Monday, June 11, 2007

CONF./CFP- Cleanliness in Turkic Culture / Istanbul 21-22 Nov 2007

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CONF./CFP- Cleanliness in Turkic Culture / Istanbul 21-22 Nov 2007

Posted by: Salih Mehmet Arçin" <saliharcin@gmail.com>

Call for Papers:

The Department of Turkish Language and Literature of Marmara
University (Istanbul) is organising a symposium on

Cleanliness In Turkic Culture

on 21-22 November 2007.

The purpose of the symposium is to discuss and document the forms and
means of cleanliness - both abstract and concrete - in Turkic culture.
Types of brooms, laundry cauldrons, pegs, songs related to washing,
rituals and beliefs which have evolved around cleanliness and washing,
as well as the antithesis of cleanliness come under the interest of
the symposium. You may approach the subject as a historian,
anthropologist, philologist, folklorist, art historian...

If you would like to participate in this symposium, please send us the
title and a very brief summary of your paper by the end of July 2007.

There is no participation fee; travel, board and lodging expenses must
be met by the participants.

Prof. Emine Gursoy Naskali
eminenaskali@gmail.com

Salih Mehmet Arcin
Secretary to the Symposium
saliharcin@gmail.com


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