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Online Symposium “Turkish-German Relations in Literary History from the Fifteenth Through the Twenty-First Century“

Beginning
28.11.2022
End
28.11.2022
Abstract submission deadline
28.10.2022

CFP Online Symposium

 

“Turkish-German Relations in Literary History from the Fifteenth Through

the Twenty-First Century“

 

Symposium Date: 28 November 2022

Registration Dates: 28 October 2022 

Languages of the Symposium: German and English

 

The Turkish-German Relations are based on a long history which can be traced back to the Crusades. Due to the long-term contacts and intensive cultural exchanges between the two cultures, specific stereotypes developed that became the subject of German and Turkish literature, films, and media throughout the ages.

 

With this CfP we address all colleagues who devote their research to various literary, cultural, and linguistic manifestations of German-Turkish relations.

 

We welcome papers in German and English on the following topics:

 

-        Historical Turkish Images in German Literature

-        Historical German Images in Turkish Literature

-        Multilingualism (German-Turkish) in German Literature

-        Multilingualism (German-Turkish) in Turkish Literature

-        Multilingualism (German-Turkish) in Turkish-German Movies

-        Images of Turks in Turkish-German Movies

-        Images of Germans Turkish-German Movies

-        Images of Germany and Germans in Turkish Media

-        Images of Turkey and Turks in German Media

 

Session Lenght: Papers will be presented within 15-20 minutes personally by the author and each session will end with 10 minutes of discussion.

 

Publication: Selected papers will be published in open access as a post-conference book, devoted to the topics discussed during the Congress.

 

Submission: Please send your paper proposals (max. 1 DIN-A-Size, Times New Roman 12, 2000 characters including spaces) till 28 October 2022 to the organizers of the symposium listed below.

  

Organizational Committee:

 

Dr. Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Department of German Studies (aclassen@arizona.edu)

Dr. Irem Atasoy, Istanbul University, Department of German Language and Literature (irem.atasoy@istanbul.edu.tr)

Dr. Bar?? Konukman, Istanbul University, Department of German Language and Literature (konukman@istanbul.edu.tr)

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Fields of research

Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey), Literary historiography, Literary theory, Literature and cultural studies, Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century), Literature of the 16th century, Literature of the 17th century, Literature of the 18th century, Literature of the 19th century, Literature of the 20th century, Literature of the 21st century

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Institutions

İstanbul Üniversitesi / Istanbul Universität
German Language and Literature / Germanistik
University of Arizona (UA)
Department of German Studies

Addresses

Istanbul
Turkey
Date of publication: 12.08.2022
Last edited: 12.08.2022