Grrrls Night Out at SCMS 2019

Dear members of SCMS,

The conference is approaching and LASIG will be posting some of the events YOU CANNOT MISS.

Here is the information for this year’s Grrrls Night Out. Don’t forget to book in advance!

When: Thursday, March 14, 2019. 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM. 

Where: Palomino, 1420 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101.

Grrrls Night Out (GNO) is an open, friendly networking/social extravaganza aimed at encouraging conversation and connection among all women: trans, cis, and gender queer. You don’t have to be an SCMS member to attend, and we welcome friends and children of our grrrls too. Please forward this invitation to any other conference-goers you think might be interested. We especially want to reach out to international scholars and graduate students.

CFP: Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

CFP: Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

18-19 October 2019, Ghent, Belgium

Keynote speakers:

Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of London)

Barbara Flueckiger (Zurich University)

 The academic study of film has involved looking at generic conventions, authorial features, and the use and function of different aspects of film language, including mise-en-scène, narrative, editing and sound. Film Studies has also examined the relationship between film and society, by contemplating issues such as race and gender, the on- and off-screen construction of stardom, the association between cinema, ideology and propaganda, and the way in which films mirror and shape national and transnational identities. The industrial features of film, film policy and legislation, as well as matters of film reception, distribution and exhibition, venues and audiences (cf. the New Cinema History Movement) have also been extensively considered by scholars, within and beyond the discipline.

Call for Papers – Eye International Conference 2019

The 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference hosted by the 5th Eye International Conference

Once a year, Eye Filmmuseum is the venue for an international conference attended by film scholars, archivists, curators and restorers. The conferences are organized in collaboration with national and international partners from both the academic world and the field of film heritage. In 2019, the 5th Eye International Conference will host the 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference.

CFP: Archivist wanted for SCMS panel

We are looking for an archivist to complete our panel for the upcoming SCMS Conference. The event will take place in Seattle between March 13 and March 17, 2019.

We are putting together a panel about film exhibition, venues, spatiality and urbanism. We would like to include an archivist working with holdings that can help this type of research (i.e maps, architectural drawings, urbanism, design plans, programs, brochures, correspondence and ephemera related to these issues, etc.)

Even though our primary goal is to find an archivist to promote panels in which scholars and archivists present finished research combined with archival holdings, do not hesitate contacting us if you are a scholar planing to present a paper that could fit the topic.

If you are interested, please send an email to Elizabeth Lunden (Stockholm University) elizabeth.lunden@ims.su.se

 

Deadline reminder: Flow Conference

The deadline to submit responses to the 2018 Flow conference roundtable questions is only a week away (May 20th at 5pm, CST).

This year’s conference, to be held September 27-29 in Austin, TX, explores “Precarity, Preservation, Praxis.” With the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of preservation, as the production and circulation of media content outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, the ways in which labor, strategy, and skill are marshalled to combat these threats in the industry and in academia.

Some questions that may be of particular interest to SCMS Library & Archives SIG are:

• Here Today, Forgotten Tomorrow: Preserving Television & New Media

• Preservation Terminology and Archival Discourses
  

• What Would A Television Preservation Task Force Look Like?

We invite responses to these or any of our Roundtable Questions in the form of 150-word abstracts. Respondents will be notified via e-mail in mid-June of their acceptance. Once accepted, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper that will be due in late August 2018.