"The Moving Image: A National-level Workshop"
Workshop Dates: 7-10 January 2014 (11:00 am to 4:30 pm)
http://www.klyuniv.ac.in/upload/1384923692_Film_Workshop_Note.doc

Concept Note:
As there has been a critical engagement between literary/canonical texts and other non-canonical texts, realized through celluloid medium, animation film, music video, advertisement, news and other programme on television, the ways of reading authors and texts should now be rethought. Since the essentialist process of meaning-making has been debunked with the emergence of post 1960s critical thoughts, new ways of understanding history, culture and texts have to be sought and be made a part of the larger academic curricula. Realizing that our understanding of the culture, history and identity is now often mediated by a visual culture, the elements of popular culture like music video and advertisement demand serious critical attention. Keeping in mind the changes in the ways, canonical and also non-canonical cultural texts are produced, circulated and received/consumed in the post-globalised world, an eight-day workshop titled "The Moving Image: A National Workshop" from January 7-10, 2014 is being organized. The purpose of the workshop will be to disseminate these ideas in the broader field of academic research, teaching and the print and electronic media (including media commentators). The workshop will consist of presentation/analysis/demonstration by resource persons to be followed by interactive sessions between the resource persons and the participants.

Important Dates:
• Call for paper circulation: 21 November 2013
• Last date for submission of application: 20 December 2013
• Notification of selection: 25 December 2013
• Registration closes: 3 January 2014

Broad areas of engagement:
Venue: Dept of English, University of Kalyani
* The ontology of classic Hollywood cinema
* Hollywood and the later experiments
* Other visual media and American culture
* Latin American & Third World Cinema
* Soaps and serials
* Short films and Documentary
* European avant-garde cinema
* Visual media in the era of Globalization
* Cinema of resistance
* Literature and cinema
* Cinema and other arts

Participants:
We have space for 30 registered participants who would be selected through a national-level call for papers followed by scrutiny of paper proposal (250 words) and statement of interest (250 words). These participants will be college/university teachers, (formally registered) research scholars and media persons (including independent media commentators). All participants will be required to make a short presentation and active participation is expected through the entire duration of the workshop. All participants will also be issued presentation certificates at the end of the workshop on successful completion.
All registered participants will be provided course pack and will be offered discussion board infrastructure before and after the workshop and all will be provided refreshment during lunchtime throughout the workshop. Limited lodging facilities (in the twin-sharing university guest house) may be arranged for outstation participants.

Target group: College/university teachers, registered research scholars, media persons

Registration fee: Rupees Five Hundred only (Rs 500/-)
(Registration fee entitles entry to all sessions, workshop kit, lunch and light refreshment on all days during workshop)

Information regarding mode of payment of registration fees will be conveyed to the selected participants in due time.
Organizers: The Department of English, University of Kalyani

Contact details for further clarification:
Sandip Mondal, Dept of English, 09433271830, sandywavebox@gmail.com
Dhrubajyoti Sarkar, Dept of English, 09007389776, dhrubas@klyuniv.ac.in
Dept of English, University of Kalyani 033-25828750 (Extn, 276)