12-13 June 2019
London
The conference explores the ways in which animated form
mobilises or challenges ideas of the essay film. We, therefore, encourage
submissions that engage with how animation represents complex and intersecting
social issues and power relations. Major axes of social division in a given
society at a given time operate not “as discrete and mutually exclusive
entities, but build on each other and work together” (Collings and Bilge, 2016,
p. 4). It is very challenging to convincingly visualise and configure these
phenomena and how they intersect. But animation seems perfectly placed to rise
to this challenge, due to its hybrid, metamorphic and pervasive tendencies.
Focussing on the relationship between the essay film form
and animation, the conference explores animation as a set of communicative
techniques which give voice to resistance to social discrimination and
inequality, effectively addressing a range of human issues in all their
complexity.
Looking at the intersectionality of race, class, gender and ethnicity,
as part of our engagement in the understanding of diversity in contemporary
societies and historically, we aim to highlight the importance of the animated
essay form to communicate these messages, and to ask questions.
Deadline: 15 March 2019.
Please e-mail abstracts
(250-300 words) plus author bios (100 words) to Dr Romana Turina (rturina @aub.ac.uk)
Conference organisers: Professor Paul Ward, Dr Romana
Turina and Dr Bartek Dziadosz
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