Friday 10 June 2016, London South Bank University
A one-day practice/research symposium hosted by the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University, with support from the Journal of Media Practice and the MeCCSA Practice network.
Deadline for proposals: Monday 30 April 2016.
end your proposal to: ACIresearch.LSBU@gmail.com

With the proliferation of mobile devices the presence of the screen in everyday life is ever more pervasive, personal and immersive. In the last five years, for example, the tablet has become the must-have device, with over half of UK households (54%) now owning one (Ofcom, 2015). Raised as ‘screenagers’, one in ten (11%) 3-4 year olds now have their own tablet as a pacifier, educational aid and entertainer (Ofcom, 2015). Our urban spaces offer up new forms of interaction as the numbers of screens multiply. Via the screen we navigate an evolving media and cultural landscape that is increasingly interactive, intuitive and always on.
How has the ubiquity of the screen affected broader visual and media culture? How do we imagine life on screen for Generation Alpha? We welcome contributions from practitioners and practice researchers that explore the theme of post-screen cultures/practices. The prefix “post” is used here to refer to the state of being ?after in time or order?, but we are interested in approaches that address screen-oriented cultures/practices past, present and future. Contributions that seek to question, challenge or disrupt existing screen-oriented cultures or practices, or that consider life ?beyond? the screen, are also encouraged.
Possible topic areas include:

• Ubiquitous photography and the networked image
• New screen modalities and spectatorship/audience
• Repurposing and remediation
• Hybridity and Multi-platform practices
• Gaming and gasification
• The Internet of Things and wearable technologies
• Collaborative interactions
• Augmented/Mixed/Hybrid reality
• Virtual reality and immersive environments
• Surveillance, Sousveillance and Omnipresence
• Big data visualisation
• Commercialisation

This symposium will focus on practice research and will feature papers, presentations of practice, screenings and demonstrations. A special issue of the Journal of Media Practice will be devoted to publishing a selection of practice research presented at the symposium. All work accepted for the symposium will be considered for the JMP edition.
Papers/Presentations

We invite papers/presentations of 20 minutes from academics, practitioners, scholars and researchers working in the area of photography, film and video practice, documentary, experimental media, art practice, gaming and multiplatform/ multimedia production, digital technologies, film studies, media and cultural studies, and associated fields and subject areas.
screenings/Presentations/Demonstrations

We plan to arrange screenings, demonstrations and presentations of projects during the symposium. If you would like to contribute by showing work please send a proposal with a description of the work, including format and duration (if appropriate) by the deadline.
ubmissions

Please send your proposal as a Word document or PDF to ACIresearch.LSBU@gmail.com, including the following information:

• Author(s)
• Institutional Affiliation
• Title of Proposal
• 250-word proposal for paper/presentation, or work
• Biography (not more than 50 words)

Please enter the following in the email subject line depending on the nature of your proposal:

• Post-screen Proposal: Paper/Presentation
• Post-screen Proposal: Work

Deadline for proposals: Monday 30 April 2016.
Organisers: Dr Tahera Aziz, Prof Lizzie Jackson and Prof Phil Hammond
Please send your proposal to ACIresearch.LSBU@gmail.com, following the guidelines in the CfP (online here: http://aciresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/post-screen-culturespractices.html).

An international conference hosted by the Department of Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 16-18 November 2016.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne) and Assoc. Prof. Kevin Heffernan (Southern Methodist University) Horror is currently experiencing a cultural renaissance across media, including film, television, comic books, videogames, music, and literature. Despite this, most scholarship on horror remains confined within disciplinary limits. The conference will contest this by engaging with horror both within and across these media, bringing scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue. We will look at horror as a transnational, transmedia, transhistorical phenomenon, but with a particular focus on contemporary iterations of the genre.
Areas of inquiry may include:

• Why is horror so popular at this cultural moment? What permutations have risen in the new digital media environment, and what impact have these had on film, television, and literature?
• What forms and conventions of horror predominate, and what are the most notable variations on them?
• What economic strategies subtend current trends in horror? What social and cultural factors inform these trends, their genealogy, and their contemporary relevance?
• What can new research into horror?s affects on its audiences tell us about the historical and contemporary appeal of horror to viewers?
• How can we theorize the aesthetics of horror? How do the aesthetics of horror vary across media and across national boundaries and historical periods?
• How can we map the shifting gender, racial, and class politics of horror?

