Reminder: CFP: Permanent Seminar for the Histories of Film Theories--HISTORIES OF FILM THE

[Justin Jesty]

Dear Markus

I apologize for submitting this proposal for the conference late. I
hope there will still be time to consider it.

Thank you
Justin




2012/3/17 Nornes, Markus <amnornes at umich.edu>:
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
> Permanent Seminar for the Histories of Film Theories
> HISTORIES OF FILM THEORIES IN EAST ASIA
>
> September 27-30, 2012
> Ann Arbor, MI
> Coordinated by A. M. Nornes
>
> The Permanent Seminar on the Histories of Film Theories will hold the
> first-ever conference devoted to the histories of film theory in East Asia.
> The Scientific Board invites proposals for 20-minute papers concerning any
> aspect of and period of the history of film theory in Korea, Japan, and
> Sinophone Asia.
>
> Deadline for 200-word proposals in MS-Word: March 31, 2012
> Send to amnornes at umich.edu
>
>
> The history of film theory has largely been a Euro-American story. However,
> the Scientific Board of the Permanent Seminar recognizes that it actually
> has a global dimension that has yet to be adequately mapped. It plans to
> bring its annual conference to the University of Michigan—this will be the
> first, broad scholarly gathering devoted to the histories of film theory in
> East Asia. Our scope is broad. It encompasses classical philosophical
> approaches to film aesthetics (“essence”), questions of media ontology
> (“relationship to reality”), intermediality (“the other arts”),
> spectatorship and questions of perception and psychology (“individual
> viewers”) as well as sociological approaches to film (“society at large”).
>
> Over the last two decades, Film Studies has matured into a dynamic field
> characterized by vital debates between well-defined theoretical paradigms.
> At the same time the field has seen a turn to history on several levels.
> Film theorists have increasingly become interested in the history of their
> own approaches to film, situating film theory within the broader histories
> of philosophy, psychology and other disciplines and fields that have
> traditionally provided key concepts and arguments to film theory. Among of
> the indicators for this new interest is the Permanent Seminar for the
> History of Film Theory, an international association of film theorists
> founded by Jane Gaines and Francesco Cassetti in 2008. It holds a biennial
> conference that alternates with smaller workshops on narrow themes.
>
> The Michigan conference will feature a keynote speech by Aaron Gerow (Yale),
> panels, a special film screening with professional benshi Kataoka Ichiro,
> and breakaway sessions. The breakaway sessions will be devoted to two groups
> of scholars that are currently working on volumes of theory in translation
> from Chinese (eds., Jason McGrath [Minnesota] and Guo-Juin Hong [Duke]) and
> Japanese (eds., Aaron Gerow [Yale], Iwamoto Kenji [Waseda] and Markus Nornes
> [UM]) respectively; thus, the conference will provide a much needed forum
> for these groups to meet and discuss their book projects, which will
> eventually commemorate this field-changing conference.
>
> For more information on the
> Permanent Seminar on the Histories of Film Theories:
> http://filmtheories.org/
>
> A significant effort on the Seminar's website is the translation and
> dissemination of theory in translation. The site is available to conference
> presenters who want to circulate the texts they are working on, either
> temporarily in draft form or permanently. For more information contact Masha
> Salazkina (Concordia):msalazki at alcor.concordia.ca.
>
>
> The Scientific Board of the Permanent Seminar
>
> Dudley Andrew  (Yale University)
> Chris Berry (University of London-Goldsmiths)
> Christa Blümlinger (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)
> Francesco Casetti (Coordinator, Yale University)
> Jane Gaines (Coordinator, Columbia University)
> André Gaudreault  (University of Montreal)
> Vinzenz Hediger (University of Bochum)
> John MacKay (Yale University)
> A. M. Nornes  (University of Michigan)
> Leonardo Quaresima (University of Udine)
> David Rodowick (Harvard University)
> Philip Rosen (Brown University)
> Maria “Masha” Salazkina (Concordia University, Montréal)
> Petr Szczepanik (University of Brno)
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