Film-Philosophy News 9/2000

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From:    Seulemonde <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Derrida Month at NYU

This from Ben Binstock, who is having trouble posting to the list:

Derrida Month at New York University

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Monday October 2: D=B9AILLEURS DERRIDA
American premier of a new film about Derrida directed by Safaa Fathy (with
English subtitles). Screenings at 6:30 and 8:00 PM, Cantor Film Center. A
further screening and discussion with the director will take place on
October 12th in VIDEO DERRIDA.

Thursday October 5: JEWISH DECONSTRUCTION
Exhibition opening: "Across the Veil." 5:00 PM, Rosenberg Gallery, Barney
Building.
Elliot Wolfson, "Jewish Mysticism and Deconstruction," Susan Shapiro,
"Derrida: The Uncanny Jew," 6:00 PM, Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building.

Tuesday October 10: DECONSTRUCTING THE VISUAL GIFT
Arvind Rajagopal, "The Gift, the Commodity, and the Televisual Imagination,=
"
Simon Leung, "Etant Don=E9es, Le Toucher". 6:00 PM, New Museum of Contempor=
ary
Art.

Thursday October 12: VIDEO DERRIDA
Screening of D=B9ailleurs Derrida and discussion led by Tom Zummer with the
director of the film, Safaa Fathy, author with Jacques Derrida of Tourner
les Mots. Screenings of short films, video, documentaries by Ken Rogers.
6:00 PM, Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building.

Monday October 16: FACE TO FACE WITH DECONSTRUCTION
Joonsung Yoon, "Seeing His Own Absence: Yasumasa Morimura's Photographic
Self-portraits," Susan Sterling, "Making-Up Gender, Sexuality, and
Self-Presence in Annie Liebovitz's Women and Helmut Newton's Immorale," Ben
Binstock, "De-nuding the Face, or, Deconstruction as Art History" 6:30 PM,
703 Main building.=20
In conjunction with "Face to Face: Shiseido and the Manufacture of Beauty
1900-2000" exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, September
15th-October 28th, 2000.

Tuesday October 17: LE PARJURE (Perjury)
Annual Lecture by Jacques Derrida in French 8:30PM, Hemmerdinger Hall.

Thursday October 19: DERRIDA AND HIS NON-CONTEMPORARIES
Seth Benardete, "Derrida and Plato," Anne Deneys-Tunney, "Derrida:
Inside/Outside the Eighteenth Century"6:00 PM, 703 Main building.

Tuesday October 24: CONCRETISM AND DECONSTRUCTION: THE POETRY OF =D6YVIND
F=C4HLSTROM
Readings, new translations, discussion with A. S. Bessa, Jesper Olsson,
Mattias Nilsson, Teddy Hultberg, 6:30 PM, Einstein Auditorium, Barney
Building.

Wednesday October 25: DE-VIDEO
Moderated by RoseLee Goldberg with Chrissie Iles, Erika Muhammed and Ken
Rogers.=20
6:00 PM, The Kitchen.

Thursday October 26: CELEBRATING DECONSTRUCTION
3:00 PM Exhibition Opening at Orensanz:
"De-Core-Instanz: Deconstruction, Installation, Orensanz"
4:30-7:30 PM Symposium at Orensanz *
Avital Ronell, "Abraham, Franz and Jacques,"
Gayatri Spivak, "Touched by Deconstruction,"
Slavoj Zizek, intervention (contingent upon Slovenian elections),
and Jacques Derrida.
8:00 and 10:00 PM Concert at Tonic
"Cobra + n (aural-oral deconstruction)" by John Zorn

Friday October 27, 28, 29: MO' AURAL DECON **
Concerts at 8:00 and 10:00 PM at Tonic; artists to be announced.

* Free Tickets for symposium at Ticketcentral (212) 998-4941,
non-NYU students call (212) 998-5799

** All Tickets for concerts at at Ticketcentral (212) 998-4941,
and Tonic (212) 358-7504,

Locations

Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant St. at 9th St., 998-5799

Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St.

703 Main building and Hemmerdinger Hall,
100 Washington Square East (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

New Museum of Contemporary Art, 583 Broadway at Prince.

