Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies: ‘Mapping Scotland’
20 February 2008 23:10 Filed in: Conferences
Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies
First Conference ‘Mapping Scotland’
24th June 2008 Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow
First Conference ‘Mapping Scotland’
24th June 2008 Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow
In 2007, following an application by St Andrews and
Glasgow Universities, the Carnegie Trust agreed a
grant to fund a series of conferences which would
help to establish a Scottish Consortium for Film and
Visual Studies. This will be a multi-faceted project
that will evolve gradually and could provide a forum
for research collaborations, practice development,
knowledge transfer activities, archive work and
postgraduate activity. It is intended to be open to
all interested staff whatever department you work in
and we hope to make contacts outside Higher Education
particularly in Scottish Screen (and Creative
Scotland), the archive and with practitioners.
The international speaker at the first conference will be Professor Patrice Petro, Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Professor of English and Film Studies. She is currently President of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies and in a good position to offer an overview of how our disciplines are developing.
We are keen that the first conference should be genuinely engaging and exploratory and so we are not inviting formal papers from participants. The main emphasis will be on plenaries and workshops in which people can meet and ideas be exchanged. We hope to end the conference with a map of activity already going on in Scotland, with the seeds of new collaborations planted and ideas for the next conference in 2009.
Many colleagues expressed an interest in this project when it was first being developed by Professor Dina Iordanova and Dr Dimitris Eleftheriotis and we hope that you will wish to get involved. Details about registration will be circulated later in the year. The intention of this notice is to get the date in your diary and to ask you to circulate this flyer as widely as possible. The Conference will be free and some bursaries will be available to support the attendance of postgraduate students.
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Dr. David Martin-Jones Lecturer in Film Studies Head of Department
Dept of Film Studies University of St Andrews 99 North Street St. Andrews Fife, KY16 9AD Scotland, UK Email: dm70@st-andrews.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1334 467475 Fax: +44 (0)1334 467464 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/staff/martinjones.html
The international speaker at the first conference will be Professor Patrice Petro, Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Professor of English and Film Studies. She is currently President of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies and in a good position to offer an overview of how our disciplines are developing.
We are keen that the first conference should be genuinely engaging and exploratory and so we are not inviting formal papers from participants. The main emphasis will be on plenaries and workshops in which people can meet and ideas be exchanged. We hope to end the conference with a map of activity already going on in Scotland, with the seeds of new collaborations planted and ideas for the next conference in 2009.
Many colleagues expressed an interest in this project when it was first being developed by Professor Dina Iordanova and Dr Dimitris Eleftheriotis and we hope that you will wish to get involved. Details about registration will be circulated later in the year. The intention of this notice is to get the date in your diary and to ask you to circulate this flyer as widely as possible. The Conference will be free and some bursaries will be available to support the attendance of postgraduate students.
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Dr. David Martin-Jones Lecturer in Film Studies Head of Department
Dept of Film Studies University of St Andrews 99 North Street St. Andrews Fife, KY16 9AD Scotland, UK Email: dm70@st-andrews.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1334 467475 Fax: +44 (0)1334 467464 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/staff/martinjones.html
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