Dear All,
The Screen Cultures Graduate Student Association of Northwestern University
is pleased to invite our fellow graduate scholars to submit abstracts for
this year’s Backward Glances conference with the theme of “Saturation,”
which will be held in person, September 30-October 1, 2022. We’re also
excited to share that our keynote speakers will be Professors Anna Kornbluh
(UIC) and Cáel Keegan (Grand Valley State University). We would be grateful
if you could share this CFP with graduate students in your program.
Proposals of no more than 300 words are due by June 15th. Please see our
complete CFP below for more details.
Thank you,
Tatiana Anoushian
PhD student, Screen Cultures
Department of Radio/TV/Film
Northwestern University
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*Backward Glances 2022: Saturation*
The Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference
Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
September 30th-October 1st, 2022, in person
Keynote Speakers: Professors Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago)
and Cáel Keegan (Grand Valley State University)
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022
Backward Glances, Northwestern University’s biennial graduate student media
and historiography conference, returns in 2022 to engage the concept of
Saturation. Broadly defined as a particularly intense mediated experience
or an inability to absorb additional material, saturation operates as a way
of thinking about the excesses of representation in, and our encounters
with, media both past and present.
From the 24/7 news cycle, to Zoom, to Peak TV, to TikTok, we live in an age
of total media saturation. Drawing on this sense of ‘media overload,’ this
year’s conference invokes saturation as a heuristic for theorizing and
historicizing media past and present. How, for example, does the concept of
saturation differently operate on aesthetic, narrative, and industrial
levels? What does it mean when “no more can be added”? How does saturation
as a property of the image “color” our encounters with media? And how might
saturation help us understand historical shifts in screen media cultures?
We invite inventive explorations of media that embrace both the qualitative
and quantitative ambiguities at work in the concept of saturation.
Presentations may engage the theme of saturation broadly construed,
including topics such as, but certainly not limited to:
- Opulence
- Excess
- Serialities
- Performance
- Framing and containment
- Immersive media
- Intensities of image
- Ecologies
- Realism
- Late capitalism
- Color technologies & race
- Phenomenology
- Sensory experience
We invite scholarship from across disciplines and methodologies, backward-,
forward-, and present-facing. For consideration, please submit a document
that includes paper title and a 300-word abstract to
[log in to unmask] by June 15, 2022. In the body of the
submission email, please include a 100-word bio including your name and
institutional affiliation. Please send your abstract as an email attachment
in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format and do not include any identifying
information in the file containing your abstract. Participants will be
notified by early July.
*Keynote Speaker Bios:*
Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois Chicago
Anna Kornbluh's research and teaching interests center on Victorian
literature and Critical Theory, with a special emphasis in formalism,
Marxism, psychoanalysis, and theory of the novel. She is the author of The
Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (University of Chicago
2019), Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club (Bloomsbury "Film Theory in
Practice” series, 2019), and Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic
Economies in Victorian Form (Fordham UP 2014). Her current research
concerns impersonality, objectivity, mediation, and abstraction as residual
faculties of the literary in privatized urgent times. She is the founding
facilitator of two scholarly cooperatives: V21 Collective and InterCcECT.
Cáel Keegan, Grand Valley State University
Dr. Keegan is a cultural theorist of transgender/queer media and
literature. He is primarily interested in the aesthetic forms transgender
and queer people have created and how those forms shape our popular
lifeworlds. He is the elected Secretary of the Queer Caucus of the Society
for Cinema and Media Studies and has appeared on Michigan Radio and in the
Vice Guide to Cinema's episode on “New Trans Cinema.” Dr. Keegan teaches
courses in queer, transgender, and feminist theories, popular and visual
cultures, American studies, and LGBTQ cultures/identities/histories.
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