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Dear Colleague, We should like to invite you to a one-day Symposium, organised by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway. Reassessing the Contemporary Exotic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Contested Form of Cultural Representation 30th November 2016 10am-4pm Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX Gowar and Wedderburn Common Room Keynote: Professor Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University & AHRC Leadership Fellow Translating Cultures) Programme 10.00 - 11.15 1. Professor Robert Hampson, Department of English, RHUL, ‘The Colonial Short Story: Adventure and the Exotic’ 2. Domenico Galimi, PhD student, Department of Criminology, RHUL, ‘Discerning the Unfamiliar yet Familiar: Exoticism, Crime and Criminology’ 11.15- 11.45 Tea break 11.45 – 13.00 3. Mary-Jean Chan, PhD student, English Department, RHUL, ‘Towards a Poetics of Racial Trauma: Lyric Hybridity in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen’ 4. Dr Julia Gallagher, Department of Politics and International Relations, RHUL, ‘African Exotic: The Uncanny in the Building of the South African State’ 13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH 14.00 – 15.45 5. Professor Matthew Cohen, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, ‘Wayang in Museums: Collecting, Conserving, Exhibiting and Performing Indonesian Puppets’ 6. Professor Daniela Berghahn, Department of Media Arts, RHUL, ‘The Cosmopolitan Exotic on the Film Festival Circuit’ 7. Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, RHUL, “‘Signs Taken for Wonders’: Refashioning the ‘Exotic’” 15.45 – 16.15 Tea break 16.15 – 18.00, Keynote address and response 8. Professor Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool, and AHRC Leadership Fellow Translating Cultures, 'Exoticism as Keyword' 9. Professor James Williams, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, RHUL, Response to Keynote To register, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 20 November 2016. For additional details regarding the project, please see our webpage: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/harc/fellowshipsprojects/exoticism-in-contemporary-cinema-and-culture.aspx Kind regards, Daniela Berghahn and Anna Morcom Daniela Berghahn Professor of Film Studies Director Humanities and Arts Research Centre Director of Research (Media Arts) Department of Media Arts Royal Holloway, University of London Egham Surrey TW20 0EX T: +44 (0)1784 443734 (ext.3838) -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------