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[Commlist] CFP - Terminator @40: Origins and Legacies Conference

Tue Oct 31 18:29:07 GMT 2023




*/Terminator /**@40/:/ Origins and Legacies*

An academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, Wales

18 & 19 June 2024

The /Terminator /franchise has left an indelible mark on popular culture. In 1984, James Cameron’s dark vision of the future created a cultural shock that continues to resonate to this day not only in cinema but also in literature, art, design, gaming, and critical theory and is even credited with having spawned several aesthetic trends, such as tech-noir. What started as a film has now become a multi-media universe consisting of sequels, a television series, web series, comics, video games, board games, novels and theme park rides. The franchise is also frequently cited in debates related to multinational corporations, robotics, biopolitics, post- and transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and nuclear apocalypse.

Hosted by the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor University in North Wales, this symposium proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds – such as cultural and screen studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; literature; urban and ecological studies; and race, gender, queer and sexuality studies - to explore /The Terminator/ forty years after its release, explore its origins and legacies and consider its position within wider visual culture.

We welcome contributions from any perspective such as (but not limited to) the following:

/Terminator /and its origins, influences, production, publicity, reception and afterlife

/Terminator /and aesthetics

/Terminator/and biopolitics, posthumanism and urban planning.

/Terminator/and capitalism, neoliberalism, post-industrialism and multinational corporations

/Terminator /and design

/Terminator /and ecological studies

/Terminator /and fandom and ‘cult’

/Terminator/and gender

/Terminator /and James Cameron

/Terminator/’s multi-media franchise (sequels, television, web series, comic books, video games, board games, novels and theme park rides)

/Terminator/and psychoanalysis

/Terminator/and race, ethnicity and/or the “Other”

/Terminator/and robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic organisms, the transhuman and post-human

/Terminator/and sci-fi

/Terminator/and sexuality

/Terminator /and stardom

/Terminator/and tech noir, retrofuturism, future noir, and cyberpunk.

We are applying for funding to facilitate postgraduate and unwaged participation.

Please submit an abstract here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScde-axrNuk-5-qOfpmF9d87xBHsAHeZpmR3WTvEu-gM5a_RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>by 1 March 2024.

For further information, please contact the organisers Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor University) and Dr Elizabeth Miller (Bangor University) at (TerminatorConference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(TerminatorConference /at/ gmail.com)>

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