[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Journeys Across Media 2007: 'See - Hear - Feel' (grad) (UK) (1/26/07; 4/20/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Journeys Across Media 2007

See - Hear - Feel:
Perception & Engagement in Visual Media & Performance


20 April 2007

Department of Film, Theatre & Television - University of Reading
Supported by the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments
(SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of
Reading.


How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our
perception of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings
and interpretations? This, the fifth Journeys Across Media conference,
will explore perception and engagement with Visual Media & Performance
from a variety of approaches and contexts.

Papers are invited from postgraduate students researching areas of film,
theatre, television and new media. The following themes and sample
issues are central but not exclusive:

. Spectatorship and point of view - How do we conceptualise the 'reader'
within the differing perceptions and interpretations that proliferate in
an increasingly mediated world? How do competing perceptions of
political and social identity impact on the expression and
interpretation of race, gender and nationality in media?

. Engagement and Interactivity - How do more sensory approaches to a
reader-text relationship mesh with more formalist ones, if at all? Are
notions of interactivity reliant upon the 'live-ness' of the event?

. Medium specificity - How does the configuration of viewing time and
space inform a spectator's access to or perception of a specific media
experience? In what ways do the possibilities inherent in a particular
medium influence the creation, reception and/or interpretation of a
given event?

. Interdisciplinary approaches and cross-media work - What, if anything,
does recognition of mutual influence between media forms offer
practitioners, participants and academics?


Call for papers deadline:  Friday 26 January 2007


Please send a 250-word proposal, including a biographical note, to
Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Ceri Hovland and Lucy Fife at jam2007 at rdg.ac.uk .
  Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Information will be
regularly updated via our website, www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm



Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day interdisciplinary
conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre,
television and 'new media'. Previous delegates have welcomed the
opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work, at different
stages of development, in the active, friendly and supportive research
environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading.
  Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.



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