Fwd: CFP Environments Spaces and Transformations - Otago June 2014

From: Maud Ceuterick <[email protected]>

Apologies for cross posting

Call for Papers

Environments, Spaces and Transformations

Thursday 5th =96 Friday 6th June 2014

Inaugural MFCO Early Career-Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of
Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand

Keynote speakers: Dr Fiona Allon, University of Sydney & Associate
Professor Vijay Devadas, University of Otago

Conference organisers: Maud Ceuterick and Alex Thong

This interdisciplinary conference invites papers addressing the shifting
relations between environments, spaces and their transformations.

Environment and space are critically contested concepts for understanding
contemporary societies, locally and globally, and scholars have assigned
ever-shifting meanings and significations to them.

Environments evolve and transform, but what impact do they have on
societies and cultures? Similarly, spaces continuously change, but how do
they generate new identities and different relations between people and
their socio-politico and economic environments? Additionally,
transformations might refer to the production of space for inducing change,
changing socio-cultural and economic practices, technological interventions
in various environments, or progressive politics re-orienting deep-rooted
social stratifications. In fact, recently emergent formations such as the
green economy, spatial thinking, critical environmentalism, and new
materialism, to name a few, continue to give rise to multi-faceted debates
around environments, spaces and notions of transformation.

We invite post-graduates and early career scholars to explore how
interrelations between environments, spaces and transformations open toward
a multitude of sites for dialogue across disciplines and practices.

Possible areas of inquiry include:
=95       Mediated environments\
=95       Environments, space and politics
=95       Citizenship, space and environment(s)
=95       Filmic narratives of environment, space and transformation
=95       Transformations in cinematic spaces
=95       Space, place and gender
=95       Spaces, transformations and their implications for mobility and
gender
=95       Environment and space in the archives
=95       Philosophical approaches to space
=95       Digital Environments
=95       Implications of biotechnology
=95       Neoliberal spaces
=95       Representations of environments
=95       Transforming ethics and value
=95       Science, ethics and politics
=95       Travel, tourism and the environment
=95       Socio-cultural impacts of landscape and spatial modifications

Deadline for abstracts: 20th February 2014

Responses will be given by 28th February 2014

We invite abstracts of 250-350 words along with a short (100 word) author
bio, from areas of study such as anthropology, geography, media, film
studies, communications, biology, science communication, history,
sociology, gender studies, political science, philosophy, art history,
physics, climate sciences, phenomenology, law, architecture, tourism,
postcolonial and indigenous studies.

Registration: Free. Tea and coffee provided. There will be a conference
dinner on Thursday 5th June at the cost of $25 NZ/person payable in cash on
the opening day. We will contact you regarding registration and dinner
attendance.

Publication: Selected papers will be offered for publication in the
refereed Working Paper Series of the Department of Media Film and
Communication.

Papers will take the form of a 20-minute presentation and 10-minute
question and answer session. Panel suggestions are welcome. Please send
abstracts to Maud Ceuterick and Alex Thong at [email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>

Masterclass: Postgraduates will also be invited to attend a Masterclass
with Dr. Fiona Allon on Wednesday 4th June 2014. Indicate if you wish to
participate. Those attending the masterclass will be asked to submit a
research proposal and short biography.

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Maud Ceuterick
PhD candidate in Film Studies
Department of Media, Film and Communication
University of Otago,
New Zealand Aotearoa

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