[Commlist] Mediating Scale Conference 2022

*Mediating Scale Conference 2022 – Registration now open*

Registration for the Mediating Scale Conference, taking place from 16^th 
-18^th June 2022 is now open.

All presentations are free to attend on Zoom Events but you must 
register in order to gain access to the platform. The conference is 
being hosted at the Institute of Communication Studies in Lille, France, 
and so all times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Full details, including the conference schedule, abstracts, biographies 
and how to register, can be found on the website: 
https://mediatingscale.com/programme/ 
<https://mediatingscale.com/programme/>.

Oliver Kenny and Magdalena Krysztoforska
/Organisers of Mediating Scale Conference 2022
/(mediatingscale /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(mediatingscale /at/ gmail.com)>//

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*Keynotes*

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*Thursday 16th June:*

·3pm: Dr Zachary Horton (University of Pittsburgh)

·7.30pm: Dr Joshua DiCaglio (Texas A&M University)

oFor this talk, the first part of his new book /Scale Theory: A 
Nondisciplinary Inquiry/ has been made freely available. Please see 
website to download.

*Friday 17th June:*

·3pm: Dr Laura Tripaldi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

·7.30pm: Professor Benjamin Bratton (University of California, San Diego)

*Saturday 18th June:*

·3pm: Dr Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai)

·7.30pm: Dr Thomas Moynihan (University of Oxford)

*Panels*

*Thursday 16th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 1*

  * Yazdanmehr Gordanpour (University of British Columbia)
         Close Reading in the Age of Climate Change: Scale in
    Interpretative Methodologies

  * Professor Sara Upstone (Kingston University) and Dr Kristian Shaw
    (University of Lincoln)
         Simultaneity of Scale: Contemporary Transglossic Literature

*Friday 17th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 2*

  * Dustin Breitling (Masaryk University)
         Scaling the Mesocosm

  * Dr Concepción Cortés Zulueta (University of Málaga)
         Looking through the myriad lenses of a fly’s eye: the
    persistence and transformations of an entomological scale play and a
    microscopic-telescopic experience

  * Dr Julie Momméja (Lumière Lyon 2 University)
         Expanding Timescales: the Long Now Foundation and its /Longue
    Durée /Clock

*Friday 17th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 3*

  * Dr Anushka Peres (University of Nevada, Reno)
         Scale Intimacies

  * Sasha Crawford-Holland (University of Chicago)
         Oppressive Heat: Scaling Extreme Weather in Local Television

*Saturday 18th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 4*

  * Dr Andrew Fisher (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts
    (FAMU), Prague)
         Flusser, Simondon and the scales of contemporary photography

  * Dr Laurence Kent (University of Cambridge)
         The Cosmic Non-Place: Intelligence and Scale in Frant Gwo’s
    /The Wandering Earth/

  * Dr Provides Ng (Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL))
         Universal Basic Service: Scalability of CFHT & DAO 衣食住行• 道

*Saturday 18th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 5*

  * Dr Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick)
         Media and Forensics: Activism Across Investigatory Scales

  * Dr Piotr Szpunar (University at Albany, SUNY)
         Spectroscopic Pasts and Tele-scoping Futures on the Red Planet


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