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Screenwriting Research Network: Call for Conferences

The Screenwriting Research Network is looking for proposals to host its
international conferences in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

The Screenwriting Research Network (www.screenwritingresearch.com) is an
international research network of scholars, reflective practitioners and
practice-based researchers, interested in the conceptualisation of film,
TV and other media narratives; or Screenwriting Studies, as it has become
known. Membership is currently drawn from 30 countries worldwide and is
growing strongly; it is up 35% on last year. There is strong
representation from the USA, Europe and Australasia, with recent members
also drawn from other countries, including Brazil, Portugal, Peru and
South Korea.

The SRN began as a study group at the University of Leeds, UK, in 2006,
and started its programme of international conferences in 2008, also at
Leeds. Since then annual conferences have been held in Helsinki (2009),
Copenhagen (2010), Brussels (2011), Sydney (2012), Madison, Wisconsin
(2013), Potsdam-Babelsberg (2014) and London (2015). A special
international conference was also held in Santiago, Chile in May 2015. In
2016 we will meet in Stockholm, and the 2017 conference will be held at
the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

The programme has attracted eminent scholars and Oscar-winning
screenwriters amongst the keynote speakers, and includes: David Bordwell,
Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson, Torben Grodal, Adrian Martin, Brian
Winston, Jonathan Powell, Milcho Manchevski, Larry Gross, Jean-Claude
Carrière and Ronald Harwood. Key papers are often published in the Journal
of Screenwriting (Intellect).
Such conferences usually take place at the end of summer or beginning of
fall, in September/October each year. Recent conferences have attracted
150-175 participants and around 100 papers and presentations. We expect
further growth.
Our conferences are usually hosted by university departments or film
schools, often as a partnership between such institutions; for example,
our 2015 London conference was a collaboration between Royal Holloway
University of London, University of Greeenwich, University of East London
and Bangor University. Collaborations with archives or festivals, writers
associations or guilds, and other public bodies are welcomed.
Each conference is financially self-supporting with actual costs borne or
raised by the host institutions. Sources range from public bodies and
institutions to sponsorship of some events, to conference fees from
participants. The SRN supports each conference with advice and contacts,
but not finance. This is not a profit-making enterprise, and commercial
proposals are not accepted.
If you are interested in organizing an SRN annual international
conference, please contact the SRN Chairman, Dr. Claus Tieber (University
of Vienna) at the address below, for further information or for an
informal chat. Formal proposals should be received by February 29th 2016,
via email, The proposal should be no longer than four or five pages,
outlining the location and institution, facilities, ease of travel and
communication, appropriate organising staff, and an indication of how
institutional and financial commitment will be forthcoming. A simple
budget should be appended.

For further information or an informal chat (preferably via Skype),
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The SRN Executive Council will consider all proposals through March/April
2016, and may require further information, before making decisions. We
hope to complete the process by the end of April 2016.
The SRN exists to encourage networking among screenwriting scholars and
will support and disseminate information about appropriate events. Besides
our annual conferences, therefore, there is also the possibility of
regional conferences, one-day workshops and other forms of smaller events.
If you are planning to organize such an event and want the help and
support of the network, please contact us, and the SRN Executive Council
will consider how we might help.




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PD Mag. Dr. Claus Tieber

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