[Commlist] BAFTSS 2020 Conference Call for Papers

Please see below the Call for Papers for the BAFTSS 2020 Annual 
Conference. Deadline for proposals is _*Monday 16 December 2019. *_

*BAFTSS 2020: Rethinking Screen Cultures *

The 8th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the *University of St 
Andrews* on *16-18 April 2020*, will take as its theme “Rethinking 
Screen Cultures”.

At a time when Film, Screen and TV Studies is placing increasing 
emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh objects beyond the 
traditional canon, this conference seeks to foreground new directions 
and methodologies in the discipline. These ‘new’ directions often move 
beyond the screen and this conference will explore the varied ways in 
which screen media, from early industrial film to VR, is produced, 
distributed, circulated, exhibited, archived and consumed. Inviting 
papers and interventions from an array of geographical and historical 
contexts, this conference seeks to look beyond; beyond what’s happening 
on screens, beyond the canon to marginalised/ forgotten/lost phenomena, 
beyond the traditional methodologies of ‘film studies’ and ‘media 
studies’ towards other disciplinary approaches, beyond the screen to 
other determinants of audiovisual experience (including sound, 
technologies, labour and materialities), and beyond academic traditions 
towards creative and critical collaborations. The need for film, 
television and media studies has never been greater, as we seek to 
critically understand and analyse the ways in which all forms of media 
function and shape the world around us. Screen Cultures shape our 
political and social frames of reference, and are frequently at the 
centre of contemporary global debates, whether around the environment, 
global finance, citizen activism or ‘fake news’. How then can our 
discipline – and screen media more broadly – challenge, deconstruct and 
critically analyse a world order historically sustained by screen media?

We are delighted to confirm our two keynotes and the recipient of the 
Outstanding Achievement Award.

*Keynotes*:

Professor May Adadol Ingawanij 
<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/ingawanij-may-adadol> 
(Professor of Cinematic Arts, Westminster School of Arts).

Dr Glyn Davis <https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-glyn-davis> (Reader 
in Screen Studies, University of Edinburgh)

*Outstanding Achievement Award 2020*: Mark Cousins 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cousins_(film_critic)> has just 
completed his mammoth (840 minute) film project Women Make Film: A New 
Road Movie Through Film and is well known for his compendious 2011 
documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. His recent films also include 
the 'city-symphony' I Am Belfast (2015), and The Eyes of Orson Welles 
(2018). Some of you may remember him following Alex Cox as presenter of 
BBC2's cult film series Moviedrome in 1997. Mark will be giving a talk 
called 'Freaks' - a discussion of people who influenced his 
understanding of film and the visual world.

Topics: We invite submissions for papers, workshops or panels of three 
papers, in English, within the following areas:

• Labour of Screen Culture: How does media supplement power? How do off 
screen cultures, production and work beyond the screen (for example, 
“below the line” workers), shape on-screen media?
• Uses of Screen Culture: “Useful” Screens, particularly in 
non-theatrical and non-entertainment traditions (industrial film, 
advertising, science film, instructional film, public service 
broadcasting, activist video, online campaigns).
• Archaeologies of Screen Culture: from precinema and early television 
to VR and Video Games; cultures of intermediality and interactivity, 
fandom, and social media.
• Material Aspects of Screen Culture: technologies, materials, 
extractions and ecologies.
• Aesthetic Practices of Screen Culture: animation, colour, fashion, 
photography and the influence of wider artistic and media contexts.
• Acoustic Dimensions of Screen Culture: The often-overlooked place of 
sound, and sound practitioners, within screen culture, from sound design 
to the political power of voice.
• Non-Fiction Forms of Screen Culture: Documentary cultures and 
infrastructures, from financing to production, programming, and 
exhibition as well as the films/programmes themselves.
• Networks of Screen Culture: Institutions and groups including 
societies, clubs, online communities, collectives and activist groups.
• Archiving Screen Culture: The changing role of archives (including 
digitisation and preservation) and the politics of preserving material 
screen culture.
• Exhibition as Screen Culture: from early mobile forms of exhibition to 
cinema and television in the age of Netflix; from film festivals to 
cell-phones, aeroplanes to online media.
• Social Dimensions of Screen Culture: How are screen cultures shaped by 
questions of intersectionality? How has researching, archiving and 
curating LGBTQ+ screen histories opened up the canon and re-shaped the 
discipline?
• Ecologies of Screen Culture: How have screen cultures responded to 
increasingly urgent questions of ecology and environmental crisis?
• Geographies of Screen Culture: What can 'new' directions and 
methodologies in Film and Television Studies offer for work on specific 
national/linguistic traditions and vice versa?
• Screen Culture in Education: What role can screen media play in 
schools and higher education today and how might recent developments in 
the field (methodologies, objects, approaches) better inform pedagogy?
• Absences from Screen Culture: How do we account for, and challenge, 
structuring absences? Are there forgotten figures (stars, producers, 
exhibitors) or communities that can help revise screen history?

BAFTSS is committed to issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity and 
we particularly encourage those proposing pre-convened panels to be 
mindful of this.

Details about the conference and forms for individual proposals and 
panels can be downloaded here: https://www.baftss.org/conf-2020

Completed proposal forms should be sent to *(baftssconference /at/ gmail.com)* 
by *Monday 16 December 2019*. You will be notified whether your proposal 
has been accepted in January 2020.

Information about the conference fees and any travel bursaries will 
follow shortly.

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