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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu