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<p><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL
FOR PAPERS</span></b></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US">Research
Symposium </span></b></p>
<p><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Periphery and Place: The Geographies of Screen
Production in Australia and New Zealand </span></i></b></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">2 September 2013</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Victoria University of Wellington</span></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US">Keynote
Speaker: Prof. Tom O’Regan (University of Queensland)</span></b></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">The Film and Media Studies Programmes at
Victoria University of Wellington invite submissions for the <i>Periphery and Place</i> symposium.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">The symposium will provide a platform for
researchers and industry professionals to debate the relationship between place
and screen production in Australia and New Zealand. More specifically the title
of the symposium invites participants to address the following question: are we
still engaging with a centre-periphery model of screen production or are we moving
towards an acentric, global dispersal of film and television making? The
centre-periphery model that has informed the colonial histories of both
Australia and New Zealand is gradually giving way to the contemporary
decentralization of media production and the corollary internationalization of
funding and distribution. Similarly the emergence of indigenous screen content
characterized by a different history of engagement with place is also
redefining the flows of cultural production, funding and distribution. </span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Topics to consider may include:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Screen production in Australia
and New Zealand</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Transnational production</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">The production of locality</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Media and cultural policy</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Indigenous media</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Histories of media industries</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Globalization and media flows</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Paper proposals (250 words + brief bio)
should be submitted by 9 July 2013 to <a href="mailto:Alfio.leotta@vuw.ac.nz" target="_blank">Alfio.leotta@vuw.ac.nz</a>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">If you wish to attend, but not present,
please notify the Symposium Organizing Committee at the above mentioned email
address. Attendance is free, but registration is requested.</span></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US">The keynote speaker: Prof. Tom
O’Regan </span><span lang="EN-US">(University of Queensland)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"" lang="EN-US">Prof. O’Regan has been a key figure in the
development of cultural and media studies in Australia. He was elected to the
Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2002 and was, from 2002–2003,
Australia’s UNESCO Professor of Communication. His most notable works include "Australian
National Cinema" (1996); "The Film Studio: Film Production in the
Global Economy" (2005) with B. Goldsmith and "Local Hollywood: Global
Film Production and the Gold Coast" (2010) with B. Goldsmith and S. Ward.</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://vuw.academia.edu/MiriamRoss" target="_blank">http://vuw.academia.edu/MiriamRoss</a><br>
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