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Emergent Encounters in Film Theory: Intersections Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/film/conference.html

An International Film Studies Conference

King’s College London, UK
21 March 2009

Supported by the KCL Roberts Fund and Wallflower Press. Organised by Davina Quinlivan, Markos Hadjioannou, Ruth McPhee and Louis Bayman.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speakers:
Parveen Adams (Fellow of the London Consortium)
Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)

Interdisciplinary approaches to the theoretical discussion of the cinematic medium have often engaged with philosophical or psychoanalytic perspectives. While philosophy and psychoanalysis are by no means opposed schools of thought, the potential to develop new ways of understanding film remains an opportunity to be explored. In seeking out further lines of enquiry, the study of intersections between cinema/philosophy/psychoanalysis, seems most pertinent to our generation of ‘film thinking’, to invoke Daniel Frampton’s concept of the ‘film mind’, whose future still stands, to some extent, in the shadow of psychoanalysis. Recent philosophical models of thought offered by film theorists such as Frampton and D.N Rodowick embrace a new ontological grasp of the cinema, but what then are the implications of this shift for psychoanalysis? The question, therefore, remains whether philosophy and psychoanalysis are indeed irreconcilable, or if the specific philosophical turn sets up boundaries that unjustly seal off the possibility of dialogue between the two methodologies.

We invite proposals of 200 words for papers of 20 minutes on areas including:
-Films as philosophical and/or psychoanalytical form of representation
-Questions of realism and illusion, from documentary cinema to the fantasy genre
-Ethical responses to, and within, cinema
-The family, sociality, fraternity and sorority
-Changes and developments within spectatorship
-The impact of, and approaches to, new technologies
-Responses and approaches to film aesthetics/film art
-Corporeal subjectivity, embodiment and the senses
-Temporality, memory and amnesia in the cinema
-Depictions of criminality, revenge and guilt

Please send abstracts by 14th November 2008 toencounters@kcl.ac.uk

[BBC-HISTORY] IAMHIST conference 2009: Social Fears and Moral Panics, Aberystwyth, 8-11 July 2009

The International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) announces a second call for papers for the XXIII biennial IAMHIST conference, incorporating the 3rd Gregynog Media History Conference, on the theme Social Fears and Moral Panics. The aim of the conference is to explore both the role of the media in addressing, highlighting or perpetuating social fears, and the mass media itself as a perceived moral agent and/or threat. Topics to address might thus include questions of media content and/or language; concerns about public intrusion; censorship and the freedom of information; the reporting of crimes or disasters; invasion and security fears in times of peace or war; religious, cultural and/or linguistic fears; fears relating to youth or children, or to minority groups; fears relating to particular behaviours, pursuits or leisure activities; ?golden ageism?.

Confirmed speakers include Chas Crichter, Julian Petley, Martin Barker, Steve Chibnell, Virginia Berridge, Aled Jones, Jason McElligott, and Sir Quentin Thomas (President, British Board of Film Classification)

We welcome paper proposals that address the theme in both contemporary and/or historical perspective; proposals which engage with the theme comparatively (both geographically and temporally); and proposals which engage with theoretical approaches, including the social theory of moral panic.

We also welcome proposals on their work in progress from postgraduate and early-career scholars in the field of media history, including on topics that may not be on the conference theme.

Proposals for complete panels (three themed papers) are welcome, as well as individual paper submissions. Papers presented at the conference should be 25-30 minutes in length and should use illustrative material (for instance film clips) wherever possible.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words per paper should be sent to Dr Sian Nicholas at iamhist2009@aber.ac.uk c/o Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, Wales UK, by 14 November 2008.

The conference is being organised by IAMHIST, in association with the Centre for Media History and Departments of History and Welsh History, and Theatre, Film and Television, Aberystwyth University, the Department of Media and Communications, Swansea University, and the journals Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and Media History, with the support of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

For further details and updates, seehttp://www.aber.ac.uk/history/research/centreformediahistoryIAMHIST2009.html

Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference | EIFAC | EIFAC is a bi-annual conference concerned with film audience research.

“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.” Billy Wilder made this comment about audiences but just how much do we know about what film audiences think and how often are they credited with being geniuses or more often seen as imbeciles? Empirical research into film audiences is a small but developing field and this conference continues its aim of providing a space where those involved or interested in this area can come together to share research findings and discuss future ideas. Whilst the conference will appeal primarily to academics it is not confined to them.

Film and History
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/

The 2008 Biennial Conference, Chicago
October 30 - November 2, 2008, The Westin O'Hare Hotel

Film & Science:
Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond