Calls for Papers & Proposals

Calls for Proposals: Bastard Films & Comparative Literature

posted October 30, 2012

Going beyond the concept of the "orphan film" – films orphaned by their creators or caretakers – the Bastard Film Encounter will focus on films that are bastards: ill-conceived or received; embarrassing or beyond the bounds of acceptability; poor in conception or execution; undesirable to those who should be caring for them; and proof of something that should have never happened.

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European TV Memories

posted June 20, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of European Television History and Culture ‘European TV Memories’ Deadline: September 6 2012 The Journal of European Television History and Culture welcomes paper proposals for its third issue dedicated to “European TV Memories” and guest-edited by Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University) and Berber Hagedoorn (Utrecht University). The journal is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal

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AMIA Conference Call for Proposals

posted May 7, 2012

The AMIA Conference Committee has extended the deadline for submissions for session and workshop proposals for the 2012 AMIA Conference in Seattle, WA. It is looking for a wide variety of topics, cutting-edge discussions of technology, and a balance of theory and practice, with emphases on new ideas and concepts that may stimulate additional interest,

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Call for Papers: Archiving the Arts symposium

posted April 24, 2012

The Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter at New York University and Independent Media Arts Preservation invite submissions for a symposium titled Archiving the Arts: Addressing Preservation in the Creative Process, scheduled for October 13 2012 during Archives Week in New York City, organized by Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The symposium

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Want to Win the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award?

posted March 26, 2012

The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival, held each fall, honors the  anthropologist who pioneered the use of film for fieldwork. The Mead Festival screens documentaries, experimental films, animation, and hybrid works that cast light on the complexity and diversity of peoples and cultures. In 2010, the Margaret Mead Film Festival inaugurated

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Call for Submissions

posted November 16, 2011

Cine Tectonica: Film On The Faultline Alan Wright of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has made a call for articles for a book to be titled Cine Tectonica: Film on the Faultline (Intellect Press). Abstracts of 250 words, along with a short biography, are due to him – alan.wright@canterbury.ac.nz – by February 6, 2012.

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Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics

posted August 16, 2011

Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics 2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 33sd Annual Conference February 8-11, 2012, Albuquerque, NM The Film Theory and Aesthetics Area is seeking proposals for review, from now until December 1 2011. Suggestions for possible presentations: Precinema and its influence on film theory Theories of Early and Silent cinema

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AMIA Proposals Deadline: Sunday May 1

posted April 29, 2011

Sunday May 1 2011 is the deadline for submissions of session and workshop proposals for the 2011 AMIA Conference in Austin, TX. The AMIA Conference Committee has invited session and workshop proposals on varied topics, cutting-edge discussions of technology, a balance of theory and practice, and new ideas and concepts that may stimulate additional interest,

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AMIA 2011

posted March 29, 2011

For the 2011 AMIA Conference in Austin, TX, the AMIA Conference Committee has invited session and workshop proposals on varied topics, cutting-edge discussions of technology, a balance of theory and practice, and new ideas and concepts that may stimulate additional interest, involvement and educational benefit. Submission deadline is May 1 2011 and a form is

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Media Art History 2011 – REWIRE

posted December 8, 2010

September 28-October 1 2011 Liverpool, England The fourth in a series of International Conferences on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Through keynote addresses, panels and poster sessions, the conference will address such issues as the British contribution to media art, the history of computing technologies in the UK and internationally, and the

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