[ecrea] Doing Women's Film and Television History Conference

*Proposal deadline: Friday, November 3rd 2017 (10pm GMT)
Doing Women's Film and Television History IV:
Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next
May 23 – 25, 2018

University of Southampton, UK
Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford


As researchers of the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and 
Contemporary UK Film Culture 2000-2015 we are proud to host the fourth 
International Doing Women's Film and Television History conference in 
association with the Women’s Film and Television History Network – 
UK/Ireland.

The focus for DWFTH-IV is predicated on the idea of the contemporary as 
an historical formation. The conference will offer a space to think 
about the interconnectedness of the past, present and future in feminist 
historiography and theory, as well as across all forms of women’s film 
culture and film and television production. It will also consider 
women’s film and television histories and their relationships with the 
contemporary, framed and read historically, to reflect on our 
methodological, theoretical, ideological and disciplinary choices when 
researching and studying women and/in film and television. In addition 
to this theme, we are interested in proposals/panels on all topics 
related to women’s film and television history, from all eras and from 
all parts of the globe. We hope that DWFTH-IV will build on the 
successes of the previous conferences through new work on women, both 
historical and contemporary, and fresh thinking on what we mean by 
women’s film and television history.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Professor Jane Gaines
Columbia University, USA

Dr. Oluyinka Esan
University of Winchester, UK

Dr Rashmi Sawhney
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India

Professor Shelley Stamp
University of Santa Cruz, USA

Professor Yvonne Tasker
Universit of East Anglia, UK


The conference will also include screenings with practitioners and other 
industry professionals.


Papers are invited on any aspect of women’s work in, consumption of, and 
relationship with film and television. The following is an indicative 
(and by no means exhaustive) list of possible topics:




·      women’s film/TV historiography: filling gaps or changing history?

·      history formulated as in medias res: how do we do contemporary 
history, and what are the implications of thinking of the historical in 
this way?

·      methodologies: archive searches, data collection (uses, 
limitations, difficulties collecting); interviews with practitioners; 
creative/cultural industrial approaches

·       the impact of social, economic and industrial conditions 
(including industry regulation) on women’s roles and creative practices

·      new ways of doing textual analysis of women’s films (rethinking 
feminist theory?)

·      the intersection of class, race, sexuality, disability and women 
both on screen and behind the camera

·      issues of archiving and preservation for women’s film and television

·      distribution and exhibition and broadcasting – finding and seeing 
women’s film and television

·      re-thinking women as ‘auteurs’ of film and television (directors, 
showrunners, producers, actors)

·      feminism & women’s film history; historicizing women’s film 
collectives of 1970s and 80s; feminist filmmaking today (and tomorrow?)

·      international and transnational contexts: connections, 
comparisons, collaborations, migration

·      crossing industry boundaries: film, television, theatre, radio, 
journalism, art, etc

·      practice-based research: directing, screenwriting, 
sound/set/costume design, etc

- the relationship between practice-based research and history

·      women audiences/viewers and women as fans

·      women campaigner/activists in film and television and for 
on-screen/off-screen change

·      women’s film criticism/women film critics

·      the uses of social media by women 
filmmakers/showrunners/actors/critics/fans/campaigners etc

·      digitisation in women’s filmmaking and future histories

·      ‘women’s cinema’ as critical category in post-feminist contexts

·      women’s independent filmmaking and/versus women’s mainstream (or 
blockbuster) directing

·      changing the curriculum: critical canons; pedagogies of women’s 
film and television history; teaching feminist history and theory; 
women’s film and television in core curricula

·      the relationship between film and television genres, their 
gendered affiliations and women’s involvement in their production

·      women practitioners’ negotiations of femininity and/or feminism 
in their working lives

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations must include the title of the 
presentation, a 250-word abstract and a brief biography the author(s). 
Pre-constituted panels of three speakers may also be submitted, and 
should include a 250-word panel rationale statement, as well as 
individual abstracts. Proposals from both established scholars and early 
career researchers including postgraduate students are welcomed. 
Proposals should be submitted to 
(dwfth4 /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(dwfth4 /at/ gmail.com)> by the 3 November 2017. 
Participants will receive a response from the selection committee before 
20 December 2017.

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 
2000-2015 is an AHRC funded research project, running from 2014-2018. 
Further details of the project can be found at: 
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cswf/
Further details on the Women’s Film and Television History Network - 
UK/Ireland can be found at: 
https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com<https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/>

There are downoadable Word (2-page) and PDF (1-pge) versions you can 
print out and post or use to pass the CFP on to students, colleagues and 
other networks on the WFTHN website here: 
https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/cfp-doing-womens-film-and-television-history-iv/


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