<videovortex> Copenhagen conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity”
Geert Lovink
geert at xs4all.nl
Tue Nov 21 21:10:38 CET 2023
(via Donatella Della Ratta)
Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
March 25-26, 2024
The two-day conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity” invites
scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines to submit their papers
and join us in exploring the complex and multifaceted realm of
non-fictional representations of atrocity. The conference is
particularly interested in non-fictional representations of atrocity
beyond the Holocaust and invites contributions that engage with
photography, video, television, or feature film. Our disciplines are at
the intersection of film and media studies as well as history and we are
equally interested in close-readings as well as expansive overviews and
macro-analyses.
We welcome papers lasting 20 minutes, with additional time for
questions, on any of the following (non-comprehensively listed) topics:
• the uses (and abuses) of archival images of past and recent conflicts
• comparisons of image-representations across atrocities, time,
geography, or media
• the rhetoric of images in documentary and propaganda film
• representational configurations of particular groups (victims,
perpetrators, bystanders, and any complex combinations of these)
• the agents, processes, infrastructures (e.g. festivals, platforms,
social media), and institutions behind these images that shape the
images or how they reach (or fail to reach) their audiences
• narratives that (seek to) establish or perpetuate national memory and
identity as well as narratives that aim to establish transnational
representation
• research into the impact of such images on audiences and consumption
patterns
Keynote speaker: Dr Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex
Please send a 300 word abstract by November 30 to: Julian.koch at hum.ku.dk <mailto:Julian.koch at hum.ku.dk>
The first day of the conference will feature the keynote, your
presentations, and possibly a screening. The second day of the
conference will be a workshop in which we will review and give
constructive feedback on each other’s papers. For this purpose, please
have a draft paper ready. These drafts should be a maximum of 8000
words, but can be as short as 3000 to 4000 words. Please ensure that
your draft is prepared at the latest two weeks before the start of the
conference (reminders will be sent). Papers will then be circulated and
each participant will be expected to review two papers.
The conference is organized together with the Ethics and Violence
cluster at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of the
University of Copenhagen and is funded by the HORIZON EUROPE Framework;
grant number 101025897.
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