Call for Papers:

"Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?"
University of California Berkeley
September 26-27, 2008

We are inviting abstract submissions for the interdisciplinary conference
"Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?" at the University of
California Berkeley. Taking as a point of departure the selection of Istanbul
as one of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010, the goal of this conference is
to reflect on how cities and culture have become key to imagining communities
in a globalizing word.

Please, send your abstract submissions to Deniz Gokturk, Ipek Tureli, and
Levent Soysal [dgokturkberkeley.edu, ipekberkeley.edu, levsoykhas.edu.tr]
by May 20, 2008. And please, check www.ced.berkeley.edu/istanbulconference
for a full announcement and updates.