[ecrea] SRN2017 conference

*Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real*

*Call for Papers*

In order to ensure timely notification and subsequent travel planning, 
please note the deadline: Abstracts for original paper presentations and 
panels may be submitted until *November 15, 2016*. This date has been 
set as it is national vacation time over Dec/Jan in New Zealand and all 
committee members already have scheduled leave.

The 10th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference 
will be hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of Media, Film 
and Communication, in partnership with the New Zealand Writers Guild. It 
will take place in Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand, on Monday 28th through 
Thursday 31st August 2017.

The conference theme is Screenwriting: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the 
Real. SRN2017 will examine how we approach/frame our storytelling, in 
and from different contexts. This then brings in conventions, 
orthodoxies, claims about the real and the truth (which might be 
different from the ‘real’), as well as the cultural and industrial 
contexts of storytelling practice(s). In other words, how we justify 
telling our stories in a particular way and how these shifts impact our 
work as practitioners and scholars: for example, in Aotearoa New 
Zealand, why it is important to understand different cultural 
perspectives which include the very nature of storytelling, if we are to 
get (or get to) a particular truth. We want to discuss the role and 
function of conventions regarding fact and fiction, as well as 
interrogating the practices of certain genres and media.

We invite discussion about screenwriting as an art located somewhere 
between fact, fiction, truth, and the real. We are particularly 
interested in abstracts for presentations on the following topics:

•    In relation to truth claims and narrative, can we separate the 
teller from        the tale?
•    Writing the Real: adapting events into stories
•    How does collaborative screenwriting negotiate fact, fiction, 
truth, and          the ‘real’?
•    How do we frame the local, the national, and the indigenous?
•    How can we narrate from a transnational position?
•    How do specific orthodox screenwriting frameworks affect the tales 
we         tell?
•    Teaching fact, fiction, truth, and the ‘real’ in screenwriting
•    Reflections on narrative theory and conventions
•    Screenwriting and Literature: the adaptation of source narratives 
into           scripts
•    Censorship, ratings, and screenwriting

We would also like to invite abstracts for presentations beyond the 
theme of the conference. We are looking forward to abstracts that cover 
the wide field of screenwriting studies, including, but not limited to, 
the following topics:

•    Practice-based research in the field of screenwriting
•    Writing for series television
•    Different screenwriting practices and formats
•    Case studies on individual writers or texts
•    Historical perspectives on screenwriting and screenplays
•    Screenwriting, the screenplay and different production structures
•    Screenwriting and narrative theory in writing for short films
•    Screenwriting for games and animation
•    Screenwriting for new media forms, online, transmedia, etc. Are 
stories       fully transferrable from one medium to another?
•    How does the digital age change screenwriting?

Proposals for individual presentations and pre-constituted panels:

Time allotted to each paper is 20 minutes plus discussion. Abstracts for 
original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until November 
15, 2016. Earlier submissions are welcome. Please note: original, 
in-person paper presentations only (no repetitions from other 
conferences or former SRN conferences. Video presentations are not 
possible).

Proposals for pre-constituted panels should include no more than three 
presenters (20 mins for each paper), the overall issue of the panel, 
abstracts for all of the presentations and, if possible, the name and a 
short biography of the chair of the panel. The chair should not be one 
of the presenters. If a proposal for a panel does not include a chair, 
the conference committee will appoint one.

Please send abstracts (250-300 words) as a Word document, with the email 
subject heading “SRN2017 Proposal” to: (srn-2017proposals /at/ otago.ac.nz)
Remember to state your name, affiliation and contact information. Also 
include a brief biographical statement (100 words) detailing your 
publications and/or screenwriting practice.

We are currently in conversation with publishers about an edited 
anthology. If you are interested in your abstract being considered for 
such a publication, please indicate this in your submission.

The organising committee plans to notify of acceptances/rejections by 
mid-December 2016. Please see our SRN2017 website at 
www.otago.ac.nz/srn-2017 in the meantime. It will be updated with this 
CFP/theme shortly, but currently has helpful general information 
regarding Dunedin, New Zealand, and travel planning options.


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