MLA 2016 calls for papers

The 2016 MLA Convention will take place in Austin, Texas, January 7 to 10. The deadline for submitting through pre-constituted panels is coming up, as soon as this weekend, so I wanted to highlight a number that might be of interest to film studies scholars. In culling this list I have overlooked a lot: many panels are open to both literature and film as objects of studies and other touch on new media studies. The panels below have a majority focus on film.

Due dates are March 15, unless otherwise noted.

• 1968 in Global Cinema [call]
• Adaptation in World Cinema [call]
• Austin Plays Itself [call]
• Cinema and Cultural Memory [call]
• Cinema and Public Spheres in Franco's Spain [call] (Mar. 18)
• Francophone Media/na/tions [call]
• The Ideological Space(s) of Italian Cinema and Television [call] (Mar. 20)
• Latin American Film and Nation in the 21st Century [call]
• Out of the Past: An Examination of Jewish Characters in Contemporary Romanian Cinema [call]
• Trauma in Recent Cinema [call]
• Women and Recent Francophone/Anglophone African Cinemas [call]

Anyone can propose a paper, but one must be a MLA member to present at the convention. [FAQs]