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[Commlist] Dementia in Film, Media and Culture cfp

Thu Nov 30 18:00:16 GMT 2023




*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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