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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt">Environments, Spaces and Transformations</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt"></span></i></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">Thursday 5<sup>th</sup> – Friday 6<sup>th</sup> June 2014<i></i></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">Inaugural<i> MFCO Early Career-Graduate Conference </i>hosted by the Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Keynote speakers: Dr Fiona Allon, University of Sydney & Associate Professor Vijay Devadas, University of Otago</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing">Conference organisers: <span lang="EN-GB">Maud Ceuterick and Alex Thong</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">This interdisciplinary conference invites papers addressing the shifting relations between <b>environments</b>, <b>spaces</b> and their <b>transformations</b>.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Environment and space are critically contested concepts for understanding contemporary societies, locally and globally, and scholars have assigned ever-shifting meanings and significations to them.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Environments</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> evolve and transform, but what impact do they have on societies and cultures? Similarly, <b>spaces</b> continuously change, but how do they generate new identities
and different relations between people and their socio-politico and economic environments? Additionally, <b>transformations </b>might refer to the production of space for inducing change, changing socio-cultural and economic practices, technological interventions
in various environments, or progressive politics re-orienting deep-rooted social stratifications. In fact, recently emergent formations such as the green economy, spatial thinking, critical environmentalism, and new materialism, to name a few, continue to
give rise to multi-faceted debates around environments, spaces and notions of transformation.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">We invite post-graduates and early career scholars to explore how interrelations between environments, spaces and transformations open toward a multitude of sites for dialogue across disciplines and practices.</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><u><span lang="EN-GB">Possible areas of inquiry include:</span></u></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Mediated environments</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Environments, space and politics</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Citizenship, space and environment(s)</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Filmic narratives of environment, space
and transformation</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Transformations in cinematic spaces</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Space, place and gender</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Spaces, transformations and their implications
for mobility and gender</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Environment and space in the archives</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Philosophical approaches to space</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Digital Environments</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Implications of biotechnology</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Neoliberal spaces</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Representations of environments</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Transforming ethics and value</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Science, ethics and politics</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Travel, tourism and the environment</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Socio-cultural impacts of landscape and
spatial modifications</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for abstracts:<b> 20<sup>th</sup> February 2014</b></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Responses will be given by 28<sup>th</sup> February 2014</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">We invite abstracts of 250-350 words along with a short (100 word) author bio, from areas of study such as anthropology, geography, media, film studies, communications, biology, science communication, history,
sociology, gender studies, political science, philosophy, art history, physics, climate sciences, phenomenology, law, architecture, tourism, postcolonial and indigenous studies.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Registration: Free. Tea and coffee provided. There will be a conference dinner on Thursday 5<sup>th</sup> June at the cost of $25 NZ/person payable in cash on the opening day. We will contact you regarding registration
and dinner attendance.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Publication: Selected papers will be offered for publication in the refereed Working Paper Series of the Department of Media Film and Communication.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB">Papers will take the form of a 20-minute presentation and 10-minute question and answer session. Panel suggestions are welcome. Please send abstracts to Maud Ceuterick and Alex Thong at <b><a href="mailto:mfco_ecg@otago.ac.nz">mfco_ecg@otago.ac.nz</a></b></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Masterclass: Postgraduates will also be invited to attend a Masterclass<b> </b>with Dr. Fiona Allon on Wednesday 4<sup>th</sup> June 2014. Indicate if you wish to participate. Those attending the masterclass will
be asked to submit a research proposal and short biography.</span></p>
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Rosemary Overell<br>
Lecturer<br>
Media Film and Communication<br>
The University of Otago<br>
Dunedin NZ 9016<br>
<a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz">rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz</a><br>
http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052355.html</div>
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