FILM STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FSAC/ACEC 2001 Annual Conference Call for papers, Member-Organized Panels and Joint Panels Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec. May 26-28, 2001 Deadline for Submissions: 15 January, 2001 FSAC/ACEC Conference and Congress Themes: 1)The Role of the Intellectual in Society, 2) Language, Culture and Community, 3) Plagues and Viruses. The 2001 Conference will adopt the interdisciplinary objectives of the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. Therefore, we especially encourage proposals for joint panels, as well as proposals for papers, roundtables and workshops that foreground the diversity of our discipline and foster relationships with other associations. We encourage you to engage with the Congress themes. Thus paper and panel topics could include, but are not limited to, the following: The Role of Film Scholarship in Canadian Society The Historiography of Film Studies Film Studies and Academia The Future of Film Studies as an Academic Discipline The Filmmaker as Intellectual Public Intellectuals and Film Film and Language Cinema as Community: the Phenomenon of Film Festivals Film Culture in Canada Outside perspectives on Canadian Film Studies Plagues and Viruses in the films of David Cronenberg The Film Image as Virus Artaud, the Plague and Film More generic topics can also be examined, such as: National Cinemas Film Genres Spectatorship Gender in Film Film and the Body. Only proposals by paid-up members will be considered. Submit abstract (100-200 words) and a brief rationale for member-organized sessions to: André Loiselle, President Film Studies Association of Canada School for Studies in Art and Culture Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa,ON K1S 5B6 Phone: 613-520-3786 FAX: 613-520-3575 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu