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Cinema and the City: An international, three-day conference to be held at The Centre for Film Studies University College Dublin 12 - 14 March 1999 REMINDER: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for Proposals: 20 November 1998 Confirmation of Speakers and Full Program: 15 December 1998 300 word proposals and short bio by email/fax/post. http://www.ucd.ie/~film/conf.htm KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: MIKE DAVIS - Lecturer in Urban Theory and History at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and at the University of Southern California. - Author of: Prisoners of the American Dream (New York: Verso, 1986); City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage, 1992); Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1998). GEOFFREY NOWELL-SMITH - Professor of Film, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. - Author of: L'avventura (London: BFI, 1998); editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); co-editor of Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity, 1945-95 (London : BFI Publishing, 1998); The Companion to Italian Cinema (London: Cassell/British Film Institute, 1996); and other publications. KEVIN ROCKETT - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin. - Author of: The Irish Filmography: Fiction Films, 1896-1996 (Dublin: Red Mountain Press, 1996); Still Irish: A Century of the Irish in Film (Dublin: Red Mountain Press, 1995); Co-author of The Companion to British and Irish Cinema, with John Caughie (London: Cassell/British Film Institute, 1996); Cinema and Ireland, with Luke Gibbons and John Hill (London: Croom Helm, 1987). Please visit our website to see the Call for Papers and other relevant information: http://www.ucd.ie/~film/conf.htm Feel free to contact us if you need further details. Thanks. Mark Shiel. Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel. +353.1.7068629 or 7068327 Fax: +353.1.7068605 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%