[Commlist] CFP - Terminator @40: Origins and Legacies Conference

*/Terminator /**@40/:/ Origins and Legacies*

An academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and 
Screen Studies, Bangor University, Wales

18 & 19 June 2024

The /Terminator /franchise has left an indelible mark on popular 
culture. In 1984, James Cameron’s dark vision of the future created a 
cultural shock that continues to resonate to this day not only in cinema 
but also in literature, art, design, gaming, and critical theory and is 
even credited with having spawned several aesthetic trends, such as 
tech-noir. What started as a film has now become a multi-media universe 
consisting of sequels, a television series, web series, comics, video 
games, board games, novels and theme park rides. The franchise is also 
frequently cited in debates related to multinational corporations, 
robotics, biopolitics, post- and transhumanism, artificial intelligence, 
and nuclear apocalypse.

Hosted by the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies at Bangor 
University in North Wales, this symposium proposes to bring together 
scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds – such as cultural and 
screen studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; 
musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and 
robotics; literature; urban and ecological studies; and race, gender, 
queer and sexuality studies - to explore /The Terminator/ forty years 
after its release, explore its origins and legacies and consider its 
position within wider visual culture.

We welcome contributions from any perspective such as (but not limited 
to) the following:

/Terminator /and its origins, influences, production, publicity, 
reception and afterlife

/Terminator /and aesthetics

/Terminator/and biopolitics, posthumanism and urban planning.

/Terminator/and capitalism, neoliberalism, post-industrialism and 
multinational corporations

/Terminator /and design

/Terminator /and ecological studies

/Terminator /and fandom and ‘cult’

/Terminator/and gender

/Terminator /and James Cameron

/Terminator/’s multi-media franchise (sequels, television, web series, 
comic books, video games, board games, novels and theme park rides)

/Terminator/and psychoanalysis

/Terminator/and race, ethnicity and/or the “Other”

/Terminator/and robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic organisms, 
the transhuman and post-human

/Terminator/and sci-fi

/Terminator/and sexuality

/Terminator /and stardom

/Terminator/and tech noir, retrofuturism, future noir, and cyberpunk.

We are applying for funding to facilitate postgraduate and unwaged 
participation.

Please submit an abstract here 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScde-axrNuk-5-qOfpmF9d87xBHsAHeZpmR3WTvEu-gM5a_RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>by 
1 March 2024.

For further information, please contact the organisers Professor Nathan 
Abrams (Bangor University) and Dr Elizabeth Miller (Bangor University) 
at (TerminatorConference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(TerminatorConference /at/ gmail.com)>

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