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

Wed May 01 19:12:41 GMT 2013




*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)*
*Registration (closes Friday 14 June): *_*SSC2013 Online Registration*_ <https://www5.shocklogic.com/scripts/jmevent/Registration.asp?Client_Id=%27TUG%27&Project_Id=%27SCREEN13%27&Form_Id=1&Form_Number=2&Stand_Id=0&A=&Language_Code=&role>
*Heather Middleton* - Journal and Conference Administrator
Direct line: +44 (0)141 330 5035
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3515
Email: (_screen /at/ arts.gla.ac).uk_ <mailto:(screen /at/ arts.gla.ac.uk)>
/Screen/
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University of Glasgow
Glasgow
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