Arabic-L:LIT:CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World

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1) Subject: CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World

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Date: 17 Oct 2013
From: Nancy Spleth Linthicum <nslint at umich.edu>
Subject: CFP Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World

Dear colleagues of Arabic literature,

Prof. Amr Kamal and I are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) and welcome paper proposals (deadline Nov. 1)
for our topic: Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World.
Please find below a description of the seminar (link here:
http://acla.org/acla2014/**shifting-centers-of-cultural-**
capital-in-the-arab-world/<http://acla.org/acla2014/shifting-centers-of-cultural-capital-in-the-arab-world/>).
Interested participants should submit their paper proposals through ACLA's
website (http://acla.org/acla2014/**propose-a-paper/<http://acla.org/acla2014/propose-a-paper/>)
and specify this seminar.

   Shifting Centers of Cultural Capital in the Arab World

*Seminar Organizer(s):*

 * Amr Kamal (The City College of New York), Nancy Linthicum
   (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

The well-known Arab adage "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads"
has gradually lost its currency in recent years as other Arab cities both
further east and west of this triangle (Doha, Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, Tunis,
to name a few) have actively competed to refashion themselves as patrons
and vibrant centers of cultural production. As a result, several cities
have created new relations with and new visions of national, regional, and
pan-Arab culture, especially with the economic success of the Gulf. Some
have achieved this through lavish funding of museums, literary prizes, book
fairs, and programs at U.S. universities, control over wide-reaching
satellite channels, and several other means. Others have gained cultural
capital through less coordinated efforts, notably through the rapid,
extensive spread of popular music, poetry, blogs, and street art motifs of
the Arab Spring from city to city, country to country. Additionally, within
these various cultural capitals, individual actors have engaged in debates
with dominant ideologies, aesthetics, and institutions, as they lay claim
to their own cultural capital.

This seminar examines how Arab cultural centers are recreated and contested
from various locations (Damascus, Cairo, Dubai, Paris, Montreal, New York)
and how individuals take part in these negotiations. It considers the
movement of cultural capital among and within Arab cities as different
actors -- writers, critics, state ministries, artists, museums, publishers,
artist unions -- have vied for influence, forged new alliances, and adapted
to new technologies and political realities.

*SEMINAR KEYWORDS*: Arab cities, cultural capital, Gulf, Maghreb, Mashriq,
Mediterranean, Arab Spring, 20th century, literature, new media

Best,
Nancy Linthicum

-- 
Nancy Linthicum
Doctoral Candidate, Arabic Language and Literature
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

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