[Commlist] cfp: Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now

Sarah Arnold is happy to announce a call for papers for the conference 
'Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now' taking place 
as a hybrid virtual/on-site event on July 10th and 11th 2021. This 
conference has two strands: the first is a strand that is a refreshed 
call for papers that fall under the theme of 'Doing Women's Film & 
Television Histories'; and the second strand concentrates on the theme 
of Women and the BBC in anticipation of the BBC centenary 2022. Please 
see below for details:

DWFTH 5 revised for 2021: New call for papers--'Histories of Women in 
Film and Television: Then and Now.' A Hybrid Conference: July 10 - 11, 
2021 (virtual and on-campus at Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland)

Supported by Women’s Film & Television History Network, this call for 
papers is made in collaboration with ‘Women and the BBC’, a special 
themed issue of Critical Studies in Television.

The year 2020 has caused a great deal of sorrow, anxiety and difficulty 
across the world. With health and safety of paramount concern, 
conferences and research events – including the planned Doing Women’s 
Film and Television History conference - have been either impossible to 
hold in-person or, given the challenges presented by the need to sustain 
teaching and student welfare, deprioritized.  As we look towards 2021, 
we understand that social distancing measures and travel limitations 
will possibly continue. With this in mind, we plan to host a hybrid 
conference as an outlet for our research that will enable us to share 
our scholarship with others, form connections and offer potential for 
collaboration. If national and institutional public health measures 
allow, the conference will combine on-campus and virtual events. While 
virtual conferences present new technical and communicative challenges, 
we also see the opportunities that this type of conference affords. Not 
requiring travel, it both reduces expense and can broaden networks of 
scholars. The conference will be formed of pre-recorded talks, virtual 
live panels, live workshops, keynote talks with Q&As, and where 
possible, on-campus events. The conference is formed of two areas: 1) 
following the cancellation of this year’s ‘Doing Women’s Film & 
Television History 5’, we seek papers for the revised 2021 format that 
reflect the themes of diversity and transnationalism listed below; 2) in 
anticipation of the BBC centenary, we seek research on histories of 
women and the BBC, both past and in the making. Each strand is detailed 
below. If your proposals offered for the 2020 conference fall into 
either of these strands, please feel free to resubmit.

1. Doing Women’s Film & Television History goes virtual
We are interested in topics focusing diversity and transnational 
histories, including but not limited to:

•	Women’s film and television histories at the margins of institutions 
and of research
•	Global women’s film and television histories
•	Researching women in film and television during the pandemic and times 
of crisis
•	International and comparative perspectives on women in film and television
•	Histories of women’s creative practice, production and technical work 
in various national, regional, or local contexts, including 
transnational film and television, migration and diasporas
•	Approaches to histories of women’s indigenous production, including 
Third Cinema and grassroots film and television production •	Motherhood 
and film and televisions' working practices
•	Histories of motherhood represented in film and television
•	Debates and controversies in women’s film and television histories
 Please submit proposals of 250 words along with the paper’s title and 
a 50-word biography in one Pdf document to (dwfthv /at/ gmail.com) January 15th 
2021.

2. The BBC at 100: Women and the BBC, then and now
Recent controversies around equal pay, misogynistic abuse towards BBC 
personalities and a lack of female representation at the top of the 
corporation suggest that the institution has far to go in matters of 
gender equality. How might we characterise the relationship between 
corporate and on-screen representation of women? And how has the BBC 
responded to changing socio-cultural attitudes and discourses defining 
women over time?
We are particularly interested in contributions that address the 
historical and contemporary stories of female workers at the BBC; that 
analyse how BBC programming gives representation to women's lives, 
serves female audiences or explores experiences of genders and sexualities.
Selected papers will be invited to publish in the special themed issue 
of Critical Studies in Television in Autumn 2022 on 'Women and the BBC'.
Please submit proposals of 250 words along with the paper’s title and a 
50-word biography in one Pdf document to (sarah.arnold /at/ mu.ie), 
(Hannah.Andrews /at/ edgehill.ac.uk) and (j.mccabe /at/ bbk.ac.uk) by January 15th 2021.
Hosting of this conference is supported by Maynooth University and ‘The 
Motherhood Project’ at Maynooth University.


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