Graduate Workshop 'Of Other Languages'
22 June 2011, London
For more information please visit: http://www.necs-initiative.org/
CFP below - Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2011
In concordance with the NECS conference in London in June 2010, the Graduat=
e Committee is organizing the 2nd NECS Graduate Workshop: an intensive one-=
day workshop for graduate students directly preceding the NECS Conference. =
The topic of this one-day event, =93Of Other Languages=94 interlocks with t=
his year=92s conference, which focuses on =93Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and=
the Languages of Screen Media.=94 The objective of the graduate event is t=
o intensify debate among graduate students by focusing, in small discussion=
groups, on a particular yet expansive theme intersecting with media studie=
s, cultural theory, media art, reflexive ethnography, geography, philosophy=
and systems theory. Our aim is to create a network that is sustainable aft=
er NECS London 2011, allowing PhD-candidates to connect with academic peers=
in fruitful debate. Although it is not be possible to present the same pap=
er for both occasions, candidates participating in this workshop are kindly=
invited to stay throughout the NECS 2011 London Conference, which will tak=
e place from 23-26 June.
Under the title =93Of Other Languages=94 we seek to address, on the one han=
d, topics like multilingualism, silence, bodily language, affect, and addre=
ss through the senses as ways of (non)communicating with or within cinema. =
On the other hand, we welcome contributions that attend to the changing lan=
guages of cinema. What do we talk about when we talk about language when it=
comes to our encounter with the cinematic today? What role, for example, d=
oes language play in locative media practices, responsive media environment=
s, screen based architecture, scripted spaces, and so on. And what is left =
of =93language=94 in the conversion to digital =93code=94? Despite the diff=
erences of approach suggested above, these perspectives converge in reconsi=
dering the relevance of language both of and within cinema, in an era in wh=
ich our conception of the cinematic, as well as the field of interest of me=
dia studies itself, is expanding in a number of directions, both topographi=
cally, interculturally and geographically, as well as technically, practica=
lly and theoretically. Besides welcoming social-, cultural and theoretical =
reflections, we explicitly encourage contributions from candidates writing =
a practice-based PhD, providing that in the paper the role of language in l=
ocative, augmented and other alternate cinema practices is foregrounded.
Candidates are invited to submit a proposal (max. 300 words) with a short b=
iography (max. 150 words) to (graduates /at/ necs-initiative.org).
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2011. Those selected to particip=
ate will be asked to provide a 3000-word paper (excluding bibliography) by =
1 June 2011 at the latest, which will be distributed among other participan=
ts in advance of the workshop. In order to allow for a sufficient amount of=
discussion time, papers will not be read. Instead, participants will be as=
ked to provide a short pitch of their argument for a maximum of 10 minutes.=
Respondents will be assigned to each paper. Discussion will take off from =
the basis of the papers.
We actively encourage workshop participants to consider submitting their pa=
pers to, and/ or write a conference report for the online postgraduate arts=
journal Dandelion. The journal=B4s CFP is posted on dandelionnetwork.org. =
Queries about submissions can be addressed to: (mail /at/ dandelionjournal.org)=
