[ecrea] 23rd International Screen conference, "Cosmopolitan Screens"

*Plenary speakers:*

   * Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong)
     <http://www.complit.hku.hk/faculty/ginamarchetti.html>
   * Lisa Parks (UC Santa Barbara)
     <http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/parks/parks.html>
   * Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)
     <http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A017/lrascaroli>
   * Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow)
     <http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/philipschlesinger/>

Debates about the national, the transnational, the global and the 
multi-cultural have permeated screen studies for decades.  The main 
theme of this year's Screen conference will consider how such debates 
might be reframed through a serious engagement with theories of 
cosmopolitanism.  How might discussions about cosmopolitanism, currently 
animating subjects across the humanities and social sciences, speak to 
scholarship in film and television studies and vice versa? Literally 
suggesting a combination of worldliness (cosmos) and place (city, 
city-state, citizenship -- polis), the concept of cosmopolitanism has 
inspired new political visions post 9/11 and its aftermath.  Recently 
taken up as a lens through which to discuss the ethics of encountering 
strangers, the politics of offering hospitality to foreigners and the 
problem of challenging aversion to otherness, cosmopolitanism has also 
come under attack for its perceived complicity with global hegemonies. 
If screen studies have been slow to take up the cosmopolitan question 
directly, it is perhaps because audiovisual media have been so deeply 
embedded within transnational and globalising cultures from their 
earliest beginnings. But is there something particular to film, 
television and new media cultures that might speak directly to the 
problems at the heart of the current cosmopolitan project?  How might we 
understand the changing significance of film and television through a 
cosmopolitan lens?  The organisers invited proposals for papers/panels 
on any of these questions and on the following topics of the main 
conference theme:

   * Conceptual and methodological interrogations of cosmopolitanism
     from perspectives within  screen studies, most especially
     connecting to ethics, politics, philosophy and the law;
   * Explorations of screen cultures through debates about the
     relationship between cosmopolitanism, transnationalism,
     globalisation, multiculturalism and 'world cinema';
   * Cosmopolitan spaces of circulation (exhibition, distribution, new
     platforms of delivery);
   * Cosmopolitan aesthetics and spectatorship (how might this be
     understood and theorised?);
   * Cosmopolitan positions -- how are film and television makers and
     audiences positioned in relation to the production and circulation
     of their work?

*More information, including schedule and papers: 
*_*http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2013/*_
*Fee: £**176 (full) / £105 (student)*
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