[ecrea] JAM 2017 call for papers

Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2017
Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading

11 April 2017

Worldhood and World-Making

Second Call for papers

The JAM 2017 postgraduate conference will take place on Tuesday 11th 
April at the University of Reading with the theme of worldhood and 
world-making in film, theatre and television. The conference invites 
investigation from both researchers and practitioners into the malleable 
concept of worldhood in works of film, theatre, television and other 
appropriate art forms. What are the strategies that govern the conjuring 
of fictional worlds? What are their devices and mechanical 
underpinnings, and how can we best understand them? Do their boundaries 
extend beyond the film frame and performance space? How do film and 
theatre makers and performance artists reconcile the challenges of 
instilling ‘suspension of disbelief’ in their audiences? What 
discrepancies are there between the fictional world of the artist and 
the real world of the spectator? And to what extent is the imagination 
of the spectator complicit in the completion of these ‘worlds’?
We welcome research presentations, practitioner talks, and practice as 
research performances/films that address the overall conference theme, 
which includes, but is not limited to, the following topic areas:

-	Methods for addressing and unpacking fictional worlds
-	The practical challenges and considerations of fabricating fictional 
worlds in film, theatre, television and beyond
-	Medium-specific and/or cross-media fictional worlds
-	Utopias, heterotopias and atopias
-	Phenomenology and audience participation
-	Realism and artifice
-	Style and meaning
-	Point of view, narrative and epistemology
-	The use of technology in building fictional worlds
-	Critical disruptions in fictional worlds
-	Space, site and location
-	Spatial dynamics and the formation of fictions
-	Artificiality and the fictional world

Presentations and live performances must adhere to a 20 minute time 
limit. To submit your proposal by email, please address your Word 
Document file to the JAM committee at (jam /at/ pgr.reading.ac.uk)

We welcome abstracts for a 20-minute paper or talk or live performance 
piece that should be no more than 300 words and accompanied by a short 
biographical note (no more than 100 words). Performance proposals should 
detail the title of your piece and a description of your performance, 
including space and technical requirements. If possible, performance 
proposals should also include a video recording of the performance 
proposed or video examples of your previous work.
The deadline for proposals is 9 January 2017 All submissions will be 
reviewed and decisions will be communicated by 30 January 2017.


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