[csaa-forum] XIIIth Biennial Film and History Conference

[Deb Verhoeven]

CONFERENCE UPDATE

1. Conference Program
The Conference program and a full set of abstracts and speaker 
biographies is now available on the Conference website:
http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/program.html

Presenters include:
Ian Aitken, Ian Christie, Pam Cook, Barbara Creed, Richard Maltby, 
Adrian Martin, Janet Staiger, Stephen Teo, Keyan Tomaselli, Janet 
Walker

2. Film and History Association Research and Writing Awards
Winners of the FHAANZ Research and Writing Awards will be announced 
at the Conference Dinner. The shortlisted nominees are:

Best Essay/ Book Chapter/ Refereed Journal Article
ADRIAN DANKS
'Arrested Developments or from The Heroes are Tired to The Tomb of 
Ligeia: Some notes on the Place of the Melbourne University Film 
Society in 1960s Film Culture' in Seamus O'Hanlon and Tanja Luckins 
(eds), Go! Melbourne in the Sixties, Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing 
Group, 2005, pp. 101-114

JEANETTE HOORN
' ''Strong Women Became Weak Under Its Influence": The Uses of Pituri 
in Charles Chauvel's film, Uncivilised (1936)' in eCOMMUNITY: 
International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, Vol 2, No. 2, pp. 
40-45, published online, University of West Virginia, 2 May 2005

JILL JULIUS MATTHEWS
'Modern nomads and national film history: the multi-continental 
career of J D Williams' in Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (eds), 
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, Canberra: ANU
ePress, 2006, pp. 157-169

Best Monograph
JANE LANDMAN
The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and 
the Cinema, 1925-62 (Canberra: ANU, Pandanus Books, 2006)

JILL JULIUS MATTHEWS
Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity 
(Sydney: Currency Press, 2005)

DEB VERHOEVEN
Sheep and the Australian Cinema (Melbourne: MUP, 2006)

3. Special Events
Among the special events scheduled for the Conference is the 
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) screening of Annie 
Goldson's Elgar's Enigma: biography of a concerto (New Zealand, 2006) 
and John Hughes' The Archive Project (Australia, 2006), both 
introduced by the filmmakers. See details of the event at:
http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/highlights.html

4. Conference Papers in Senses of Cinema
A number of delegates have submitted versions of their papers for 
pre-publication in issue 41 of Senses of Cinema.  The issue is due to 
appear in the next few days.  See:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/


kind regards,

Deb Verhoeven

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Deb Verhoeven
Associate Professor of Screen Studies
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t: School Research Coordinator &
    Manager, AFI Research Collection
    School of Applied Communication
    RMIT University
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The XIIIth Biennial Conference of the Film & History Association
Melbourne, November 16-19, 2006
www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/index.html

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