CfP: "Science and the Moving Image: Histories of Intermediality"
Workshop: "Science and the Moving Image: Histories of Intermediality"
Location: Online (Zoom)
Date: November 2nd and 3rd PM
(UK time), 2021
CfP deadline: June 28th, 2021
Since the advent of film in the late nineteenth century, moving images have
been integral to making and communicating science. A rich interdisciplinary
literature has examined such representations of science in the cinema and on
television and investigated how scientists have used moving images to conduct
research and communicate knowledge. Responding to growing interest in science
and the moving image, this online workshop uses the concept of ‘intermediality’
as a starting point to discuss new approaches and methodologies.
Intermediality, coined by media scholars to describe the interplay between
different media, magnifies their multiple meanings and heterogenous
interrelations. Moving images especially invite intermedial analysis because
they are often composed of interrelated visuals, speech, music, and text; film
can also be cut into stills for reproduction in newspapers, advertisements, and
journals. Intermedial approaches thus allow scholars to assess not only the
relationship between scientific practices and media forms, but also the
afterlives, circulation, and reception of these media in a richer historical
context. With its attention to relations and movement between media,
intermediality also expands our understanding of the visual cultures of
science, including in parts of the world and among groups that are
underrepresented in current scholarship. We particularly invite submissions
that use intermediality to engage critically with the scope and limits of
science and the moving image.
Possible themes might include:
- Processes of translation between different media, including film,
television, radio, and print
- Intermedial practices and histories of specific scientific disciplines
- Moving images in science education
- Transnational and comparative approaches to scientific image-making
- Time-lapse, frame-by-frame analysis, and other analytical methods as
intermedial practices
- Representations of science in multimedia entertainment industries
- The relationship between moving images of science and the history of
empire and colonization
- Amateur uses of moving image media, including citizen science
- The cultural reproduction through scientific images of gender, race,
and class.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Tim Boon (Head of Research and Public History, Science
Museum Group)
We welcome talks from postgraduate students, early-career researchers and
established scholars. We are looking for abstracts (max. 250 words) for 15-20
minute talks, which will be arranged in thematic panels. Submissions should be
sent to movingimagescience@gmail.com. The deadline
for proposals is June 28th, 2021 and we aim to respond to
proposals within four weeks.
This workshop will take place online via Zoom and is
hosted by postgraduate members of the Department of History and
Philosophy of Science and the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
The workshop is kindly supported by the Researcher Development Fund and the
G.M. Trevelyan Fund.
Organised by: Miles Kempton, Max Long, Anin Luo
Contact Email: movingimagescience@gmail.com