Screen Studies Conference, 28-30 June 2013, Glasgow -"Cosmopolitan Screens"

From: Screen Editorial (Glasgow) <[email protected]>

Call for papers: Screen Studies Conference, 28-30 June 2013, University of
Glasgow

Plenary theme: "Cosmopolitan Screens"

The 23rd International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal
Screen, will be programmed by Screen editors Tim Bergfelder, Dimitris
Eleftheriotis, Alastair Phillips and Jackie Stacey.

Debates about the national, the transnational, the global and the
multi-cultural have permeated screen studies for decades.  The main theme
of this year's Screen conference will consider how such debates might be
reframed through a serious engagement with theories of cosmopolitanism.
 How might discussions about cosmopolitanism, currently animating subjects
across the humanities and social sciences, speak to scholarship in film and
television studies and vice versa?

Literally suggesting a combination of worldliness (cosmos) and place (city,
city-state, citizenship - polis), the concept of cosmopolitanism has
inspired new political visions post 9/11 and its aftermath.  Recently taken
up as a lens through which to discuss the ethics of encountering strangers,
the politics of offering hospitality to foreigners and the problem of
challenging aversion to otherness, cosmopolitanism has also come under
attack for its perceived complicity with global hegemonies.

If screen studies have been slow to take up the cosmopolitan question
directly, it is perhaps because audiovisual media have been so deeply
embedded within transnational and globalising cultures from their earliest
beginnings. But is there something particular to film, television and new
media cultures that might speak directly to the problems at the heart of
the current cosmopolitan project?  How might we understand the changing
significance of film and television through a cosmopolitan lens?  The
editors of Screen welcome proposals for papers/panels on any of these
questions and on the following topics of the main conference theme
(proposals for other subjects beyond this focus will as usual be
considered):

. Conceptual and methodological interrogations of cosmopolitanism from
perspectives within  screen studies, most especially connecting to ethics,
politics, philosophy and the law;

. Explorations of screen cultures through debates about the relationship
between cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, globalisation, multiculturalism
and 'world cinema';

. Cosmopolitan spaces of circulation (exhibition, distribution, new
platforms of delivery);

. Cosmopolitan aesthetics and spectatorship (how might this be understood
and theorised?);

. Cosmopolitan positions - how are film and television makers and audiences
positioned in relation to the production and circulation of their work?

The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, 11 January 2013. Visit
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2013/ for more details and
to download proposal template.

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