[Commlist] CFP: Planetary Screens Conference

*Call for Papers: Planetary Screens Conference*

September 4th & 5th, 2025, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

*Deadline for submissions is June 2nd, 2025. *We aim to have notified 
all applicants of decisions by June 11th.

*For full details and submission information please visit: 
*https://planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com/ 
<https://planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com/>

In today’s global environment, ecological destruction, biodiversity loss 
and climate change, as the consequence of accelerated industrialisation 
are no longer speculation (Beck 2008). Whether understood through the 
frameworks of the Anthropocene or the Capitalocene, these are now 
planetary threats, affecting not only a particular geographical region, 
but the whole world, endangering both human and non-human lives. 
According to Tiago de Luca (2021), the environmental crisis acknowledges 
that the world is an “interconnected sphere made up of delicately 
interdependent ecosystems and lifeworlds” and “urgently demands 
solutions on the planetary scale”.

*We invite scholarly papers and/ or creative practice- based 
presentations to reflect the centrality of the planetary in film and 
screen media, with consideration for the context of the environmental 
emergency.* It asks contributors to explore how screen encounters with 
the human and the non-human articulate ecological and ecocritical 
discourses and sustainable modes of being on the planet through 
aesthetics, technologies and screen media forms and genres. It invites 
contributions that explore alternative planetary imaginations, 
considering the intersections of climate change and the inequalities of 
race, class, gender, culture and geography. Furthermore, it welcomes 
works that investigate the material impact of film and screen media in 
the sustainability of the planet.


*The conference invites contributions related, but not exclusive, to the 
following topics:*

  * The articulation of the planetary in film and screen media in
    relation to the global, transnational, national and the world.
  * The planetary as a space for human and non-human co-habitation in
    film and screen media.
  * Intersectional approaches to planetary thinking and ecocriticism (in
    terms of race, gender, queer, class, etc.).
  * Decolonial and post-colonial planetary and ecological imaginations.
  * Diegetic and spectatorial encounters with the human and the
    non-human in film and screen media.
  * Film and screen media in the context of the Anthropocene,
    Capitalocene and Chthulucene.
  * Ecocritical approaches to film and screen media.
  * The representation of the non-human in film and screen media.
  * Eco-aesthetics, forms and narratives in film and screen media.
  * Environmental justice and activism in film and screen media.
  * Creative practice and the environment in film and screen media.
  * Ecological and planetary imaginations in film and screen media.
  * Indigenous cosmologies and the environment.
  * The material impact of film and screen media in the sustainability
    of the planet.
  * The representation of extractivism in film and screen media.


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