Dear Colleagues,
Please note the third and final call for papers for the Film and History Conference in Chicago in November. Due to the untimely death of the original keynote speaker, Stanley Winston, a replacement speaker has been found.
Best Wishes,
Connie Price
Final 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
Third-Round Deadline: August 1, 2008
AREA: Bioethics
Bioethics got its start in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s. 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. Also receiving ethical scrutiny were the implications of abortion laws, nuclear proliferation and experiments, and the Geneva Accords as a response to information gleaned on the “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 the same historical era, the latter twentieth century and on to the present, has accompanied the development of new philosophical questions about the health sciences. Earlier films, as well, can be considered precursors to the way of thinking that ushered in bioethics.
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: depiction of physicians/practitioners, and/or researchers, in features, documentaries, TV Series, “art” films, or genres (No Way Out, Frankenstein [any and all], The Cider House Rules, Dirty Pretty Things); changes or trends in bioethical considerations, appearing in genres over time (TV “Doc” 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 (‘30’s Hollywood 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, Judgment at Nuremberg, Miss Evers’ Boys, Sicko, There Will Be Blood).
Send a 300-word proposal by August 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 Dr. Roger D. Launius, our Keynote Speaker. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).
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