two conference calls

[Abe' Mark Nornes]

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Television, Video and Feminism:
CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS

May 11-14, 2000

University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana

Console-ing Passions seeks proposals on television, video and new media
from feminist perspectives.  Suggested areas include:

labor:  tensions and reconfigurations
global media cultures
new media pedagogy
theory and methodology
history and historiography
feminist ethnography
producers and consumers
race, class and ethnicity
masculinity, femininity and queerness
transnational media economics
activism and resistance
sexuality and identity
tv in Asia
Latin American media
indigenous media practices
women, tv and advertising history
digitextual convergence

Deadline for proposals:  15 November 1999

Submit proposals to:  http:/www.pitt.edu/~cptv

CPTV 2000 Program Committee:  Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Jane Feuer
(Chair), Hilary Radner

University of Notre Dame Host Committee:  Susan Ohmer, Hilary Radner
(Coordinator), Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Ewa Ziarek

Console-ing Passions Board:  Dianne Brooks, Phebe Chao, Jackie Cook, Anna
Everett, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Michele Hilmes, Margaret
Montgomerie, Chantal Nadeau, Ellen Seiter, Lynn Spigel, Chris Straayer,
Mimi White

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The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations will
be holding their Annual Regional Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on
February 9-12, 2000.

Join us at the Sheraton Old Town and step into 300 years of history and
culture. This spacious Southwestern-style hotel is within walking
distance of Albuquerque's historic Old Town (200-plus specialty shops,
restaurants, art galleries, the Albuquerque Museum and New Mexico Museum
of Natural History). Other cultural and historic sites to visit include
the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Rio Grande Zoological Park, Sandia
Peak Tram (the world's longest aerial tram), Indian Pueblos, National
Atomic Museum, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and the Albuquerque
Biopark.

Papers and proposals for the Film Adaptation are currently being
accepted, through December 1.  For more information or to submit,
contact the Area Chair at

Lynnea Chapman King
Colorado Mountain College
1310 Westhaven Drive
Vail, CO 81657
lking at coloradomtn.edu
970-476-4040

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CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST USM CONFERENCE ON FILM AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Conference Theme:  Projecting Light into Hollywood's Shadows:
Trans/National Cinemas and Cultural Identity

The Visual Studies Project at the University of Southern Mississippi, in
conjunction with the College of International and Continuing Education, the
College of the Arts, the Department of History and the Department of Radio,
Television & Film announce the First USM Conference on Film and
International Studies to be held February 10-12, 2000 at the University of
Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  The conference will
convene concurrently with the Southern Mississippi International Film
Festival.

>From the end of World War One up to the present day, Hollywood films have
dominated the world's movie screens.  Endeavoring in the shadows of
Hollywood, global cinemas have employed myriad economic and aesthetic
strategies to compete with and contest Hollywood's hegemony.  National
governments, for instance, have consistently attempted to foster domestic
film production as a method of combating imported mass culture and its
perceived detrimental effects on national identity.  But just how
"national" are national cinemas?  Conversely, to what extent can Hollywood
cinema itself be viewed as an inter- or transnational cinema?  Global
cinemas, including Hollywood, have rarely been purely "national"
enterprises.  To the contrary, hybridity and the intervention of
international capital, technology, and personnel have often marked world
cinema.  The program committee invites proposals and panels that explore
questions of cultural identity within these transnational contexts of film
production, representation, and reception, both historically and during the
present moment.

We solicit a broad range of papers representing diverse geographic foci and
methodological approaches.  Papers which problematize notions of national
and regional cinema are especially encouraged.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

*  national cinemas, representation, and the construction of national identity

*  analyses of individual films

*  transnational film stars/directors

*  reception of Hollywood and/or national cinemas abroad

*  national cinemas, the global marketplace, and questions of language,
subtitling , and dubbing

*  national cinemas and propaganda during wartime and peace

*  transnational racial discourses and global cinemas

*  subordinate cultures and national cinemas (including the US)

Please submit abstracts of papers (250 words) and of panels (including
abstracts of each paper) no later than November 19, 1999 to:

Brian O'Neil
Department of History
University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5047
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5047

Tel.:  601-266-4333 or 601-266-6494
Fax:  601-266-4334
email:  brian.oneil at usm.edu

For more information see the festival website:
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~soq/festivalmain.html

Final program decisions will be made by December 6, 1999.  Selected
conference papers will be published in a special issue of The Southern
Quarterly.

Brian O'Neil
brian.oneil at usm.edu