[Commlist] Dementia in Film, Media and Culture cfp

*Dementia in Film, Media and Culture*

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A symposium to be held at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh on 31^st 
May 2024.

Confirmed keynote: Dr Sadie Wearing, London School of Economics.

In recent times, as Hartung and Kunow (2022) note, dementia has become a 
pervasive cultural idiom and shorthand for being old. Cultural 
representations of dementia are vast and varied in origin, and are 
increasingly evident in film, literature, theatre, television and across 
media and cultural forms. Whether this increase in number is matched by 
an expansion or deepening in how dementia is imagined and understood, 
however, is debatable. Notable and troubling similarities remain and may 
reflect both storytelling conventions and assumptions about later life 
in the global north. Increasingly, however, creative practitioners, 
carers and academic scholars are examining the ways in which cultural 
forms might help us to think through the representational dilemmas of 
dementia (Wearing, 2023), in so doing bringing new ways of conceiving 
and responding to dementia to the fore.

This symposium seeks to bring together academics and practitioners 
interested in the ways in which dementia is represented in culture and 
what consequences these representations might have in public domains and 
in broader understandings of the condition. The symposium takes a 
special interest in film, literature and media, but would be glad to 
receive papers on any cultural form. Likewise, academics and 
practitioners from any discipline or any area of practice are very 
welcome to attend and give papers. It is intended that worked-up papers 
from the symposium will become part of an edited collection with the 
same title – /Dementia in Film, Media and Culture/ – and Edinburgh 
University Press has indicated that it would be glad to see a book 
proposal in this area.

If you’d like to present at the symposium, please send a proposal of 300 
words (for a 20 minute paper), along with a biography of 100 words, to 
(mstewart /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(mstewart /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>__

The deadline for proposals is 11^th January 2024.

*References*

Hartung, Heike and Kunow, Rüdiger (2022) ‘Introduction: Alzheimer’s 
disease as a gendered affliction – Masculinities between dementia 
ventriloquism and symptomatic readings’, in H. Hartung et al (eds.) 
/Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narratives/, London: 
Bloomsbury, pp. 1 – 16.

Wearing, Sadie (2023) ‘Frames of dementia, grieving otherwise in /The 
Father, Relic /and /Supernova/: Representing dementia in recent film’, 
in R. Ward and L. J. Sandberg (eds.) /Critical Dementia Studies: An 
Introduction/, London: Routledge, pp. 100 – 115.


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