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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="5"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">CFP: Mediating the Real</span></i></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><font face="Arial" class="" size="5"><b class="">An international conference hosted by the ‘Performance of the Real Research Theme’ at the University of Otago<o:p class=""></o:p></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">August 31<sup class="">st</sup> – September 2<sup class="">nd</sup> 2016</b></font><font size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Keynote speakers: Misha Kavka (The University of Auckland, </font></span><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/mkav003" class="">http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/mkav003</a></span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">);
Allen Meek (Massey University, </span><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=887330" class="">http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=887330</a></span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">)
& Agon Hamza (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, </span><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><a href="https://zrc-sazu.academia.edu/AgonHamza" class="">https://zrc-sazu.academia.edu/AgonHamza</a></span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">)</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="" size="4">This conference addresses what the ‘Real’ might mean in contemporary media studies. Moving beyond common-sense understandings of ‘realness’ as an objective ‘Truth’, <i class="">Mediating
the Real</i> specifically applies psychoanalytic and Lacanian understandings of the Real to mediated cultures. The conference takes its motivation from currents in critical Lacanian thought which interrogate the political dimensions of the Real’s irruptions
into, and intersections with, contemporary culture. In particular, this event calls for papers that engage with mediated cultural formations. Here, we consider the Real across Lacan’s work to include the Real as an anchor / point of return; and, the Real as
more than / beyond the Symbolic, and troubling to the Imaginary.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Alongside psychoanalytic approaches, we also encourage submissions from scholars more broadly concerned with media* and constitutions of ‘reality’. This speaks
to ‘Performance of the Real Research Theme’ imperatives which address how cultural forms represent, critique and stage ‘reality’ and the ethical and political issues involved in such acts.</font></span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Mediating the Real</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class=""> takes a necessarily broad approach to ‘media*’ including papers relating to:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">televisual and cinematic representations<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""> ‘the voice’<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">music and sound <o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">art and / or design<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">written forms <o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="4" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">digital media</span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="" size="4">Questions that accepted papers might address (though are not limited to) include:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">How does the Real function in contemporary
media cultures?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">How do questions of sexuation and
gender figure in terms of intersections of the Real and media?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">How do appeals to, and representations
of, ‘reality’ in news the media (the news or reality TV, for example), temper or impact on the Real?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">What of the mediated subject? In
particular, the politics of the logged in, digitally mediated Self.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">·<span class="" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">What is the role of psychoanalysis
in contemporary media studies – especially considering the emphasis on empiricism in institutional contexts that value quantified, ‘objective’ outputs?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="" size="4">Paper abstracts (no more than <b class="">250 words</b>) and bios (<b class="">100 words</b>) should be sent to conference convener Rosemary Overell: <b class=""><a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz" class="">rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz</a></b> by <b class="">14<sup class="">th</sup> March
2016</b>.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><b class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Registration (includes cocktail function, lunches, morning and afternoon teas): </span></b><span lang="EN-AU" class="">postgraduate / casual rate: $60; waged /
academic rate: $160<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Keynote workshops: TBA</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><b class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Dunedin </span></b><span lang="EN-AU" class="">is a beautiful small city, located in the South Island of New Zealand. A true ‘university town’, it buzzes with
student life and academic activity. It hosts a number of independent art galleries, bookshops and radical institutions. Alongside these cultural sites, Dunedin offers stunning opportunities for nature tourism and is a perfect taste of New Zealand’s natural
beauty. Tramping (hiking) tracks are within easy distance of the town, as is the striking Otago Peninsula, home to albatross colonies and rare penguin breeds.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Check out our <b class="">facebook</b>: </span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal/" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""> and <b class="">twitter</b>: </span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://twitter.com/performingreal" class="">https://twitter.com/performingreal</a></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Performance of the Real Research Theme Steering Committee: </b>Suzanne Little; Hilary Halba; Rosemary Overell; Yuko Shibata; Hazel Tucker and Jennifer Cattermole</font><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
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