou Khalil (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh/ Lebanon): Conquered and Conqueror
17.30-18.00: Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The Rich and the Poor: Class Dynamics in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone
18.00-18.30: Gönül Bakay (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Poverty and Crime: The Case of Moll Flanders
18.30-19.00: Franziska Jekel/ Nina Peter (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin/ Germany): Seeing (the) eyes of the other’. Images of the Poor in Baudelaire and McCourt
19.00-19.10: Closing Remarks by Organizers
This conference is supported by the University of Innsbruck based research platform CEnT and the Austrian Cultural Center Istanbul
The conference “IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor” will be co-organized as a 3-days English speaking international and interdisciplinary conference by CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfer (Innsbruck) and partners. It will be supported by further project partners and the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul.
The conference “IMAGES – Images of the Poor” will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, and postdoctoral academics, without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20-30 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
Paper and panel proposals may include all topics analyzing images of the poor from an economics and a cultural studies perspective in general, and from a political, semiotic, communication centred, linguistic, educational, sociological, historical, literary, and comparative perspective in particular, and from all related perspectives.
There will also be room provided for presentations of creative works focussing on the topic.
CFP
IMAGES (2) - Images of the Poor Conference: Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul/ Turkey, 5-8 September 2012
At a time when the economic development and the (negative) consequences of globalization are causing the gap between rich and poor rather to widen than to shrink poverty and social inequality have gained public attention again. While movements like ATTAC and OCCUPY highlight the relevance of social inequality and poverty due to their material aspect as existential issues of a developed civil society, it is for other groups to deal with the cultural aspect of the issue and to discuss the perception of poverty by modern society as a case of cultural encounter.
The IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor conference will focus on exactly this perceptive relativity of poverty: Which are the Images of the Poor – historically and currently? What does aesthetisizing and idealizing the poor in the Arts, in film, photography and literature tell about the quality of the cultural encounter between the well-to-do and the dis-privileged? What does the integration of elements associated with poverty in design and fashion tell about this relation? In which way does your own standard of living and status influence your idea of where to draw the (material) line between rich and poor and your perception of what makes a person rich or poor in a non-material sense?
In order to discuss questions like these IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor invites scholars, but also writers, artists, filmmakers and photographers to propose papers coming from the following fields of research and interest:
Images of the poor in feature films (present and past)
Images of the poor in the Arts (present and past)
Images of the poor seen by photographers (present and past)
Images of the poor in literature (present and past)
The psychology of feeling and defining rich or/ and poor
The impact of the media (news, internet, daily soaps) on the standards of wealth and poverty
The conference IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor is planned as a 3 days interdisciplinary and international conference.
It will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, postdoctoral academics, and members of the artistic community without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
There will be no parallel sessions. All sessions will be plenary sessions.
The IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor conference is part of the IMAGES project (project developers and directors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard/ University of Innsbruck, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay/ Kadir Has University)
Please, find more on the IMAGES project at: http://images-1.over-blog.org
The conference language is English.
Selected articles of each session/ field of research will be published as conference proceedings.
During the time of the conference the two IMAGES project exhibition “Images of the Poor” will be showing at the conference site.
Please, mind:
Participation in the conference is free of charge.
Due to the severe cuts on funding opportunities the conference organizers are not able to refund any travel or accomodation expense.
Participants are kindly asked to apply for funding at their universities and institutions.
Please, take this into account before submitting a paper proposal.
Conference date and venue:
5-8 September 2012, Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul/ Turkey
Please, send paper proposals (= 150-200 words abstract plus 150 words Bio) to:
images-1@gmx.at and cc it to serhano@serhanoksay.com
Deadline for submission of abstracts plus Bios: 25 May 2012
Deadline for submission of full articles for publication in conference proceedings: 1 month after conference
Planned date of publication of conference proceedings: July – October 2013
The conference “IMAGES (3) – Images of the City” will be co-organized as a 4-days English speaking international and interdisciplinary conference by CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfer (Innsbruck) and partners. It will be supported by further project partners and the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul.
The conference “IMAGES – Images of the City” will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, and postdoctoral academics, without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20-30 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
Paper and panel proposals may include all topics analyzing images of the city from an economics and a cultural studies perspective in general, and from a political, semiotic, communication centred, linguistic, educational, sociological, historical, literary, and comparative perspective in particular, and from all related perspectives.
There will also be room provided for presentations of creative works focussing on the topic.
The conference “IMAGES (2) – Images of Istanbul” will be co-organized as a 4-days English speaking international and interdisciplinary conference by CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfer (Innsbruck) and partners. It will be supported by further project partners and the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul.
The conference “IMAGES – Images of Istanbul” will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, and postdoctoral academics, without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20-30 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
Paper and panel proposals may include all topics analyzing images of Istanbul from an economics and a cultural studies perspective in general, and from a political, semiotic, communication centred, linguistic, educational, sociological, historical, literary, and comparative perspective in particular, and from all related perspectives.
There will also be room provided for presentations of creative works focussing on the topic.
The conference “IMAGES (5) – German-Turkish Images” will be co-organized as a 2-3 days English speaking international and interdisciplinary conference by CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfer (Innsbruck) and partners. It will be supported by further project partners and the Austrian Culture Forum Istanbul.
The conference “IMAGES – German-Turkish Images” will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, and postdoctoral academics, without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20-30 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
Paper and panel proposals may include all topics analyzing images of Istanbul from an economics and a cultural studies perspective in general, and from a political, semiotic, communication centred, linguistic, educational, sociological, historical, literary, and comparative perspective in particular, and from all related perspectives.
There will also be room provided for presentations of creative works focussing on the topic.
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