----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Third Annual VISIBLE EVIDENCE Conference will be held at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University from: Thursday-Sunday, 17-20 August 1995. For those who haven't attended past conferences, VISIBLE EVIDENCE is committed to a unique format: it is a small event (twelve non- competing, 3-person panels) with much time devoted to dialogue and exchange among the attendees. There are also screenings of independent films and videos. The conference is meant to foster productive interdisciplinary cross-talk as well as promote exchanges among scholars, teachers and makers. Future mailings will include information on housing, registration fees and special events. The following are the dates to remember for those interesed in participating: 1) Feb. 15 -- Deadline for panel proposals Panel prop. should be brief (250-500 words) and should include a short bibliography and some evidence of the proposer's expertise in the research area. Mail to: Michael Renov/Patty Zimmermann School of Cinema-TV University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 Fax: 213 740-9471 e-mail: [log in to unmask] This first call is for panel proposals only. Paper proposals will not be accepted at this time. 2) April 15 -- Deadline for paper proposals Mail to: Panel chairs, yet to be determined. The announcement of panel and chairs will be made at the Society for Cinema Studies conference in New York, 2-5 March 1995, and by mail thereafter. 3) June 15-- Screening proposals Mail to: Gerald o'Grady W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Harvard University 26 Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Fax: 617 496-8547 The following is a list of potential topics. We emphasize that panel proposals need not conform to these suggestions. They are offered as indications of some of the most promising and/or under-researched directions of inquiry in the field of nonfiction media studies. 1) Economic and institutional histories of documentary 2) Non-western documentary practices 3) Indigenous media 4) New ethnographies: documenting selves and others 5) Race, identities and documentary practice 6) Documentary historiography 7) The history of documentary technology 8) Documentary and the lournalistic tradition 9) Documenting queerness 10) Bazin reconsidered 11) The photographic real 12) Philosophical critiques of "nonfiction" definitions and models 13) Documentary precursors 14) Fantasies of reality and virtuality 15) Documenting the wars of the NEW WORLD ORDER: Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, reproductive rights, etc. We actively invite the participation of scholars from fields other than film and TV studies: anthropology, communications, engineering, fine arts, law, literature, medicine, sociology, etc.. ---GGG