The Kitchen Center for Video Music and Dance, 512, West 19th St.

Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk St. at East Houston.

Tonic 107 Norfolk St. at Delancey, www.tonicnyc.com

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From: Matthew Kapell <[log in to unmask]>

CALL FOR PAPERS

11-14 April, 2001, Popular Culture Assoc/American Culture Assoc annual
meeting in Phili

Please forward this message to any you think may be interested.

I'm organizing a panel on the film _The Matrix_ and am interested in
getting abstracts. Please send abstracts no later than 18 September.
Yes,
this is past the due date, but thankfully I have special dispensation!

_The Matrix_

This 1999 film has spawned much discussion and is open to multiple
interpretation. Papers are sought dealing with some of the following
issues (or, by all means, anything else you might think of):

-Religious images
-Birth images
-The human and posthuman
-Modernity and postmodernity
-Violence/hyperviolence
-www.whatisthematrix.com
-Fan fiction

Please, feel free to *not* limit yourself to the above topics.

Abstracts, following the PCAACA style, should be sent to me at the
following email address:

[log in to unmask]

Thanks to all,

Matthew Kapell

U-Michigan-Dearborn

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SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
on
Orson Welles' film version of Shakespeare's KING LEAR

The Shakespeare on Film and Television area of the SW/Texas PCA is issuing
a special call for papers on Orson Welles' film adaptation of KING LEAR.
A special showing of this film will occur at the SW/Texas PCA conference
in Albuquerque March 7-10, followed by papers addressing the adaptation.
Send a 300-500 word abstract to: Roberta N. Rude, Area Chair, Shakespeare
on Film and Television, SW/Texas PCA, %Department of Theatre, University
of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069. Email submissions
accepted. Deadline for proposals: October 20th.

Roberta Rude, Area Chair
Shakespeare on Film and Television
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>                        Call For Papers
>                Shakespeare on Film and Television
>                          SW/Texas PCA
>
> The Shakespeare on Film and Television area of the Southwest/Texas Popular
> Culture Association welcomes submissions for its 2001 annual meeting in
> Albuquerque March 7-10. With the success of "Shakespeare in Love," film
> makers are again popularizing the Bard. Modernizations, re-settings ,
> adaptations, comparative analyses, "classic" films...present on your
> current passion! Abstracts of 300-500 words may be sent to: Roberta N.
> Rude, Area Chair, Shakespeare on Film and Television, Department of
> Theatre, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069.
> Electronic submissions are welcome at: [log in to unmask] For additional
> details contact Professor Rude by phone 605-677-5419, or e-mail; or
> consult the PCA website (http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca).

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Call for Papers: Film and Popular Memory

It has been argued that in the last three decades of the twentieth
century, memory was commodified and aestheticized as never before.
This has been linked to various factors, including diversifying
markets for memory, the growth of the heritage industry, the
proliferation of technologies of time-shifting and digital
reproduction, and a representational economy of recycling and
pastiche. In a time when it is claimed that metanarratives of history
and progress have, themselves, been severely undermined, and when the
past has become increasingly subject to cultural mediation, textual
reconfiguration, and ideological contestation in the present, memory
has developed a new discursive significance.

This call for papers is for a collection of essays that will explore
the place of memory in popular film (from early cinema to the
present), especially as it relates to the articulation, and
negotiation, of cultural identity. Writing of particular
transformations in American film since the 1970s, Robert Sklar
suggests in Movie-Made America that historical memory has become the
touchstone of a movie's cultural power, replacing "a traditional

rhetoric of myths and dreams." I am seeking proposals for essays that
broadly explore the form and status of the "memory film" and that
also, at some level, engage with Marita Sturken's pointed suggestion
that "cultural memory is a field of cultural negotiation through
which different stories vie for a place in history." However, I am
also interested in work that examines the relation of film and
popular memory prior to the 1970s and that may even challenge Sklar's
sense of periodicity.

