<div dir="ltr">

<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://ssaaanz.org/conference/"><u>Extended Call for Papers: </u><u>Second Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) conference, </u><u>‘</u><u>The Uses of Cinema: Film, Television, Screen’, </u><u>2018</u></a></strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Closing date for submissions: 30 April 2018</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Location: School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne<br>November 21–23, 2018</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In recent years film and television scholarship has seen a renewed focus on <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">the uses of cinema</em> – that is, on educational, instructional, non-theatrical, client-sponsored and government-sponsored filmmaking – in collections such as <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Films That Work </em>(Hediger and Vonderau, 2009), <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Useful Cinema </em>(Acland and Wasson, 2011), <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television</em>
 (Boon 2008) and<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film</em>(Orgeron, Orgeron and Streible 2012).<br>This work – along with 2018’s fiftieth anniversary of the events of May 1968 – provides an occasion for reflection upon <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">the usefulness of film</em> and television practice and scholarship, and offers twin points of reference for the Second Biennial Conference of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">SSAAANZ invites papers and panel suggestions from researchers, archivists, educators, policymakers, and practitioners on any aspects of <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">the </em><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">critical, social and political uses of cinema</em> including, <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">but not limited</em> to the following themes:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em 1.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);color:rgb(65,75,82);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Activist film and television</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">1968 and global film culture</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Film and television practice and praxis</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Film and ethnography</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Utilitarian filmmaking</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Women and cinema</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Seriality and cinema</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Cinema and the environment</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Cinema and the brain</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Film and pedagogy</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Film and tourism</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Language use on screen</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Misuses of cinema</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Expected plenary speakers (TBC) include:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em 1.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);color:rgb(65,75,82);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Stella Bruzzi (Warwick University)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Allison De Fren (Occidental College, LA)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, VT)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Claire Perkins (Monash University, Melbourne)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.7">Haidee Wasson (Concordia University, Montréal)</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Abstracts for individual papers and for pre-constituted panels (of up to three speakers) are welcomed on any of the conference themes.<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:bold"> </strong>For papers, please submit an abstract of 150-200 words and a bio of 50 words for each presenter. For panel proposals please submit a proposal for a panel comprising 3 speakers (3 x 20 min papers). Please provide a descriptive title for the panel, abstracts of 150-200 words each and a bio of 50 words for each presenter.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(250,249,249);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Garuda,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,75,82);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Please submit your proposals to: <a href="mailto:Arts-MFJ-UsesOfCinema@monash.edu" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(90,180,224);text-decoration:none">Arts-MFJ-UsesOfCinema@monash.edu</a>. The conference convenors are: Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams (Monash University). </b></p>

<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Phoebe Macrossan</b></font><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><i><br></i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ph.D. Candidate | Sessional Tutor | </span></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Postgraduate Executive Member Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (<a href="http://ssaaanz.org/" target="_blank">SSAAANZ</a>) </span></div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA</span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">T: <a href="https://twitter.com/phoebemack" target="_blank">@phoebemack</a><br>W: <a href="http://unsw.academia.edu/PhoebeMacrossan" target="_blank">unsw.academia.edu/PhoebeMacrossan</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>