Approaching Extinction: Anthropological and Environmental Encounters in Literature and Cinema
Sydney University and Online, 12–14 July, 2023
Deadline for submission: 15 March, 2023
The Sydney Literature and Cinema Network welcomes proposals for single papers, audio-visual essays and pre-constituted three-person panels on the topic of ‘Anthropological and Environmental Approaches to Literature and Cinema’.
In the wake of the global environmental crisis, we welcome contributions that address the capacity of art to illuminate, challenge, and inspire researchers and practitioners to address the existential threat of our climate emergency.
We invite responses to this theme across the broad spectrum of aesthetics, politics, philosophy, and practice-based research.
The Sydney Literature and Cinema Network was created in 2015 and has convened four successful international conferences and several symposia. It brings together researchers from Australia, the US, the UK and across the globe to examine the interconnections between mediums, technologies, expressive modalities and representational forms.
The Sydney Literature and Cinema Network is seeking a variety of applications to present on the themes of the conference that may include:
- Eco-politics
- Eco-philosophy
- Eco-aesthetics
- Eco-fiction
- Post-humanism
- The Anthropocene
- Technological Futures
- AI and the Environment
- Cultural Anthropology
- Environment and Culture
- The Sovereignty of Environmental Communities
Guide for Authors:
We welcome 20-minute papers, video lectures and essays, pre-organised panels (can be longer than twenty minutes), forums and other presentations on these themes and more.
- Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short biography by Wednesday March 15th 2023 (AEDT) to camerastylo5conference@gmail.com
- Panels should include a short abstract addressing a common theme in addition to individual abstracts
Presenters at CS5 will be invited to submit papers for the inaugural special issue of the international journal Camera-Stylo: Intersections in Literature and Cinema.
