[ecrea] Call for Papers: Journeys Across Media

Journeys Across Media
Thursday 19th April 2012

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2012 is the 10th annual international 
conference for postgraduate researchers, organized by postgraduates 
working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the 
University of Reading. It is one of the most established postgraduate 
conferences in the country and provides a lively forum for the 
presentation of both fully realised and developing research in the areas 
film, theatre, television and new media. Indeed, previous delegates have 
welcomed this opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at 
various stages of development. Non-presenting delegates are very welcome 
to the conference.

For the second year running, the JAM team will be guest-editing a 
special issue of Intellect's Journal of Media Practice. Papers from the 
full range of disciplines will be selected to form a conference 
collection, thus providing a rare, specialised opportunity for new 
researchers to have their work published. Academic staff from a range of 
institutions will participate in the editorial and peer-reviewing 
processes. The first issue of the JAM journal, in association with the 
Journal of Media Practice, is currently in the final stages of 
production and will be available in early 2012.

Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television

JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary 
with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time 
in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and 
art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, 
practices and fields of research.

Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal 
demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) 
have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as 
an imprint of time itself. Debates around representations of time, 
organisation of time in film, the experience of film time, or film as an 
archival entity have been only a few of the approaches to the rich 
investigations of cinematic time.
 The most prominent link between time and television is that of 
'liveness', which highlights the contemporaneous nature of some 
broadcast television.  This is heightened when the broadcast is for a 
special occasion (i.e. a Royal Wedding or Charity Event) and the notion 
of sharing a 'television moment'.  Although an under-researched area, 
television and memory rely on understanding the role that time plays 
within this relationship.  Explorations of the impact 'represented time' 
and 'real time' have on the structure and identity of fiction television 
programming, have also been central.
As with screen media, in theatre, the physical presence of time on 
stage, the endurance of performer and spectator, consideration of the 
aesthetics of duration in discussing time-based and durational modes of 
performance, and time as a framing device for a performance are only 
some of the areas of focus when discussing the temporal. In addition, 
time is vitally important in the construction of gestural narratives.  
Concepts like instantaneity, rhythm, repetition or duration are very 
important and crossover into Deaf and disability performance practices.
This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses 
around time to submit papers for the JAM 2012 conference; topics may 
include, but are not restricted to:

Perception of time
Time and memory
Spatialisation of time/Time-Space
Cinematic time
Time and technology
Time and New Media
The archive
Revivals, Anniversary Productions, Retrospectives and Re-enactments
Sequels, Series and Recurring Characters
The Evolution of the Spectator in Time
Endurance Art
Debates on Ephemerality within performance
Life-as-art
The experience and performance of Duration
Time-based performance
Timelessness

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 3rd February 2012

Please send a 250-word abstract for a fifteen-minute paper and a 50-word 
biographical note to Tonia Kazakopoulou, Johnmichael Rossi, Simon 
Floodgate and Edina Husanovic at (jam2012 /at/ reading.ac.uk).  Proposals for 
practice-as-research presentations/performances are warmly invited; 
these have to conform to the 15-minute format.

A limited number of travel bursaries may be available for the JAM 
Conference 2012, offered by the Film, Theatre and Television Department 
at the University of Reading; please fill in the relevant section on the 
registration form if you wish to apply. For further details and 
registration forms please visit the conference website: 
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/pg-research/ftt-pgrjam.aspx

We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider 
promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across 
Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at 
Reading and the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments 
(SCUDD).

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