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Guest Speaker Patrick Crogan

The Irish Screen Studies Seminar is pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Crogan of the University of the West of England, Bristol will be giving a public lecture at 11 o’clock on Friday 9 May. The title of the lecture will be:

    Technology, technicity and time: Reanimating old questions for film and media theory in the wake of Bernard Stiegler’s philosophical activism

This lecture is the keynote event of the Irish Screen Studies Seminar. It will take place in the Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL), which is on Pearse Street.

Patrick Crogan is at the forefront of critical approaches to technology and digital cultures, technoculture, gaming, military robotics, and the work of Bernard Stiegler. His 2011 publication Gameplay Mode (University of Minnesota Press) examines the connections between contemporary computer games and the technoscience of the military-industrial complex since the 1940s.

He is centrally involved in the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, and he has twice been an invited contributor to the summer school of the Ecole de philosophie d’Epineuil le Fleuriel, which is organised by Ars Industrialis. He is a noted expert and writer on the work of media and technology philosopher/activist, Bernard Stiegler, some of whose works he has translated into English.

Please click here for the location: http://tinyurl.com/pa8nb87
ATRL is not part of the main Trinity campus.

Information about this and previous Irish Screen Studies Seminars may be found at http://irishscreenstudies.online.

The seminar is aimed at researchers in film and in screen culture in the broadest sense, which includes fields such as television, digital media, networks, transmedia, technoculture, and gaming. It is designed to provide a platform for the presentation of new research by scholars in Irish third-level institutions, and for those working on Irish topics in non-Irish universities and colleges.

There is no charge for this event and no booking is necessary.

Deadline Extended

We have extended the submission deadline for proposals for the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar until 14 February 2014.

Please note that the seminar is for all screen researchers on the island of Ireland, and for all researchers of Irish film, television, etc. regardless of their location.

We also welcome scholars who have finished their PhD in the last two years.

Call for Papers

The 10th Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 9-10 May 2014.
The seminar is aimed at researchers in film and in screen culture in the broadest sense, which includes fields such as television, digital media, networks, transmedia, technoculture, and gaming. It is designed to provide a platform for the presentation of new research by scholars in Irish third-level institutions, and for those working on Irish topics in non-Irish universities and colleges.

The seminar promotes the exchange of ideas and helps students in the advancement of their academic profiles. To these ends, plans are being made for an online publication, Proceedings of the Irish Film Seminar, which will contain short versions of the papers presented. To mark the 10th anniversary of the IPGFRS, we are also planning an online index/archive of all the previous presentations that have been made since 2003.

The keynote speaker will be Patrick Crogan of the University of the West of England. Dr. Crogan is at the forefront of research in digital cultures, technoculture, gaming, military robotics, and the work of Bernard Stiegler. His 2011 publication Gameplay Mode (University of Minnesota Press) examines the connections between contemporary computer games and the
technoscience of the military-industrial complex since the 1940s.

Presentations are invited from:
(a) Irish postgraduate students working on screen studies research;
(b) postgraduate students working on Irish screen studies projects in non-Irish
universities;
(c) post-doctoral students who have completed their degree on an Irish screen studies topic in the two years prior to the conference date.

Those wishing to make a presentation are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, plus a short CV and summary of research interests by 20 December 2013. Postgraduate research students who may not be making presentations and screen studies academics are encouraged to attend.

There is no charge for attendance. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length. Non-traditional presentation formats will also be considered.

To record your interest in the seminar or to be included in future mailings, send your contact address, details of your academic institution, and an outline of your research topic, to the conference organiser, Dr. Cormac Deane, Irish Research Council Fellow, Film Studies, School of Drama, Film & Music, Trinity College Dublin.