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

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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