Dear colleagues
This is the final call for this presentations for this event - the deadline is now 27 April so
please
send any further offers by close of business on Monday.
we will get back to you within two weeks after that to confirm whether your proposal is
accepted.
please ensure your full name and email address is on your proposal.
thanks very much Lizzie Thynne
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Journal of Media Practice Symposium Monday 13 July 2009, Sussex University,
Call for presentations
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 MONDAY 27
APRIL. Please send to Lizzie Thynne, [log in to unmask] Please ensure your name and
email address are on your proposal. 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.
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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