[Commlist] CFP Filmmaking and Screening AAG 2023

Please consider participating in our two film-focused sessions on the 
AAG 2023 theme of finding more just geographies  Details below:

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Denver, Mar 23-27, 2023
*1. How can film-making contribute to challenging epistemic injustice in 
the academy?*
/Organisers:/
Jessica Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London)
Joseph Palis (University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Alice Salimbeni (University of Cagliari)
/Sponsor:/ Filmmaking and Screening Specialty Group
In 2005, Massey argued that if space is ‘a simultaneity of 
stories-so-far, then places are collections of those stories, 
articulations within the wider power-geometries of space.’ (2005, p. 130).
Filmmaking is one way of capturing these storied events that happen - 
 and those that don’t. Making a film can also highlight the importance 
of place, bringing the background to the fore as a character in its own 
right. It can be used to explore how different social groups, and 
different individuals, have access to different forms of power in 
relation to space and how power is expressed through our ability to move 
between different places. It also creates new and different connections 
between the researcher and the researched: for example between speaker 
and listener; or between different groups and places as they make and 
watch the film.
This is a call for papers (or other interventions) that discuss 
whether and how the practice of academic film-making, at least the kind 
which is co-produced with and/or carried out by local communities and 
indigenous actors, can be part of a challenge to prevailing forms 
‘epistemic injustice’ (Williams 2020) in the academy? Can filmmaking be 
a way to integrate underrepresented perspectives on space and place 
without filtering and flattening them with the privileged viewpoint of 
the researcher? Can filmmaking be a way for scholars to not just 
decolonise theoretically but also through their research practice? If 
so, how? What would need to happen for film-making in research to avoid 
becoming co-opted by the strict rules of hegemonic white norms in academia?
This session calls for papers (other formats welcome) that explores how 
geographers produce knowledge, and what kind of control is being exerted 
through this process. What are the potential opportunities and 
challenges for film and filmmaking after a pandemic that forced us all 
online, as a method of knowledge production that is digital, networked, 
and potentially offers new options for representation? How will these 
changes influence the way we produce and disseminate geographical 
knowledge in a broader sense?
Reflections on how film/making has shifted the work or focus of 
geographers in other ways also welcomed.
This session will be hybrid – remote registrants welcome. Please send a 
300-word abstract by October 25, 2022 following AAG guidelines to 
Jessica Jacobs (j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk)> and 
Joseph Palis (jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph) <mailto:(jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph)>

General Registration details below:
1. Register online with the AAG to obtain a PIN.
2. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and abstract to Joseph 
Palis (jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph) <mailto:(jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph)> and Jessica Jacobs 
(j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk)>


*2. Film Geographies and the rise of Academic Filmmaking *
/Organisers/:
Jessica Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London)
Joseph Palis (University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Heather Davis (University of Tennessee)
/Sponsor/: Filmmaking and Screening Specialty Group

This is a call for 3-5 panelists for a panel session on the rise of 
filmmaking as an academic form of enquiry. While other disciplines have 
been using filmmaking for some time, the practice of filmmaking in 
geography has only recently developed into a more significant body of 
work. When Film Geographies was created in 2016, as an online space for 
geographers to screen and discuss their films it only received a handful 
of films. Today it has collected and curated over 150 films and also 
offers filmmaking workshops in addition to organising two annual calls 
for films (annual AAG Shorts at the AAG and since 2020 with the 
RGS-IBG). Academic filmmaking endeavours in geography, and other 
disciplines, are now beginning to draw the attention of media and cinema 
departments around the world. There is a growing realization of the 
potential of digital networked film as a form of academic practice that 
can be used for pedagogy, research and creation of informative and 
artistic works for geographical knowledge production. Whether for media 
literacy, moving-image research as visual method or as a teaching 
companion, this panel will initiate a practical but critical discussion 
of the strategies, opportunities, and challenges to pursuing film as a 
method and tool of engagement.
This panel will reflect on the impact of Film Geographies, and examine 
how filmmaking in geography is now evolving, with a focus on the 
different forms of film as a means of publication, films for teaching, 
and community led filmmaking. It will ask what further support the 
discipline can offer to this new and exciting field of enquiry.


If you wish to join, email either one of us at Jessica Jacobs 
((j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.jacobs /at/ qmul.ac.uk)>), Joseph Palis 
((jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph) <mailto:(jepalis /at/ up.edu.ph)>) on or before October 25, 
2022. Send us a brief description of your work and your PIN#.

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