[ecrea] CFP: Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference Returns

Call for Papers
Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference (EIFAC)
30-31 March 2017, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference (EIFAC) returns in 2017 
with a new conference team and official affiliation with Queen Margaret 
University, Edinburgh. The two-day conference continues EIFAC’s proud 
tradition of bringing together empirical film and media researchers to 
discuss, debate and explore audience engagements with moving image past 
and present. EIFAC showcases the small, yet mounting, pool of film 
scholarship that moves away from classical textual modes of research to 
include empirical fieldwork. We also welcome work from media areas 
outside of Film Studies – Communication Studies, Games Studies, 
Television Studies, and Media Studies. As such, we invite research 
papers on non-film subject matter or indeed empirical research on 
film/cinema emerging from non-film disciplines (i.e. Sociology, Tourism, 
Cultural Studies). We are particularly interested in new directions in 
audience research within the broader digital media landscape.

EIFAC provides an arena where new and experienced researchers in 
academia can come together to share their enthusiasm for audience 
research in a friendly and supportive environment. Whilst the conference 
may well appeal primarily to academics, it invites contribution from 
those working in the film industries (production, distribution, 
exhibition, policy-making). Industry-academic collaborations have been 
developed at past EIFAC conferences, and it is the continued aim of the 
organising team to further enhance dialogue between academics and 
industry professionals. The conference will be a platform where 
researchers can better understand the challenges faced by practitioners 
in ‘knowing and engaging their audience,’ where practitioners are shown 
the value of empirical scholarship as a cost-effective resource 
available to them, and where collaborative partnerships can come to life.

The conference will include a keynote address (TBC), invited industry 
panel, series of 20-minute research papers, and short presentations for 
research-in-progress (targeted at PG students).

Papers
All papers should be concerned with empirical research on film/media 
audiences. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the 
following issues/themes, however, we also welcome papers on other 
interesting topics:

  *   Text and audience in empirical research
  *   New methodological directions in audience research
  *   Online audiences
  *   Film event audiences
  *   Curated media experiences
  *   Child and youth audiences
  *   Transnational film audiences
  *   Transnational and diasporic audiences
  *   Screen tourism and audiences
  *   Rethinking cinephilia
  *   Contemporary cinema audiences
  *   Fan audiences
  *   Cult audiences
  *   Taste culture

Work in Progress

We continue to offer a showcase for work in progress. This is a great 
opportunity for Masters and PhD students to share research they are 
working on and receive helpful feedback from their peers. 
Work-in-progress papers will be delivered in the usual presentation 
format, only as shorter talks (15 mins).

Submitting Abstracts

Paper proposals should include title, abstract, 3-5 key bibliographical 
references, and the name/s of the presenter/s and institutional 
affiliation/s, which collectively should be no more than 300 words. We 
also ask potential presenters to include a short biography (maximum 100 
words).

Work in progress proposals should include title, short abstract, 2 key 
bibliographical references, and the name of the presenter and 
institutional affiliation, which should collectively be no more than 200 
words. We also ask work in progress presenters to include a short 
biography (maximum 50 words).

Abstracts should be submitted as virus-free Word or PDF attachments to 
Lesley-Ann Dickson (ldickson /at/ qmu.ac.uk)<mailto:(ldickson /at/ qmu.ac.uk)> no 
later than Thursday 5th January 2017. Please note the category you are 
submitting for in the email subject line (‘Paper Proposal’ or ‘Work in 
Progress Proposal’).

Referees will review abstracts and all contributors will be notified of 
the outcome by late January 2017. Abstracts that are longer than 
prescribed will not be considered.

Student Award

There will be an award for the best student paper, which can include 
undergraduates as well as postgraduates (subject to proof of status).

Conference Dates and Location

The conference will take place over two days (30th and 31st March 2017) 
in the heart of Edinburgh. One of the main attractions for participants 
is that we only run single track sessions – no more difficult decisions 
about who to go and listen to or the awful experience of presenting to 
just a couple of people whilst everyone else has gone to hear the famous 
speaker! Everyone is guaranteed a decent audience plus 20 minutes to 
present their paper followed by 15 minutes of questions. We operate a 
strict time-keeping policy and all papers must remain within the 
allocated 20 minutes (or 15 minutes for work-in-progress papers).

Key Dates

  *   CFP Submission Deadline – Thursday 5th January 2017
  *   Acceptance/Decline Notifications – Late-January 2017
  *   Preliminary Conference Programme – Late-January 2017
  *   Conference Registration Deadline – Friday 24th February 2017
  *   Final Paper/PowerPoint Submission – Friday 24th March 2017
  *   Conference Dates - Thursday 30th and Friday 31st March 2017

Organising Committee

  *   Dr Lesley-Ann Dickson
  *   Dr Marty Zeller-Jacques
  *   Dr Michael Stewart
  *   Robert Munro
  *   Jordan Phillips
  *   Katrina Macapagal



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