[ecrea] World in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a Changing World – Call For Papers

We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speakers for this year’s King’s 
CMCI PhD Conference as *Professor Anna Reading *from King’s College 
London and *Professor Catherine Grant *from Birkbeck, University of 
London (see details below).


The one-day conference will be held on *15 June 2018 at King’s College 
London*. This year, the conference venue has moved to Bush House, former 
headquarters of the/BBC World Service (1940-2012) /and now part of 
King’s College London. We could not imagine a better venue to have this 
year’s theme,*“World in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a 
Changing World”.*

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Without further ado, here is an updated Call For Papersfor the 
conference. Please keep in mind that the *deadline for submission of 
abstracts is**9 April, 2018*. The official conference website will be up 
and running soon, and once all the presenters are finalised, the 
registration will open. *There will be no conference fee.*





*World in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a Changing World 
– Call For Papers*


15 June 2018

King’s College London

Bush House


*Keynote Speakers: Professor Anna Reading (KCL) and Professor Catherine 
Grant (BBK)*


Our world is ever-fluctuating, nothing is static, and these oscillations 
reflect upon Cultural and Media Studies. The confluence of research and 
its environment calls for new modes of understanding spanning cultural, 
aesthetic, socio-economic, technological, political and environmental 
concerns. Consequently, we are witnessing the development of new 
approaches and methodologies in Cultural and Media Studies. In 
navigating new fields of study, stimulating modes of research are 
emerging. The creative nature of the field invites a wide range of 
practices that are challenging the borders between art and research.


*King’s College London, Department of Culture, Media and Creative 
Industries* welcomes proposals for PhD Conference 2018 exploring 
possibilities for Cultural and Media Studies and how these can help us 
to understand the fluctuating world we inhabit.


Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:


•*Cultural and creative industries in evolution*

*•Globalisation, neoliberalism and cultural research*

*•Digital curation and digital archives*

*•Memory and media archeology*

*•Ethics and power*

*•Transparency, accessibility, mobility*

*•New terminologies*

*•The future of methodologies for Cultural and Media Studies*

*•Arts-based, arts-informed and practice-based research*

*•Auto-ethnography*


We welcome paper proposals as well as alternative modes of presentation 
such as video essays, performances, creative practice etc.


*Abstract submission deadline: 9 April 2018*

Deadline for registration: 4 May 2018

Conference Date: 15 June 2018


*There is no conference fee.*



We invite submissions for 15-minutes paper presentations. For 
alternative presentations there is no time limit, but please provide 
specifications with your submission. Please send an abstract of 250-500 
words and 5 keywords, accompanied by a short biography of 150 words 
(including presenter’s name and affiliation) by e-mail to 
(cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>.


The same e-mail address is available for questions and queries.



*Keynote Speakers:*


*/Anna Reading, Professor of Culture and Creative Industries at King’s 
College London/*/,////has had an academic and creative interest in 
questions of human rights, gender and memory with foci that include 
Eastern Europe, especially Poland, the Holocaust, terrorism, peace and 
nonviolent struggles for over 30 years. Her work combines academic 
research with playwriting and storytelling with wider publics./

/Her current work centres on the ways in which digital media 
technologies are changing memory and imaginaries in the public and 
intimate domains. She is examining how these may be used to connect 
memories and imaginaries of forced migration and resistance from the 
past and today. Anna is currently on the Expert Committee for the 
Development of Creative Industries in Russia and the New East for the 
Calvert 22 Foundation; and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University 
of Western Sydney, Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at the 
University of Glasgow./

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*/Catherine Grant, Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at 
Birkbeck, University of London/*/, has published widely on theories and 
practices of film authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, and has 
edited important collections of work on world cinema, Latin American 
cinema, digital film and media studies, and the audiovisual essay. /

/A relatively early and prolific adopter of the online short video form, 
Grant is internationally known for her pioneering and award-winning work 
on the audiovisual essay in film and moving image studies, especially in 
found-footage, first-person and essay-film forms. She has produced well 
over 100 videos to date, dozens of which have been published in online 
journals alongside her written reflections on these forms and their 
emergent role in film and media studies, especially in relation to 
theories of film spectatorship, material thinking, and psychoanalytic 
object relations. A leading practitioner as well as theorist in the 
field, her videos have screened at film festivals and film museums 
around the world./

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