[ecrea] VISIBLE EVIDENCE 21 (New Delhi) Call for Papers

Visible Evidence 21--New Delhi
December 11-14, 2014

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Visible Evidence, the annual scholarly conference on documentary film, 
media, culture and politics--interdisciplinary, international and 
indispensable--is now 21!
Inaugurated at Duke University in 1994, Visible Evidence has met 
annually ever since--in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, the 
Netherlands, Brazil, Australia, and most recently in Sweden, as well as 
in the US (eleven times).
This year the conference will be held in New Delhi, India from December 
11 to 14 2014. Co-hosted by Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia 
Islamia, the conference will be held at the India International Centre, 
Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi. In 2014 we are meeting in Asia for the 
first time, and for the second time only in the global south!

Visible Evidence 21, as is traditional, will feature a range of panels, 
workshops, plenary sessions, screenings and special events around 
documentary, its practices, histories and theories.
Proposals for panels, workshops, presentations, screenings and 
individual papers are solicited according to the following guidelines 
and themes.

Themes:
Proposals may address any aspect of documentary screen cultures, 
histories and practices by engaging with, but are not restricted to, the 
following themes (we aim for a broad, diverse and inclusive scope for 
this first Asian VisEv):
Documentary /Art: Exploring new spaces, narratives, relationships and 
audiences
Documentary/Social Sciences: Engaging with politics, methodologies, 
ethics and evidence
Documentary/Selves: Addressing autobiographies, memoirs, home-movies, 
confessions and self-fashioning
Documentary/Cities: Crowds and communities, onscreen and offscreen.
Documentary/ Pedagogies: Making as teaching, producing as mentorship.
Documentary/Affect: Bodies, sensations, feelings and relationships
Documentary/Trash: Shame, gossip, scandal, exploitation and the sensational
Documentary/Sexuality and Gender: Diversity, dissidence and disclosure
Documentary/Production: Practices and authors; screenings, streamings 
and (emergent) platforms
Documentary/Economies: Techno-materialities, virtualities, festivals and 
archives
Documentary/Modes: Fiction, animation, performance, voice and hybridity
Documentary/Violence: Trauma, testimony, index, performance and memory
Documentary/Truths: Analog to digital, cinéma-vérité to docu-menteur, 
phones and phoneys
Documentary/Transnational: Migrations, transgressions, diasporas, scapes 
and refugees
Documentary/Environment: Interventions, debates, exposures
Documentary/Archives: Memory, preservation, restoration, historiography
Documentary/Activism: Transformation, mimesis, witness.
Documentary/South Asia: Historicising state, independent, experimental 
and regional interventions… identifying parallels in other postcolonial 
traditions.
Panel, Workshop and Papers: Guidelines and Deadlines

We invite submissions of pre-constituted panels, pre-constituted 
workshops and individual paper proposals. Each panel and workshop 
session is allotted 90 min. Each panel will have three papers of not 
more than 20 min followed by discussion. Workshops, usually addressing 
practice-related issues, will feature 4 to 6 opening statements 
(totalling up to 30 min of prepared material), setting the stage for an 
exchange of ideas and skills among workshop participants.

Proposed panels and workshops may be pre-constituted either through 
public calls for submissions, or through individual solicitation by 
interested convenors.
Panel and workshop calls may be posted publicly by interested convenors 
on the Conference Website (coming soon) until May 1, 2014. Convenors 
must notify selected participants by May 15, 2014. Convenors of 
pre-constituted panels and workshops are expected to submit proposals in 
standard format (see below) both for the event as a whole and for each 
individual contributions (for example a submission for a pre-constituted 
may be up to 8 pages in length, and for a workshop up to 14 pages).

Deadline for all open call individual paper proposals and 
pre-constituted panels and workshops: June 1, 2014. Participants will be 
notified of their acceptance or not around June 23.
Submission Format:

Proposals for panel papers and workshop contributions include a 
descriptive title, an abstract (of 250-300 words), biblio- /filmography 
(5 or 6 items maximum) and brief bio (150 words maximum). The proposal 
should not exceed two pages.

In all individual proposals for panel contributions, please indicate 
whether or not, in the instance that the panel is rejected, you would 
like your individual proposal to be considered as an open call submission.
Please submit your proposal by the above deadlines as a PDF document to 
(ve21newdelhi /at/ gmail.com).

Deadline Summary:
March 1: Call for papers
April 1: Conference website operative.
May 1: End date for solicitation by interested convenors for 
participation in pre-constituted panels and workshops.
May 15: Convenors notify participants of pre-constituted panels and 
workshops.
June 1: Deadline for all submissions of individual paper proposals (open 
call) and preconstituted panels and workshops.
June 23: Notification of acceptances for Visible Evidence 21.
December 11: Welcome to Delhi! Conference begins.

Organizing committee:
Jawaharlal Nehru University: Ira Bhaskar, Ranjani Mazumdar, Veena 
Hariharan, Kaushik Bhaumik
Jamia Millia Islamia: Shohini Ghosh, Sabeena Gadihoke
University of Pittsburgh: Neepa Majumdar
Concordia University: Thomas Waugh.



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