[Commlist] CfP: Inter-disciplinary Symposium on Survival Media

'Last Symposium Standing: Inter-disciplinary Symposium on Survival 
Media' at the University of St Andrews, 30 April 2019
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Since the early 2000s, a wide range of 'survival' media has been 
created, watched, played and explored. Alongside the rise in the 
production of survival media, this popularity is also evidenced by the 
prevalence of survival narratives in more traditionally established 
genres such as horror, disaster and thrillers. From reality TV shows 
like Survivor to video games such as The Long Dark, from advertising to 
films such as Trapped and 127 Hours, this symposium examines what can be 
learnt from examining these narratives which foreground human survival. 
What does the popularity of survival narratives in contemporary media 
tell us about the realities and concerns of individual and collective 
survival across the world? Positioning survival media as a 21st century 
global phenomenon, how can we understand the challenges of our survival 
in the contemporary world such as climate change by exploring the 
landscapes and terrains imagined by survival media? ​
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This symposium aims to engage with these questions and bring together 
all who are who working on survival media across the disciplines. 
Inviting works on survival films, reality and fictional television, 
literature, video games, advertising and other forms to a symposium, all 
work will be shared in a day-long event on April 30th 2019 at the 
University of St Andrews. We invite conference-style papers of 20 
minutes, more informal 5-minute interventions and debates, and other 
more experimental presentations of both academic and practice-based 
work. There will also be a survival media-themed activity followed by a 
plenary Q&A. The symposium is designed to facilitate discussion on this 
engaging topic, aid inter-disciplinary networking and provoke new 
questions on the notion of ‘survival’. ​

We invite papers (short and long) and other presentations of work on the 
following topics, and others:​

- Spaces of survival and world creation​
- Narratives of survival​
- Transnational media and survival​
- Survival as an inter-disciplinary topic​
- Aesthetics of survival​
- Transmedial survival​
- Politics and ideology of survival​
- The ‘surviving’ body​
- Gender and identity in survival​​

​Proposals of no more than 250 words and a 50 word bio should be sent no 
later than February 15th 2019 to: ​
​
Cassice Last- (cl225 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)​
Shruti Narayanswamy- (sn52 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk) ​
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There are a few travel bursaries available for PG students and ECRs 
which will be assigned by a lottery system.​
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This conference is brought to you with financial support from the St 
Leonard's Doctoral and Postgraduate College Community Fund, the 
University of St Andrews CAPOD GRADskills Innovation Grant / PG 
Conference Fund and the BAFTSS Event Grant Scheme.​

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