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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please join us in November for what should be an exciting, critical and topical event engaging with<strong>Mediations in a Post-Truth Era</strong>. This is part of the <strong>Mediating the Real </strong>series hosted by the ‘Performance
of the Real’ Research Theme at the University of Otago (<a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html)" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=it&q=http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html)&source=gmail&ust=1507090157318000&usg=AFQjCNHua7qcZWsOaPX7F66seJxK91JdrQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.otago.ac.nz/<wbr>performance-of-the-real/index.<wbr>html)</a>.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">We are delighted to be hosting <strong>Laurie J. Oullette</strong> (University of Minnesota) who will be keynoting on <strong>‘Fake President: Telemorphosis and the Performance of Grotesque Power’ </strong>and <strong>Kim Toffoletti </strong>(Deakin
University) whose keynote is titled <strong>‘Sexy Surfers, Selfies and Social Media – Encounters with Jean Baudrillard, Postfeminism and Post-Truth’</strong>.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This will be an eclectic and critically engaged conference and we still have room available for papers on ‘post-truth’, mediation and Lacan and Baudrillard’s often contradictory takes on the ‘real’. We do hope that you can join
us between the <strong>22<sup>nd</sup> and 24<sup>th</sup> of November</strong>.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">More details here (and below): <a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/news/otago651232.html" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=it&q=http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/news/otago651232.html&source=gmail&ust=1507090157318000&usg=AFQjCNEnGNLuca4SzavzQcY1TF4DH-PCng" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/<wbr>news/otago651232.html</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please do not hesitate to contact Rosemary Overell (<a href="mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz</a> ) and Brett Nicholls (<a href="mailto:brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz</a> )
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rosemary<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'post-truth' era<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A conference at the University of Otago 22nd – 24th November 2017<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Presented by The Performance of the Real Research Theme and the Department of Media, Film and Communication<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Keynote speakers<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/kim-toffoletti" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=it&q=http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/kim-toffoletti&source=gmail&ust=1507090157318000&usg=AFQjCNGf-btM9p5RQrm9HanWRlxtx8RWUA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Kim
Toffoletti</a> (Deakin University) &<br>
Dr <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/ouell031" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=it&q=https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/ouell031&source=gmail&ust=1507090157318000&usg=AFQjCNHGr_Xsmp-ehFmjImJEwVM8CXx0EQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Laurie
J. Ouellette</a> (University of Minnesota)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">‘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
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This conference asks and unpacks the interactions of (post) truth, the 'real' and contemporary media.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">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. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Papers might ask but are not limited to:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What does post-truth mean in the contemporary media saturated context?<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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’<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What does the anguished / anxious response to 'post truth', particularly in popular and social media, tell us about contemporary subjectivity and sociality?<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What do Baudrillard’s critical interventions tell us about the contemporary production of reality?​</span></li></ul>
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