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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The abstract deadline for <b>
Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a Post-Truth Era </b>(featuring Laurie Ouellette and Kim Toffoletti). Please see below for details. We look forward to seeing you in Dunedin!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'Post Truth' Era<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A conference at the University of Otago 22nd – 25th November 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Presented by The Performance of the Real Research Theme and the Department of Media, Film and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">&<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr Laurie J. Ouellette (University of Minnesota)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">‘Post-truth’ has become a buzzword in the last year generating think-pieces and SNS chatter lamenting 'truth' as a lost object that has enabled and / or smuggled in events like Brexit and the election of Donald
Trump. With this discussion, comes a broader demonstration of anxiety that a true 'real' (world, political sphere, social …) has been either lost or obscured. The responsibility for this loss or obscurance has fallen firmly at the feet of 'the media' (as well
as the so-called postmodernists).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This conference asks and unpacks the interactions of (post) truth, the 'real' and contemporary media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Building on and following from the success of Mediating the Real ‘1’, we encourage critically informed approaches – particularly drawing from the work of Lacan. However, this time too, we invite scholars engaged
with Jean Baudrillard's prolific engagement in these matters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Papers might ask but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">What does post-truth mean in the contemporary media saturated context?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">A consideration of the increasingly banal use of ‘post-truth’ (as OED word of the year 2016) in news chatter and the implications of this for understandings
of 'truthful’ media<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">Where is the real located in this context? This might be through considerations of the Lacanian real and the possibilities for subjectivity and
sociality – particularly in terms of the potential to build social bonds within the ‘discourse of capitalism’<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">What does the anguished / anxious response to 'post truth', particularly in popular and social media, tell us about contemporary subjectivity and
sociality?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt">What do Baudrillard’s critical interventions tell us about the contemporary production of reality?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Postgraduate bursary:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A number of travel and registration bursaries will be available for postgraduate students. These will be allocated on the basis of the merit of submitted abstracts. We
<b>highly encourage </b>postgraduate researchers to submit their work for consideration.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Key information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organisers and contacts:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Dr Brett Nicholls (brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz) and Dr Rosemary Overell (<a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz)">rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract information: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">please email <a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz">
rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz</a> a 250-500 word abstract and 150 word biography by
<b>June 15<sup>th</sup> 2017</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Registration: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">$95 (casual / sessional workers and postgraduates) and $225 (academic and waged workers) – includes cocktail function, lunches and teas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dinner: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> $60
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Venue: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Richardson, 6<sup>th</sup> floor, Room 4 North<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">More info: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/index.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal">https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mediafilmcomms/">https://www.facebook.com/mediafilmcomms/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rosemary Overell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Media, Film and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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