Last Symposium Standing: Inter-disciplinary Symposium on Survival Media at the University of St Andrews, 30 April 2019.
Proposals of no more than 250 words and a 50 word bio should be sent no later than February 22nd 2019 to:
Cassice Last- [log in to unmask]
Shruti Narayanswamy- [log in to unmask]
There are a few travel bursaries available for PG students and ECRs which will be assigned by a lottery system.
Call for Papers:
Since the early 2000s, a wide range of 'survival' media has been created, watched, played and explored. Alongside the rise in the production of survival media, this popularity is also evidenced by the prevalence of survival narratives in more traditionally established genres such as horror, disaster and thrillers. From reality TV shows like Survivor, survival icons such as Bear Grylls and Ray Mears, to video games such as The Long Dark, to documentaries such as Grizzly Man, from advertising, to films such as Trapped, 127 Hours, The Revenant; this symposium examines what can be learnt from examining these narratives which foreground human survival. What does the popularity of survival narratives in contemporary media tell us about the realities and concerns of individual and collective survival across the world? Positioning survival media as a 21st century global phenomenon, how can we understand the challenges of our survival in the contemporary world such as climate change by exploring the landscapes and terrains imagined by survival media?
This symposium aims to engage with these questions and bring together all who are who working on survival media across the disciplines. Inviting works on survival films, reality and fictional television, literature, video games, advertising and other forms to a symposium, all work will be shared in a day-long event on April 30th 2019 at the University of St Andrews. We invite conference-style papers of 20 minutes, more informal 5 minute interventions and debates, and other more experimental presentations of both academic and practice-based work. There will also be a survival media-themed activity followed by a plenary Q&A. The symposium is designed to facilitate discussion on this engaging topic, aid inter-disciplinary networking and provoke new questions on the notion of ‘survival’.
We invite papers focused on the following issues and that foreground human survival and more:
Climate change, the Anthropocene and Eco-cinema
Spaces of survival and world creation
Narratives of survival
Survival as an inter-disciplinary topic
Aesthetics of survival
Politics and ideology of survival
The ‘surviving’ body
Gender and identity in survival
This conference is brought to you with financial support from the St Leonard's Doctoral and Postgraduate College Community Fund, the University of St Andrews CAPOD GRADskills Innovation Grant / PG Conference Fund and the BAFTSS Event Grant Scheme.
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