[csaa-forum] Fw: REMINDER | TODAY: Research Seminar Friday, 28 October "Leaving the unreal city" presented by Dr Natalie Collie

[Lisa Bode]

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Dr Lisa Bode

Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Deputy Director of Research

Forthcoming: Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017)

School of Communication and Arts
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD 4072
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Subject: REMINDER | TODAY: Research Seminar Friday, 28 October "Leaving the unreal city" presented by Dr Natalie Collie






Research Seminar
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Leaving the unreal city

Dr Natalie Collie

  *   Friday 28 October
  *   Room 601, Michie Building (#9)
  *   3pm - 4pm

Are our increasingly urban, highly mediatised lives less real or authentic than other ways of being in the world? Is the 'mediapolis' optional or are our identities and everyday lives so immersed in the ubiquitous and alluring logics of the media city that genuine escape is no longer possible? These questions intersect with enduring myths and metaphors about urban space. The modern city, for instance, has long been associated with alienation and an unnatural, inauthentic existence. This notion is exemplified by the dehumanising waste land of T.S. Eliot's 'unreal city'. And yet, urban environments and lifestyles now represent the dominant form of reality for most of the world's population, providing the lens through which we imagine and experience ourselves, along with a variety of the city's others: the rural, the remote, and nature itself. This paper explores the relationship between urban life, mediatisation, and questions of the real, the natural, and authentic; it does so with the help of works of speculative fiction that extrapolate on a particular premise: the unreal city.

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Join us for a drink, after the seminar, at St Lucy's

Bio:
Dr Natalie Collie<https://communication-arts.uq.edu.au/profile/344/natalie-collie> teaches into the writing and communication programs in the School of Communication and Arts and has a background in the study of literature, writing, and media & culture. Her research is focused on questions of urban space, identity, and narrative. She regularly invokes the capacity of speculative fiction to explore these questions


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