[ecrea] Society for Animation Studies - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015 (Canterbury, UK)- cfp

Call for Proposals: SAS Conference 2015



27th Annual International Society for Animation Studies Conference

July 13-16, 2015

Hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University



www.sasbeyondtheframe.com



Deadline for submissions: December 19, 2014



The Society for Animation Studies has, in recent years, enjoyed great 
success bringing together the richly diverse interests and activities of 
the animation community at its annual conference. Critical to this has 
been a desire to break down the perceived barriers between practice and 
scholarship. Our ambition with ‘Beyond The Frame 2015’ is to enable this 
valuable work to continue, and to encourage the SAS to think afresh 
about how we frame animation – both conceptually and practically.



The 2015 conference will include presentations, screenings and 
roundtable discussion. We are also delighted to announce two confirmed 
keynote speakers: Professor Maureen Furniss (California Institute of the 
Arts) and Dr Nichola Dobson (Edinburgh College of Art, University of 
Edinburgh).





Suggested Topics

We invite proposals on a wide range of animation topics for papers and 
micro-talks. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following 
topics:



·      Animation beyond the frame (e.g. animation and live performance, 
projection mapping, animation installation)

·      Animation: frames of reference (e.g. rethinking/reclaiming 
animation histories, practice-research, asking (again) what is animation?

·      Animation in other art forms & industries (e.g. theatre, music, 
science, architecture)

·      Immersive, interactive, experiential animation (e.g. gaming, 
transmedia, stereoscopy, augmented & virtual reality

·      Critical and theoretical approaches to animation histories or 
national movements/identities

·      Animation and documentary

·      Animation production (e.g. industrial contexts, auteurial 
production, the importance of the frame)

·      Animation pedagogy (e.g. theory and practice in curricula, 
traditional and online learning)

·      Beyond the event (e.g. archiving animation, 
local/national/international preservation initiatives, the scholarly 
community – SAS/SCMS-AMSIG)



You will need to be a fully paid member of the SAS to present at the 
conference, but you can submit a proposal for consideration even if you 
are not currently a member.



Panel Presentations

Panels are 90 minutes and include three 20 minute paper presentations 
and time for discussion. Panel presentations provide panellists the 
opportunity to share perspectives, exchange experiences, and engage in 
discussion with each other and audience members.



Pre-constituted Panel proposals are accepted and encouraged. They should 
be limited to 3-4 speakers (all of whom must be members of the SAS by 
the date of the conference). The chair of the proposed panel is expected 
to submit abstracts and contact information for all the panellists and 
co-ordinate communication between the panellists and the conference 
organizers. Please Email the Conference Chair directly and include the 
following information:



·      Panel title/theme

·      Name and contact information for the panel chair

·      Titles and abstracts for each paper as noted above (1500 
characters max each)

·      Biography (1000 characters) contact information for each presenter

·      A high resolution head shot photo of yourself (suitable for print 
publication – portrait orientation, 250X300pixels, under 1 megabyte in size)

·      International panels representing two or more countries are 
especially sought





Micro-talk Presentations

Micro talks are 5 minutes in length. The sessions will be 30 minutes in 
length. It is a timed presentation (e.g. PowerPoint of 20 slides shown 
for 20 seconds each) that can include images, clips, and text. There 
will be no Q & A period for the micro-talks.





Acceptance Process

Proposals will be blind reviewed by a panel of SAS members, and 
acceptance will be announced in January, 2015. Please be aware that 
spaces for presentations are limited. Late proposals will not be 
considered until all other proposals have been read. Late proposals and 
non-members of SAS at the time of submission will be given lower 
consideration.



Membership/renewal in the Society for Animation Studies for 2015 is 
mandatory for all conference presenters. For more information on the 
Society, go to its webpage at http://www.animationstudies.org or contact 
the SAS treasurer, Robert Musburger, at (rmusburger /at/ comcast.net).





Submission Protocol

Interested individuals should use the Submission Form on the website for 
their submission (you should receive a confirmation e-mail shortly after 
submission).



You will need the following information:



·      Name

·      Email

·      Twitter username (if you have one)

·      Affiliation (if any)

·      Title

·      Abstract (no more than 1500 characters)

·      Bio (no more than 1000 characters)

·      Whether you will be presenting as a 20 min paper or 5 min Micro-talk

·      A high resolution head shot photo of yourself (suitable for print 
publication – portrait orientation, 250X300pixels, under 1 megabyte in size)

·      Keywords





Financial aid for travel will be available on a limited basis; details 
will be forthcoming.



For questions regarding the conference or submission, please contact 
conference chair Chris Pallant at (sas2015 /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)



Please circulate this CFP to anyone you think might be interested.



Follow us on Twitter: @sas2015beyond




--

Dr Chris Pallant

Senior Lecturer in Film Studies | Programme Director: MA by Research



Department of Media, Art and Design

Canterbury Christ Church University

North Holmes Road | Canterbury | Kent CT1 1QU



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