Journeys across media: call for conference papers

Journeys Across Media: Time Tells

19th April 2012

University of Reading (Film, Theatre and Televison)

Conference website

Call for papers - deadline Friday 3rd February

Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television

JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10^th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research.

This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around time to submit papers for the JAM 2012conference; topics may include, but are not restricted to:

Perception of time

Time and memory

Spatialisation of time/Time-Space

Cinematic time

Time and technology

Time and New Media

The archive

Revivals, Anniversary Productions, Retrospectives and Re-enactments

Sequels, Series and Recurring Characters

The Evolution of the Spectator in Time

Endurance Art

Debates on Ephemerality within performance

Life-as-art

The experience and performance of Duration

Time-based performance

Timelessness

Please see Whittaker Live's CFP - Call for Papers page, for further details.