Resources in Art History for Graduate Students



 
 





FILM/MOVIES/FLICKS/CINEMA and ALL OTHER MEDIA



SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS












ARABS IN U.S. FILMS




16-19 OCTOBER, 2008 Part of the American Studies Association (ASA) 2008 annual conference in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. "This is a call for papers from all local and international university 
professors, independent scholars, and graduate students interested in the topic. We are also seeking a chair 
and commentator for the panel. If interested, please contact either one of us no later than 18 January, 
2008.



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BUILDING CAMP SITES: THE DELIBERATE CONSTRUCTION OF CAMP IN MAINSTREAM TV AND FILM




6-9 March 2008 SCMS 2008 Conference: "Architectures of the Moving Image" Philadelphia, PA. "While 
the majority of camp studies has focused on reception, audience re-purposing, and resistant readings, this 
panel will consider camp at the level of production and/or deliberate design in mainstream media. By
emphasizing the engineering of camp, this panel directly addresses this year's conference theme.
Potential papers could deal with contemporary or historical camp texts, performances, and images in popular 
television and film.

Possible topics could include:
- production histories
- specific industrial contexts
- technological innovations that make camp possible
- onscreen geographies, spaces, or architecture that create camp worlds
- formulation of a star's persona
- acting choices or styles
- directorial decisions
- theoretical questions of deliberate camp's possibilities and limitations



Abstracts were due to Jennifer Clark (jennifsc@usc.edu) by August 10.

 


CINEMA AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA




1-3 May 2008 University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON, Canada. "This is the Second Call for Papers for 
the conference. The conference will investigate contemporary cinemaÕs interaction with modern societal change. 
We invite proposals for any papers that focus on social change in German-speaking Europe. How does contemporary 
film mediate societal change and represent or respond to the perceived disintegration of key concepts such as 
family, marriage, nation, nation-state, community? What are the tensions that dominate these film narratives? 
What are the shifts in the representation of identity formation? How does contemporary German and Austrian 
film contribute to or contradict the ideas and debates on social change circulating in the public discourse? 
How do changed consumer habits affect the production, distribution, reception and marketing of the filmic 
product?

"A festival of contemporary German-language film will be held in conjunction with the conference. We also 
plan to publish an edited volume of proceedings. Proposals are welcome from faculty members, independent 
scholars, and graduate students. We hope to be able to make some assistance available, especially to graduate 
students, to to offset the costs of attending. A complete version of the call for papers with specific details 
on how to submit proposals can be found at www.wcgs.ca/filmconference. Please direct inquiries to: 
filmconf@wcgs.ca.




         



THE FILM ARCHIVE AND 
CINEMATIC HERITAGE




13-16 Feruary 2008 Albuquerque, NM. Part of the 29th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA. "Panels 
are being formed for presentations about the meaning of the film archiveÑboth past and present--, film 
preservation/restoration, film collecting, digital archiving and other practices of creating and maintaining 
cinematic history and heritage by way of archiving Òframes" of mind. We welcome the participation of 
archivists, film curators, graduate students, and scholars. If your work does not focus on the film archive 
and cinematic heritage but fits within the broad range of areas designated for the SW/TX Popular & American 
Culture Association, please consider submitting a proposal to another area.

Inquiries and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Janna Jones at the email or physical address below. 
Please include a 50-100 word bio with your abstract. Both the abstract and the bio were due by November 1, 
2007.

 




GLOBAL 
PERSPECTIVES ON FILM CULTURES, FILM EXHIBITION, AND CINEMAGOING 




15-16 December 2007 Brussels, Belgium. "The aim of the conference is to review the current state of 
research in the history of moviegoing and film exhibition and distribution. We seek to bring together scholars 
dealing with these subjects from all over the globe. The growing number of case studies in local film history 
increases the need for comparative studies of cities, regions, and nations, while the relationship between 
micro and macro history(ies) is becoming a major issue for the field. The analysis of patterns and networks 
in film culture also calls for special attention to methodology. The conference aims to bring European 
perspectives on cinemagoing and film exhibition into dialogue with British, American and Australian research, 
and with research elsewhere in the world, in Africa, South America and Asia...Please submit abstracts (500 
words) with short bio to Gert Willems (Gert.willems2@ua.ac.be)and Liesbeth Vandevijver 
(Liesbeth.vandevijver@ugent.be)  by 6 July 2007. Speakers will be notified of acceptance by 31 July 
2007." For more information, please see the Web site.




IMAGE, IDENTITY, 
AND CULTURE IN NARRATIVE AND DOCUMENTARY CINEMA




Held March 30th/ 31st 2007. University College Cork, Ireland. "A Postgraduate Film Studies Symposium. 
Abstracts are invited for a film studies symposium on aspects of contemporary narrative and documentary film. 
The nature of the cinematic medium grants filmmakers a power to portray cultures and to reflect identities 
through the audiovisual image. How is cinema used as an effective tool of investigation to represent certain
realities, and certain identities, to domestic and international audiences? ...Abstracts 
(250/300words) for proposed 20 minute paper, and a short biography, to the organisers at  
nicole_sigl@yahoo.de  and sarahmayosullivan@o2.ie were due Wednesday Jan 24th 2007." Web site, they say, will 
be available shortly.

 



YALE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOFS




4-5 April 2008 Yale University, New Haven, CT. "The Yale University Photographic Memory Workshop, in conjunction 
with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, invites submissions for a graduate student conference 
entitled "Photographic Proofs." The theme of this conference should be interpreted broadly. Papers could be
theoretical, historical, or critical explorations based upon one photograph or a collection of photographs. They might 
interrogate the theme of photographic proofs from one of many different angles, including documentary, artistic, commercial, 
and vernacular photography. Selected sets of photographs may relate to war, science, medicine, race, class,
law, business, reform, the natural and built environment, frontiers, performance, gender, sexuality, or family, among other subjects.

"In order to engender an inter-disciplinary community and to further challenge and develop the vocabulary that surrounds 
photographic criticism, we encourage submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any 
discipline. The Beinecke Library will add to this discussion by hosting a workshop for conference participants
highlighting the library's extensive photographic holdings. 

"In an effort to foster a geographically diverse community of graduate student presenters, we are pleased to be able 
to cover travel and accommodation expenses for students whose papers are selected. E-mail CVs and abstracts to photographic.proofs@yale.edu 
by Monday, October 15. Abstracts should be under 300 words. Final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. 
We will notify selected speakers by December 15. Co-organizers: Alice Moore and Francesca Ammon, graduate students in
American Studies. Please address any questions to photographic.proofs@yale.edu.













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