[Fowarded on behalf of Charlotte Govaert]
The Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is hosting a one-day postgraduate conference on 20 June 2009 centering upon the relationship between the visual arts and identity negotiation, performance, and reception. This is a good opportunity for students to experience the academic practice of presenting and receiving research findings and to meet fellow academics in the field of film and visual culture [which is strongly connected to surveillance studies]. Below you will find the cfp. I have also attached the poster.
Thank you very much for your time. We look forward to welcoming your students in Aberdeen.
Best wishes,
Charlotte Govaert
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is hosting a one-day postgraduate conference on 20 June 2009 centering 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 key-note speaker is Michael Renov, a professor in Critical Studies at 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 (200-250 words) for a 20-minute presentation and your biography (100 words) before 15 April 2009 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. See http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/events/conferences/identity/
for more details.
Two bursaries of £200 for travel and expenses have been made available by the Department of FVC. If you would like to be considered, then please let us know when you submit your abstract.
Beyond The Politics of Identity is sponsored by the AHRC.
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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