[Commlist] Cfp Doing Women's Film & Television History conference

We are inviting submissions for individual papers or panels at the Doing 
Women's Film & Television History conference taking place on 20th-22nd 
May, 2020, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Keynote speakers: Kasandra O’Connell: Head of the Irish Film Archive at 
the Irish Film Institute in Dublin City Centre. The Irish Film Archive 
holds a collection that includes over one hundred years of Irish film as 
well as other audiovisual material.
Kate Murphy (Bournemouth University) and Jeannine Baker (Macquarie 
University) will speak about their collaboration with the BBC on the 100 
Voices that Made the BBC: Pioneering Women which was launched in 2018 
and features a curation of the contributions of women to  BBC 
broadcasting. See the project 
here: https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/pioneering-women
Annie Doona, President of Institute of Art, Design and Technology and 
Chair of Screen Ireland
Ruth Barton, Professor of Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Susan Liddy, co-chair of Women in Film & Television Ireland and lecturer 
at University of Limerick
Anne O’Brien, lecturer at Maynooth University and author of Women, 
Inequality and Media work (2019)
Abigail Keating, lecturer at University College Cork and co-founder of 
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

We'll also have a roundtable discussion about women in the film and 
television industry.

See our call for papers here: 
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/doingwomensfilmandtvhistoryV/call-papers

The fifth biennial Doing Women’s Film & Television History conference 
invites proposals from researchers and practitioners engaged in the 
exploration, uncovering, archiving and dissemination of women’s roles in 
film and television, as well as wider media, both in the past and today. 
The theme of this conference - ‘Forming Histories/ Histories in 
Formation’ – aims to foreground issues pertaining to the production, 
curation and archiving of women’s histories in film and television as 
well as the methods for, and approaches to, producing and shaping these 
histories as they form. More particularly, much can be learned from the 
diversity of practices, experiences and narratives of women’s film and 
television history as they pertain to:  national, transnational, world 
and global histories; neglected, peripheral or hidden histories; 
organisations such as museums, archives and universities; collectives, 
groups and movements such as #MeToo; local communities and community 
media; emergent forms and platforms; and historical approaches to 
women’s reception of film and television as well as historicising 
current practices and experiences of reception, fandom and consumption.
This three-day conference casts the net wide so that it can capture a 
range of experiences, practices, industries, nationalities and voices 
that are situated in relation to women and their histories. The 
conference provides a platform for those working in and researching 
film, television and media more generally as well as those invested in 
the production of these histories and narratives of the past and as they 
materialise.

We invite papers that can provide added richness to the theme of ‘Women 
in Film & Television,’ and are, in addition, especially interested in 
the following areas:

•	International and comparative perspectives on women in film and television
•	Histories of women’s creative practice, production and technical work 
and film/cinema and television work more generally in various national, 
regional, or local contexts; transnational film and television; 
migration and diasporas
•	Approaches to histories of women’s indigenous production, including 
Third Cinema and grassroots film and television production • 
Representations of women in historical film and television
•	Female audiences, reception, fandom of film and television
•	Considerations of methodological and theoretical approaches to the 
study of women in film and television and their audiences
•	Archival research methods and approaches including feminist archiving 
practices •	Use of recently established or historically neglected 
women’s media archives
•	Artefacts and ephemera in women’s archives: moving image, photographic 
and digital media, scripts, merchandise, etc.
•	Considerations of how gender intersects with race, class, ethnicity, 
in relation to film and television production, reception or representation
•	Revisiting production and labour through the lens of #MeToo and 
#TimesUp, including historical formations of, and historicising, such 
movements
•	Changing meanings of women and womanhood as reflected and shaped by 
the interventions of women in film and television as producers, critics, 
and campaigners.
•	Teaching women’s film and television history; feminist pedagogies; the 
politics of education and training; women’s experiences of moving from 
education to employment in film and television

We welcome papers on subjects outside of these areas and that enhance 
the interpretations and meanings of ‘Doing Women’s Film & Television 
History.’

Please submit proposals of 250 words along with the paper’s title and a 
50-word biography. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes, 
including clips and images. We welcome pre-constituted panels of three 
to four presenters (with panel title and abstract of 150 words), 
proposals for roundtables or workshops and presentations from 
researchers, practitioners, creatives and industry professionals. 
Deadline for proposals Oct 11th 2019. Email: (dwfthv /at/ gmail.com)

See our website for more information: 
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/doingwomensfilmandtvhistoryV/call-papers


We are pleased to make available a number of bursaries for Irish and 
international postgraduate students, early career researchers (within 
one-year of permanent contract) and those on part-time or zero-hour 
contracts. These will help support travel and accommodation to the 
conference. In order to apply, please submit to (dwfthv /at/ gmail.com) a 
250-word abstract along with a 300-word statement that includes: an 
indication of the relevance of your paper to the conference themes; 
reference to the intended output of the research; details of your 
current employment/student status. The deadline is Oct 11th 2019 and 
please use “Bursary application” in the subject line.

Hosted by Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University
Women’s Film and Television History Network- UK/Ire

Organising and programming committee
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Maynooth University
Queen’s University Belfast
University College Cork University College Dublin

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