Visible Evidence XV

Visible Evidence XV brings together scholars, artists, producers, makers and curators who engage in debates on contemporary documentary practices in all media.

Hosted by the Lincoln Chair of Communications with the support of the Grierson Trust, bfi and Wallflower, VISIBLE EVIDENCE XV will take place in one of the UK’s newest universities sited in one of its most ancient cities. As usual, the conference will address all current issues in documentary studies including documentary and history, and fact-based theatre. Screenings will include films from the British National Film and Television Archive specially digitised for the conference as well as recent Grierson prize-winners.
Dear friends, the deadline for this year's Visible Evidence conference, which will be hosted by the University of Lincoln from August 4 through 8, 2008, is fast approaching. Panel proposals are due on March 14, paper proposals are due on March 28. The call for panels and papers is here below and online at the following address:

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/visibleevidence/index.htm


Best, Vinzenz Hediger

We invite panel and paper proposals on all topics and current issues relating to documentary.
As in previous years, the conference program will include pre-constituted panels as well as a number of panels reserved for open call papers

Sessions will last for two hours and be limited to four papers.

CALL FOR PANELS
bwinston@lincoln.ac.uk

DEADLINE: 14 MARCH

Notification of acceptance will follow shortly thereafter. In the event that panel chairs present a full slate of papers, they will then be asked to confirm their panelists by 2 May.

In the event that a topic is accepted but the panel is open, the Lincoln Conference Office will issue a specific further call for papers by 11 April, directing respondents to the panel chairs who will have until 2 May to confirm line-ups.

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS
bwinston@lincoln.ac.uk

DEADLINE: 28 MARCH

Final notification of acceptance will follow by 30 April

(Papers may be submitted to both calls.)
(Papers submitted to but rejected by panel chairs may be considered, upon request, until 9 May by the Lincoln Conference Organising Committee. Notification of acceptance will follow shortly thereafter.)

STOP PRESS

In conjunction with Visible Evidence XV, a seminar, Performance Realities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documentary Performance, will be held 31 July and 1 August at the University of Warwick hosted by Janelle Reinelt (Theatre Studies) and Stella Bruzzi (Film and Television Studies). The seminar has been planned to allow speakers and delegates at Visible Evidence XV to attend the Warwick seminar in the West Midlands, have a weekend in London or Stratford (or wherever), before coming to Lincoln in the East Midlands.

Further Details:
J.Reinelt@warwick.ac.uk  
or
S.Bruzzi@warwick.ac.uk
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