Mediating
‘China’:
Postgraduate
Symposium of Visual Representations of the People, Traditions, and Spaces of
Chinese-speaking Communities
Saturday, 4
May 2019
Avenue
Campus (Lecture Theatre B), University of Southampton (UK)
The Centre for International Film Research (CIFR), run by the Film department at the
University of Southampton, cordially invites postgraduate students to submit
paper abstracts for our forthcoming postgraduate symposium, entitled ‘Mediating
China’, on the visual representation of the people, traditions and spaces of
Chinese-speaking communities in film, TV and new media. The symposium will take
placeat the Avenue Campus, the University of Southampton, on 4 May 2019. This
symposium will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement
that was instrumental in changing the trajectory of the development of Chinese
culture in the past century.
This
symposium will explore how the spaces, identity, language, people and
traditions of various Chinese-speaking communities have been visualised and
represented in a variety of visual media. From cinema and video games to
television and other art forms, this symposium will offer an excellent platform
to promote comprehensive and interdisciplinary insight not only into the
Chinese visual culture itself, but also the eclectic range of innovative
research methods and critical approaches employed to study and analyse such
culture, along with their development and integration with the world amidst
globalisation and current affairs/international relations. This is an excellent
opportunity for those of you who would like to discuss your latest research
with some of the leading figures in the fields of film and media studies.
Several renowned scholars have kindly agreed to be our panel discussants. It
will also give postgraduate students an opportunity to do networking and to
stay abreast of the latest research trends in related disciplines.
Our
confirmed panel discussants include:
Abstract
and paper submission:
If you
would like to present a paper at this symposium, please send us an abstract of
no more than 250 words and a short biography of no more than 100 words (detailing
your research interests and PhD supervisors, your affiliation, and email
address).
Abstracts
can be submitted via email to: jj1g16@soton.ac.uk
Deadline
for abstract submission: Thursday, 28 February 2019, 5pm (UK time).
Selected
presenters will be invited to submit a full paper (for a presentation of 20
minutes) before the symposium day. Deadline for full paper submission: Monday,
22 April 2019, 5pm (UK time).
Contributions
may include, but are by no means limited to, the following areas:
- Chinese-language films, TV, new media, and related industries
- Media and visual culture in the Chinese context
- Representations of Chinese identity in film, TV, and new media
- Representations of time, space, and place in Chinese-language film, TV, and new media
- The aesthetics of Chinese of film, TV, and new media
- Chinese visual culture and globalisation
- Chinese visual culture and its integration with current affairs/international relations
- Chinese media traditions/practices/industries and their interaction with media traditions/practices of other countries/territories
This
symposium is sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Southampton.
There will
be NO registration fee. However, chosen presenters will have to arrange their
own trip/accommodation. Lunch and refreshments will be provided by the
organisers.
Notifications
of acceptance will be sent out in early March 2019. Please do get in touch with
James at jj1g16@soton.ac.uk, if you have any questions.
Please
check out our event webpage.
You can
also find us and our regular updates on social media:
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