Culture and Space

Edward Soja in his book Postmodern Geographies, says that “We must be
insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from
us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the
apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies
become filled with politics and ideology.”. It is assumed that the
spatiality of social life is under the threat and disguise of
authoritarian ideologies and practices which may hide the realities
of power relations on every level of space in a given culture and
society or between the countries of the world.
“Space” in the context of our symposium encompasses all sorts of
space/places/domains/

geographies that human cultural practices
directly or indirectly share. The symposium seeks to explore all
dialectics and realities of space and culture.

Since the nature of our symposium has traditionally been
cross/interdisciplinary, research and studies from all disciplines in
the social sciences along with relevant applied sciences are invited.
We will have a limited number of Turkish sessions for those who would
prefer to present in Turkish (no simultaneous translation will be
available).


Contact:

Assist. Prof. Dr. Murat Erdem, Symposium Coordinator
Department of American Culture and Literature
Faculty of Letters
Ege University
Bornova
Izmir
Turkey
Phone: +90 232 311-2273
Fax:   +90 232 388-1102
Email: [email protected]
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