[Commlist] CFP for Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes

A reminder that paper proposals are invited for the one-day symposium 
/Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes/, taking place Friday 28th 
October 2022 at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.

What role might ghosts have in the way traumatic histories are 
communicated and represented on screen? How might the ghost have the 
capacity to bring the past forwards to us in the present and enable us 
to reconsider how histories have been formed and by whom? How are 
strategies of haunting and the haunted useful to us when thinking 
through contested histories and contested landscapes? How can global, 
hybrid and alternative approaches to both documentary film and 
socially-engaged fiction encompass these ideas to critically re-evaluate 
society and our position within it?

These questions are at the forefront of a growing number of creative 
practitioners who are building on the work of sociologists Avery Gordon 
(/Haunting and the Sociological Imagination/), Grace Cho (/Haunting the 
Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War/) and more 
recently cultural theorist Zuzanna Dziuban (/The Spectral Turn: Jewish 
Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire/) to bring the notion of 
ghosts and haunting into socially and politically driven works that 
readdress and gently dismantle Western colonialist interpretations of 
knowledge-formation, authority, supremacy and otherness. Further, 
contemporary practice in this field is differentiated from how we might 
have traditionally encountered the ghost in cinema to re-position the 
ghost within moving image practice as a political entity with agency and 
intention.

This symposium and its associated events will delve into this relatively 
recent branch of scholarship and will centre around 
practice-as-research. /Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes/ is a 
hybrid project encompassing an academic symposium and a series of 
public-facing events in Farnham.

Keynote: May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster).

Confirmed artist’s presentations: Juanita Onzaga (/Our Song to War/); 
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (/Pirating Blackness/).

We warmly welcome artists, practitioners, theorists and early-stage 
researchers to present their work. In this context we are considering 
cinema in its broadest sense and works presented and discussed will 
include any permutations of film, video art, television, installation, 
audio works, AR, games.

*Please submit a 200-300 word abstract + a 100 word bio + contact 
information (all on the same document) with links to practice-based work 
if appropriate to Roz Mortimer ((roz.mortimer /at/ uca.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(roz.mortimer /at/ uca.ac.uk)>) by 24th June 2022.*



Organising committee: Roz Mortimer, Simon Aeppli, Stephen Connolly, Abby 
Whittall. The research group for Cinema, Affect and Place, University 
for the Creative Arts.

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