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Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:57:18 -0800 (PST)

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    > xposted from VISCOM@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
    > [and I've shortened it for those that pay by the byte... if you want
    > the
    > entire posting, contact me, Steve Smith ssmith@dsr-inc.com ]
    > 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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