1. Call for Papers: 2006 Film and History Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
November 8-12, 2006
Dolce Conference Center
Dallas, Texas
Area: French Documentary
The first films made by the Lumière brothers were documentaries, and that tradition has remained strong ever since thanks to pioneers such as Jean Rouch, Alain Resnais, Jacques Cousteau, Marcel Ophuls, Claude Lanzmann, Agnès Varda, and Nicolas Philibert. Building on the work of Marc Ferro, Pierre Sorlin, and François Garçon in the 1970s and 80s, over the past decade film has become central to the practice of interdisciplinary historiography in France. As both a primary source and as a retrospective interpretation of the national past, documentary cinema and its various permutations, including newsreels and docudramas, can offer fresh insight into virtually every aspect of French history.
Against this background, we invite proposals for individual papers and/or complete panels (3-4 presenters plus a moderator) on any facet of the French documentary tradition from the late nineteenth century through the present.
Details on the Film and History League, as well as conference registration and logistics, can be found on the web at www.filmandhistory.org. Hosted by the Dolce Conference Center adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, the conference will include a plenary session with renowned documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, as well as numerous screening sessions of documentary films from all eras and countries. Participation promises to be strongly international and we are looking forward to a large turnout.
Please submit proposals of no more than 250 words (via e-mail if possible) to:
Brett Bowles
Assistant Professor of French Studies
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222
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Submission deadline is August 25, 2006 (early submission is appreciated).
This area is part of Film & History's 2006 "The Documentary Tradition" conference. The conference will be held November 8-12, 2006, at the Dolce Conference Center in Dallas, TX, near the DFW airport. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will be featured artists at the conference. Plenary sessions will be conducted by Raymond Fielding, author of "The American Newsreel: A Complete History," and Betsy McLane, co-author of "A New History of Documentary Film." Sessions will also be held with Allen Mondell and Cynthia Salzman Mondell, documentary filmmakers with oeuvre devoted to the ethnic experience in America and the experience of women ( www.mediaprojects.org), and Glenn Marcus and historians who researched "March of the Bonus Army" for PBS. In addition, James Welsh, Editor (Emeritus) of the Literature/Film Quarterly will chair a special session of film journal editors to talk with participants about publication opportunities and goals. Aspiring authors will meet living, breathing human beings from the L/F Quarterly; the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and TV, Film & History; Post Script; Journal of Popular Film and TV; in addition, there will be book publishers seeking manuscripts.
Brett Bowles
Associate Professor of French
Iowa State University
Ames, IA USA
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2. The Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) 20th Annual Conference, Feminism and Popular Culture, University of Newcastle (June 29th-July 1st, 2007). Keynote Speakers: Pamela Church Gibson, Jackie Stacey, Yvonne Tasker, Imelda Whelehan
The popular straddles disciplines, drawing together research that might otherwise remain discretely sited. This conference will interrogate how the popular and feminism has been understood, articulated and represented both in contemporary cultures and throughout history. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the conference will bring together scholars working in the arts, humanities and social sciences. From molls to grrls, from blue-stockings to blue movies, abstracts are invited on all aspects of gender, feminism, women and popular culture. We welcome proposals for papers which investigate the representation of feminism in popular culture as well as papers which theorise the relationship between feminism and the popular.
Possible Topics: The Girlie/Postfeminism/Lesbians on Television/Feminist Role Models/Domesticity/Youth Cultures/
The Radical vs. the Popular/Anti-feminism and the Backlash/Transformation of the Public Sphere/The Cult of Celebrity/Rereading the Romance/Body Modification/Genre Fiction/Audience Reception/Cybergrrrls/Pornography/Second and Third Waves/Romantic Comedy
Conference Organisers: Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters. Please send 300-word abstracts or 1000-word panel proposals by 1 December 2006 to <[log in to unmask]>.
http://www.fwsa.org.uk
Dr Stacy Gillis
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature School of English University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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