Several works have looked specifically at the way that Hollywood
revisits and rewrites the historical past, notably Robert Burgoyne's
Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (1997) and Robert Brent
Toplin's History by Hollywood (1996). The proposed volume will look
more broadly at the intersection between film and popular memory. I
would especially welcome essays that:
… Thematically consider areas within memory studies such as trauma,
nostalgia, tradition, commemoration, amnesia, heritage etc.
… Historically consider particular moments or periods such as civil
rights, Vietnam, World War One, World War Two, the South, the West,
the Kennedy assassination (and other national traumata), labor
history, the 1950s, 1960s, etc.
… Discursively approach the subject from perspectives such as
cultural studies, film studies, American studies, history, media
studies, sociology, and other relevant disciplines.
… Critically approach the subject in terms of production history,
textual analysis, marketing, critical reception, audience studies,
cultural politics.

Abstracts should be sent by NOVEMBER 15, 2000 to:
Dr. Paul Grainge
Department of American Studies
School of Humanities, Languages and Law
University of Derby
Kedleston Road DE22 1GB, UK.
Or send as an attached word document to [log in to unmask]

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CRITICAL HORIZONS: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CRITICAL THEORY

A CALL FOR PAPERS

Critical Horizons is an interdisciplinary journal of social and critical
theory published by Brill Academic Publishers in conjunction with The
Ashworth Centre for Social Theory, The University of Melbourne. It
publishes articles covering a broad range of topics such as forms of
modernity and postmodernity, changing social relations, politics,
identities, feminisms, aesthetics and visual culture. it aims to
position papers in ways that actively promote debate across established
boundaries and beyond established traditions.

Critical Horizons encourages debate, dialogue and critical analysis by
welcoming unsolicited manuscripts, developing themes of specific
interest, and featuring a Forum where social theorists reflect on new
critical thought and established theoretical traditions. The managing
editors are currently seeking papers that continue the discussions
initiated in the first issue; these include Richard Rorty's and Nancy
Fraser's papers on the politics of recognition and Martin Jay's analysis
of contemporary modes of aesthetic spectatorship. They also invite
papers addressing theories of the imagination, memory and critique, and
comparisons between Western political thought and political theory in
various non-Western traditions. Papers engaging in conversations between
Western and non-Western political thought will be considered for a
special issue on comparative political theory.

Manuscripts can be sent to the following address:

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

postal:

Dr John Rundell
Critical Horizons
Managing Editorial Board
The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory
The University of Melbourne,
Victoria 3010
Australia

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Birkbeck College/Tate Gallery Millbank
The Moving Image of Law:
A conference on Law and Film

Location: Tate Gallery Millbank, London
Date: January 26/27 2001

Four plenary sessions: Session 1: Friday evening 5.00pm ñ 7.30pm; Sessions 2-4: Saturday 10.00am - 6.00pm.
This Conference on Law and Film seeks to create a space for a multi-disciplinary dialogue between scholars of the moving image and law. The event seeks to promote the study of cinema and film as an industry, technology and aesthetic practice in and through which law is produced.

The conference wishes to explore the following themes:

* Law's formation and history in film and cinema
* The impact of new technologies of film on the images of law.
*   Noises of law; evidences of law's silences and sound in cinema.
*        Generic legal frameworks and narratives of law, order and deviance
*     Outside the frame; questions of representation, regulation and censorship

Law as Performance     The cinematic spectacle of Law
The desire of Law in cinema
Law and Ethics       Technologies of truth
   Documentary and justice
Laws of Regulation       The Globalisation of the cinema industry
        The Political Economy of film
   Regulation of new technologies
Ownership of the moving image.

Law and Film Conference Steering Committee, Birkbeck College:
From the School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media: Professor Ian Christie, Professor Laura Mulvey, Professor Lynda Nead From the School of Law: Professor Costas Douzinas, School of Law, Dr. Adam Gearey, Dr. Piyel Haldar, Dr. Patrick Hanafin, Valerie Hoare, Eugene MacNamee

Conference Organisers:

* Dr. Leslie Moran, 0171 631 6502, [log in to unmask]
*     Emma Sandon, 0171 631 6511, [log in to unmask]

Last updated 31 March 2000

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