Dear all - just a quick message to forward info on a forthcoming symposium
at the Centre for Screen Studies, University of Manchester - apologies for
cross-posting!
Call for Papers:
Visualising the City
June 27-28th 2005 Symposium
(deadline for abstracts Jan 31st 2005)
Organised by the Centre for Screen Studies, the School of Arts, Histories
and Cultures, and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the
University of Manchester
Plenary and Invited Speakers include: Dietrich Neumann (Brown Univ.), Tony
Kaes (UC Berkeley), Susan Hayward (Exeter), David B. Clarke (Leeds),
Francois Penz (Cambridge), John Fullerton (Stockholm Univ.), Ian Wiblin
(Glamorgan) and Mark Shiel (Leicester).
This interdisciplinary symposium will seek to draw upon interests in
popular film and television, photography, architecture, history, cultural
geography, art history, and sociology. In doing so, we aim to explore how
film and photographic depictions filter and shape the way we understand
and interact with the built environment. Possible topics which intersect
the overarching theme of the symposium include (but are not limited to):
the genre of ‘the city film’
the transnational vs the provincial city
dreaming the city
city as celebratory site
representations of anti-urbanism
city as labyrinth
urban insiders and outsiders
counter-hegemonic stories of the city
Bollywood and the city film
the Noir city
the virtual city
the challenge of the urban future
Submissions are invited from scholars of film, media, gender and cultural
studies, history, art history, literature, architecture, sociology and
cultural geography. Proposals from postgraduates are also welcome. A
collection of conference papers will be selected for an edited publication
by the organizers.
Brief abstracts and title (150 words) for 20-minute papers, with a short
biographical statement should be submitted by 31 Jan. to Alan Marcus,
Drama SL.06, The Martin Harris Bldg., University of Manchester, Oxford
Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Please email your abstract to:
[log in to unmask]
(mark your email subject line ‘Visualising the City Symposium’).
Proposals may also be considered for panels (of four papers): 150-word
rationale should include panel title, brief description of panel theme,
name of the panel chair, and 150-word abstracts of each paper and contact
details for each presenter (name, institutional affiliation postal address
and email address).
|