[Commlist] CfP Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity

Reminder: Call for Papers

Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
March 25-26, 2024

The two-day conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity” invites 
scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines to submit their papers 
and join us in exploring the complex and multifaceted realm of 
non-fictional representations of atrocity. The conference is 
particularly interested in non-fictional representations of atrocity 
beyond the Holocaust and invites contributions that engage with 
photography, video, television, or feature film. Our disciplines are at 
the intersection of film and media studies as well as history and we are 
equally interested in close-readings as well as expansive overviews and 
macro-analyses.
We welcome papers lasting 20 minutes, with additional time for 
questions, on any of the following (non-comprehensively listed) topics:
•	the uses (and abuses) of archival images of past and recent conflicts
•	comparisons of image-representations across atrocities, time, 
geography, or media
•	the rhetoric of images in documentary and propaganda film
•	representational configurations of particular groups (victims, 
perpetrators, bystanders, and any complex combinations of these)
•	the agents, processes, infrastructures (e.g. festivals, platforms, 
social media), and institutions behind these images that shape the 
images or how they reach (or fail to reach) their audiences
•	narratives that (seek to) establish or perpetuate national memory and 
identity as well as narratives that aim to establish transnational 
representation
•	research into the impact of such images on audiences and consumption 
patterns

Keynote speaker: Dr Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex

Please send a 300 word abstract by November 30 to: (Julian.koch /at/ hum.ku.dk)
The first day of the conference will feature the keynote, your 
presentations, and possibly a screening. The second day of the 
conference will be a workshop in which we will review and give 
constructive feedback on each other’s papers. For this purpose, please 
have a draft paper ready. These drafts should be a maximum of 8000 
words, but can be as short as 3000 to 4000 words. Please ensure that 
your draft is prepared at the latest two weeks before the start of the 
conference (reminders will be sent). Papers will then be circulated and 
each participant will be expected to review two papers.

The conference is organized together with the Ethics and Violence 
cluster at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of the 
University of Copenhagen and is funded by the HORIZON EUROPE Framework; 
grant number 101025897.


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