[Commlist] Call for papers - conference Narrative, Media and Cognition

Zoom Conference /Narrative, Media and Cognition/

*“RECONFIGURATIONS: New narrative challenges in moving images”*

The 6^th edition of the conference /Narrative, Media and Cognition/ aims 
to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the 
artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that 
produces it and gives it meaning. The 2021 edition of the conference is 
hosted by the Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic 
Institute, in Portugal, in association with the WG of the Audiovisual 
Narratives of AIM - The Moving Image Association in Portugal. It will 
take place on the 14^th and 16^th of October 2021, via Zoom.

Upon entering a new decade of the twenty-first century the artistic 
landscape is increasingly hybrid and veering from the norms; a growing 
blend of forms, contents and genres is taking place. Therefore, it is 
imperative to reflect on the interrelation of the three main topics of 
the conference – narrative, media/arts, and cognition – and to 
contribute with academic theorization that allows for a broadening of 
reflection upon the nature and role of narrative as the binding element 
of a new audiovisual praxis. In this sense, the current edition of the 
conference focuses on the multiple challenges of artistic 
contemporaneity, seeking to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue.

There will be a publication with selected, peer-reviewed articles 
issuing from this conference. **

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*Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
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  * Complex, non-linear and fragmentary narrative structures.
  * Self-reflexivity, metalepsis, ekphrasis, embedding.
  * Unreliable narration.
  * Characters and diegetic universes.
  * Time and space in narrative.
  * Scriptwriting techniques.
  * Essay film, webdocumentary.
  * Autobiography, self-portrait, autofiction.
  * Transmedia storytelling.
  * Intermediality: narrative as cutting across different media.
  * Film adaptation.
  * Seriality, complex television series.
  * Narrative and new media.
  * New exhibition and exposition formats, streaming.
  * Interactive narrative.
  * Design, characters and narrative structures in videogames.
  * Narrative as a cognitive structure.
  * Relationship between media and cognition.
  * Narration and altered states of consciousness.
  * Narrative reception and creation mechanisms.
*Keynote speakers: *

  * _Jane Alison_ – University of Virginia. Author of the book /Meander,
    Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative /(2019).
  * _Nitzan Ben Shaul_ – University of Tel-Aviv.Author of the book
    /Cinema of Choice: Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies/ (2012).
  * _Jens Eder _– University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Co-editor of /Image
    Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict/ (2017) and
    /Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in
    Literature, Film, and Other Media /(2010).
  * _Marina Grishakova_ – University of Tartu. Co-author of /The
    Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts /(Peter Lang, 2020);
    co-editor of /Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment,
    Evolution/ (2019) and /Intermediality and Storytelling/ (2010).
  * _Miklós Kiss_ – University of Groningen.Co-author of the book
    /Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary
    Complex Cinema/ (2018)/./
  * _Jason Mittell_ – Middlebury College.Author of the book /Complex TV:
    The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling/. (2015).

*Conference languages*: English and Portuguese.

The conference is free of charge for selected participants, but 
registration is required to be able to access the sessions.

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*Timetable: (2021)*

April 12: Deadline for proposal submission.

May 12: Notification of acceptance.

July 7: Deadline for registration (free of charge).

October 15-16: Conference dates.

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*Submission: *

We invite each of you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation. 
Each participant is limited to one talk. Both theoretical and 
analytical-theoretical approaches are accepted.

The proposal must contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 
bibliographical references and a short bio of the author (250 words 
max.). Send to Fátima Chinita ((chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)>) and Abel Júpiter 
((estc.conferencia.2021 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(estc.conferencia.2021 /at/ gmail.com)>).

*Suggested bibliography: *available on the conference website: 
https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt <https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt>

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*Organizers: *

Fátima Chinita, PhD. - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School

Guilhermina Castro, PhD. - Catholic University, School of the Arts, CITAR

Jorge Palinhos, PhD. - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School


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