(please note extended deadline)
Cultural Borrowings: A Study Day on Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation
Supported by the AHRC Collaborative Research Training Scheme and the
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
University of Nottingham, UK
Wednesday March 19th, 2008
Plenary Speakers will include Professor Christine Geraghty (University
of Glasgow) and Professor David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds).
Throughout history, artists have appropriated, sampled or borrowed
elements from pre-existing work for use in new cultural texts. When
hip-hop artist Dangermouse mixed samples from The Beatles White Album
with Jay-Z's Black Album to produce The Grey Album; or when Todd
Haynes paid homage to the works of Douglas Sirk in the film Far From
Heaven (2002); or when Jean Rhys reworked Jane Eyre to tell the story
of the creole Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea, they were all
appropriating elements from prior cultural texts for use in the
creation of new works.
This one day conference seeks to interrogate the nature of such
cultural borrowings, looking at how we can draw together insights from
across the disciplines in order to further develop academic models of
appropriation, reworking and transformation.
Submissions are welcomed from postgraduate students* and early career
researchers working in the fields of film and television studies,
cultural studies, literature, media anthropology, history, music, new
media and sociology.
Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Remakes and Reworkings
- New media/Convergence culture
- Globalisation and cultural/regional crossings
- Rethinking postmodernism/postcolonialism
- Fandom (fan films/slash fiction)
- Borrowings between high and low culture
- Sampling and remixing in music
- Appropriation in the visual arts
- The Politics of Pastiche/Parody/Camp/Kitsch
- Culture Jamming/Adbusters
- Fair Use and intellectual property
Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words along with a short
biographical note to:
Iain Robert Smith: [log in to unmask]
Iain Robert Smith, Cultural Borrowings Conference
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts is 17 December 2007
* Travel bursaries of £50 will be available to help with postgraduate
students' travel expenses. Please indicate if you would like to be
considered for these bursaries.
|