[Commlist] Call for Papers: Chinese Audio-Visual Cultures: The Interaction between China and the Rest of the World (9 May 2020)

*University of Southampton - Call for Papers: Chinese Audio-Visual 
Cultures: The Interaction between China and the Rest of the World (9 May 
2020)*

*Date: Saturday, 9 May 2020*

*Venue: Avenue Campus (LTA), University of Southampton (UK)*

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The Centre for International Film Research (CIFR), run by the Film 
department at the University of Southampton, cordially invites 
postgraduate research students and early career researchers to submit 
proposals for our postgraduate symposium ‘*Chinese Audio-Visual 
Cultures: The Interaction between China and the Rest of the World’. 
*This symposium will be held at the University of Southampton on *9 May 
2020*.

This symposium will explore the relationships that have formed between 
China and the globe, and more generally, how international and 
transnational relationships have shaped film industries on a worldwide 
scale. It will explore transnational media contents co-productions and 
distribution; distribution and exhibition of Chinese audio-visual 
products throughout the world; distribution and exhibition of 
audio-visual products from others countries/territories in China; film 
industries in East Asia; how China has adopted global aesthetics, and 
how contrastingly, film industries from other parts of the world have 
indeed adopted Chinese aesthetics; how the global media contents 
industry may have changed with China’s influence; how China’s film 
industry may have changed in light of influences from other parts of the 
world; and how digital media and its globalising technologies have 
reshaped international film industries, amongst other possible topics. 
From cinema and video games to television and other art forms, this 
one-day event will offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary insight 
not only into visual cultures itself, but also the eclectic range of 
innovative research methods and critical approaches employed to study 
and analyse such cultures.

*Our confirmed panel discussants are:*

·Dr Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham, UK)

·Prof. Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton, UK)

·Dr Iain Robert Smith (King’s College London, UK)

For postgraduate students and early career researchers, this is a good 
opportunity to discuss your work with the leading scholars in related 
fields. It will also be an excellent opportunity to start networking and 
stay abreast of the latest research trends in the related disciplines. 
*_This event is FREE (lunch and refreshments included)._*

Papers may include, but are by no means limited to, the following areas:

• Discussions of how cultural origins are defined and categorised

• Representations of global aesthetics, philosophy, history and identity 
in Chinese-language film, TV and other media

• Representations of Chinese aesthetics, philosophy, history and 
identity in world cinema/TV series/other media

• Transnational film/TV/media co-productions between China and other 
countries/territories

• Film festivals in China and other Chinese-speaking regions

• Film Festivals in non-Chinese-speaking countries/territories that 
feature Chinese-language film sections

• Production/distribution/exhibition of Chinese-language audio-visual 
cultures in and outside China

• Transnational Distribution

• Exhibition of transnational audio-visual products

This symposium is sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Southampton.

*Abstract and paper submission:*

For individual paper proposal submissions, *abstracts should be no more 
than 250 words. Please also submit* *a short biography of no more than 
100 words*, including your affiliation, email address and PhD 
supervisors. There is no registration fee; chosen presenters will have 
to arrange their own trip/accommodation.

Please send your abstract to (cicotaus2020 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(cicotaus2020 /at/ gmail.com)> *by Tuesday, 3rd March 2020, 4pm *(UK 
time). Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by mid-March 2020.

We will ask selected presenters for the submission of a full paper for a 
presentation of 20 minutes by late April 2020 (date TBC).


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