CFPs Proposed SCMS Panels 2014
There are a good number of proposed conference panels up on the bulletin board of the SCMS website. These are for the 2014 conference in Seattle, March 19-23. (general CFP) As usual, one can submit via open call or organize a panel independently, but the panel and workshop topics below are worth perusing. The ultimate submission deadline is August 31, but those interested in a proposed panel should contact the panel organizer within the next couple of weeks at latest.
I am not sure if the SCMS bulletin board is available to non-members. If anyone is interested in seeing the full CFP for a panel, leave me a note (via email or comments) and I'll add to the comment section. One does not need to be a member to submit to the conference but one does need to join to present, if accepted.
I've grouped them loosely by subdiscipline or topic. Obviously these are not strict categories, but hopefully will make going through these easier. Feel free to let me know if I should include any other CFPs.
Gaming
Animation and Video Games
Beyond These Walls: Alternative Preservation and Exhibition Practices in Digital Game Culture
Debugging Game History: Forgotten Histories
Gender and Video Games: Beyond the Popular
Play, Space, and Capital
Small Games
The Superhero Beyond the Blockbuster
Video Games and Comedy
Race and Cultural Critique
Remediations of Blackface in World Cinema
Latino and Latin American Television Industry
Race, Gender, and the Body in Found Footage Film
Articulations of Race to Class in Committed Cinema
Racial Whiteness in Film and Television
Hispanic Musicals Panel
Interventions:When is a racial stereotype more or other than a stereotype?
Race Politics in the US Film Industry
Media Industries
Case Studies of Online Film/TV Distribution Platforms
Video Stores and Circulation in the 21st Century
Television Networks and Brand Identity
The Television Industry in the 1950s
Branded Entertainment of the Past
Race Politics in the US Film Industry
Cycle cinema/media convergence
Brand of Steel: Superman in the 21st Century
TV Studies
Reality television and TLC
The Technologies of Televisual Monster-Hunting
Action TV: Representation, Aesthetics, & Technologies of/in Domestic Space
The Bad Boys of Cable: Violent Men and "Quality" Television
Recent Trends in Comedic Media
Film History
Creative Agency: Youth, Cinema, and Technology during the Progressive Era
Forgotten Pioneers: New Perspectives on the Silent Era
Silent Film Cycles: Context and Style
Queer Silent Cinema
The Mirror Has Three Faces: New Approaches to Cinema and the Historical Avant-Garde
Film Stardom and Political Leadership: Interwar Convergences
The Spatial Politics of Classical Hollywood
New Perspectives on Film Noir
Liberal Hollywood/"Hollywood Liberals" Panel
Warner Bros.: Industrial Contexts and Cultures (abstract deadline: Aug 9)
Film Aesthetics and Theory
Between Film and Photography
Memory and Nostalgia
Embodied Affect in Cinema and Media
Film Dialogue: Debates and New Directions
First-Person Singular: The “I” in Writing about Cinema and Media
Architectures of the Moving Image
“Objects: Within and beyond the Frame”
The Little Flashlight of the Usher: Objects and Cinematic Spaces
New Media Aesthetics and Theory
The Mind in Midcentury Media: Mentalities on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Swarm, Hive, Web: Media Archaeological Approaches to Event and Objects
War and "New" Media Panel
Theorizing Digitality and the Digital Cinema
Cybernetics: People, Machines & Media
Tech Wars: The Social and Aesthetic Dimensions of New Media Innovation
Chorological Mapping
Cultural Studies of Cinema and Media
Mediations of Place-based Youth Identities
Youth Culture and Early World Cinema
Screening Religion: The Intersections Between Media and Religion
Aesthetics and Ideology of Cuteness
Dress and Media
Urban Traffic
Real Estate as Crime
Surveillance and Pornography/Porn Studies
Border Patrol: Policing National Borderlands and Identity in Film
Cinema and Multilingualism: New Perspectives
The Cold War in East Asian Cinema
Cinema and the Military
Shooting Stars: Media and Gun Culture
The Uprisings of 1968: Revolutionary Dreaming in a Visual Culture
Misrepresentations of Place in Film and Television
Cinema & Wagner
Surveillance Cinema Between East and West
Cinema’s Ancient and Prehistoric Affinities
Cinematic Aging in Contrasting Contexts
Gender and Sexuality
Female Suffering and Spectatorship Ethics
The Elusive Woman Media Maker
Sexual Perversion and the Cinema
Situating Gender, Filming Place
Women in War Media
Queer Silent Cinema
Contemporary Cinema
Slow Cinema: Definitions, Values, Platforms
A Post-Secular Cinema? Film, Faith, Politics
Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema?: An Inquest into the Death of Cinema
Recent Trends in Comedic Media
Theorizing Digitality and the Digital Cinema
Documentary and Public Sphere Media
Documentary in the Age of Data
Documentary in the Age of Reality
Documentary in an Expanding Field
Making-of Documentaries
Women in War Media
AIDS Education and Biographic Storytelling through Contemporary Media
Media and Communities
Useful Media and the Global Public Sphere
