Hello All,
This IS a bit embarassing, but...
I slept on it, and changed the "comedies" reference, and added "Hitchcock."
Then, the Conference folks suggested a couple of rephrasings.
In any case: PLEASE send a proposal! I have rcd a couple of
one-to-one offers, since yesterday. Plus, there are about 30
from previous "Calls." Confidentially, there will be still another
deadline; they were/are: 1 Nov. '07, 1 May '08, and 1 Sept.
OR Oct. (I forget which one!) '08.
Paper or talk, due only at conference itself.
Please contact the Conference regarding equipment, if needed.
Best,
Connie
Call for Papers
BIOETHICS Area
2008 Film & History Conference
“Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second-Round Deadline: May 1, 2008
AREA: Bioethics
Bioethics got its start in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. In that time period, the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study (1932-72) raised concerns about human experimentation, eugenics, and false dichotomies in discussions of race and gender, as well as concerns about abortion laws, nuclear proliferation and experiments, and the Geneva Accords as a response to information gleaned on Nazi “doctors” during the Holocaust. These events led historians and philosophers to realize that research, as well as practice, had emerged as an ethical crisis in medicine, nursing, allied health, animal and veterinary sciences, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and public health. With the development of biotechnology and the rise of global capitalism, basic ethical concepts have been interrogated, such as personhood, traditional virtues, health education, and the collective responsibility for health and creative growth. The cinema of
this historical era, continuing into the present, has accompanied the development of new philosophical questions about the health sciences. Earlier films, as well, may be considered as precursors to bioethical thinking.
The Area is about the rich and pluralistic historical relation between film and bioethics. Film, television (including news), and/or new/digital media are appropriate considerations. Topics might include the depiction of physicians/practitioners and/or researchers in features, documentaries, TV Series, “art” films, or genres (No Way Out, Frankenstein [any version], The Cider House Rules, Dirty Pretty Things); changes or trends in bioethical considerations, appearing in genres over time (TV medical/physician-themed series, Jurassic Park, The Boys from Brazil, Blade Runner); philosophical and/or geopolitical aspects of bioethics and cinema, e.g. Bergsonian, Deleuzian, neo-Kantian, or phenomenological concerns (Last Year at Marienbad, Godard, Bergman, Wings of Desire, Herzog, Gattaca); hegemonic promotion by films of race and/or racism (Disney, The Passion of Christ,
Bill O’Reilly); gender and sexuality in cinematic categorizations of bodies (Post-WWII Hollywood Romantic Comedies, Philadelphia, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Boys Don’t Cry); poverty and wealth/health and capital as moving images (Chaplin, Italian neo-realism, Roger and Me, Million Dollar Baby); bioethics as an intrinsically cinematic signifier (Keaton, Hitchcock, Judgment at Nuremberg, Miss Evers’ Boys, Sicko, There Will Be Blood).
Send a 300-word proposal by May 1, 2008, to
Dr. Connie C. Price, Chair of the Bioethics Area
Departments of Philosophy and Bioethics
44-314 Bioethics Building
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee. AL 36088 USA
Phone 334 727 8279
Email cpri[log in to unmask]
Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. The deadline for second-round proposals is May 1, 2008.
This area, comprising multiple panels, is a part of the 2008 biennial Film & History Conference, sponsored by The Center for the Study of Film and History. Speakers will include founder John O’Connor and editor Peter C. Rollins (in a ceremony to celebrate the transfer to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh); Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Visions of the Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood; Sidney Perkowitz, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University and author of Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, & the End of the World; and special-effects legend Stan Winston, our Keynote Speaker. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).