FOR EVER GODARD www.forevergodard.com An International Conference on the Work of Jean-Luc Godard Tate Modern, London, 21-24 June 2001. Sponsored by AGNES B. For the last fifty years, Jean-Luc Godard's work in cinema and video has innovated, provoked and inspired. Since the completion in 1998 of Histoire(s) du Cinéma, an eight-part videographic experiment in cinema history, Godard's recent work on film and video has featured strongly in debates about audiovisual art and culture, especially regarding questions of historical memory, technological change, and the future of cinema in all its forms. This historical moment provides the perfect opportunity for a critical reassessment of Godard's entire corpus and its key role in film culture. It is the aim of FOR EVER GODARD to meet this challenge. FOR EVER GODARD is a four-day international conference to be held at Tate Modern, London, 21-24 June 2001. It is the first event of its kind ever to be devoted to Godard's work in Britain. It brings together both well-established commentators and the younger generation of critics working in the fields of film and television, art history, cultural studies, philosophy, music, and literature. It draws on talent from many different countries and from different intellectual backgrounds. Participants include Nora Alter, Antoine de Baecque, Mary Lea Bandy, Zsuzsa Baross, Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Christa Blümlinger, Nicole Brenez, Richard Brody, Vicki Callahan, Marc Cerisuelo, Ian Christie, Elizabeth Cowie, Monica Dall'Asta, Angela Dalle Vacche, Chris Darke, Elena del Rio, Chris Dercon, Jonathan Dronsfield, Thomas Elsaesser, Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, Wendy Everett, Laetitia Fieschi-Vivet, Jean Michel Frodon, Gérard Fromanger, Michael Goddard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Catherine Grant, André Habib, Peter Harcourt, Vinzenz Hediger, Leslie Hill, Junji Hori, François Jost, Laurent Jullier, Roland-François Lack, Trond Lundemo, Catherine Lupton, Colin MacCabe, Adrian Martin, Annette Michelson, Laura Mulvey, Maurizia Natali, David Oubinia, Hilary Radner, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Libby Saxton, Larry Sider, Muriel Tinel, Domietta Torlasco, Sarah Wilson, Alan Wright, and Cerith Wyn Evans. See full programme at www.forevergodard.com for abstracts of papers. The conference will begin at 12.30 on Thursday 21 June and conclude at 16.00 on Sunday 24 June. It will feature screenings of rarely seen work by Godard, and will include the UK premiere of Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's recent film for MOMA, The Old Place. The event therefore complements the major Godard retrospective taking place in June and July at the National Film Theatre in London. There will be French/English interpreting facilities, and Tate Modern intend to broadcast the event on the World Wide Web. FOR EVER GODARD is sponsored by AGNES B. The conference is organised around sixteen sessions using a range of formats: two-speaker sessions, speaker and respondent sessions, and a number of discussion panels. In every session, priority will be given to exchange of ideas and genuine debate. The sessions are based on the following themes: 1. Museum 2. The Old Place 3. Memory 4. Question 5. Thinking 6. 'Godard' 7. Composition 8. Citation 9. Sacred 10. Figure 11. Music 12. Lyric 13. Media 14. History 15. Daney 16. Change ORGANISERS: Michael Temple (Birkbeck College), James S. Williams (University of Kent Canterbury), Michael Witt (University of Surrey Roehampton) BOOKING INFORMATION: Tickets for the four-day conference cost £70 full price and £50 for concessions (children, students, unemployed, pensioners). Demand for tickets will be high and there will only be two hundred places available, so we suggest that you book early. We cannot sell any tickets ourselves. Please purchase your tickets directly from Tate Box Office by any of the following means: BY POST: write to Tate Box Office, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, England BY TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 7887 8888 BY FAX: +44 (0)20 7887 8898 E-MAIL: [log in to unmask] Please make all cheques payable to 'Tate'. All credit cards can be taken apart from Amex, Diners, JCB, Mistro, Solo, and Electron. ----------------------------------------------- Michael Witt University of Surrey Roehampton ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite