[Commlist] CFP - Television Aesthetics: Now What? (7-8 July 2022)

*Conference CFP*

*A BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE - TELEVISION AESTHETICS: NOW 
WHAT? *

*University of Kent | 7-8 July 2022*

*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*

*Jason Mittell* (Middlebury College)

*Iris Vidmar Jovanović* (University of Rijeka)

***With apologies for cross-posting***

The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent is delighted to 
invite paper proposals for *‘Television Aesthetics: Now What?’ *(7-8 
July 2022), a conference organised with generous funding from the 
British Society of Aesthetics <https://british-aesthetics.org/>.

The title of this conference – ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What?’ – is 
*a provocative metacritical question about the state of the field*. 
Television aesthetics has established itself as a distinct, and at times 
controversial, field of inquiry within television studies. Scholars in 
television aesthetics have made progress in outlining some of the 
field’s parameters, especially the importance of close analysis of 
individual television series in defence of the medium’s artistic value. 
However, although television aesthetics is no longer an emerging field, 
its specific remit beyond issues of artistic value needs to be further 
clarified.

To this end, our conference aims*to bring together philosophical 
aesthetics with both television studies and television aesthetics*. We 
wish to stimulate exchange across different disciplines and approaches, 
with contributions from television scholars, philosophers, and 
aestheticians. In bringing together these different perspectives, we 
hope to make some headway towards answering the question ‘Now what for 
television aesthetics?’

We welcome papers that will,

  * Broadly address aesthetic issues relating to television;
  * Offer reflections on and critiques of the field of television
    aesthetics;
  * Show how television studies and philosophical aesthetics might
    fruitfully interact (and the possible limits to this interaction);
  * Consider aesthetic questions relating to different genres and forms
    of television, either historical or contemporary;
  * Explore the intersections between aesthetics and questions of
    identity (e.g. national, racial, gender, sexual, disability, class)
    and/or politics;
  * Take an aesthetic approach to the various specificities of
    television – e.g. TV as an artistic medium, a broadcast technology,
    a domestic product, an industry.**

**

*PAPER PROPOSALS*

Papers will be *20 minutes long*, followed by a *10-minute Q&A*.

To submit your paper proposal, please email the following to 
*(televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk)* <mailto:(televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk)>:

 1. An *anonymised* paper proposal of *no longer than 500 words
    *(excluding bibliography).

 2. A separate document containing:
     1. The title of your paper
     2. A short bio of the author(s)

Please send your abstracts to *(televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk)>**by *23:59 BST on Sunday 17 
April 2022*. We aim to notify those who submit a proposal of the outcome 
by *15 May 2022*.

*TRAVEL STIPENDS*

The British Society of Aesthetics has Travel Stipends available for 
postgraduate students, early career researchers, and those employed in 
fixed-term positions in the UK, *up to a maximum of £800*.

See here for more details: 
https://british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/travel-stipends/ 
<https://british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/travel-stipends/>

We have also allocated a portion of the conference budget towards 
supporting travel for postgraduate students, early career researchers, 
and independent researchers who are not eligible for a BSA travel 
stipend. These travel bursaries will be allocated on a case-by-case 
basis. If you want to be considered for such a travel bursary, please 
also include a brief rationale to the document with your paper title and 
bio.

Should you have any questions about the conference, please do not 
hesitate to contact us at (televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(televisionaesthetics /at/ kent.ac.uk)>.


Programme Committee: Prof Murray Smith, Dr Margrethe Bruun Vaage, Dr 
Dieter Declercq, Michael Clark

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