The 1994 SCS Conference will take place at the Sherton Inn,
Syracuse University, between March 3rd and March 6th.  The
special focus of the conference is "Emergences: New Identities/
New Technologies."  Topic emphases may be understood as
encompassing, among others, the following areas of research:
1: The new technolgies (computer-based, satellite, interactive,
laserdisc, etc.) which are reshaping the field of film and
television studies.  Specific topics may include economic and
institutional analysis, historiiographic efforts, epistemological
inquiries, text-based comparative studies.
2: Emergent identities (racial, class, gendered, sexual),
socially determined, culturally legible; the nomadic, syncretist,
and transformative self-constructions represented in film, television, a