Forms of the Global in Visual Culture
Filming Non-Human Subjects: An Ethical Consideration
Urban Cinema/Media of the Global South
Media, Ecology, and the Moving Image
Asian Eco-cinema & media: Human, Animals, Environment and Beyond
Ecocinema: critiques and rethinkings
Celluloil: Energy Resources in Visual Media
Extreme Weather and Global Media
Auteur, Genre and Film-based Panels
Collective Film Authorship and its Challenges
Commercial Auteurs
Time and the Cinema of Richard Linklater
Hou Hsiou-Hshien and Jia Zhengke: Quiet Intensity
The Evolution of Hong Sang-soo
Reassessing the Legacy of Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol
The Western and its Afterlives: New Approaches to the Oldest Genre
The Dramatization of a Life: Biographical Practices in the Cinema
Rape-revenge panel
Cycle cinema/media convergence
[Call for proposals for panel on horror films]
Born on the Bayou: Considering BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD and MUD
Brand of Steel: Superman in the 21st Century
Regional
Serial Killers in the Pacific Northwest
Wet, Wired, and Weird: Pacific Northwest Film and Media
Workshops
Workshop: New Paths to Teaching Film History
Workshop: The State of New Media (Studies)
Workshop “Contemporary Berlin Documentaries – Constructing the New Berlin”
Workshop: The Impact of Netflix
Workshop: Innovative Use of Instructional Technologies
Workshop: Expanding Scholarly Publishing
Workshop: Using/Conducting Interviews & Oral Histories in Media Studies
Workshop - Strategies for Animated Media Archive Collections
Workshop: Documentary Filmmaking as Multi-modal Scholarship
Workshop: Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies
Workshop: Teaching Post Production Sound From a Sound Studies Perspective
Workshop: New Approaches to Teaching Genre
Workshop: Teaching Media Literacy Through a Video Game Context
I am not sure if the SCMS bulletin board is available to non-members. If anyone is interested in seeing the full CFP for a panel, leave me a note (via email or comments) and I'll add to the comment section. One does not need to be a member to submit to the conference but one does need to join to present, if accepted.
I've grouped them loosely by subdiscipline or topic. Obviously these are not strict categories, but hopefully will make going through these easier. Feel free to let me know if I should include any other CFPs.
Gaming
Animation and Video Games
Beyond These Walls: Alternative Preservation and Exhibition Practices in Digital Game Culture
Debugging Game History: Forgotten Histories
Gender and Video Games: Beyond the Popular
Play, Space, and Capital
Small Games
The Superhero Beyond the Blockbuster
Video Games and Comedy
Race and Cultural Critique
Remediations of Blackface in World Cinema
Latino and Latin American Television Industry
Race, Gender, and the Body in Found Footage Film
Articulations of Race to Class in Committed Cinema
Racial Whiteness in Film and Television
Hispanic Musicals Panel
Interventions:When is a racial stereotype more or other than a stereotype?
Race Politics in the US Film Industry
Media Industries
Case Studies of Online Film/TV Distribution Platforms
Video Stores and Circulation in the 21st Century
Television Networks and Brand Identity
The Television Industry in the 1950s
Branded Entertainment of the Past
Race Politics in the US Film Industry
Cycle cinema/media convergence
Brand of Steel: Superman in the 21st Century
TV Studies
Reality television and TLC
The Technologies of Televisual Monster-Hunting
Action TV: Representation, Aesthetics, & Technologies of/in Domestic Space
The Bad Boys of Cable: Violent Men and "Quality" Television
Recent Trends in Comedic Media
Film History
Creative Agency: Youth, Cinema, and Technology during the Progressive Era
Forgotten Pioneers: New Perspectives on the Silent Era
Silent Film Cycles: Context and Style
Queer Silent Cinema
The Mirror Has Three Faces: New Approaches to Cinema and the Historical Avant-Garde
Film Stardom and Political Leadership: Interwar Convergences
The Spatial Politics of Classical Hollywood
New Perspectives on Film Noir
Liberal Hollywood/"Hollywood Liberals" Panel
Warner Bros.: Industrial Contexts and Cultures (abstract deadline: Aug 9)
Film Aesthetics and Theory
Between Film and Photography
Memory and Nostalgia
Embodied Affect in Cinema and Media
Film Dialogue: Debates and New Directions
First-Person Singular: The “I” in Writing about Cinema and Media
Architectures of the Moving Image
“Objects: Within and beyond the Frame”
The Little Flashlight of the Usher: Objects and Cinematic Spaces
New Media Aesthetics and Theory
The Mind in Midcentury Media: Mentalities on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Swarm, Hive, Web: Media Archaeological Approaches to Event and Objects
War and "New" Media Panel
Theorizing Digitality and the Digital Cinema
Cybernetics: People, Machines & Media
Tech Wars: The Social and Aesthetic Dimensions of New Media Innovation
Chorological Mapping
Cultural Studies of Cinema and Media
Mediations of Place-based Youth Identities
Youth Culture and Early World Cinema
Screening Religion: The Intersections Between Media and Religion
Aesthetics and Ideology of Cuteness
