CALL FOR PAPERS American Presidency on Film National Conference: Presidents and Nuclear Crises Panel I am organizing a panel on Presidents and Nuclear Crises for the American Presidency on Film National Conference, which will take place from November 10-12, 2000 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Possible films for discussion include: Dr. Strangelove (1964) Fail Safe (1964) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969) Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) If you would like to present a paper on one of these or other nuclear-related films, please contact me at the address given below. Papers on other aspects of the relationship between or depiction of cinematic presidents and nuclear crises are also welcome. Participants must submit a 200-300-word proposal regarding their paper. Deadline is 1 September at the very latest. For more information about the conference, visit the Film & History web site at http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis Bob Hunter Department of History University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html