[Commlist] Call for Papers X Graduate Conference in Culture Studies 'The Face Of(f)'

Call for Papers for the X Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

Deadline: 5th January 2020

Date: two-day Conference during the 2nd and 3rd April 2020

Location: Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal

Co-organized by the Lisbon Consortium and the Research Centre for 
Communication and Culture (CECC)

Topic: X Graduate Conference in Culture Studies - The Face Of(f)

The X Lisbon Consortium Graduate Conference in Culture Studies will 
focus on the concept of FACE as an object of artistic, cultural, 
biological and technological interest. During a two day Face Of(f) in 
Lisbon participants will be able to confront their ideas about the 
subject, take part in intellectually challenging discussions and 
networking with new colleagues.

Face is everywhere. It has travelled through a variety of cultural 
expressions, serving as an object of affection (e.g. photo albums, 
paintings), lending itself towards obsession (e.g. Narcissus and Dorian 
Gray), serving as a metaphor (e.g. ' to lose one's face') or giving name 
to one of the most powerful enterprises in the world - /Facebook. /It 
has been a /locus /of fetishization and power, represented through 
historical portraiture in sculpture, paintings and photography, from 
Greta Garbo's divinity complexion in Queen Christina (Barthes 2007, 74) 
to the imperial portraits of Majesties and Kings (Mirzoeff 2015). It is 
also through the face that humans engage in recognition of both 
themselves as well as the other. The face operates as a sensorial 
platform for communication and dialogue (Lévinas 1982) for verbal, 
non-verbal and sign languages.

Faces may also be of a terrifying nature, dysmorphic traits serving as 
/visage /for alterity and difference, prompting to a state of conflict 
and uncertainty through confrontation, such as in the myth of Medusa or 
in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. We see the face invading our everyday 
lives, constantly exhibited on social media, as a means of communicating 
with others, as well as negotiating our own identity online. Digital 
technologies, in particular, have explored the face in a variety of 
contexts, promoting, for instance, photo filters and face-tunning apprs, 
or developing facial recognition systems and databases.

Face can also be understood from a perspective of absence or 
concealment, leading us towards the usage of digital avatars, masks and 
veils, many of which are sometimes paralleled with cultural and 
religious celebrations.

We aim to discuss the different epistemologies created around the 
concept of "face", and bring together researchers from around the world 
for a /face off /on how face is experienced and thought in their 
research areas. How does the face dictate how we perform, how all of our 
fives senses are present in the face, how does the face frame one's 
individuality, one's identity traits or the way one thinks and makes 
meaning out of the world? How does one bestow meaning to the face? 
Likewise, can its absence become uncanny, and its invisibility connect 
to the unknown?

We are welcoming proposals from *all research areas *to address and 
discuss the following and related topics:
*Face in the Arts
*Face in Literature
*Face representation in Media and Communication
*Face as a Metaphor and Metonymy
*Aesthetics and dysmorphia of the Face
*On Marks, Veils and the absence of face - from the Ritual, through 
Religion To Carnival
*Face and Identity
*Face of the Other
*Face in Performance, Performativity and Identity
*Face of AI and UFO
*Face and IT
*Face and Politics
*Biology and Emotionality of the Face

Submit proposals with paper title, abstract in English (max. 250 words), 
name, email address, institutional affiliation and brief bio (max. 100 
words) mentioning ongoing research: 
(thefaceoffxgraduateconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(thefaceoffxgraduateconference /at/ gmail.com)>

For information regarding location, keynote speakers, queries and 
conference fees please visit our website: 
https://thefaceoffconference2020.home.blog/ or reach us to our email 
address: (thefaceoffxgraduateconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(thefaceoffxgraduateconference /at/ gmail.com)>

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