[Commlist] CfP: Literature/Film Association 2024: Recognition and Empathy

LFA 2024: RECOGNITION AND EMPATHY


LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE


YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, YORK, PA


SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2024


Film screening and Conversation: Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me 
(2021)


Keynote: Elsie Walker, Salisbury University, author of Life 24x A 
Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023)


In many ways, our current social and political moment has been marked by 
the challenges of recognizing and empathizing with others: an 
increasingly polarized US electorate is set to (re)litigate a divisive 
election that never really left the news; the rapid advances in 
generative AI have everyone scrutinizing the differences between human 
and non-human intelligences; and numerous political and climate crises 
challenge our conceptual divisions between recognition and 
responsibility, action and empathy, “us” and “them.”


Adaptations, in addition to being based in the comparative act of 
recognizing and reconciling one text with another time, place, or 
medium, may also promote empathy with unfamiliar characters and 
contexts. How can adaptations act as a bridge between nations, 
subcultures, and generations? How does the act of adapting theorize the 
act of (mis)recognition and the practice of empathy? Are adaptations, in 
other words, empathetic media?


While we welcome papers on any aspect of film and media studies, we are 
especially interested in papers exploring one or more of the following 
topics concerning otherness, recognitions, and adaptation:

  *

    Depictions of otherness across verbal, visual, and interactive modes
    of art

  *

    Politically-motivated reimaginings of cultural touchstones

  *

    Uncanny resemblances and (mis)recognitions in adaptation

  *

    Reception of texts with transgenerational and/or international appeal

  *

    Adaptations of non-fiction works or legal documents

  *

    Nostalgia and empathy in film and media

  *

    Recognition of and identification with characters

  *

    Encounters with AI and nonhuman intelligences

  *

    Affect studies and adaptation

  *

    The failures of or potential for adaptations as empathetic media


We also have significant interest in general studies of American and 
international cinema, film and technology, television, new media, and 
other cultural or political issues connected to the moving image. In 
addition to academic papers and pre-constituted panels, presentation 
proposals about pedagogy or from creative writers, artists, video 
essayists, and filmmakers are also welcome.


Please submit your proposal, which will consist of a title, 250-word 
abstract, and keywords, via thisGoogle Form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5lxAcdtUsuzU2sMsz7JO0KNYFfF-vNuu-7SthJkZiL9fPXA/viewform?usp=sf_link> by 
May 15, 2024. You will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours. If 
you have any questions or concerns, contact Amanda Konkle at 
(litfilmconference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(litfilmconference /at/ gmail.com)>. 
Accepted presenters will be notified by June 5, and a draft conference 
program will be available by July 15 to enable travel planning.


The conference registration fee is $200 ($150 for students and retirees) 
before September 1, 2024 and $225 ($175 for students and retirees) 
thereafter. All conference attendees must also be current members of the 
Literature/Film Association. Annual dues are $20.

Presenters will be invited to submit their work to the Literature/Film 
Quarterly for potential publication. For details on the journal’s 
submission requirements, visit their website here 
<https://lfq.salisbury.edu/submit.html>.

To register for the conference and pay dues following acceptance of your 
proposal, select your registration and click on the PayPal “Buy Now” 
button below that will take you to where you can sign in to your PayPal 
account and complete the transaction. If you aren’t registering for the 
conference but want to join or renew as a member, you may just pay 
membership dues ($20).


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