Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
FILM/MOVIES/FLICKS/CINEMA/PHOTOGRAPHY and ALL RELATED MEDIA
SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN FILMAKERS
8-10 OCTOBER 20O9. Snowbird, Utah, part of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association convention. "Proposals were due March 1, 2009. If you'd like more information you can contact Roberta Di Carmine, (r-dicarmine@wiu.edu).
FEELING PHOTOGRAPHY
16-17 October 2009 University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario Canada. "'Feeling Photography' will bring together scholars working in a range of interpretive and theoretical approaches to interrogate the relationship between the affect, emotion, and/or feeling and the photograph. All methodological and theoretical approaches are welcomed. Possible paper topics include, but are certainly not limited to: intimacy, empire, and ÔdomesticÕ photography; visuality and the haptic; the expression of emotion and photographic representation; affective economies; postcolonial feeling; oss, trauma, and representation; history, photography, and emotion; performativity and the public space of photography; moral spectatorship; structures of feeling; visuality and queer counterpublics; diasporic longing; photography and the commodification of feeling; documentary, feeling, and everyday utopias; racial melancholia; affect and the image; sentiment and representation; technologies of affect; empathy/rapture/longing; meditations on specific states, such as shame/anger/hate/suspicion/fear/envy/anxiety. Successful proposals will tie affect, emotion, and/or feeling to photography in some specific way.
"IProposals to (feelingphoto@torontophotoseminar.org) were due January 15, 2009. Notifications will take place by February 23, 2009. Completed conference papers should be about 8-10 pages, or 20 minutes. We also envision collecting completed papers based on conference presentations into an anthology for publication with a university press. A subvention to cover part of the costs of registration will be available to graduate students...For the Toronto Photography Seminar, see (www.torontophotoseminar.org); for the Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Toronto, see (http://www.utoronto.ca/csus/).
ISLAMIC PUBLIC SPHERE PROGRAMME
[SIC] FELLOWSHIPS
"The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme at the University of Copenhagen is now inviting applications for two PhD fellowships expected to begin on September 1, 2009: one in Syrian TV-serials, and the other in Islam in Arab media." Please see the Web site for more information.
MIGRANCY IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
12-15 November 2009. St. Louis, Missouri, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (M/MLA). "Migrancy in European Cinema. Cinematic constructions of national and cultural identity, "home" and the homeland in European Cinema." Proposals were due March 1, 2009. If you'd [sic] like more information you can contact Roberta Di Carmine (r-dicarmine@wiu.edu)."
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ACT: Encounter, Event, Configuration Network
10-13 February 2010. College Art Association 98th Annual Conference 2010, Chicago, Illinois. " T h e o n s e t o f d i g i t a l t e c h n o l o g i e s h a s s e r v e d t o u n d e r l i n e o n c e m o r e t h e p h o t o g r a p h i c a c t a s a " c o n c r e t e e n c o u n t e " ( W . J . T . M i t c h e l l ) a n d c r i t i c a l e v e n t . T h e p h o t o g r a p h i c a c t c a n b e s e e n a s a c o n f i g u r a t i o n ( B a d i o u ) o f v i e w e r , c a m e r a , a n d o b j e c t i n t h e m o m e n t a r y , w i t h t h e p r a c t i c e o f t h e p h o t o g r a p h i c a r t i s t s i t u a t i n g i t s e l f i n B o u r r i a u d 's " e n g i n e e r i n g " o f s o c i a l s i t u a t i o n s . I n a d d i t i o n , t h e p h o t o g r a p h i c a c t a s a t y p e o f A c t o r - N e t w o r k ( C a l l o n , L a t o u r , L a w ) o f f e r s a p r i v i l e g e d v i e w o f h o w c o n t e m p o r a r y a r t p r a c t i c e i s i n s t r u m e n t a l l y r e l i a n t u p o n t h e c r e a t i o n o f s o c i a l i n t e r a c t i o n s . T h e s e s s i o n c h a i r s i n v i t e a b s t r a c t s f r o m c o n t e m p o r a r y r e s e a r c h e r s i n a r t p r a c t i c e , a r t t h e o r y , a r t a n d p h i l o s o p h y , a n d a r t a n d s o c i e t y t o d i s c u s s t h e i n s t r u m e n t a l i t y o f p h o t o g r a p h y , f i l m , a n d v i d e o i n a r t p r a c t i c e a s c r i t i c a l a n d p o l i t i c a l i n t e r v e n t i o n . A p o s t - c o n f e r e n c e b o o k p r o p o s a l i s a l s o b e i n g c o n s i d e r e d f o r t h i s p a n e l . C o n t r i b u t i o n s f r o m p r a c t i t i o n e r a r t i s t s a r e a l s o w e l c o m e - p l e a s e s e n d a p r e s e n t a t i o n a b s t r a c t a s w e l l a s a n y a r t i s t 's s t a t e m e n t o r w o r k d e s c r i p t i o n . A l l s u b m i s s i o n s m u s t f o l l o w t h e C A A g u i d e l i n e s a n d u s e t h e P D F f o r m o n t h e C A A 2 0 1 0 h o m e p a g e ( h t t p : / / c o n f e r e n c e . c o l l e g e a r t . o r g / 2 0 1 0 / ) , d o c u m e n t s c a n b e m a i l e d o r e- m a i l e d t o t h e p a n e l c h a i r s a t ( d . s u t t o n @ g s a . a c . u k ). Chairs: Damian Sutton and Ken Neil. D e a d l i n e : M a y 8 , 2 0 0 9 .
