Dear colleagues
please find attached/below a call for presentations for the annual 'Journal of Media Practice'
symposium to be held at Sussex University's Department of Media and Film.
Call for presentations - Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Monday 13 July 2009, Sussex
University
This year the symposium will focus on the theme of ‘Mediated Memories’ and will include a
strand on the uses and construction of memory in contemporary media practice.
Presentations are also invited on any other aspect of media practice research and teaching
and from people working across disciplines who are using digital media.
Delegates wishing to discuss their practice-based research are welcome to present work in
progress as well as completed projects.
Topics for consideration could include, but are not restricted to:
• the use and creation of archives
• oral histories
• family memories
• cultural memory and narrative
• cultural memory and documentary practice
• forgetfulness in the age of information
• dementia
• home movies past and present
• the uses of nostalgia
• reminiscence
• computer memory
• memory and identity
• amnesia and the unconscious
We would be particularly interested in receiving proposals from groups of collaborators on
projects involving creative practice.
Please provide an abstract of not more than 250 words outlining the main points of your
presentation. Successful submissions will be allocated a 30 minute slot in the conference
programme (20 minutes plus 10 for questions). The deadline for submissions is Friday May
8th. Please send to Lizzie Thynne, [log in to unmask] Delegates may also wish to attend
‘Biodigital Lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience’ on Tuesday
July 14th at Sussex, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-5.html.
best wishes Lizzie Thynne
Lizzie Thynne
Senior Lecturer in Media and Film
EDB 322
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel: 00 44 1273 872627
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