[ecrea] CFP: ‘Discourses of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society’, University of Glasgow

*Deadline for proposals:* Friday 3^rd  June 2016

*Call for Papers: ‘Discourses of Care: Care in Media, Medicine and Society’*

*Location: *Gilmorehill Halls <http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/maps/>, 9 
University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ**

*Date: *Monday 5^th  – Wednesday 7^th  September 2016

*Keynote speakers:*

§Prof. Eva Feder Kittay 
<http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/philosophy/people/faculty_pages/kittay.html>, 
Stony Brook University NY

§Prof. Andrew Kötting <http://www.andrewkotting.com/>, artist and 
filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts

This Wellcome-funded interdisciplinary conference aims to support and 
foster collaborative work in relation to media and questions of care and 
well-being, focusing on care and care giving as critical concepts. 
Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, medical 
humanities, disability studies, and philosophy, we will debate how 
understandings of medical and social care are (and might be) positioned 
in relation to media and cultural studies. This would be a significant 
first step toward building inter-disciplinary alliances and driving 
forward work within the as yet under-determined field of ‘visual medical 
humanities’.

The specific focus of the conference and anticipated publication/s is to 
explore the ways in which media do more than simply represent care and 
caring (although representation, of course, remains an important issue). 
Taking a new approach, the conference will explore how media forms and 
media practices (the creation, exhibition and reception of media) may 
act as a /mode/ of care. Thus we wish to explore how different kinds of 
media programming, media technologies and media practices present 
opportunities in which care is manifest as both an ‘attitude’ and a 
‘disposition’ (Feder Kittay).

The event will underpin at least one multi-authored publication. Through 
this conference we will explore the politics and ethics of 
care-relationships and contest binary understandings of autonomy and 
dependency amongst individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities, 
carers and medical professionals. We are particularly interested in the 
nexus of youth (the ‘child’), age (the ‘aged’) and disability as a way 
of opening up alliances and challenges to popular cultural notions and 
representations of care and dependency.

We are now looking for academics, care providers, and creative 
practitioners of all levels, periods, and fields to submit proposals for 
20 minute conference papers. We invite papers on topics that include 
(but are not limited to):

§  Relationships between care and media

§  Definitions of care in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

§  Autobiographical representations of and reactions to care

§  Disability studies approaches to care and dependency

§  Media practices and outputs as modes of care

§  Care and the visual medical humanities

§  Adaptive technologies and care

§  Spectatorship, care, and media

§  Care, media, and children

§  Care, media, and ageing

§  Use of media in health education and rehabilitation

§  Consumer ‘choice’ and ‘autonomy’ in popular culture

§  Screen cultures in our ‘institutions of care’ (e.g. the NHS and the BBC).

Please email an abstract of up to 300 words and a short bio (100-200 
words) to the conference organisers ((discoursesofcare /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(discoursesofcare /at/ gmail.com)>) by *Friday 3^rd  June 2016. The 
conference team will respond to proposals by Friday 10^th  June 2016. 
*There are a limited number of travel bursaries available for 
postgraduate and/or early career presenters; the recipients of these 
grants will be asked to write a short reflection on the conference, 
which will be published on the Glasgow Medical Humanities Research 
Centre blog <http://mhrc.academicblogs.co.uk/>, and the conference 
website <https://discoursesofcareblog.wordpress.com/>.

If you wish to be considered for one of the travel bursaries, please 
email us for an application form and submit it with your abstract and 
bio. We will contact all respondents on the outcome of their proposal by 
the end of June 2016. Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, this 
conference will be free to attend.

The conference venue, the Gilmorehill Building 
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/maps/>, is fully accessible, and the 
conference will include accommodations such as pre-circulated papers and 
discussion topics, ending with an interactive roundtable discussion. For 
more information on access, transport, and the venue please visit our 
website. If you have any questions, please email the conference team at 
(discoursesofcare /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(discoursesofcare /at/ gmail.com)>, or 
contact us via @CareDiscourses <https://twitter.com/CareDiscourses>.

*Conference team:* Prof. Karen Lury (Film and TV), Dr Amy Holdsworth 
(Film and TV), and Dr Hannah Tweed (English Literature).

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