This is a final call for papers for... Surveillance: an interdisciplinary conference, held at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, June 5-6 1998. We are very interested in receiving papers that address connections between film, television and video and broader questions of surveillance. Confirmed plenary speakers include Betsy Stanko and Liz Stanley. Through this conference we hope to bring together theoretical debates and case studies from activists and scholars working around surveillance in a range of disciplines and interdisciplines. Key questions for the conference: Should we consider surveillance as control and coercion, as resistance, or as somewhere in between? What are the developing relationships between de-regulation and governance, and how can this be theorized? What is the relationship between fictions and aesthetic practices of surveillance and institutions of social control? Are technologies and political systems of surveillance taking on a new importance in contemporary cultures? Some of the themes and issues talking about surveillance might raise: Social control, violence and disciplinary systems Destablising the binary between 'normalisation' and 'deviance': gender, sexuality, 'race' and class. Neo-liberalism, self-surveillance and self-government Decentralisation, audit and new forms of the state Spaces and architectures of surveillance Technologies of surveillance: penal and medical, communication and entertainment Fictions of discipline and surveillance; their relationship with institutions and practices of social control and appropriation Censorship and self-censorship Deadline for abstracts has been extended to April 2, 1998. 300 word proposals for papers, workshops or other scholarly or artistic contributions should be submitted to Mary Corcoran (tel: 0151 231 5054) or Nicole Matthews (tel:0151 231 5045), School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts, Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Britain, L1 7BY, Fax: 0151 231 5049 or check the conference website at http://www.livjm.ac.uk/media_mcca/Surveil.html ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.