Susanna Paasonen on 6 Apr 2001 10:31:28 -0000
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[oldboys] CFP: Affective Encounters
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Dear all,
Here's a call for papers for a conference on feminist media studies that
we're organising at University of Turku, Finland, next September. Please
feel free to distribute!
best wishes,
Susanna
affective encounters
rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies
13-15 September 2001
Media Studies department, University of Turku, Finland
affective encounters invites researchers and post-graduate
students to discuss contemporary currents in feminist media studies,
particularly from the point of view of embodied experiences. Encounters
with different screen-based media engage senses, affects, attachments,
emotions, identifications, imaginations and desires. As such they are
both affective and effective, both productive and regulatory.
As the field of media is increasingly discussed in terms of convergence,
and the boundaries between different disciplines (cinema and television
studies, communication studies, media studies, visual studies, cultural
studies) tend to get blurred, there is a need to "take stock"
of recent research in media history, technology and theory and reflect
upon their versatility for different feminist agendas and agencies.
Without looking for a shared understanding of a feminist media theory,
affective encounters brings together different approaches to
affects, embodiments and experiences.
affective encounters explores the field of screen-based media from
early cinema to digital arts, discussing "old" and
"new" media in relation to each other, but also encouraging
inquiries into specific media, representations and aesthetics. Rather
than discussing "remediation" and "intermediality" as
general mediatechnological or -philosophical questions, The conference
investigates them as materially and situationally grounded, diverse
practices.
Keynote speaker: Teresa de Lauretis (University of California, Santa
Cruz). Other guest speakers: Maria Fernández (SubRosa), Sarah Franklin
(Lancaster University), Anne Friedberg (University of California,
Irvine), Liv Hausken (University of Oslo), Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths
College), Anu Koivunen (University of Turku), Marita Liulia (Medeia),
Laura U. Marks (Carleton University), Vibeke Pedersen (University of
Copenhagen), Astrid Söderbergh Widding (Stockholm University), Eva-Maria
Warth (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
affective encounters is inviting theoretical, philosophical,
historical and empirical perspectives on the question of affect and
embodiment in media studies, this conference will explore a wide range of
issues:
- historical and contemporary case studies on both old and new screen
arts
- key philosophical and metatheoretical debates concerning the screen
arts as particular interfaces (issues concerning spectatorship, audience,
usage, agency)
- questions of power, ethics and emotion (encounter, experience,
emotions, affect, desire, pain)
- old and new interfaces as sites for the cultural and social
construction of affect
- the cultural and social construction of "sense" and
"sensuality" (consumerism, modernity/postmodernity, everyday
life)
- situatedness and location of media use and media studies
- encounters with screen-based media as materialised practices, grounded
in embodiment, constrained and enabled by categories of gender,
sexuality, ethnicity/"race" and class
We welcome papers on these issues to be presented in the workshop
sessions.
Please send proposals of max 200 words by 20 April 2001 to:
encountersorg@utu.fi by e-mail, or on the WWW by the electronic form at
http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/affective/submission.html
For further information, please see
http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/affective/
Registration fees are 500 FIM (regular), 250 FIM (student),
including coffee and conference dinner.
One-day registration fees are 200 FIM (regular), 100 FIM (student)
The conference is co-organised by Media Studies department, University of
Turku, Centre for Women's Studies, University of Turku, Finnish Society
for Cinema Studies (SETS), Gender System Graduate School, NorFa, Cinema
Studies department, Stockholm University.