New Research on Horror will be an interdisciplinary conference that will encompass a broad range of issues that will illuminate both the current state of the genre and the current state of research on the subject. In this way, it will not only engage with but also intervene in contemporary debates around this important cultural phenomenon.
Deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2016.
Paper abstracts of no more than 250 words and bios of no more than 100 words should be sent to Dr. Paul Ramaeker athorrorconference2016@otago.ac.nz

The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington will hold the first biennial SSAAANZ conference in Wellington from November 23-25 2016. This inaugural conference (which incorporates FHAANZ) presents a unique opportunity to reassess the links between film, media, culture and society in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. While categories such as location and nation remain important to the cultural industries of both countries, significant economic, technological and social developments mean that our understandings of identity and place are evolving constantly. Australia and New Zealand are not only nations, but also islands that share an ocean with numerous other countries and cultures. The changing mediascapes are evident in the continuing relationships with media industries of the United States, but also in emerging connections and cultural exchanges with Asia and the Pacific.
We invite scholarly presentations that address the conference themes, including:

• The relationship between Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and/or Pacific rim screen industries and cultures
• Local and regional cinemas
• Geographies of Australia, New Zealand and Pasifika media
• New histories of Australian and/or Aotearoa New Zealand screen industries and cultures
• Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, M?ori, and Pasifika film and television practices
• Economic, government and regulatory influences on Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand screen industries
• Creative personnel and Trans-Tasman success
• New theoretical approaches to Screen Studies
• Changing distribution and exhibition practices
• Gender and sexuality in Australia and/or Aotearoa New Zealand screen cultures
• Critiques of labour circulation and practices in the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand screen industries
• New perspectives on local and regional screen audiences
• Digital media and transnationalism
• The effects of globalization on local and regional film and media
• New interpretations of Australian and New Zealand film and media texts, genres, cycles and aesthetics

We also welcome general papers on any area of Film, Television and Media Studies

Individual papers will be 20 minutes in length. Pre-constituted panels are welcome.
Please send abstracts of 150-200 words to ssaaanz@gmail.com > by June 15, 2016. Abstracts should include name, institutional affiliation, full contact details, and a short biographical note.
Please visit our website at ssaaanz2016.info for conference information and regular updates.

PRACTICES OF TRANSFORMATION: THE ORGANISED CULTURAL ENCOUNTER

27- 28 October 2016

Venue: Roskilde University, Department of Communication and Arts

Roskilde, Denmark

Organised cultural encounters (OCEs) are activities that through particular intervention strategies aim at creating transformation. They may be cultural exchange programmes, reconciliation projects, community cohesion initiatives, interfaith dialogue meetings or various projects related to integration of immigrants. These interventions are organised around differences considered to be identity formative and divisive, in particular ethnicity, religion, nationality or ‘culture’, sometimes also including other socio-cultural categories that are seen as intersecting axes of differentiation or diversity (gender, sexual orientation, class, age, (dis)ability). Setting up these kinds of encounters is a widespread practice that aims at facilitating for instance integration, tolerance and community cohesion in the context of culturally diverse societies. Thus, OCEs are invested with much hope for transformation not only of the attendees, but also in the society, societies or contexts addressed by the encounter. Organisers (implicit or explicit) lean on assumptions concerning the nature of differences, encounters and social change.
The conference is interdisciplinary and we invite papers that critically examine these assumptions and practices through the study of particular kinds of OCEs, their arenas and methods. Theoretical as well as empirical papers are welcome. While other themes are welcome, we in particular invite papers within the following themes:

• Transformative methods in OCEs (narratives, art, exhibition, ritual, travel)
• Producing and/or managing (cultural) differences
• Staging and scripting cultural encounters
• Performativities of cultural encounters
• Bodies and affects related to cultural encounters
• Intersecting access of differentiation
• Research methodologies of OCEs
• Genealogies of OCEs
• Activism and research: when practitioners of OCEs are also researchers of OCEs
• The spatio-temporality of OCEs
• OCEs and global power dynamics

Keynotes by:

Professor Sarah Pink, RMIT University, Melbourne

Professor Gill Valentine, The University of Sheffield

Professor Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa

Professor Emma Renolds, Cardiff University

SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION

If you are interested in participating in the conference, please send an abstract (no more than 250 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) by 2 May to Helle Bach Riis (hriis@ruc.dk<mailto:hriis@ruc.dk>) and Lise Paulsen Galal (galal@ruc.dk<mailto:galal@ruc.dk>). Successful applicants will be notified by 3 June, 2016.