[Commlist] Terminator @40 Conference

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

A symposium hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen 
Studies, Bangor University, Wales

18 & 19 June 2024

_Keynote Speaker: Gale Anne Hurd_

We are delighted to welcome Gale, who in addition to co-screenwriting 
and producing /The Terminator/, also produced /Aliens/, /The Abyss/ and 
/Terminator 2: Judgment Day/.

/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:

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

/The Terminator /and aesthetics

/The Terminator/and biopolitics, posthumanism and urban planning.

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

/The Terminator /and design

/The Terminator /and ecological studies

/The Terminator /and fandom and ‘cult’

/The Terminator/and gender

/The Terminator /and James Cameron

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

/The Terminator/and psychoanalysis

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

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

/The Terminator/and sci-fi

/The Terminator/and sexuality

/The Terminator /and stardom

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

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*Keynote Bio:*

Gale Anne Hurd is a multi-award-winning producer and the founder of 
Valhalla Entertainment, most recently known for the global cultural 
phenomenon, Emmy®-winning and record shattering TV series, /The Walking 
Dead/, and its multiple spin-offs, including /Fear the Walking Dead, 
Dead City, Daryl Dixon, and The Ones Who Live/, among others. Hurd’s 
feature, /The YouTube Effect/, is an eye-opening documentary, directed 
by Alex Winter, which presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, 
a site with humble origins that has gone on to change how we experience 
the world. The film premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival 
and was released theatrically in the US by Alamo Drafthouse Films. Her 
additional producing credits include /Mankiller/, a multiple 
award-winning documentary on the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman 
to be elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Sundance Audience 
Award winner /The Waterdance/, and such iconic classic feature films as 
/Aliens, The Abyss, Armageddon, Tremors, Alien Nation, The Ghost and the 
Darkness, The Terminator /and/ Terminator 2: Judgment Day/ -- which was 
recently added to the National Film Registry by the US Library of 
Congress, joining /The Terminator/, which was added in 2008/./

Additionally, Hurd is a highly sought-after speaker on such topics as 
the status of the entertainment industry and gender equality. She has 
spoken at the Berlin, Deauville, Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals, the 
Milken Global Summit Conference and countless other programs worldwide. 
She has been featured on numerous podcasts, including “WTF with Marc 
Maron” and Deadline’s “Strike Talk.” Hurd’s prestigious honors include 
the 2022 Locarno Film Festival’s Best Independent Producer Award, the 
Cartier Award from the Deauville American Film Festival, Women in Film’s 
Crystal Award, the Producer’s Guild’s David O. Selznick Best Feature 
Film Producer Award, the Visual Effects Society’s Lifetime Achievement 
Award and, most recently, the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the 
Online Film Critics Association.

*How to Participate:*

The British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies is 
generously underwriting 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 
15 April 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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