Two calls for papers. ************************************************** 1. European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF), European Cinema: Past and Present. 9th Annual ECRF Conference, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, July 12 - July 13 2008. Closing Date for this ECRF Call: March 17th 2008 European Cinema might be said to have two lives, the life of its notable history and the life of its vibrant present. ECRF 2008 highlights the relationship between past and present in European Cinema with a CALL FOR PAPERS focusing on either, or both of these manifestations of European film. Papers: 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. EARLY ABSTRACT SUBMISSION RECOMMENDED Send 100 word proposal/abstract to Conference Officer, Simon Holloway: [log in to unmask] ************************************************** 2. Foreign Language Film Conference II: Exile, Migration, and Identity Call For Papers : Interested scholars are invited to submit papers on aspects of film from traditions other than English, for the second-annual Foreign Language Film Conference. The conference will take place November 6-8 2008, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The theme for FLFC II will be "Exile, Migration, and Identity." How can we measure the impact of an increasingly transnational audience on national cinemas? How does film reflect or project shifts in geopolitical alignment? How do advances in technology, marketing, and distribution affect representation in individual traditions? How do the specific instruments of film (color, cutting, camera angle, motion, music) speak within the medium, and what do they contribute to theorizing the storyline and characters? Abstracts are invited in the following categories: - Exile o Home and Other places o Refuge and asylum o Occupation, dictatorship and (post)colonialism(s) - Migration o Diaspora, cultural cartography and the camera o Minoritarian communities, major traditions o Aesthetics of displacement and the age of mechanical reproduction - Identity o The self and its others in place and space o Reconnaissance, recognition and representation o Ipseity and alterity in the cinematic image These possible topics are not exhaustive and other suggestions are welcome; please see website for details. Selected proceedings will be considered for publication after the conference. Please send 250-word abstract as an email attachment in Microsoft Word format. All submissions should be in English, including citations. Abstract should include presenter's name, contact address and telephone number, and professional affiliation and status. Presentations should be no longer than 15-20 minutes including any media support. Deadline for submission of abstracts (papers and panels): 15 March 2008. Please send all abstracts to the following email address: [log in to unmask] The website for FLFC 2008 will soon be available. Updates for the 2008 conference can currently be found here : http://www.siu.edu/~flfc ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html