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

[Nastasia Griffioen]

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On 13 Jun 2022, at 20:49, Magdalena Krysztoforska via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> *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*
> 
> 
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> 
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> University of Nottingham
> 
> University Park
> 
> Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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