Dear colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting, please find the final reminder below (and note the deadline of Friday 31 March): Call for Presentations: Researching Horror, Cult and Exploitation Cinema A Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers Friday 5 May 2017, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne PhD students and Early Career Researchers working in the field(s) of "horror, cult and exploitation cinema" are invited to submit abstracts about their research to deliver at a workshop at Northumbria University on Friday 5 May 2017. The workshop will take the format of a mini-symposium and consist of three sessions, each made up of three speakers. Speakers will each deliver a 5-10 minute talk about their research to their peers and to a panel of academic experts from Northumbria's Film and Television Research Group, providing a short introduction to their current project and identifying several questions for discussion. After each presentation, there will be an opportunity for the academic panel and other workshop participants to feedback to each speaker, and to ask follow-up questions. The workshop is intended to be a small scale networking opportunity for scholars with shared research interests, and to provide a relatively informal, and supportive, opportunity for those newer to academia to engage in dialogue with more established researchers. The event will close with a short presentation from Gillian Leslie<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/books/subjects/film-studies>, the Commissioning Editor for Film Studies at Edinburgh University Press, who will give advice about academic publishing (including converting PhD theses into monographs). The academic panel will comprise: * Professor Peter Hutchings (Professor of Film Studies, author of The Horror Film and The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema) * Dr Russ Hunter (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-editor of Italian Horror Cinema, author of A History of European Horror Cinema) * Dr Steve Jones (Senior Lecturer in Media, author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw, co-editor of Zombies and Sexuality) * Dr James Leggott (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, author of Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror) * Dr Sarah Ralph (Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, co-author of Alien Audiences: Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie) * Dr Jamie Sexton (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-author of Cult Film: An Introduction, founding series co-editor of Cultographies) * Dr Johnny Walker (author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society and co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series) Applicants are reminded that there are only nine spaces available. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided throughout the day. Please submit a 250 word summary of your project, and a 50-100 word bio to the organiser, Dr Johnny Walker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), by Friday 31 March 2017. Applicants will be notified of the outcome the following week. This is a collaborative event between the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Arts. Best wishes *** Dr Johnny Walker Senior Lecturer in Media Erasmus Lead Department of Social Sciences Northumbria University, Lipman 403b Tel. (+ 44) 191 227 3920 Office hours: Mon: 10.00-11.00 / Fri: 11.30-12.30 This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any use, disclosure or reproduction without the sender's explicit consent is unauthorised and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify Northumbria University immediately and permanently delete it. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. The University cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and/or amended. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu