[ecrea] BAFTSS Conference 2014

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS BAFTSS CONFERENCE 2014
After the success of the first BAFTSS Conference in Lincoln in April 
2013, and following the first submissions of proposal we are pleased to 
announce the second Call for Papers for the 2014 Conference 24-26 April 
at Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image, University of London.

As such, and with the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient 
Professor Richard Dyer in mind, we would like to invite papers and/or 
panels on all areas of film, television and screen studies but with 
particular foci on:

Sexuality
Entertainment
Race
Musicals
Film Music
Stars

There will also be a special screening of the digitally re-mastered 
Riddles of the Sphinx (Mulvey and Wollen, 1977), a screening of one 
Richard Dyer's favourite films Pakeezah (Amrohi, 1972) two keynote talks 
(one by the Award recipient, one by a filmmaker tba), the BAFTSS Awards 
Ceremony, a Professional Panel discussion of the discipline and the 
effect of Impact and, pre-conference, a Postgraduate/Early Career 
development session. The conference will be begin at 2pm on the 24th and 
end at 2pm on the 26th following the final plenary. A conference dinner 
will be held on the evening of Friday 25th. The preliminary timetable 
looks like this:

Thursday
11.00-1.00 Pre-Conference Meetings: PG Developmental Session/EC Meeting 
(with one PG in attendance)
1.00-2.00 Registration
2.00-2.30 Welcome
2.30-4.00 Parallel Session
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Filmmaker Plenary
6.00-7.45 Dinner Break
7.45-10.00 Richard Dyer's 'Desert Island Movie' Pakeezah (1972)
Friday
9.00-10.15 Parallel Session
10.15-10.30 Break
10.30-12.00 Parallel Session
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.30 Screening of Digitally Remastered Riddles of the Sphinx and 
short Q&A
2.30-4.00 Parallel Session
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Professional Plenary 'Whither the Humanities in the Age of 
Impact?'
6.00-7.30 Break/Bar
7.30-9.30 Conference Dinner (optional)

Saturday
9.00-10.15 Parallel Session
10.15-10.45 Break
10.45-11.45 AGM
11.45-12.15 Awards (BAFTSS Essay Awards and Lifetime Achievement)
12.30-13.30 Final Plenary Richard Dyer (invited and accepted - Lifetime 
Achievement Award)
13.30-14.00 End

Accommodation will be attendees responsibility to organise but 
conference fees will be announced soon (we anticipate the conference fee 
being less than £100 for full attendance and no more than £50 for 
concessionary full attendance). This also excludes the conference dinner 
price. Day fees will be available at both full and concessionary rates also.
If you would like to submit a proposal in response to this Second Call, 
please email a 200-300 word paper proposal, a panel proposal (panels of 
no more than 4 please) with details of each paper (so a total of no more 
than 1000 words please) to conference committee co-chair Anna Claydon at 
(eac14 /at/ le.ac.uk) by October 4th. We would also like a 150 word bio and 
contact details and affiliations to be included in the Word (or Rich 
Text) document. Please do not send as pdf files. All proposals will be 
reviewed by members of the Executive Committee.
Best wishes and a happy new academic year to you all!
Anna Claydon, Joe Andrew, Andrew Moor and Brian Winston (the Conference 
Committee)

Dr E. Anna Claydon
Director of IDeoGRAMS, Director MA Mass Communications
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
Bankfiield House
132 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7JA
0116 252 2089
Email: (eac14 /at/ le.ac.uk)/(e.anna.claydon /at/ gmail.com)