WOMEN AND THE SILENT SCREEN V
Call for Papers
The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference will be held at Stockholm University, Sweden, 11 – 13 June 2008.
The conference will include archival screenings, as well as keynote addresses and scholarly panels related to women and cinema during the first four decades of film history. The historical and theoretical issues include the roles of women as directors, screenwriters, producers, distributors and actors, but also as filmgoers.
Women and the Silent Screen V invites its participants to scholarly exchange in the open and dynamic spirit that has characterised the four previous conferences in Utrecht, Santa Cruz, Montreal and Guadalajara. The Stockholm conference takes place at the Department of Cinema Studies, located in the Film House in the capital city of Sweden, with the excellent archival resources and screening facilities of The Swedish Film Institute.
Abstracts (200 – 300 words) together with a paper title and a two-line biographical statement should be submitted by December 15, 2007, to [log in to unmask]
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