CALL FOR PAPERS Eleventh Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium: Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peoples Friday, July 23 – Saturday, July 24, 2010 Scholars, particularly during the last two decades, have sought to understand cultural representations of Indigenous peoples. In Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Culture, anthropologist Elizabeth Bird explains that when we seek to understand popular constructions of the Native more clearly, we are then better able to counter the mythmaking process and transform those representations. The 2010 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium will explore how amateur and noncommercial filmmakers around the world have created a wide range of representations regarding Indigenous peoples and cultures. We are interested in presentations focusing on interpretations of moving images that will improve our historical, cultural, global and critical understanding of how filmmakers working outside of the mainstream have been informed by, contributed to, and countered popular representations of Indigenous peoples. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Travel films and their audiences Defining the Indigenous Documenting lost languages and practices Privacy and informed consent Self-documentation Indigenous peoples as filmmakers Issues of the sacred and profane Native Independent Media Screening practices Oral narratives and life histories Ethnographic films Control and definition of the image Repatriation of records Rights of the “subject” Ethnomusicology and visual representation The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images. NHF is located in Bucksport, a town of 5,000 on the coast of Maine (for more info on NHF, please visit: http://www.oldfilm.org). Typically, presentations are in English, and last 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. The symposium is open to archivists, artists and scholars from all disciplines. NHF houses a 125-seat cinema with 35mm, 16mm, videotape, and DVD projection. We especially encourage presentations that include interesting moving images. We prefer e-mail submissions. Please send 250-500 word abstracts outlining your paper ideas to the symposium organizers at the address below. We are happy to discuss your presentation ideas with you in advance of a formal submission. The Symposium Program Committee (Snowden Becker, Univ. of Texas; Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University; and Mark Neumann, Northern Arizona University) will begin reviewing proposals on April 1, 2010. Please email questions and submissions to [log in to unmask] Janna Jones Director, Cinema and Visual Culture Studies Associate Professor, School of Communication Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org