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> VISIBLE EVIDENCE VI August 13-16, 1998
>
> CALL FOR: PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, FILM PROPOSALS, AND
> SPECIAL EVENT SUGGESTIONS
>
> PREAMBLE: The 1998 VISIBLE EVIDENCE Conference is sixth in a series
> of
> major, interdisciplinary conferences focused on the role of film and
> video
> as witness to and voice for lived, social reality. The Conferences
> originates from a center in non-fiction documentary to encompass
> issues of
> ethnography, journalism, medical imaging, visible evidence and the
> law,
> advocacy, biography and autobiography, and the art of social
> representation. We welcome a wide range of perspectives from fields
> such as
> anthropology, architecture, art history, ethnic studies, gay and
> lesbian
> studies, history, journalism, law, medicine, political science,
> sociology, urban studies and women's studies.
>
> 1. Call for Papers The following panels will take place at Visible
> Evidence
> VI. To propose a paper: 1) provide a one page paper proposal, 2) a
> brief
> description of your background or experience relevant to the
> proposal,
> and
> 3) your email or alternative address and phone number. Send your
> proposal
> to the Panel Chair directly at the email address indicated. Deadline:
> April 1, 1998
>
> a. Ethical Exposures The ethics of representation have long been a
> concern
> for documentary filmmakers and scholars.
> --Louis Schwartz, SFSU <lgs@hooked.net>
>
> b. Reality Squared . --James Friedman,
> UCLA Film Archives <jimf@ucla.edu>
>
> c. Performativity in Film and other Visual Media Recent
> interpretations of
> performativity understand it as a complex social action engaged with
> both
> context and language, gesture, and the body in space. --Catherine M.
> Soussloff, UC Santa Cruz
> <cmsoussl@cats.ucsc.edu>
>
> d. Running on Empty--The 'True Story' and its problematic documentary
> claim
> . --Dr. Derek Paget, University College Worcester
> <d.paget@worc.ac.uk>
>
> e. Evidence in Institutional Discourses of the Real This panel seeks
> historical studies of the legal and medical use of visual evidence
> to
> document and decode the limits of human subjectivity. . --Laura
> Czarnecki <wraith6@aol.com>
>
> f. Music and the Nonfiction Film: Strategies and Practices of Musical
> Mediation --Neil Lerner, Davidson College
> <nelerner@davidson.edu>
>
> g. The Dialectics of National and Transnational Documentary . --John
> Hess, University of Maryland and Patty
> Zimmerman, Ithaca College <jhess@igc.apc.org> and patty@ithaca.edu>
>
> h. Third Documentary Proposals are invited offering theoretical and
> historical perspectives of documentary within and across various
> national
> cinemas in the South: postcolonial politics and aesthetics, cultural
> and
> transcultural analysis of films/videos, practitioners or movements.
> --Tom
> Waugh, Concordia University <waugh@vax2.concordia.ca
>
> i. Urbanites/Urban Sites --Kevin Esch,
> San Francisco State University <kjesch@sfsu.edu>
>
> j. Disclosure and Confession --Michel Citron,
> Northwestern University <citron@nwu.edu>
>
> k. Documentary and Salacious Fascination Beginning with Robert
> Flaherty's
> Nanook of the North and especially his Moana . --Jane M Gaines, Duke
> University
> <jmgaines@acpub.duke.edu> FAX (919) 660-3155
>
> l. Workshop on New Research/New Theory People
>
> . Open Call for Papers Additionally, we are making an Open Call for
> apers
> that do not fit any of the panel topics. This call seeks to give
> special
> consideration to work that addresses questions of visible evidence
> beyond
> the specific confines of documentary film theory and practice. To
> propose a
> paper for the Open Call, provide the same information (one page
> proposal,
> summary of background or experience, contact address) and send it to:
> --Bill Nichols or Akira Lippit, SFSU <wnichols@sfsu.edu> or
> <lippit@gol.com> --postal: Bill Nichols Dept. of Cinema San Francisco
> State
> University 1600 Holloway Ave. SF, CA. 94132 Deadline: April 1, 1998
>
> 3. Screenings: We welcome nominations of films and videos to screen
> publicly or to make available in our Videotheque during the
> Conference.
> Send your suggestions with any production/distribution information
> you
> may
> have, including a brief description of the topic and treatment.
> Preview
> copies are strongly recommended. --Jeff Lambert, SFSU
> <jeflambert@aol.com>
> --postal: Visible Evidence (Screenings) Cinema Department, A&I 245
> 1600
> Holloway Ave. San Francisco State University S.F., CA 94132
>
> 4. Special Events: There will at least two Special Events in lieu of
> Panels: 1) Affirmative Action and The Politics of "Preference," and
> 2)
> Historical Representation and Documentary Filmmaking. The first
> panel
> will
> try to provide some theoretical and political perspective on recent
> events
> in California that have eliminated Affirmative Action as public
> policy
> and
> law for the University of California and other agencies of the state.
> The
> latter will address representations of WWII and the Holocaust and
> other
> events that pose a variety of practical, ethical and theoretical
> issues for
> filmmakers who set out to represent the past, audiences who respond
> to
> these representations, and critics who assess them. We expect both
> Events
> to include filmmakers as well as scholars and critics. Nominations
> for
> topics, films, speakers are welcome. --email to <wnichols@sfsu.edu>.
>
> For Housing and Registration information contact: --Michele
> Schreiber,
> SFSU <mschreib@sfsu.edu>
>
>
> Bill Nichols Dept. of Cinema San Francisco State University 1600
> Holloway Ave. SF, CA. 94132 415 338-6192
>
>
> JAY RUBY - Temple University - PO Box 128, Mifflintown, PA 17059
> USA fax - 717-436-9559 voice - 717-436-950
>
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