CALL FOR PAPERS
*Beyond the Politics of Identity
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Extended Deadline: 15th April
£200 travel bursaries available
The Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen
is hosting a one-day postgraduate conference on Saturday, 20th June 2009
centring upon the relationship between the visual arts and identity
negotiation, performance, and reception. Interdisciplinary in approach,
the conference, entitled Beyond The Politics of Identity, invites papers
at both theoretical and applied levels. The keynote speaker is Professor
Michael Renov of the Department of Cinematic Arts at USC and a renowned
scholar in the area of documentary film.
Themes include, but are not limited to the following:
- Identity as a concept in changing cultures
- The paradox of constructing national identity in the era of a global media
- New media and the democratization of technologies
- The ethics of representation
- Temporal identities and the media as object
- Identity and the construction of spectatorship
- Redefining history: new representations of the past as determined by
the self or others
Please send your proposal (250 words) for a 20-minute presentation and a
biography (100 words) before 15 April 2009 to [log in to unmask] If
you would like to be considered for one of the two £200 travel
bursaries, then please let us know at the time of submission.
Further details at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/events/conferences/identity/
Beyond The Politics of Identity is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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