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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Call for
Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Women’s
Filmmaking and Feminist Criticism in the Digital Era<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Monash
Prato Centre, Italy, 3-4 July 2017</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:
EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p>The
aim of this two-day international closed workshop (10-12
participants) is to
consider how women filmmakers are responding to the
opportunities and
challenges offered by the rise of digital technologies and how
feminist film
scholarship is developing new frameworks to account for these
transformations
in women’s cinema and beyond. We take the methodology Patricia
White evolved in
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Women’s Cinema, World
Cinema</i> (Duke
UP, 2015) as a point of departure for examining the interplay
between industry
and technology (new modes of digital production, distribution
and exhibition),
texts (style, genre, forms, aesthetics), and audiences (gendered
modes of
address, new modes of viewing, intercultural and transnational
circulation and
exchange) in the screen works by women from around the world and
from across a
wide range of screen media forms, including television, web
films, video art,
audiovisual essays, features and documentary. We are
particularly interested in
instances where women work across media and where this work
opens up new spaces
for women's expression and social action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Our
intention is not simply to apply concepts in new media to the
practice of women
filmmakers. We encourage workshop participants to also ask what
difference, if
any, digitality makes in terms of the kinds of feminisms
contemporary women’s
filmmaking engages and/or, indeed, engenders: intersectional,
reflexive,
collective, radical, and so forth. How are digital technologies
shaping new
modes of feminist film criticism and practice? What are the
media archaeologies
of these new modes? What kinds of spaces/places are these new
modes occurring
in?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Participants
will be required to submit a 2500-3000 word paper by 1 May 2017.
Papers will be
workshopped at the event with the aim of producing a collected
volume on this
topic. </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Confirmed
Keynote Speakers: Patricia White, Professor of Film and Media
Studies, Swarthmore
College, USA, and Kim Soyoung, Documentary filmmaker and
Professor of Cinema
Studies, Korean National University of Arts, South Korea.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Convenors:
Therese Davis (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:therese.davis@monash.edu">therese.davis@monash.edu</a>) and Olivia Khoo
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:olivia.khoo@monash.edu">olivia.khoo@monash.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Please
send 300 word proposals and a bio to the convenors by 31 October
2016.
Notifications by end of November 2016. Please note: t</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">here will be no registration fees however we
are not able to provide
funding for airfares or accommodation.</span>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr Olivia Khoo
Senior Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies
Program Co-ordinator, Film, Media and Communications HDR Program
Room B4.26, Building B, Level 4
School of Media, Film and Journalism
Monash University
Caulfield East VIC 3143
AUSTRALIA
P: +61-3-9905-2128
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:olivia.khoo@monash.edu">olivia.khoo@monash.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/olivia-khoo/">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/olivia-khoo/</a>
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