[ecrea] CFP Symposium on Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges

Call for Participation: Symposium on Media, Communication, and Film 
Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges, May 23-24, 2017

Deadline for submissions: March 3, 2017

Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges 
(MCFLAC) invites proposals for papers, panels, and exhibits for a 
two-day symposium, to be held at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The 
symposium will bring together faculty engaged in the scholarly and 
pedagogical praxis of media, communication, and film studies in the 
liberal arts context for two days of resource sharing, student-work 
showcases, workshops, and panel sessions.

Building off the momentum of last year’s inaugural symposium, at 
Muhlenberg College, this year’s theme is “Revolutions.” We have chosen 
this theme in keeping with Colby College’s Center for the Arts and 
Humanities year-long focus, which is broadly conceived to encompass 
revolutions in the “political, literary, artistic, cultural, social, 
scientific, … conceptual,” and, we suggest, pedagogical and 
institutional realms.

Our keynote speaker this year will be Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor 
of Screen Studies at Ithaca College, where the nationally recognized 
program of teaching screen studies in the Roy H. Park School of 
Communication includes the Mellon Foundation commended Introduction to 
Film Aesthetic and Analysis course. She is the author of Reel Families: 
A Social History of Amateur Film (IUP, 1995) and Open Spaces: Openings, 
Closings, and Thresholds of International Public Media, among many other 
titles, and serves as a Film Envoy for the US State Department. 
Professor Zimmermann is also the co-director of the Finger Lakes 
Environmental Film Festival, which integrates film, music, new media, 
activism, literature, art, scholarly research and distribution within a 
four-year institution to provide meaningful interfaces between academia, 
art, and the public. 

We invite proposals (250 to 500 words) that engage with our theme, 
including:

* Revolutionary approaches to teaching
* Teaching about revolutions--past and present
* Revolutionizing the (increasingly neoliberal) institutional structures 
in which we are located
* Mobilizing theory and pedagogy to facilitate revolutionary thinking
* Analyzing the impact of ongoing revolutionary changes (sociocultural, 
economic, epistemological) upon our work in liberal education, including 
ideas for redirecting, capitalizing and/or adapting
* Interrogating the “revolutionary” rhetoric around higher education, 
with the liberal arts college said to be ripe for “disruption”
* Responding to the Trump “revolution” and its reverberations on our 
campuses

Preference will be given to submissions that fit the symposium theme, 
but we welcome submissions on all topics reflecting MCFLAC’s unique 
emphasis on praxis in liberal arts settings. We seek to bring together a 
diverse group of teachers, scholars, and students, from different 
backgrounds with various life experiences, teaching styles, and 
intellectual orientations.

Presentation formats include:

* individual paper abstracts
* panel session abstracts (identifying three to four participants)
* student-work showcases (featuring scholarship, media work, and/or 
hybrids in digital or other formats)
* pedagogy workshops (on core assignments, capstone courses, and/or 
pedagogical techniques)
* research workshops (on projects, strategies, publishing models, and/or 
research/exhibit and tools)
* additional formats considered

*** In addition to these formats, we invite submissions for 3-minute 
“short cuts”: lightning fast presentations in which participants give a 
quick run-down of innovative or useful tech tools, assignments, teaching 
strategies etc. The presentations are three minutes long and we ask you 
to use one slide per minute. Please label your “short cut” submissions 
accordingly.

Please include a brief bio and note any technology requirements with 
your proposal. Include your bio, proposal, and tech needs in one PDF 
document and attach to an email addressed to Beth Corzo-Duchardt, 
(bcorzo-duchardt /at/ muhlenberg.edu). If you are submitting a “short cut” 
proposal in addition to another proposal, please attach as a separate 
document.

Deadline for submissions: March 3, 2017.

Questions? Contact Beth Corzo Duchardt, (bcorzo-duchardt /at/ muhlenberg.edu)

For more information: mcflac.com


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