GERMAN SCREEN STUDIES NETWORK
Call for participation: third national postgraduate workshop and research symposium on German-language film and other screen media, University of Cambridge.
POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP, Thursday 9 July 2015.
Postgraduate students are invited to present their research on any area of German screen studies in an informal environment. We encourage the broadest range of subjects. Presentations should be limited, however, to 20 minutes. Please send an abstract of up to 150 words by Monday 23 February 2015 to Dr Annie Ring: [log in to unmask]
Participants in the workshop are also encouraged to attend and submit abstracts for the research symposium. Both events will be held at University of Cambridge, with the participation of leading filmmakers and screen studies scholars, and a number of film screenings. Bursaries will be available to cover the participation costs of postgraduate students for both events.
RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: Screening work. University of Cambridge, Friday 10 July and Saturday 11 July 2015.
Screen media and modern regimes of work have always had a close relationship. The Hollywood studio system and the Ford(ist) assembly line were established in the same year, and from the Lumière brothers’ film of workers leaving the factory onwards, screen media have borne witness to the world of work. At the same time they have developed their own forms of work, in the techniques by which they record and reproduce realities – including the realities of labour. Moreover, both cinematic work and modern work at large have been subject to transformation throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Most recently, centralized material labour has been challenged by emerging decentralized forms of microentrepreneurship. Meanwhile, the shift from analogue to digital recording techniques entails transformations in the work that screen media do, both for and on their users, and within the broader framework of the audiovisual industries.
With these transformations in mind, we invite applications to participate in a two-day research symposium on German-language film and other screen media.
We welcome abstracts of up to 150 words for individual presentations, or up to 250 words for panels. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes, and should focus upon a clip from a specific work. They might focus upon these or related topics:
• Documentary and the essay-film
• Feature films in which labour and its (changing) conditions are negotiated
• Other screen media engagements with the transformation of work and working environments from the early 20th century to the present day
• Transformations from matter to commodity on screen
• Film as a technical assemblage of working practices
• Cinema as a medium that “works through” experiences
• Screen media as negotiators for the critique of work and its future forms/work and utopia
• Cinema as material or immaterial labour
• Images of work and/versus images at work
• Industriefilm
• Working procedures in German-language film production
• Individual and collective work
• Work and training
• The work of screening (as display and concealment)
The oeuvres of recently deceased filmmakers Harun Farocki and Michael Glawogger are exemplary of the way in which these concerns can be worked through in audiovisual form. We therefore particularly welcome presentations on their works.
Please send an abstract of up to 150 words (or 250 words for a panel) by Monday 23 February 2015 to Dr Annie Ring: [log in to unmask]
Participants in the research symposium are encouraged to attend and contribute to the postgraduate workshop on Thursday 9 July 2015. Bursaries will be available to cover the participation costs of postgraduate students for both events.
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