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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING Please find a call for papers below. A poster is also attached as a pdf file. Best Regards Lucy Fife Organiser of Journeys Across Media Conference 2008 Authenticity? Reality, Reliability and Access in Performance and Media 11 April 2008 Department of Film, Theatre & Television — University of Reading Supported by the Standing Committee of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading. What do we really mean when we say something is authentic? How important are questions of authenticity to our engagement with media texts, performance and institutions? As a concept, authenticity remains imprecise despite its frequent association with many aspects of film, theatre, television and new media. JAM 2008, the sixth annual conference for postgraduates run by postgraduates at the Department of Film, Theatre and Television welcomes proposals that interrogate and put pressure on the idea of ‘authenticity’ in film, theatre, television and new media. The following themes and sample issues are central but not exclusive: • Narrative – How important are issues of narrative status to both fictional and non-fictional texts? In what various ways is interiority constructed, presented and limited? • Spectatorship and point of view – How does our perception of authenticity structure the critical and emotional experience of different media forms? How does the construction of point of view expand or limit our assessment of visual media and performance? • Authorship — How do we conceptualise the ‘author’ within the construction and reception of the text? Is this more important and/or relevant when considering different media practices or performances? Does awareness of authorial intent affect practitioners, participants and academics differently? • Form – In what manner is reality constructed and achieved in performance and media? How is this process important to our understanding of and engagement with the text? What is the status of aural and visual special-effects in relation to realism? • Medium specificity – How do restrictions of access take on specific forms according to the medium involved? Do changes in performance rhetoric affect our understanding of authenticity across differing visual media? Call for papers deadline: Friday 18th January 2008 Please send a 250-word proposal and biographical note to Lucy Fife at [log in to unmask] Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Registration details will follow in January 2007. Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day interdisciplinary conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, television and ‘new media’. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work, at different stages of development, in the active, friendly and supportive research environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome. * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **