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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
19-23 March 2014
Seattle, Washington, USA
http://cmstudies.org

Paper proposals are sought for the following panel to be submitted 
for consideration to the SCMS 2013-14 Program Committee:

WORKING TITLE: Thinking with a Camera during Revolutionary Times: 
Generative Visualities in the Middle East

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: As recent images from across the Arab world have 
revealed a renewed investment in political visibility, we ask what 
does this interface between street politics and online activism mean 
for the way we make sense of images of resistance? In an effort to 
refine our assumptions about the political significance and efficacy 
of the documentary image, we compare and contrast recent innovations 
with historical modalities in ways that highlight the generative 
possibilities of "thinking with a camera," aesthetic differences 
notwithstanding. While the region is undeniably beleaguered by 
simplistic representations, these practices illuminate possibilities 
for different ways of knowing the region as well as rethinking what 
constitutes the political.

Please e-mail a 250-300-word abstract, along with a brief 
biographical statement and a 5-entry bibliography, by August 18 to:
Mark Westmoreland - [log in to unmask]  AND
Terri Ginsberg - [log in to unmask] 

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