Update: Call for Papers

Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond

2008 Film & History Conference

October 30-November 2, 2008

Chicago, Illinois

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory 

 

Please note our new, third-round Deadline: August 1, 2008

 
How broad-reaching and inclusive is your conception of science?  For Film & History, it can span from animation to race, and from pedagogy to virtual reality, 
with stops in between for extraterrestrials, explorers, icons and mad scientists.
The following is a list of our current and shortly forthcoming areas for Film & History's upcoming conference, "Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries 
and Beyond" (Chicago, 10/30-11/2/08).  We are now entering the 3rd Round Call for Papers, and the revised deadline for all areas is August 1, 2008.

Featured speakers will include special-effects legend Stan Winston. Also scheduled for plenary sessions are noted scholars Wheeler Winston Dixon 
(author of Visions of the Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood) and Sidney Perkowitz (author of Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, & the End of the World).

 For additional information on any of the areas, please consult our website: (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory), and click on the "Areas and Contact Information" link 
on the front page.  Each area title is a link that will open a new Word document file with a full call for papers.
 * Adaptations from Literature to Screen
* Animals
* The Atomic Age
* Atomics, Animation, and Anticipation
* The Apollo Program
* Bioethics
* Cinematic Extraterrestrials
* Code-breaking: Low and High-Tech Whodunnits
* Comparisons in Non-Fiction Science Films and Television
* Corporate, Educational, and Industrial Films
* Darwin and the Evolution-Intelligent Design Aftermath
* David Cronenberg
* Different Bodies: Disability, Impairment, and Illness
* Doctor Who
* Environmental Documentaries
* Explorers and Exploration
* The Future of Genocide and Repression
* German Science Fiction Films
* Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings
* Hollywood's Physicians
* The Intrusion of Technology
* Is Resistance Really Futile?
* Military Science
* Monsters, Mad Scientists, and Men From Outer Space
* Pedagogy-Methodology
* Race and Science Fiction Film
* Reenactments
* Science Fiction in British Film and Television
* Science Fiction from Literature to the Screen
* The Science of the Kill
* The Science of Special Effects
* Time Travel
* Scientific Icons
* Shakespeare and Technology
* Sportive Performance
* Steven Spielberg
* Surveillance and Control
* Virtual Reality and Gaming
* Women in the Sciences
 

 

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