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[Commlist] Call for submissions: At land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image, Conference

Sun Dec 04 18:03:23 GMT 2022






At Land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image, Conference, May 5-6, 2023 | İstanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Bilgi University

Location: Santralistanbul
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2023

Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
Gillian Rose (University of Oxford)

Call for Submissions

The concept of border crossing and conquest, or the acquisition of territory, has widely been cast as patriarchal, whereas the ocean’s fluidity, the darkness, and the endless immensity of the sea are often considered ‘dangerously feminine’. The mythological assumptions that operate in many ancient philosophical writings qualify the feminine with formlessness, wetness and darkness, qualities that indicate non-governability, unpredictability and monstrosity, qualities ascribed to the ocean.

Hester Blum suggests that, “in its geophysical, historical, and imaginative properties, the sea […] provides a new epistemology – a new dimension – for thinking about surfaces, depths, and the extra-terrestrial dimensions of planetary resources and relations”. With a special interest in the relationships between the oceanic, the moving image and the feminine, the fifth annual conference of İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television, follows the call of ‘oceanic studies’ for a new epistemology that thinks with water and from water so as to explore the possibility of an oceanic flux in films and film studies. After all, moving image arts offers a great potential to think with the waves, currents and tides of water so as to narrate alternative stories. Highlighting this potential, the conference focuses on artistic imaginings of land and sea in moving image arts – film, video, video essay and etcetera, aspiring to seek new topographical vantage points for viewing the internal and the external worlds. We would like to invite contributors to contemplate on artistic and scholarly acts of leaving the static and solid ground of the terrestrial lands and diving into the intangible, unknowable, inhabitable, unpredictable oceans.

Alongside traditional academic papers and roundtables, the conference also welcomes traditional academic papers and roundtables, video essays, films and videos. Individual paper presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. We will also consider pre-constituted, 30-minute roundtable discussions with 3-5 designated participants. For films, videos and video essays, the conference presentation will consist of up to 10 minutes for screening the work (an excerpt may be selected if the full video essay exceeds this limit), followed by 10 minutes of commentary from the creator.

Contact person: Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, (nilufer.arslan /at/ bilgi.edu.tr) <mailto:(nilufer.arslan /at/ bilgi.edu.tr)>

Submission Topics

Possible topics for papers, roundtables, video essays, films and videos include, but are not limited to:

• Feminist geographies in film and media
• Fluidity as a cinematic aesthetic
• Unstructured, unfixed, fluid, instable, mutant narrative forms
• Ocean, place and space in film
• Male/female/queer gaze, queering spaces at land and sea
• Non-human perspectives/gaze/aesthetics in film/media
• Ecocinema and the more-than-human world
• Utopian and dystopian portraits of land and sea
• Global movements, migration routes and transnational interactions across the oceans
• Seascapes, islands, islanders, beaches and tales of voyage
• Liminal space of the shorelines and its inhabitants
• Maritime imagery, maritime communities and spaces in film/media
• Spatial thinking as transdisciplinary paradigm
• Reflections on ‘fieldwork’ at land and sea
• The ‘oceanic archives’

Organizing Committee

Dr. Feride Çiçekoğlu | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ebru Thwaites Diken | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ayça Çiftçi | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Ayşegül Kesirli Unur | Istanbul Bilgi University
Dr. Beth Tsai | University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Katie Bird | The University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Gökçen Erkılıç | Harvard University
Dr. Diğdem Sezen | Teesside University
Dr. Şirin Erensoy | Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Res. Assist. Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan | Istanbul Bilgi University

Conference website
https://ftvconference.bilgi.edu.tr/en/# <https://ftvconference.bilgi.edu.tr/en/#>



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