[ecrea] CFP - Material Cultures of Television

*CFP: Material cultures of television*
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The interest in materiality within television studies has been reflected
through various scholarly perspectives, from work on spaces and set
designs, to heritage and costume, to product-placement and the role of
material objects, popular culture, and merchandise, to the role of the
television set itself as a material object.
However, these discourses on materiality within the context of
television as object and medium have rarely been directly connected to
the field of materiality studies and object-orientated philosophies.
This conference aims to spark debate and explore the interplay between
television, materiality, design, and identity, as well as the
intertextual and intermedial dimensions of television and the
relationships that are formed, through its material cultures, with
audiences and environments.
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*Scope*

This conference hopes to bring together papers on material culture and
television and seeks to explore ways in which a focus on materiality can
enhance our understanding of and connection with the medium. The
intention is to provide an insight into how materiality impacts on the
understanding of television today (its meanings and practices), and also
in reverse, the ways in which television materiality contributes to the
production and transformation of material cultures beyond the screen.
The conference invites interdisciplinary perspectives and welcomes
proposals from all disciplines and approaches, including (but not
limited to) television studies, media studies, digital media, drama and
performance, cultural studies, history, sociology, literary studies,
critical theory, philosophy, art, etc.
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*Possible topics might include:*
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·contemporary material discourses of television
·Television as a material object
·Nostalgia and television’s object reality
·Television design and material cultures
·Television history and television’s situatedness between the material
and the immaterial
·Television and the digital realm
·Intermediality and object reality on and of television
·cultural history
·television as display
·the (television) museum
The conference will take place at the *University of Hull on Monday and
Tuesday, 21^st – 22^nd March 2016*.
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*S**ubmission and Details:*

Please address abstracts or proposals of panels (of no more than 300
words) along with information about institutional affiliation and a
short bio to Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates at (i.kleinecke-bates /at/ hull.ac.uk)
<mailto:(i.kleinecke-bates /at/ hull.ac.uk)>
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*/The deadline for submission of proposals is: Friday 6^th November 2015/***

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