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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b class="">Call for Papers: ‘The Aesthetics of Care’ – Screen and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Date: Thursday 7<sup class="">th</sup> of December 2023.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Location: University of Melbourne.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matilda Mroz (University of Sydney).</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Submission Deadline: 30<sup class="">th</sup> of September 2023.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">In recent times, there has been a bourgeoning interest across the Humanities in the notion of ‘care’ with researchers asking how we are to best care for ourselves, for others and for our communities. Inspired
by influential texts on the subject by Michel Foucault (1986) and Virginia Held (2006), these questions have becoming increasingly pressing in the contemporary political landscape, with important publications addressing the role of care in Black (Warren 2016)
and Trans communities (Malatino 2020), and others exploring the contemporary difficulties faced by care workers (Bunting 2020) and the relation between care and creativity (Groys 2022). Moreover, discourses around ‘the ethics of care’ have become increasing
familiar topics to the worlds of Documentary Cinema and Ecocinema (as well as narrative cinema more broadly), a phenomenon which inspired
<i class="">Film Comment </i>to hold a conference on the “Cinema of Care” at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival (see the
<i class="">Film Comment</i> podcast Denis, Sun, and Hovorka 2023).</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">This conference will explore the question of care as it relates to aesthetic practices, experiences, and discourses. Following Jacques Rancière’s influential work on
<i class="">aisthesis </i>(2013) <span class="" style="font-family:Symbol">¾</span> which understands aesthetics as bound to ‘the sensible fabric of experience’
<span class="" style="font-family:Symbol">¾</span> we ask presenters to reflect on what care ‘looks like’, ‘sounds like’ and ‘feels like’ in our contemporary screen and cultural worlds. We are also interested in care as it relates to olfactory and gustatory
experience.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Possible topics include (but are not limited to):</p>
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</span></span>Care and film aesthetics</p>
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</span></span>Cultural practices of care</p>
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</span></span>Care and film programming</p>
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</span></span>Care, artistic practice and marginalised voices (including but not limited to Bla(c)k care, Trans care, care and women’s labour, care and (dis)ability)
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</span></span>Care, curation, and exhibition spaces</p>
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</span></span>Care and durational aesthetics</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">In keeping with the conference theme, the event will adopt a different format to promote a sense of
<span class="" style="line-height:150%">benevolence and connectedness among attendees. If there is anything we can do to make you feel comfortable,
</span><span class="" style="line-height:150%">or if you have accessibility needs,</span><span class="" style="line-height:150%"> please let us know in your response. We welcome submissions from Early Career Academics and Graduate Researchers of any level.</span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="" style="line-height:150%">To participate as a speaker, please submit an abstract of<span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="color:#212121"> </span></span>200-300 words for a fifteen-minute
paper, along with a short bio (100 words max), to<span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="color:#212121"> </span></span></span><a href="mailto:ccribb.c@unimelb.edu.au" class=""><span class="" style="line-height:150%">ccribb.c@unimelb.edu.au</span></a><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121"> </span></span><span class="" style="line-height:150%">by
<b class="">30th September 2023</b>.<span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="color:#212121"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121">Warmly,</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121">Corey P Cribb (</span></span><a href="mailto:cribb.c@unimelb.edu.au" class=""><span class="" style="line-height:150%">cribb.c@unimelb.edu.au</span></a><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121">)</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121">Dr. Cristóbal Escobar (</span></span><a href="mailto:cristobale@unimelb.edu.au" class=""><span class="" style="line-height:150%">cristobale@unimelb.edu.au</span></a><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="line-height:150%; color:#212121">)
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Works Cited</p>
<p class="x_EndNoteBibliography" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-36.0pt; line-height:150%">
<span lang="EN-US" class="">Bunting, Madeleine. 2020. <i class="">Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care</i>. London: Granta.</span></p>
<p class="x_EndNoteBibliography" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-36.0pt; line-height:150%">
<span lang="EN-US" class="">Denis, Claire, Abby Sun, and Marek Hovorka. 2023. Cinema of Care. In
<i class="">Film Comment Podcast</i>: Film Comment.</span></p>
<p class="x_EndNoteBibliography" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:-36.0pt; line-height:150%">
<span lang="EN-US" class="">Foucault, Michel. 1986. <i class="">The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self</i>. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="">Groys, Boris. 2022. <i class="">Philosophy of Care</i>. London and New York: Verso.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="">Held, Virginia. 2006. <i class="">The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global</i>. New York: Oxford University Press.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="">Malatino, Hil. 2020. <i class="">Trans Care</i>. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="">Rancière, Jacques. 2013. <i class="">Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of the Arts</i>. Translated by Zakir Paul. London and New York: Verso.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="">Warren, Calvin. 2016. "Black Care." <i class="">Liquid Blackness</i> 3 (6): 36-47.</span></p>
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