CALL FOR PAPERS:

The 16th METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE:

IRIS MURDOCH AND HER WORK

at the Middle East Technical University, ANKARA, TURKEY

December 18-19, 2008

The Department of Foreign Language Education at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY, is convening a 2-day conference on Dublin-born writer and philosopher Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999), her fiction, and her other critical and creative work. It is a conference intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and participants who descend from different backgrounds and to encourage dialogue between them. We encourage proposals on a wide variety of topics related to Murdoch which might include Murdoch’s interrogations of gender and sexuality, identity and difference, and conflicts between good and evil from a variety of literary, historical, political, and cultural perspectives. We also welcome new comparative theoretical approaches offering provocative insights into Murdoch.

As usual, we plan to publish the papers presented at the Conference.

Please send abstracts (250-300 words) of a 20-minute paper, with author and title in heading and a short bio by August 15, 2008 by email to: iris.murdoch.conference@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance:  by August 29, 2008.

Organizing committee: Prof. Dr. Meral Çileli, Dr. Deniz Aslan, Assist. Prof. Dr  Nurten Birlik, Assist. Prof. Dr. Margaret Sönmez, Assist. Prof. Dr. Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro

Honorary committee: Prof. Dr. Nursel İçöz, Prof. Dr. Ayten Coşkunoğlu Bear, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ünal Norman