EGE UNIVERSITY 12TH INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

Redefining Modernism & Postmodernism

This symposium invites reconsideration of modernity, modernism and postmodernism from literary, cultural and a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects, aiming to broaden the current debates.

Panel proposals chaired by colleagues from different universities are especially welcome, along with individual papers, roundtables, workshops and performances either in English or Turkish. Please note that there will be no translations during the symposium.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

  • Modernities / Postmodernities
  • From tradition to innovation / modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism
  • Ethics of (post)modernity
  • Dialectics of enlightenment
  • Eradication, redemption or reconstruction of myths
  • Mechanism of (dis)belief
  • Aspects and limits of certainty
  • Primitivity and (post)modernity
  • "Biophilia" and biopolitics
  • (Post)modernity and (meta)narratives
  • (Post)modernity and time
  • Modernity and secularism
  • Aesthetics of modernity
  • Historical relativism
  • Modernity and the Body
  • Crisis in representation