The seminar is aimed at researchers in film and in screen culture in the broadest sense, which includes fields such as television, digital media, networks, transmedia, technoculture, and gaming. It is designed to provide a platform for the presentation of new research by scholars in Irish third-level institutions, and for those working on Irish topics in non-Irish universities and colleges.
The seminar promotes the exchange of ideas and helps students in the advancement of their academic profiles. To these ends, plans are being made for an online publication, Proceedings of the Irish Film Seminar, which will contain short versions of the papers presented. To mark the 10th anniversary of the IPGFRS, we are also planning an online index/archive of all the previous presentations that have been made since 2003.
The keynote speaker will be Patrick Crogan of the University of the West of England. Dr. Crogan is at the forefront of research in digital cultures, technoculture, gaming, military robotics, and the work of Bernard Stiegler. His 2011 publication Gameplay Mode (University of Minnesota Press) examines the connections between contemporary computer games and the technoscience of the military-industrial complex since the 1940s.
Presentations are invited from:
(a) Irish postgraduate students working on screen studies research;
(b) postgraduate students working on Irish screen studies projects in non-Irish universities;
(c) post-doctoral students who have completed their degree on an Irish screen studies topic in the two years prior to the conference date.