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REVISITING NOSTALGIA AND THE HYPERREAL  
A Symposium at Oxford Brookes University

Saturday January 13th 2018

This one day symposium aims to re-examine the discourse, debates, and
products of the hyperreal in the light of contemporary media culture's
nostalgic impulses. Nostalgia is now a keystone in transnational popular
culture -- from the Instagram-framed figure of the urban hipster, the
lifestyle promises of women's magazines to the re-boot of the infinitely
nostalgic Star Wars franchise. Just as nostalgia haunts media culture,
it has also prompted us to look back towards the cultural theory that
first began flagging up the nostalgic mode of those cultural products.

It has been approximately 40 years since Umberto Eco first travelled in
hyperreality and Jean Baudrillard ordered the simulacra; it has been
almost 20 years since Morpheus offered Neo the choice between a red or
blue pill in The Matrix. While scholarly interest in these seminal texts
has trailed off somewhat, both nostalgia and the hyperreal are urgently
relevant in a mediascape populated by 'fake news' and 'alternative
facts.' Now, it seems, is the perfect opportunity to re-visit these
modes and concepts.

We are seeking papers of approximately 15-20 minutes that engage with
the concepts and cultural products marked by nostalgia and the
hyperreal.

We welcome discussions of all media forms (including videogames, music,
film, television, theatre, sport, magazine publishing, fiction, and fine
art) and encourage interdisciplinary approaches. We are particularly
interested in those works that complicate the relationship between
hyperrreality, nostalgia, and postmodernism. In addition to panel
presentations, this day will include brief workshop discussion sessions.

Please send a 150-200 word abstract and a brief biography to Lindsay
Steenberg
([lsteenberg@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:lsteenberg@brookes.ac.uk){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}) and Leander Reeves
([leander.reeves@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:leander.reeves@brookes.ac.uk){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}) by Friday September 22nd 2017. We will be in
contact with you by the end of September. If you would like to
participate in the workshops rather than presentation a paper, please
contact us directly.

All the best,  
Lindsay Steenberg and Leander Reeves


REVISITING NOSTALGIA AND THE HYPERREAL A Symposium at Oxford Brookes University  Saturday January 13th 2018  This one day symposium aims to re-examine the discourse, debates, and products of the hyperreal in the light of contemporary media culture’s nostalgic impulses.

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