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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Call for Papers: Abstract submission
deadline 19</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="-1"><b><sup>th</sup></b></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>August
2011</b></span></font>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Sussex
Centre for Cultural Studies and the Centre for Digital Material Culture
present:-</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b><i>Staging
Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy</i></b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>November
4</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="-1"><b><sup>th</sup></b></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>2011,
University of Sussex</b></span></font></div>
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face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Confirmed
keynote speakers: Professor Vanessa Toulmin (Director of the National
Fairground archive) and Dr Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths). Confirmed plenary
speakers: Professor Nicholas Till (Sussex), Dr Jo Machon (Brunel), Dr
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor) and Dr Melanie Chan (Leeds Met).</span></font></div>
</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From
magicians to immersive media and from the circus to cyborgs, the
celebration and/or mistrust of illusion has been a central theme across
a range of cultures. Notions of fakery and deception stand in
opposition to fantasy and escape; our identities are performative and
we learn to present ourselves as masked; and postmodern thinkers have
criticised ?hyperreality? for its capacity to entice consumption. Yet
whilst ideas pertaining to ?cultural dupes? have long since been
dispelled in academia, the figure of the ?mark? of the fairground scam
remains culturally ubiquitous, perhaps more so than ever, in an era of
(post) mechanical reproduction.</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is
new technology a flight from the real or merely a continuation of older
cultural forms? Is it necessary, or even possible, to define reality in
relation to the illusory?</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seeking
to place staged illusions across a spectrum of historical, geographical
and cultural contexts, the conference invites topics that might
include, but are not limited to:</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
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align="justify">
<font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·</span></font><font
face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>(Virtual)
Realities</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">?
video games, cyborgs, simulacrum, social media, new technologies,
cosmetic surgery and body modification.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;" dir="ltr"
align="justify">
<font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·</span></font><font
face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Magic
and Miracles</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">?
hauntings, fantasies, the supernatural, the paranormal, magicians,
impersonators and illusionists.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;" dir="ltr"
align="justify">
<font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·</span></font><font
face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Spaces
of Illusion ?</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Theatres,
fairgrounds, the circus, the music hall, virtual spaces/worlds, farms,
zoos and theme parks.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;" dir="ltr"
align="justify">
<font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·</span></font><font
face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Identity
?Imposters? ?</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identity
politics, authenticity, transvestites, cross dressers and drag,
transphobia, legitimacy, pretensions and pretenders.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;" dir="ltr"
align="justify">
<font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·</span></font><font
face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font face="Symbol"><span> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>?The
Camera Never Lies?</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">?
art history, frauds, celebrity, image manipulation,</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">reality
television, 3-d cinema, the magic of cinema.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10pt;" dir="ltr" align="justify"><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
are now inviting the submission of abstracts for 20 minute papers
representing a variety of approaches to and interpretations of the theme</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Staging
Illusion</i></span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">from
a range of disciplines.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Please email a Microsoft Word document
containing your contact details, institution and position, along with a
400 word abstract to</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:(sccs-conf /at/ sussex.ac.uk)"
target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">(sccs-conf /at/ sussex.ac.uk)</span></font></a><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by
19</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="-1"><sup>th</sup></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><font
face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">August
2011. Visit us online at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/activities/stagingillusion";>
www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/activities/stagingillusion</a>.</span></font></div>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Registration open soon! Tickets £75 (£45
student).</span></font></div>
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