I'm looking for people interested in participating in a dissertation writing workshop, to be sponsored by the SCS Student Caucus, at the '96 Society for Cinema Studies conference. Ideally, the workshop would address the psychological as well as mechanical issues involved in dissertation writing. The goal is to bring the practical and emotional problems facing dissertation writers out of the closet and into a supportive public forum where others can share their anxieties and, more importantly, the strategies they have used to overcome them. If you are writing or have written a dissertation in film/tv/media/cultural studies and are willing to share your insights, please contact me at the address below. Possible topics include: 1) Research and Organization--proposals, when to stop reading and start writing, organizing your ideas into chapters, the relationship of the whole to the parts, too many citiations or not enough, too many ideas--what to leave in/throw out, shifitng gears from writing to editing, etc. 2) Psychological issues--perfectionism, feeling overwhelmed, obsessive searches for every single reference to your topic, worrying that someone else has said it before, self-confidence issues, writing with a sense of authority, feelings of intelletual inferiority, self-discipline and managing you time, depression, paralysis/writer's block, phobias: the library, your director, reading your own work, showing it to others, etc. Please contact, by Sept. 1: Millicent Manglis [log in to unmask] (812) 333-0909 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]