Theory and Practice - UFVA - An Invitation The UFVA (University Film and Video Assoc.) conference this year will look at Theory and Practice. This issue has come up in a number of UFVA conferences and usually elicits superficial agreement -- there should be a relationship between theory and practice, and we have some idea of what it is. However, the relationship has become infinitely more complex and ephemeral, and I, for one, am fast losing confidence in my understanding of it. As film theory has broadened into the larger questions of mass media reception and relationship of media to society, it has become increasingly questionable whether, and how, it speaks to practice at all. I would like to see this question engaged at the UFVA conference in August. Therefore, I invite those members of this list who find it an open issue to consider working with me and others to put together a panel that would seriously question the traditional articulations of the relationship between theory and practice. The goal of the panel would both be to speak to the fissures in the current notions of theory and practice, and to speculate on new ways to formulate this relationship. I would particularly encourage those members of this list who have not traditionally been involved with UFVA to contribute to this panel. One issue that needs to be raised is how institutional cultures contribute to, and profit by, differing articulations of theory and practice. Jeff Rush 1993 UFVA Conference Director jsk.picasso.ocis.temple.edu (215) 787-3859