Deadline: December 15, 2021
The conference aims to explore the representations in audiovisual culture of the socioecological challenges faced by river delta communities around the world, as well as the relevant cultural strategies and practices employed by vulnerable groups confronted with climate change. We invite proposals for papers from a variety of fields that engage with topics including, but not limited to:
- Climate breakdown and delta degradation
- Delta representations in audiovisual media
- Environmental migration
- Ecocides in Africa, South America, and the Arctic
- Deltas beyond the Global North–South divide
- Indigenous people and rural communities
- Indigenous filmmaking and photography
- Critical disaster studies and audiovisual culture
- Delta futures and sustainability
- Resilience and resistance
- Locality and globality of climate change
- Conservation and development
- Gender and sexuality in audiovisual media
- Acoustic ecology of deltaic systems
- Environmental sound art of aquatic ecosystems
- (In)visibility of environmental degradation
- Ecocinema and environmental film festivals
- Participatory and documentary photography
- Audiovisual culture and eco-activism
- Environmental violence and justice
- Ethics and aesthetics of the Anthropocene
- Blue humanities and river deltas
Deadline: December 15, 2021
Conference Dates: March 24-25, 2022
Location: Durham University, UK (in person and remotely)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Subhankar Banerjee (University of New Mexico); Dr Philippa Lovatt (University of St Andrews) and
Som Supaparinya
For more information: https://deltafutures.co.uk