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> Colleagues,
>  
> Please find below the initial notification about this year's Irish  
> Postgraduate Seminar. Please draw this to the attention of your  
> postgraduate research students and anyone else you think might be  
> interested.
>  
> The Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar  2006
>  
> The Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar is a collaborative  
> venture between Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin and the Centre  
> for Media Research at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.
>
> The seminar is aimed at postgraduates and recent graduates (up to two  
> years) whose research has been in film studies. It is designed to  
> provide a platform for the presentation of new research by film  
> scholars in Irish third-level institutions and those working on Irish  
> film topics in non-Irish universities and colleges. The emphasis is on  
> helping the development and exchange of ideas and is designed to  
> contribute to the training of students in research methods and the  
> advancement of their academic profiles. The event is supported by the  
> Higher Education Authority as part of the North-South Programme for  
> Collaborative Research.
>
> The first Seminar was held at Trinity College in 2003, the second at  
> the University of Ulster in 2004 and the third event again at Trinity  
> College in 2005. The seminar comes back to the University of Ulster in  
> 2006 and will take place at the University’s Portrush campus on May  
> 5-6, 2006
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> Presentations are invited from (a), Irish postgraduate students  
> working on film research projects; (b), postgraduate students working  
> on Irish film projects in non-Irish universities; and (c),  
> post-doctoral students who have completed their degree on an Irish  
> film topic in the two years prior to the conference date.
>
> Those wishing to make a presentation are invited to submit by 3  
> February 2006 an abstract of the topic on which they wish to speak  
> plus a short CV and summary of their research interests. Those invited  
> to present papers at the Seminar will be expected to submit their full  
> paper (of twenty minutes duration) by 7 April 2006. Postgraduate film  
> research students who may not be making presentations are also  
> encouraged to attend the event, as are film studies academics. There  
> is no charge for attendance at the Seminar.
>
> With the support of the Higher Education Authority, the proceedings of  
> the first two Seminars, National Cinema and Beyond: Studies in Irish  
> Film 1, and Film History and National Cinema: Studies in Irish Film 2,  
> both edited by Kevin Rockett and John Hill, have been published by  
> Four Courts Press (Dublin, 2004 and 2005; email:  
> [log in to unmask]).
>
> To record your interest in the Seminar and to be included in future  
> mailings, send your contact address, details of your academic  
> institution, and an outline of your research topic, to
>  
> Prof Martin McLoone
> Centre for Media Research
> University of Ulster
> Coleraine
> Northern Ireland
> BT52 1SA
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> tel. : 028 7032 4372
>
> Centre for Media Research office:
> Administrator: Barbara Butcher
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> tel.: 028 7032 3361
>  
>  
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> Martin McLoone
> Prof. of Media Studies
> (Film, Television and Photography)
> Centre for Media Research
> University of Ulster, Coleraine
> Northern Ireland BT52 1SA
> +44 (0)28 7032 4372