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The Chaim Herzog
Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy of Ben Gurion University
will convene a special symposium dealing with the intersection of the
arts, nationalism(s) and gender in the broader Middle East from May 20
through May 21st, 2001.
Cultural production
allows us to create and assess a very different presentation of Middle
Eastern realities than that presented through the normal tropes of political
or historical studies. Yet the notion of the development of "pure"
art is but an ideal, for political and cultural factors are constantly
interacting with each other. Inevitably, certain aspects of "nation"
combine with the formation of local aesthetics, or their reformation.
Presentations may
include:
- The meaning of gendered images in nationalist narratives in cinema, television, or contemporary theater.
- The influence of nationalist tropes, contemporary state structures on dance, folk dance, or other non-verbal forms of performance.
- The re-shaping or rehabilitation of "traditional: art forms as expressions of national cultural expression and the crafting of new aesthetics in response.
- The impact of national/nationalist iconography in visual arts such as painting, photography, design, sculpture, cartoons, and/or the gendering of such images.
- The messages of hybrid (Mediterranean, rai, arabesque, Arabo-rap, Arabo-Ottoman) or politicized forms of modern music in the region.
- The construction of masculinity or femininity in conjunction with cultural expressions of nationalism (or hybrid nationalism).
- The gendering of particular genres in the arts and their national referents such as comedy, farce, melodrama, Arabic music, horror films, etc.
- Questions of the
consumption or market for regional art forms and how these have been
influenced by globalization and/or gender concepts.
The meeting will be held in English. Scholars interested in participating, and scholars and students who wish to attend should contact:
Dr. Sherifa Zuhur,
Department of Middle East Studies
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
shzuhur@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Tel. 972-8-647-7444 Fax 972-8-6472 952