[ecrea] CFP: Interrogating Trauma International Conference (Perth 2-4 December 2008)

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>Call for papers
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>INTERROGATING TRAUMA
>Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering
>
>International Conference
>
>Perth, Western Australia
>2-4 December 2008
>
>in association with the
>National Academy of Screen & Sound, Murdoch University
>and the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University
>
>web site: 
><http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/nass_conf_fest_trauma.htm>http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/nass_conf_fest_trauma.htm
>
>Keynote Speakers:
>
>Felicity Collins
>Humanities & Social Sciences,
>La Trobe University
>
>Suvendrini Perera
>Media, Society and Culture,
>Curtin University
>
>Susannah Radstone
>Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies,
>University of East London
>
>Janet Walker
>Film and Media Studies,
>University of California, Santa Barbara
>
>
>
>     The humanities have had a long-standing 
> interest in the social and cultural dimensions 
> of human suffering caused by catastrophic 
> events. Contributions made in this area by 
> traditional disciplines such as philosophy, 
> aesthetics, literature, and history have been 
> complemented by the health and human sciences 
> throughout the 20th century. Since the 1980s 
> the degree of attention given by scholars in 
> the humanities to experiences of and responses 
> to such life-shattering events as incest, war, 
> genocide, torture, and terror has increased at 
> a pace described by some as "explosive". As a 
> result, several interrelated, 
> inter-disciplinary fields, such as trauma, 
> memory, and genocide studies, have emerged to 
> constitute an encompassing, rapidly-evolving, 
> and hyper-productive network of studies. In the 
> midst of such developments, cultural, media and 
> film studies, as well as the creative arts, 
> have also paid increasing attention to the 
> literary, visual and performative engagement 
> with human suffering and resilience.
>
>     As we quickly approach the second decade of 
> the 21st century the historical events that 
> constitute the ultimate referent of so much 
> theoretical and creative endeavour have 
> unfortunately not waned. It is for the same 
> reason more crucial than ever to open spaces 
> for the considered reflection about the 
> potentials and limitations of myriad, sometimes 
> competing, methodological approaches and modes 
> of creative engagement with human pain and 
> trauma. Interrogating Trauma seeks to provide 
> such a space. Keynote speakers, panels and 
> presenters, as well as the accompanying 
> exhibition and performance of art and media 
> works, will consider methodologies, 
> orthodoxies, and openings in order to 
> articulate strategies for imagining the 
> 'beyond' of trauma through arts and media responses.
>
>     PANEL and Individual PAPER proposals are 
> invited with an abstract of no more than 250 
> words, plus a one-paragraph biography of the 
> author/s. Inter- and trans-disciplinarity is 
> encouraged. Traditional scholarly, 
> ficto-critical and literary writing will be 
> considered. Selected conference papers will be 
> peer-reviewed for publication in a special 
> journal issue or scholarly press anthology. 
> EXHIBITION proposals of creative works that 
> engage with the themes of the conference with 
> an Asia-Pacific trauma focus should contain a 
> brief artist statement and description of the 
> work, including its format and duration or 
> size, of no more than 250 words, plus a 
> one-paragraph biography of the artist/s. 
> Photography, film, video, new media, 2D, 
> sculpture, installation, sound, and live 
> performance works will be considered. Student works are welcome.
>
>     Themes include but are not limited to:
>
>     Apartheid, Apology, Architecture, 
> Asia-Pacific, Art, Atrocity, Audiences, Bodies, 
> Borders, Catastrophe, Child Soldiers, Cinema, 
> Colonialism, Commemoration, Compensation, 
> Conflict, Counselling, Crime, Death, Desire, 
> Depression, Diasporas, Dictatorships, Disease, 
> Documentary, Education, Everyday, Executions, 
> Exile, Experimental, Exploitation, Famine, 
> Fantasy, Forgiveness, Gender, Genocide, 
> Globalisation, Grief, Havoc, Healing, History, 
> Human Rights, Identities, Illness, Image, 
> Incest, Incitement, Independence, Indigenes, 
> Internet, Invasion, Journalism, Justice, 
> Literature, Location, Media, Memorials, Memory, 
> Migrants, Minorities, Museums, Music, New 
> Media, NGOs, Nostalgia, Oppression, Oral 
> Histories, Pain, People Smuggling, Performance, 
> Perpetrators, Photography, Place, Politics, 
> Post-Colonialism, Post-Memory, PTSD, Poverty, 
> Power, Propaganda, Queer, Racism, Radio, Rape, 
> Reception, Recognition, Reconciliation, 
> Refugees, Reparations, Reportage, 
> Representation, Repression, Resilience, 
> Resistance, Revolt, Revolution, Slavery, Social 
> Suffering, Space, Sublime, Suicide, Survivors, 
> Television, Terror, Testimony, Therapy, Third 
> World, Torture, Tourism, Translation, Trauma, 
> Truth, Victims, Violence, Visual Culture, War, Witnessing, Xenophobia.
>
>     Please send proposals no later than 31 MARCH, 2008 to:
>
>     Mick Broderick <(m.broderick /at/ murdoch.edu)> or
>
>     Antonio Traverso <(a.traverso /at/ curtin.edu.au)>
>
>Downloadable one-page conference flier at 
><<http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/docs/CFP1page.pdf>http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/docs/CFP1page.pdf>
>
>

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