[Commlist] Film and Media Association of Canada - Graduate Colloquium Call for Papers

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for this year’s online 
synchronous Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Graduate 
Colloquium to take place from April 12-13, 2024. Submissions are due by 
January 15, 2024. Details and guidelines are

Film and Media Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium Call for 
Papers, "MASS"

“Art respects the masses ...” (Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory)

The theme of this year’s online synchronous* FMSAC Graduate Colloquium 
is “MASS.” The OED
offers many definitions of mass, including: “a dense aggregation of 
objects having the appearance
of a single, continuous body”; “to form or gather into a mass; to 
collect, arrange, or bring together
in masses”; and “a solid and distinct object occupying space.” As 
something as small and singular,
like the mass of an atom, to something as extensive and totalizing as 
mass culture, “MASS” invites
us to think about multitudes and singularities in, with, and through 
film and other media forms.

Sample topics include, but are not limited to:

    • Mass media, platform studies, social media, Massive Multiplayer
    Gaming (MMOS)
    • Frankfurt School on mass ornament, mass reproducibility, mass culture
    • Representation in mass media
    • Religious mass, ritual, and cult
    • Weight, size, volume, scale, and density
    • Mass extinction, plagues, pandemic media, and Anthropocene
    • Amass, collection, accumulation, and critical mass
    • Mass production, capitalism, globalization, logistics, and
    infrastructure
    • STS, mass effect, mass spectrometry, visuality and perception of
    mass(es), and computational mass
    • Feminist, decolonial, LGBTQIA+ studies, BIPOC studies, and
    accessibility studies
    • Animal and more-than-human, posthumanist, and environmental studies
    • Diasporic cinemas and mobility studies
    • Reception studies and spectatorship
    • Film and media within mass (social or political) movements

We welcome English and French submissions from independent scholars, 
postdoctoral fellows, and
graduate students worldwide. Proposals welcome for individual 
presentations (~10 mins.), research
creation projects, and video essays (~5 mins.). Interested parties must 
submit a 300-word abstract
and a 100-word biography to (meghan.mcdonald /at/ mail.utoronto.ca) 
<mailto:(meghan.mcdonald /at/ mail.utoronto.ca)> by January 15, 2024.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by early-February.

* This event is taking place online to ensure greater accessibility and 
reduce the environmental
impacts of annual conference travel amidst the climate emergency.


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