[Commlist] Call for Papers: Decolonising Film Education in Scotland Symposium

Please see below for details of an upcoming symposium at Queen Margaret 
University in April 2020.

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*_Friday April 24^th 2020, 10am-4pm_*

*_Symposium: Decolonising Film Education in Scotland_*

*_Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh_*

Lectures and discussions focusing on the decolonisation of the 
curriculum have taken place around the UK in the last few years, and 
QMU’s Film & Media scholars are contributing to this debate by 
organising a one-day event that focuses on Scotland’s film education in 
all its shapes and forms.

At this event we hope to go further than merely diversifying the canon, 
by thinking through the *meaning and practice *of decolonising reading 
lists, staff quotas, educational resources, film screenings and other 
educational content. This event has been conceived to 
challenge longstanding omissions that limit how we 
understand Scottish identity and society. In order to continue to 
interrogate and broaden our vision of a Scottish future on the screen, 
we need to include a wider range of perspectives, reflecting the 
increasing diversity of Scottish experiences and identities in terms of 
class, disability, gender, geography, language and race.

We will reconsider who teaches whom, what the subject matter is and how 
it is being taught, in order to challenge any ingrained structural 
inequalities. This symposium sets out to challenge educational power 
structures and calls for deeper thinking about the content of our 
courses, lessons, resources and outreach initiatives and how 
we facilitate them. In addition to this, we see this event as an 
information sharing session where we can hear about, and learn from, the 
existing efforts from all of those working in film education to 
decolonise film canons and filmmaking.

We invite film education officers, archive professionals, festival 
curators and programmers, teachers, tutors, students, policy makers, as 
well as educators and scholars concerned about what we offer to pupils, 
students and audiences. We welcome proposals for a paper, a panel or 
workshop that will enable us to think about decolonisation of film 
education in Scotland.

*Examples for topics *(not an exhaustive list)*:*****

·Policy changes in primary and secondary education

·Curriculum for Excellence and the canon

·Teaching world cinema to a white student body

·Teaching the big screen through the small screen

·Working with young people from diverse backgrounds

·Decolonising aesthetics and form in filmmaking practices

·The continued relevance (or not) of canonical films & filmmakers for 
contemporary audiences

*_Deadline: December 20th_**__*

Proposals should be submitted to (rmunro /at/ qmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rmunro /at/ qmu.ac.uk)> by *December 20^th *. Please include a 250-500 
word abstract, and a short biographical note. Applicants will be 
notified of acceptance by *January 31^st * 2020.

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*Organisers:*

Dr Robert Munro, Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication, QMU

Dr Stefanie Van De Peer, Lecturer in Film and Media, QMU


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