[Air-L] Join us this week - Mediating Scale online conference - 16-18th June

[Magdalena Krysztoforska]

*Mediating Scale Conference 16-18 June 2022*


Join us this week for 3 days of fantastic interdisciplinary panels and
keynotes exploring ways of framing the problem of mediating scale, and the
stakes involved in addressing epistemological barriers to facing
contemporary problems at an appropriate scale.

All presentations are free to attend on Zoom Events but registration is
required. The conference is being hosted at the Institute of Communication
Studies in Lille, France, and so all times are in Central European Summer
Time (CEST).

Full details, including the conference schedule, abstracts, biographies and
how to register, can be found on the website:
<https://mediatingscale.com/programme/>www.mediatingscale.com

<https://mediatingscale.com/programme/>

We look forward to seeing you there,

Oliver Kenny and Magdalena Krysztoforska

*Organisers of Mediating Scale Conference 2022*mediatingscale at gmail.com




*Keynote presentations:*

*Thursday 16th June:*

·       3pm: Dr Zachary Horton (University of Pittsburgh)

·       7.30pm: Dr Joshua DiCaglio (Texas A&M University)

o   For this talk, the first part of *Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary
Inquiry* has been made freely available. Please see the website to
download.

*Friday 17th June:*

·       3pm: Dr Laura Tripaldi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

·       7.30pm: Professor Benjamin Bratton (University of California, San
Diego)

*Saturday 18th June:*

·       3pm: Dr Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai)

·       7.30pm: Dr Thomas Moynihan (University of Oxford)



*Panels:*

*Thursday 16th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 1*

   - Yazdanmehr Gordanpour (University of British Columbia)
       Close Reading in the Age of Climate Change: Scale in Interpretative
   Methodologies


   - Professor Sara Upstone (Kingston University) and Dr Kristian Shaw
   (University of Lincoln)
       Simultaneity of Scale: Contemporary Transglossic Literature

*Friday 17th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 2*

   - Dustin Breitling (Masaryk University)
       Scaling the Mesocosm


   - Dr Concepción Cortés Zulueta (University of Málaga)
       Looking through the myriad lenses of a fly’s eye: the persistence
   and transformations of an entomological scale play and a
   microscopic-telescopic experience


   - Dr Julie Momméja (Lumière Lyon 2 University)
       Expanding Timescales: the Long Now Foundation and its *Longue Durée *
   Clock

*Friday 17th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 3*

   - Dr Anushka Peres (University of Nevada, Reno)
       Scale Intimacies


   - Sasha Crawford-Holland (University of Chicago)
       Oppressive Heat: Scaling Extreme Weather in Local Television

*Saturday 18th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 4*

   - Dr Andrew Fisher (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts
   (FAMU), Prague)
       Flusser, Simondon and the scales of contemporary photography


   - Dr Laurence Kent (University of Cambridge)
       The Cosmic Non-Place: Intelligence and Scale in Frant Gwo’s *The
   Wandering Earth*


   - Dr Provides Ng (Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL))
       Universal Basic Service: Scalability of CFHT & DAO 衣食住行 • 道

*Saturday 18th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 5*

   - Dr Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick)
       Media and Forensics: Activism Across Investigatory Scales


   - Dr Piotr Szpunar (University at Albany, SUNY)
       Spectroscopic Pasts and Tele-scoping Futures on the Red Planet




*Magdalena Krysztoforska* (she/her)
*AHRC/M4C Doctoral Candidate in Critical Theory*


Dept. of Cultures, Media & Visual Studies

Room B57, Trent Building
University of Nottingham

University Park

Nottingham, NG7 2RD