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The 10th annual BAFTSS conference will take place entirely online on the 20th–22nd April 2022, hosted by the University of St Andrews.
In the past eighteen months, many of us have experienced isolation both professionally and personally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Caught between the anxiety of close contact and the loneliness of isolation, the pandemic has brought the complex relationship between the individual and the community to the forefront of our lives.
This conference takes as its theme “Collaboration and Cross-pollination.” As we re-imagine how we work together and gather as a community post-COVID, the conference foregrounds processes of exchange, circulation, and recombination across the fields of Film, Television and Screen Studies. We encourage participants to shift their thinking from the individual to the community, and to engage with conceptual play around the ecological metaphor of cross-pollination (or the sharing and interchange of ideas), in order to reflect on how this process can shape our work as researchers, collaborators, and mentors.
Topics might include:
Collaboration/cross-pollination in the academy: as methodology, as practice, as scholarship, as engagement
Collaboration/cross-pollination through creative practice research
The politics of collaboration in film, television, and screen media: questions of power, labour, visibility, inclusivity, equality, and value
Examining film, television, and screen media through cross-pollination: mutation, reproduction, recombination, hybridity, integration, sharing, gifting, contagion, virality, contingency
Textual cross-pollination in film, television, and screen media: remixes, intertextuality, experimental media, remakes and reboots, adaptations
Film, television, and screen geographies of collaboration/cross-pollination: global production practices, co-productions, distribution circuits, festivals, exhibition
Film, television, and screen networks of collaboration/cross-pollination: practitioners, audiences and fandom, collectives, activist groups, societies
Histories of collaboration/cross-pollination in film, television, and screen media: archives and institutions
Ecologies of collaboration/cross-pollination in film, television, and screen media
Collaboration/cross-pollination between film, television and screen studies and other disciplines
Collaboration/cross-pollination across and between media forms
The call for papers is now closed.