Call for Papers
Voice and Silence: (Beyond) the Rhetoric of Pain
Keynotes: Stella Bruzzi (Department of Film and Television, University of Warwick)
Andrew Williams, Law Department, University of Warwick
University of Warwick
Saturday, 15 November 2014
This one-day symposium intends to explore the ways in which we conceptualize pain. How are narratives and images of pain constructed, and what are the aesthetic, cultural and political implications that follow? How can we relate to these experiences? When and where are such mediations absent or lacking? How do approaches found in visual culture interact with legal, political and philosophical ideas, with history and memory writing? Can theory contribute to activism?
The symposium seeks to find points of convergence and synergy across various disciplines. Contributions are welcome from all relevant academic fields: Film and television studies, visual culture, media, game, and performance studies, political and social sciences, history, law and human rights.
Possible themes and subjects include, but are not limited to:
➢ Rhetorical and visual approaches to pain in film, media, art and performance
➢ Politics of representation: Human Rights, International Law, Political activism and discourses on atrocity
➢ Who speaks and for whom? Voice, Silence, Agency and the dead witness
➢ Pain and the place of emotions, affect, empathy; philosophical concepts and ethical questions
➢ Documentary, imagination and fiction in history, memory, and myth
➢ Iconic Images, obscene images: Censorship and ethics
➢ Universal pain? Cosmopolitan and transnational concepts
➢ Performing pain - radical politics and the history of the body
Papers will be 20 minutes. In addition to individual papers, suggestions for panel topics are welcome.
Please send a proposal of approximately 300 words, and a brief biography, to Nike Jung at ([log in to unmask]) by July 20.
Decisions will be announced by September 5.
For more information, follow webpage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/pain/
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