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Changing Turkey in a Changing WorldAnalyzing Turkish Politics and Society within a Global ContextFeeds:PostsComments« Conference announcement: “Turkey and the EU: Rethinking a Multifaceted Relationship”Call for Academic Position: PhD Research Fellow on the Iraqi diaspora in Europe at Warwick »Call for papers: ‘Memory and Culture’August 15, 2012 by Changing TurkeyMEMORY AND CULTURE 5-7 September 2013Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey VIIth International Cultural Studies Symposium – Memory and Culture&#160;The 7th Cultural Studies Symposium on Memory and Culture jointly organized by the Turkish Cultural Studies Association and Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Department of Architecture, will be held on September 5-7, 2013 in Ankara, Turkey. The International Cultural Studies Symposia that are organized every two years have been contributing to cultural studies and bringing together researchers who work in this area. Since the first meeting in Kemer, Antalya (2001), the Symposia have been organized, jointly, in Van with Yuzuncu Yil University (2003), in Istanbul with Koç University (2005), in Şile with Isik University (2007), in Zonguldak with Karaelmas University (2009), in İstanbul with Kadir Has University (2011).The purpose of this symposium is to question existing paradigms in topics that bring together the concepts of “memory” and “culture”; it aims to present critical and analytical approaches and to explore new theoretical and methodological paradigms in cultural studies. It adopts an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective that includes such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, urban studies, architecture, design, and literature; it also takes a gender perspective.  Submissions, both domestic and international, are invited on the following sub-themes. The conference is open to a variety of themes beyond the suggested ones as long as they deal with memory and culture.