[Commlist] CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII Conference

Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII Conference

Entangled Media: Past and Present, 18-20th June 2025, University of Lincoln

*Deadline Extended: 20th December 2025*

We are extending our deadline until 20th December. Please submit your 
abstract via the portal.
<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=xEculd4FgkKDr19LRrFij7BzHzJd1R9IuN4_I3ZRfdpUQzI1RVdUMDJRSE5CTVdXS09VOURUWk40WC4u&route=shorturl> 


Below is the original CFP and confirmed keynote speakers. The initial 
schedule of sending out acceptance notifications by the end of January 
remains.

Please get in touch with Hannah Andrews ((handrews /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)) and/or 
Jeongmee Kim ((jkim /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)) if you have any enquiries.


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We’re delighted to announce our keynotes:

Dr Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University, USA)

Dr Kate Terkanian (Bournemouth University, UK)

This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History 
Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial 
approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television 
and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV 
histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships.

An 'entangled’ approach to film, TV and media historiography 
problematises national and mono-medial histories (Cronqvist and Hilgert, 
2017). It recognises the complex processes by which film and television 
are made, distributed, seen and received across borders, be they 
geographical, cultural, ideological or otherwise defined, and in 
dialogue with other media.

This compels us to ‘read against the grain’ of existing histories, 
paying attention to ‘how historical silences are produced’ (Hilmes, 
2017). These are the fundamentals of feminist media historiography, and 
this conference aims to bring women’s voices, figures, organisations, 
and stories into the light, giving them sharper focus. The conference 
will emphasise women’s roles in these entanglements. Our understanding 
of ‘women’ is inclusive and gender-expansive.

We encourage transmedial approaches that account for the role of women 
in the long histories of media convergence in different social and 
cultural contexts, as well as related practices, such as divergence, 
conglomeration, inter- and cross-mediality. ‘Media’ is defined broadly.  
Work that engages with (interconnected) histories of women’s film and 
television beyond Western contexts is welcome.

We are calling for papers in any area of women’s film and television 
history, but especially those that respond to the theme, on topics such 
as, but not limited to:

•             Entangled and / or transnational women’s media histories 
and historiography: theory, practice, challenges

•             Case studies of film and TV workers across national or 
medial borders

•             Historicising women’s role in digital or online screen 
media production, distribution, consumption, promotion, publicity or 
criticism.

•             Media convergence pre- and post-digital media

•             Feminist and/or decolonising approaches to media archaeology

•             Methodological challenges and approaches to entangled 
media histories

•             Entangled histories in cinema and TV industries beyond the 
mainstream e.g. amateur cinema, community television, independent and 
activist film and TV.

We welcome proposals in the following three formats:

1.            15-minute presentations, including the following information:

•             title

•             250-word abstract

•             brief biography of the author(s).

2.            pre-constituted panels with a maximum of 4 speakers (panel 
length will be 90 minutes and should include at least 15 minutes for 
discussion). Pre-constituted panel proposals should include:

•             short (250-word) rationale statement, explaining the 
constitution of the panel and types of contributions it will include.

•             individual abstracts (250 word)

•             brief biography of all contributors

Panels can also be constituted as roundtables, workshops or other 
non-standard forms. Please contact the organising team to discuss ideas.

3.            Practice-led contributions which address women’s histories 
in film, television and audio/visual media are encouraged. Please submit:

•             a 250-word description

•             running time

•             display requirements

•             links to an excerpt and/or full work

•             brief biography of creator(s).

If accepted, practice-led contributions may be presented as part of 
panels or as a limited number of separate sessions/screenings and/or 
made available to delegates online.

Please submit here: https://forms.office.com/e/NvRLHtdNa2

Extended Deadline for proposals: 20 December 2024. The acceptance of 
your proposal will be communicated to you by the end of January 2025.

If you have any questions please contact Hannah Andrews 
((handrews /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)) and/or Jeongmee Kim ((jkim /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)). On 
behalf of the conference organising team: Hannah Andrews, Diane 
Charlesworth, Jeongmee Kim, and Frances Morgan.

References

Cronqvist, M. and Hilgert, C. (2017) ‘Entangled Media Histories: The 
Value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media 
Historiography.’ /Media History/ 23(1): 130-141.

Hilmes, M. (2017) ‘Entangled Media Histories: a Response.’ /Media 
History/ 23(1): 142-4.

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