<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Kindly distribute this announcement to the faculty and graduate students in your department.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">Takuya Tsunoda</font></div><h1 align="left" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; "><span style="text-decoration: none; "><u><font face="Cambria" size="5"> </font></u></span></h1><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h1 align="left" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; "><u><font face="Cambria" size="5">Call for Papers</font></u></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Film Studies Program at Yale University</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">2<sup>nd</sup> Annual Graduate Student Conference</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="4">“SCREENS, SOUNDS, SEATS: on motion picture exhibition”</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">January 28-29, 2009, Yale University, New Haven, CT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"><a href="Http://www.yale.edu/exhibition/">Http://www.yale.edu/exhibition/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Keynote Speaker TBA</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">As cinema has re-invented itself in myriad forms, ranging from vaudeville variety programs to television, from the drive-in to portable ipod touch screens, “film exhibition” has re-asserted its importance in the field.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Volatile in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, integral in the ‘silent’ era, and highly refined in contemporary commercial cinema, exhibition practices remain central to understanding where cinema has been and where it is heading. Implicitly or explicitly, film & media scholars have focused on exhibition to understand cinema’s historical place within a culture. We mind how films self-consciously reflect on exhibition as a means to understand the nature of the art, framing the image from the perspective of the thousands gathered in a picture palace to the headphoned sardine at thirty thousand feet. None may be more conscious of exhibition than the makers, who look through a viewfinder but must imagine what the viewer’s eye will see.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">This conference invites proposals on any domain of screen practice, from any discipline. Our goals are to examine the relationship of the image onscreen to the range of social, political, and aesthetic discourses on its borders, and to explore the experience of spectatorship as it continues to evolve.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Submissions may take inspiration from, but are not limited to, the following topics:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">– Moviegoing in urban/rural environments – Traveling exhibition – Multi-use venues – Live music & vocal performers – Multi-sensory shows & 3D - Expanded Cinema – Inter-arts & performance – Digital media – Design & distribution – Cinema architecture – Release patterns & economics – Changing platforms – Piracy & appropriation – Decline of movie theatres – Future of exhibition – Television & the family – Pornography in the media sphere – Films & filmmakers that reflect on exhibition – Psychology & cognition of the moviegoer – Comparison to exhibition & performance in other arts – Identifying historical trends in exhibition – Trends in film theory – World cinema & global enterprise – Segregated sites of exhibition – Activist screening practices</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Presentations may not exceed 20 minutes.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to <a href="mailto:yalefilmstudies@gmail.com">yalefilmstudies@gmail.com</a> by <b>October 15, 2009</b>. Please include paper title, name, institution, department, email & phone. Open to graduate students only.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria" size="3">Sponsored by the Yale Graduate School, Whitney Humanities Center, Film Studies Program, & Film Studies Center.</font></div></body></html>