PHOTOGRAPHY INTO CONTEMPORARY ART: THE BIGGER PICTURE
15 May 2009 "This one-day conference aims to trace the implications of photography in the expanded field of contemporary art...Proposals from candidates outside the UK are welcome, and within reason, support with travel costs and accommodation will be offered to the successful applicants. If you are a PhD candidate, or have submitted your dissertation recently, and would like to submit a paper, please send a 200-300 word abstract and brief C.V. to the e-mail addresses of Wolfgang BrŸckle and Margaret Iversen (as below) before 31 January."
POPULAR ITALIAN CINEMA
28-29 May 2009. King's College, University of London. "This conference seeks to set an agenda for and establish the importance of the study of popular Italian cinema. From the origins of the silent feature film and the creation of the star system, Italy has been at the forefront of cinema as a mass cultural phenomenon. The formal incorporation of music, melodrama, and comedy, and the development of the Italian genre system, are integral aspects of Italy's domestic cultural heritage responsive to and influential on film internationally. Research into Italian cinema still needs to shift the paradigms beyond neo-realism and the canonical post-war auteurs. Furthermore, realism and auteurism in Italy can only be fully understood not by narratives of isolation or opposition but through their position within the rich vein of the wider film culture from which they arose. This conference will provide an opportunity for examining what is meant by the popular in Italian cinema, and for rethinking historiography in order to resituate the turning points in world cinema of silent spectacle and neo-realism. Proposals were due 15 February 2009.
- Louis Bayman, King's College, London: louis.bayman@kcl.ac.uk
- Sergio Rigoletto, University of Reading: s.rigoletto@rdg.ac.uk
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES IN FILM, ETC STUDIES
FLOW : A critical forum on television and media culture
"Flow is an online journal of television and media studies launched in October 2004. Flowês mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves." Check the Web site for more information.
ORAL HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
"We are seeking original research essays for a collection entitled Oral History and Photography. Oral history and its diverse practical and theoretical relationships to photography are at the centre of this essay collection, which will explore the interconnections and synergies between theory, method and politics in the two fields. In their essays, the authors will consider oral history and photography as distinct but related research methods; as evidence for interpretation; and as tools for activism and social movements. The themes and questions we aim to consider are detailed below. We seek papers that are based on original research, reflect practical experience with oral history and photography, and have not previously been published. The essays will be in English, and we encourage contributions from around the world. They should be about 6,000 words long and may include photographic images. Authors will be responsible for obtaining all rights for the publication of photographs and interviews (forms will be provided).
"Deadlines:
- 31 Dec. 2008: Expression of interest (encouraged but not mandatory).
- 31 January 2009: Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent to the editors, together with a short CV including contact details, and one example of previously published work in a relevant field.
- 30 June 2009: Acceptance letters sent to authors.
- 30 November 2009: Submission of papers.
Please submit all expressions of interest and abstracts/CVs to:
a.freund@uwinnipeg.ca AND
Alistair.Thomson@arts.monash.edu.au AND
with the subject line: Oral History and Photography
QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO
"The editors seek submissions of manuscripts in film, video, and moving image studies. The journal publishes five times per year (four regular issues, and one year-end special issue), and is now seeking selected articles for publication. QRFV is devoted to providing innovative perspectives from a broad range of methodologies, including writings on newly developing technologies, as well as essays and interviews in any area of film history, production, reception and criticism...There is no formal deadline; manuscripts are reviewed throughout the year." See the Web site for more information.
Black Moon Japanese art and culture.