Call for Papers:  Counter- and Sub-cultures

Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.

The sixth annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University as part of  Inscriptions in the Sand, an
Arts and Culture festival taking place at the university and environs
between May 30th and June 1st 2003.  In conjunction with a wide selection of
music, performance and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being
solicited for our symposium.  Although we will be publishing selected
presentations from Inscriptions in the Sand, we encourage participants to
move away from the standard prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a
more open-ended presentation, which will provoke and contribute to a genuine
exchange of research and ideas during the panel sessions. Our aim is to
create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring work in progress, where
the exchange of ideas with fellow academics participating in the conference
will contribute to the final form of participants' work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine the
current status of critical thinking on counter- and sub-cultures.  Possible
topics might include but are not limited to:

-           the intellectual as counter-culture icon
-           the sub-cultural politics of music/fashion/art/literature/food
-           resistance cultures: gay, lesbian and transgendered
-           HMV cult classics: Irving Welsh, Kevin Sampson
-           fashion as capital subversion/complicity
-           sub-cultural prohibitions and counter-culture taboos
-           civic duty\work ethic vs. the "idle hands" of sub-culture
-           representations of youth in the media
-           the poetics of sub-cultural identity
-           sub-culture and alternative music: counter-culture or the new
hegemony?
-           counter-culture and questions of taste and value.
-           urban and rural counter-cultures
-           snuff films and serial killers
-           literary theory/deconstruction as sub-culture
-           Waco or Wacko? Evangelist extremes and counter-culture
-           criminal cultures: organised crime, informers, money launderers
etc.
-           punk, rap, reggae, ragga, drum and bass, and jungle
-           the politics of clubbing
-           PlayStation II  and the hyper-real
-           drugs and sub-culture
-           hackers and counter-cultural resistance
-           sub-culture and age
-           the revolutionary cell
-           underground publications
-           the fate of café culture
-           skaters and (cyber)surfers
-           sex in sub-culture
-           the politics of smoking
-           the legacy of Dick Hebdige
-           Marilyn Manson and the gothic as sub-culture
-           Slipknot to The Stooges? The longevity and performativity of
sub-culture.

Please send 250 word abstracts by 30 October 2002 to
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