film and television

Update: the submission deadline for the Whedonverse (Angel, Buffy, and
Serenity) panel at the SW/TX PCA/ACA conference has been extended to
November 17, 2005.

Special Call for Papers: Buffy, Angel, Firefly and/or Serenity (AKA
Whedonverse), Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, SW/TX PCA/ACA

2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th
Annual Conference. The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM,
February 8-11, 2006.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals on the special topic of Joss Whedon's
work, including Buffy: TVS, Angel, Firefly, and Serenity.

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We have a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the fourth =
international conference

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at Kaunas University of Technology (http://www.ktu.lt/en/)

Kaunas, LITHUANIA,=20

19-21 May, 2006

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Please circulate this CFP to all potentially interested graduate scholars.
Thank you and please accept apologies for cross-posting.

Peter Ryan
Intersections 2005 Conference Chair
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EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES
Intersections 2006: A Graduate Student Creative Conference
Call For Proposals (CFP)

CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006

Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture
York University and Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
March 24-26, 2006

EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES

Call for Papers for the Panel
Images and Communities - Methodological Issues and Empirical Analysis of
Mediated Societies
At the Conference Media and Money, Helsinki 3-4 February 2005.

Deadline extended:
 
Tempus Fuget: CALL FOR PAPERS

Film & History
at
Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA in Albuquerque

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association
invites papers examining all aspects of Film & History
for its annual conference to be held February 8-11, 2006
at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Last year, this area was very popular and brought
like-minded scholars together on a topic of common interest.

Possible Areas for consideration include,
but are not limited to:

MEDIA-N CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

media-N is the invitational and peer-reviewed online journal of the College Arts Association (CAA)New Media Caucus (NMC). The aim of the journal is to reflect the energy and interests of media arts practitioners, educators and theorists.

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/index.htm

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on
Fan Art, Fiction, and Culture for the 27th Annual
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
 

Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing Texts

The Acacia Group of California State University, Fullerton is seeking
papers for our 2006 conference to be held February 17th and 18th,
2006. We are interested papers/presentations for the following
suggested panel:

CALL FOR PAPERS

British television drama and US imports: Aesthetics, Institutions,
Histories. Friday 24 March 2006.

A one-day symposium organised by the Centre for Television Drama Studies at
the University of Reading, under the auspices of the AHRC-funded project
British TV Drama and Acquired US Programmes 1970-2000.

Call for Papers:

2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Docudrama

Paper Session: "Michael Arnzen: New Directions in Horror"
The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts , Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, March 15-19, 2006. (http://iafa.org/)
 
Responding to the conference's focus on "the fantastic in other media,"
"Michael Arnzen: New Directions in Horror" attempts to define the impact of
new media on popular literature by exploring multiple award-winning author
Dr. Arnzen's literary experiments producing horror for such media as palm
pilots, email, electronic texts and his Stoker award winning website, The
Goreletter (as well as traditional print forms). Dr. Arnzen has already
agreed to act as a respondent.
 

UPDATE: Deadline for submission has been extended to November 15, 2005.

Call for Papers: Alfred Hitchcock
2006 Southwest-Texas Popular Culture Association and American
Association Conference
Albuquerque, NM
February 8-11, 2006

Please consider joining us in Albuquerque for this year's SW-TX PCA/ACA
Conference and delivering a presentation on the life and/or work of
Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock's films continue to play a role in many
critical debates central to cinema studies, and this area seeks to
understand and explain their continued significance. Papers might
address:

Call for Papers for "The Human Drama of the Family as Portrayed in the=20=

Visual Arts"
2006 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting ("The=20
Human its Others")
March 23 - 26, 2006, Princeton University, NJ
Co-organizers: W. C. Nielsen, Montclair State University and Gail=20
Finney, UC Davis
Deadline for papers: November 30, 2005

This seminar, "The Human Drama of the Family as Portrayed in the Visual=20=

Arts," will explore treatments of the =93human=94 family in visual =
culture,=20
e.g., theater, cinema, photography, television, performance art,=20
painting, and other visual arts. In what ways are families portrayed as=20=

The "Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media"
(Continuum) requires a well-informed piece as follows:

"Sound/music in Hong Kong Cinema"

Chapter: 4000-5000 words in length.

Deadline: c.end of 2005.

If working in this area, and interested in writing this chapter, feel
free to send short abstract (100 words) to:

creative_at_port.ac.uk