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Authored Cultures / Authoring Cultures Negotiating Control over Media Texts
Authored Cultures / Authoring Cultures: Negotiating Control over Media Texts is an international conference that seeks to examine the theoretical and practical transformations of the roles of authors and readers.
Suggested themes include but are not limited to:
- Authorship: contested, (re)negotiated, (re)confirmed, (de)constructed
- Author(ity), power and control
- Gendering, decolonising and queering authorship: situating marginalised authors
- Questioning normativity: authorship and disability
- Subversive strategies and techniques for contesting and re-writing media texts
- Performing, narrating, and personalizing culture
- Authorship and transmedia storytelling
- Dissemination of texts and meanings; ownership and responsibility
- New models of authorship – and readership – for new media (digimodernist, participatory or network authorship)
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University in Montreal, the co-author of Players and their Pets, co-editor of Sports Videogames and author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames.
Dr Anna Backman Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Feminism and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, whose publications include American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis Image and Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure. Dr Rogers will speak on the subject of “Francesca Woodman and Female Authorship.”
Organizing committee:
Dr hab. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
Dr hab. Katarzyna Więckowska
Dr Katarzyna Marak
Mgr Nelly Strehlau
Mgr Bernadetta Jankowska
Amelia Stańczyk
Maciej Bukowski.
Contact: authoredculturesconf@gmail.com
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See also
Cultural Literacy & Cosmopolitan Conviviality / CLE Biennial Conference 2019
The first biennial "Cultural Literacy in Europe Conference" took place in London in April 2015; the second in Warsaw in 2017. We are now pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the third Biennial Conference, to be held at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon) in May 2019.
Comics in Culture/Culture in Comics
The aim of the conference is to present a wide array of perspectives of different forms of comics and their role in culture. Comics, as a unique combination of literature and visual arts, spanning from child entertainment, through popculture, to independent artistic expression, are a great source of interdisciplinary research. This is why we welcome entries on variety of topics exploring the relations between them and culture.
Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory
Almost 40 years after Nabokov's death his texts continue to function as literary Fabergé eggs in which scholars keep finding hidden surprises and previously overlooked details. As Nabokov wrote in Conclusive Evidence, "the unravelling of a riddle is the purest and most basic act of the human mind." However, readers and critics are divided on the issue of whether Nabokov is a postmodern riddle-maker enjoying the game itself without enabling the player to reach the ultimate solution, or whether the riddles are solvable by a reader astute enough to follow all the sophisticated patterns and allusions which point to Nabokov's metaphysical convictions.
Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World
Famously associated with the strange attraction of the irregularly shaped pearl, the term ‘baroque’ eludes precise definitions and keeps engendering conflicting emotions in contemporary cultural discourses. The concept of the neobaroque not only inherits the polycentric semantics of baroque but poses additional problems due to the multiplicity of senses attached to the prefix neo. These circumstances find reflection in a concern about the variety of relationship between history, aesthetics and politics in available conceptualisations of the return of the baroque in (European, Western, global) Modernity, multiple shapes of the New World baroque, and variously conceived neobaroques only recently discovered and rehabilitated or presently arising as ways of interpreting possible futures of our planet. This staggering richness of ideas promises stimulating and very productive discussions.