[ecrea] CFP: Rethinking Re/presentation 2015

Rethinking Re/presentation
A Postgraduate Screen Studies Research Symposium
University of Manchester Friday, 5th June 2015

Studies of representation have long been a concern for Western scholars and philosophers in their analyses of the arts and visual cultures; film is no exception. Extensive scholarship has been produced on representations largely focused on the politics of identity — of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, age and so on — as well as their deconstruction.

However, while questions of representation and their politics remain important, questions of presentation in cinema are no less central to formal and theoretical debates within the discipline. This postgraduate symposium seeks to explore the ongoing dynamics between presentational and representational aspects of the cinema. ‘Re/presentation’ is used here to connote the productive and creative tension between the two aspects.

The organisers of this postgraduate symposium are inviting proposals (of no more than 250 words) for 15-minutes provocations/presentations on any aspect of re/presentation in cinema. The aim is to foster dialogue, inspire new thinking, and further collaboration within the postgraduate community.

Topics and questions could include, but are not limited to:

Modalities and methodologies of re/presentational forms in cinema
Rethinking re/presentation in identity politics (of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, age, etc)
Rethinking re/presentation in national and ‘world’ cinemas
Re/presentation as reconstruction (of historical events, memory, etc)
Cultural and historical contexts of re/presentation in cinema
The relationship between cinema and other (re/presentational) art forms
Impact of socio-economic conditions on forms of re/presentation
It is our hope that this topic will support a diverse discussion, combining the various research interests and methodological approaches of the PG community within a broad but consistent theme. We welcome submissions from both PGT and PGR students, at all stages of their research.

Confirmed Plenary
Prof Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester)
Dr. Andrew Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dr. Andy Willis (Salford University)

Please send your proposals (250 words) and a brief biography (100 words) (touom.rethinkingrepresentation /at/ gmail.com)  by the 30th of January 2015. Alternatively, submit your proposal and biography to the website athttp://rethinkingrep2015.weebly.com/submit-a-proposal.html.

Successful applicants will be notified by March 15th.

Best wishes,
MaoHui Deng
University of Manchester


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