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- Call for Papers -
Visualising the City
June 27-28th 2005 Symposium
(deadline for abstracts Jan 31st 2005)
Organized 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, visual culture, 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).
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