[Commlist] cfp: The Aesthetics of Care Graduate Conference

*Call for Papers: ‘The Aesthetics of Care’ – Screen and Cultural Studies 
Graduate Conference*

Date: Thursday 7^th of December 2023.

Location: University of Melbourne.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matilda Mroz (University of Sydney).

Submission Deadline: 30^th of September 2023.

In recent times, there has been a bourgeoning interest across the 
Humanities in the notion of ‘care’ with researchers asking how we are to 
best care for ourselves, for others and for our communities. Inspired by 
influential texts on the subject by Michel Foucault (1986) and Virginia 
Held (2006), these questions have becoming increasingly pressing in the 
contemporary political landscape, with important publications addressing 
the role of care in Black (Warren 2016) and Trans communities (Malatino 
2020), and others exploring the contemporary difficulties faced by care 
workers (Bunting 2020) and the relation between care and creativity 
(Groys 2022). Moreover, discourses around ‘the ethics of care’ have 
become increasing familiar topics to the worlds of Documentary Cinema 
and Ecocinema (as well as narrative cinema more broadly), a phenomenon 
which inspired /Film Comment /to hold a conference on the “Cinema of 
Care” at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival (see the /Film 
Comment/ podcast Denis, Sun, and Hovorka 2023).

This conference will explore the question of care as it relates to 
aesthetic practices, experiences, and discourses. Following Jacques 
Rancière’s influential work on /aisthesis /(2013) ¾ which understands 
aesthetics as bound to ‘the sensible fabric of experience’ ¾ we ask 
presenters to reflect on what care ‘looks like’, ‘sounds like’ and 
‘feels like’ in our contemporary screen and cultural worlds. We are also 
interested in care as it relates to olfactory and gustatory experience.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

·Care and film aesthetics

·Cultural practices of care

·Care and film programming

·Care, artistic practice and marginalised voices (including but not 
limited to Bla(c)k care, Trans care, care and women’s labour, care and 
(dis)ability)

·Care, curation, and exhibition spaces

·Care and durational aesthetics

In keeping with the conference theme, the event will adopt a different 
format to promote a sense of benevolence and connectedness among 
attendees. If there is anything we can do to make you feel comfortable, 
or if you have accessibility needs,please let us know in your response. 
We welcome submissions from Early Career Academics and Graduate 
Researchers of any level.

To participate as a speaker, please submit an abstract of200-300 words 
for a fifteen-minute paper, along with a short bio (100 words max), 
(toccribb.c /at/ unimelb.edu.au) <mailto:(ccribb.c /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>by *30th 
September 2023*.


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