3rd Annual Film Studies Postgraduate Conference

20 May 2008

Centre for Film Studies,
Boardroom, 99 North Street, St Andrews

KEYNOTE – Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, London)
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Sex in the Cinema

CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
Postgraduate Study Day
University of St Andrews, 15 May 2008
Dept of Film Studies
99 North St, St Andrews

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton)

"I know it when I see it": Sex, simulation and classification in mainstream cinema since the 1990s.
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The World Picture Conference on The Popular

October 24 and 25, 2008

Oklahoma State University

Keynote Speakers: Ernesto Laclau and Lauren Berlant

The World Picture conference is an annual meeting devoted to theory that takes place in the intimate setting of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Read More...

Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
Registration now Open - contact russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme

Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Read More...

The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities

Conference Date: October 3-4, 2008

CFP Deadline: June 15, 2008

York University, Toronto Read More...

Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A multidisciplinary conference
Conference announcement and final call for papers
UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol 
4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol
Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Read More...

Jacques Rancière Conference
Wednesday 21st May 2008

www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/crfac/ Read More...

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. Read More...

Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies

First Conference ‘Mapping  Scotland’

24th June 2008 Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow Read More...

Conference announcement and first call for papers

UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol
4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol

Keynote Speakers:

Vivian Sobchack (UCLA)
Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
Robert Sinnerbrink (Maquarrie)
Catherine Constable (Warwick)
Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine)
Karin Littau (Essex) Read More...

5th – 7th September 2008, University of Reading Film Conference

Contemporary film displays both its debt to the established forms and practices of narrative cinema, and to international developments in aesthetic practice and in new technologies that subtly shift the boundaries of cinema’s aural and visual field. Read More...

International Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Cambridge, 17-18 September 2008


Keynote Speakers:

Professor Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley) TBC

Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) Read More...

NEW NIGHTMARES:
Issues and themes in Contemporary Horror Cinema and Horror Film Criticism

An international conference at Manchester Metropolitan University 3-4 April 2008 Read More...

CALL FOR PAPERS

GREEK CINEMA: TEXTS, HISTORIES, IDENTITIES
Liverpool, 23rd May 2008

A one-day conference organised by
Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, Screen Studies (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Yannis Tzioumakis, Media and Communication Studies (The University of Liverpool) Read More...

Call for Papers Deadline December 31st, 2007
19 - 21 June 2008, Budapest, Hungary Read More...

1970s BRITISH CULTURE

The School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at University of Portsmouth have been awarded a large research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to write the history of British visual culture in the 1970s. This is headed up by Professor Sue Harper. Part of the project is to run an interdisciplinary conference on the 1970s exploring the relation between the society of the period and its culture in the broadest sense. This conference will take place in Portsmouth on
1, 2 and 3 July 2008. Read More...

Call for Papers

Knowledge, Violence, Discipline: (Re)Thinking Politics and the University
The 18th Annual Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture (PIC) Conference

April 25-26, 2008
Binghamton University – Binghamton, NY Read More...

CONFERENCE at NYU, May 30 - June 1, 2008 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
The third annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, computer, video games, and interactive performance) through paper presentations, roundtables, and plenary sessions. Read More...

A symposium of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of
Biography in co-operation with the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media
Studies of the University of Vienna and the Vienna Film Museum.

Date: 23-25 November 2007

Location: Vienna Film Museum, Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria Read More...

Jacques Rancière Day Event
Wednesday 21st May 2008, Roehampton University, London
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David Lean (1908 - 1991): 100th Anniversary Conference

Queen Mary, University of London, 24−25 July 2008 Read More...

LOCATION: the Museum, the Academy and the Studio

34th AAH Annual Conference
Tate Britain, Tate Modern, and Chelsea College or Art & Design, London,
2 - 4 April 2008
http://aah.org.uk/conference/index.php Read More...

Conference, Film season, Photographic exhibition

13-16 June 2008

University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Read More...

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature will be
hosting its 32nd annual conference in Melbourne, Australia next year. Read More...

Hypervisibility II: Homosexualities in Contemporary Francophone Visual Cultures
(Bilingual conference. University of Stirling, GB – June 25th - 27th 2008) Read More...

KENDALL WALTON AND THE AESTHETICS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM

November 30 - December 1, 2007
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

The symposium aims to reassess the impact of Kendall Walton's arguments on the study of photography and film, by revisiting Walton's original interventions, responses to and extensions of his arguments by other authors, as well as Walton's own revised, current position. Read More...

THIRD & FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

“Spielberg at Sixty” International Conference

Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 November 2007

University of Lincoln, England, UK Read More...

Call for Papers

Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema

Saturday, 12th April, 2008
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London Read More...