Dress and Media
Urban Traffic
Real Estate as Crime
Surveillance and Pornography/Porn Studies
Border Patrol: Policing National Borderlands and Identity in Film
Cinema and Multilingualism: New Perspectives
The Cold War in East Asian Cinema
Cinema and the Military
Shooting Stars: Media and Gun Culture
The Uprisings of 1968: Revolutionary Dreaming in a Visual Culture
Misrepresentations of Place in Film and Television
Cinema & Wagner
Surveillance Cinema Between East and West
Cinema’s Ancient and Prehistoric Affinities
Cinematic Aging in Contrasting Contexts
Gender and Sexuality
Female Suffering and Spectatorship Ethics
The Elusive Woman Media Maker
Sexual Perversion and the Cinema
Situating Gender, Filming Place
Women in War Media
Queer Silent Cinema
Contemporary Cinema
Slow Cinema: Definitions, Values, Platforms
A Post-Secular Cinema? Film, Faith, Politics
Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema?: An Inquest into the Death of Cinema
Recent Trends in Comedic Media
Theorizing Digitality and the Digital Cinema
Documentary and Public Sphere Media
Documentary in the Age of Data
Documentary in the Age of Reality
Documentary in an Expanding Field
Making-of Documentaries
Women in War Media
AIDS Education and Biographic Storytelling through Contemporary Media
Media and Communities
Useful Media and the Global Public Sphere
Forms of the Global in Visual Culture
Filming Non-Human Subjects: An Ethical Consideration
Urban Cinema/Media of the Global South
Media, Ecology, and the Moving Image
Asian Eco-cinema & media: Human, Animals, Environment and Beyond
Ecocinema: critiques and rethinkings
Celluloil: Energy Resources in Visual Media
Extreme Weather and Global Media
Auteur, Genre and Film-based Panels
Collective Film Authorship and its Challenges
Commercial Auteurs
Time and the Cinema of Richard Linklater
Hou Hsiou-Hshien and Jia Zhengke: Quiet Intensity
The Evolution of Hong Sang-soo
Reassessing the Legacy of Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol
The Western and its Afterlives: New Approaches to the Oldest Genre
The Dramatization of a Life: Biographical Practices in the Cinema
Rape-revenge panel
Cycle cinema/media convergence
[Call for proposals for panel on horror films]
Born on the Bayou: Considering BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD and MUD
Brand of Steel: Superman in the 21st Century
Regional
Serial Killers in the Pacific Northwest
Wet, Wired, and Weird: Pacific Northwest Film and Media
Workshops
Workshop: New Paths to Teaching Film History
Workshop: The State of New Media (Studies)
Workshop “Contemporary Berlin Documentaries – Constructing the New Berlin”
Workshop: The Impact of Netflix
Workshop: Innovative Use of Instructional Technologies
Workshop: Expanding Scholarly Publishing
Workshop: Using/Conducting Interviews & Oral Histories in Media Studies
Workshop - Strategies for Animated Media Archive Collections
Workshop: Documentary Filmmaking as Multi-modal Scholarship
Workshop: Online Teaching in Film and Media Studies
Workshop: Teaching Post Production Sound From a Sound Studies Perspective
Workshop: New Approaches to Teaching Genre
Workshop: Teaching Media Literacy Through a Video Game Context
Comments
I'm not currently a member of SCMS and was wondering whether you would be able to post the CFP for the Urban Traffic Panel. Thanks in advance.
Karolina
For this panel, we invite papers that examine "urban traffic” in its myriad forms and filmic representations. Potential topics may include cinematic portrayals of narcotics transhipments, human smuggling, automobile congestion on highways and inner city streetscapes, passenger movements through airports, air traffic control, commodity flows through seaports, or movement or stasis in other urban sites. "Traffic” may be broadly interpreted: panelists may include cinematic representations of traffic that is legal, extralegal, formal, informal, commercial, migratory, transportational, architectural, and so forth. Stephen Soderberg’s Traffic (2000) may well be the quintessential film on this theme. Set in three cities—Tijuana, Cincinnati, and San Diego—and exploring the international trafficking in narcotics from multiple narrative perspectives (drug lord, addict, and DEA agent), Traffic shows both the micro and macro processes of the international trade in illicit substances, as well as revealing the ways in which broader flows of social connection and commerce occur. We encourage papers that further explore this theme in other films. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s cinematic oeuvre—Amores Perros (2000), Twenty-One Grams (2003), Babel (2006), and Biutiful (2010)—also offers potential fecund ground for theorizing urban traffic in global cities. Other films also come to mind: Paul Haggis’s Crash (2004), par example, that addresses racial traffic and violence in LA. We also encourage, however, proposals that address minor or third cinemas as well as popular films in diverse cities across the globe (Nairobi, Port-au-Prince, Mumbai, London, LA, New York, or Boston) and engaging multiple forms of "urban traffic.”
Send proposals to Jana Braziel at jana.braziel-AT-uc-DOT-edu
Thanks!