1. Online access for SFC 2. CFP Emergent Encounters in Film Theory (KCL) 3. CFP Performing Lives (Kingston) ********************************** 1. Online access for SFC Intellect have put the most recent issue of our journal online. See here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=14715880 *********************************** 2. CFP Emergent Encounters in Film Theory (KCL) Emergent Encounters in Film Theory Intersections Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy An International Film Studies Conference King’s College, London, March 21st 2009, Strand Campus, supported by the KCL Roberts Fund and Wallflower Press. Organized by Davina Quinlivan, Markos Hadjioannou, Ruth McPhee and Louis Bayman. CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote Speakers: Parveen Adams (Fellow of the London Consortium) Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University) Interdisciplinary approaches to the theoretical discussion of the cinematic medium have often engaged with philosophical or psychoanalytic perspectives. While philosophy and psychoanalysis are by no means opposed schools of thought, the potential to develop new ways of understanding film remains an opportunity to be explored. In seeking out further lines of enquiry, the study of intersections between cinema/philosophy/psychoanalysis, seems most pertinent to our generation of ‘film thinking’, to invoke Daniel Frampton’s concept of the ‘film mind’, whose future still stands, to some extent, in the shadow of psychoanalysis. Recent philosophical models of thought offered by film theorists such as Frampton and D.N Rodowick embrace a new ontological grasp of the cinema, but what then are the implications of this shift for psychoanalysis? The question, therefore, remains whether philosophy and psychoanalysis are indeed irreconcilable, or if the specific philosophical turn sets up boundaries that unjustly seal off the possibility of dialogue between the two methodologies. We invite proposals of 200 words for papers of 20 minutes on areas including: -Films as philosophical and/or psychoanalytical form of representation -Questions of realism and illusion, from documentary cinema to the fantasy genre -Ethical responses to, and within, cinema -The family, sociality, fraternity and sorority -Changes and developments within spectatorship -The impact of, and approaches to, new technologies -Responses and approaches to film aesthetics/film art -Corporeal subjectivity, embodiment and the senses -Temporality, memory and amnesia in the cinema -Depictions of criminality, revenge and guilt Please send abstracts by 14th November 2008 to [log in to unmask] Enquiries may also be sent to [log in to unmask] *********************************** 3. CFP Performing Lives (Kingston) PERFORMING LIVES* An International Conference hosted by the Centre for Life Narratives Kingston University, UK 6 - 8 July 2009 This international conference on ‘Performing Lives’ follows the inaugural conference of the Centre for Life Narratives, ‘The Spirit of the Age’, the focus of which was ‘Writing Lives’ (2007). Our second biennial conference ‘Performing Lives’ (2009) invites analysis and debate on the relationship between life histories and the ways in which they are embodied and enacted in performance, across a range of cultures and a variety of media: drama, dance, film, TV and video. The performance of ‘real’ lives takes many forms. On the one hand, in commercial film and TV the traditional ‘biopic’ is an enduring favourite; on the other, autobiographical, verbatim and tribunal modes in theatre, docudramas and TV reality programmes, and more experimental approaches to autobiographical and documentary filmmaking, have challenged conventional forms through their emphasis on ‘ordinary’ lives, their incorporation of multiple perspectives and their interrogation of notions of reality and fiction. In dance, performers’ own lives have frequently served as source material for choreographers while the abstract, non-verbal nature of dance provokes alternative approaches to the representation and performance of lives. Key questions include: • WHY LIFE? What do we aim to achieve in performing aspects of our own lives and those of others? What are the pleasures for the spectator/consumer of life narratives? How do the aims of film and TV makers, theatre-makers and dance-makers differ? • WHICH LIFE? What kinds of lives do different performance-makers find interesting and why? What is the relationship between the performer and the life performed, particularly in relation to star performances? What are the ideological messages inscribed in life histories in performance? • WHOSE LIFE? From whose perspective is the life being told or shown? What questions are raised about authority, authenticity and ownership? What are the moral and ethical implications of performing the lives of others? • REAL LIFE? How does the performance of life frame questions about the relationship between reality, fiction and audience? Given the impossibility of representing the whole of a life, what determines the choices made about what elements of a life to perform? We welcome proposals in English (of not more than 250 words) from a range of critical perspectives in relation to a range of countries, cultures and historical periods. We are interested in the perspectives of performance and media-based practitioners as well as those of academics and thus invite proposals for performances and workshops as well as papers and panels. Proposals should be submitted online via the following page: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/conferences/abstracts by 8 December 2008 Enquiries to [log in to unmask] Organisers: Adam Ainsworth, Dr Simon Brown, Mathew Melia, Trish Reid, Dr Carrie Tarr, Frank Whately *********************************** -- Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Sheffield The Rotunda Firth Court Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN Email: [log in to unmask] PA: [log in to unmask] (0)114 222 9702 Studies in French Cinema: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html