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Please find below a call for papers for the fifth annual postgraduate 
Journey Across Media conference to be held at the University of Reading on 
Friday 20 April 2007.

Call for papers deadline, Friday 26 January 2007.

Journeys Across Media 2007 is supported by the Standing Conference of 
University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and 
Humanities, University of Reading

See - Hear - Feel:

Perception & Engagement in Visual Media & Performance

Friday 20 April 2007

Department of Film, Theatre & Television - University of Reading 

How do visual media and performance grab our attention?  What role does 
the body play in our engagement with media texts?  How does our perception 
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and 
interpretations?  This, the fifth Journeys Across Media conference, will 
explore perception and engagement with Visual Media & Performance from a 
variety of approaches and contexts.

Papers are invited from postgraduate students researching areas of film, 
theatre, television and new media.  The following themes and sample issues 
are central but not exclusive:

- Spectatorship and point of view - How do we conceptualise the 'reader' 
within the differing perceptions and interpretations that proliferate in 
an increasingly mediated world?  How do competing perceptions of political 
and social identity impact on the expression and interpretation of race, 
gender and nationality in media?

- Engagement and Interactivity - How do more sensory approaches to a 
reader-text relationship mesh with more formalist ones, if at all?  Are 
notions of interactivity reliant upon the 'live-ness' of the event?

- Medium specificity - How does the configuration of viewing time and 
space inform a spectator's access to or perception of a specific media 
experience?  In what ways do the possibilities inherent in a particular 
medium influence the creation, reception and/or interpretation of a given 
event?

- Interdisciplinary approaches and cross-media work - What, if anything, 
does recognition of mutual influence between media forms offer 
practitioners, participants and academics?

Call for papers deadline:  Friday 26 January 2007

Please send a 250-word proposal, including a biographical note, to Eirini 
Nedelkopoulou, Ceri Hovland and Lucy Fife at [log in to unmask] .  Papers 
should be no more than 20 minutes.  Information will be regularly updated 
via our website, www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm
 
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day interdisciplinary 
conference organised by and for postgraduate students.  It provides a 
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, 
television and 'new media'.  Previous delegates have welcomed the 
opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work, at different 
stages of development, in the active, friendly and supportive research 
environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading.  
Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.

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