On behalf of ASPERA, please find below details of the 2016 conference, to be held in Canberra in July. Please also note the publication opportunity, which might be especially appealing to research degree candidates. Please come and join us for what is always a lively event!

ASPERA CONFERENCE 2016 – THE BIG QUESTIONS

University of Canberra, 5 - 7 July 2016

 

The Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) July 2016 Conference in Canberra will be looking at the Big Questions that are exciting researchers and educators in Screen Production.

 

The conference convenors invite papers, panels and topics for roundtable discussion, interactive workshops and micro talks (5 minute presentations) that address the following theme (with other ideas also being considered):

 

Screen Production research: what are the big questions?

 

Whilst we can view screen production as a research tool and screen products and audiences as objects to be researched, we would like, for the moment, to focus on screen production as the subject of research and in terms of research-led teaching, a field of educational enquiry. 

 

If we consider that screen production starts with development and ends with delivery, what questions and projects do we have that are designed to investigate that process and deliver new knowledge and understandings of Screen Production? In thinking about these questions and projects we may approach them through engaging in screen production or investigating screen production from the position of a screen producer. We may also consider what, why and how we teach screen production in a research-led learning environment.

 

Possible broad topics addressing the theme include:

·      Development: structure, theme and process

·      The creative moment in screen production

·      The role of questions in screen production

·      The creative screen practitioner as observer

·      Screen Production for the academy

·      New production tools that lead to new production practices

·      Teaching and learning with new tools and new methods

·      Student expectation in tertiary screen production

 

There will be opportunity for peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed papers, and participants are also encouraged to put forward proposals for exhibits, practical workshops or demonstrations. We look forward to talking to you about your requirements.

 

Important Deadlines

All abstracts (250-300 words) for peer and non-peer reviewed papers, and an author bio of a 50 words, to be submitted by Friday 26th February 2016.

 
All successful submissions will be notified by Monday 11th March 2016.

 

Refereed conference proceedings

We will be publishing fully refereed conference proceedings via the ASPERA website. If you would like the opportunity to have your paper (4000 - 5000 words) published, then you will need to send a full draft for double blind peer review by the Friday 29^th April 2016. Final papers will then be due shortly after the conference, to be published before the end of 2016.

 

Please make it very clear in your e-mail if you are submitting a full paper for peer review. We will not be able to offer this opportunity to papers that are submitted closer to and after the conference. Postgraduate student submissions are strongly encouraged.

 

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