[Commlist] SSAAANZ Conference November 2020, Call for Papers

*SCREEN FUTURES: Media, Concepts, Worlds—Third Biennial Conference of 
the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 
(SSAAANZ) <http://bit.ly/screen-futures>*

Hosted by the University of Sydney Film Studies Program, Department of 
Art History, School of Literature, Art and Media, Faculty of Arts and 
Social Sciences

*Keynote speakers confirmed:*

Professor Francesco Casetti 
<https://filmstudies.yale.edu/people/francesco-casetti> (Yale University)
Professor Jackie Stacey 
<https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/about/our-people/professor-jackie-stacey/> 
(University of Manchester)
Associate Professor Jo Smith 
<https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/jo-smith> (Victoria 
University of Wellington)

*Call for papers:*

“We must do what we can to open our imaginations up to a radically 
different set of future possibilities.”
—Crow Chief Plenty Coups’s reasoning, according to Jonathan Lear, 
/Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation/

Our screens are filled with images of the future, some uncannily 
familiar to us, some strange and unsettling. As climate and ecological 
emergencies are declared or denied, democratic states collapse, and 
authoritarianism intensifies, it seems necessary to break with the 
business-as-usual call for papers to consider the future of screen-based 
media, and those disciplines organised around and oriented to them. If 
the intellectual project of screen studies in its broadest sense is to 
consider how screen arts and media shape our selves and our worlds, what 
does the present moment require of us? The biennial conference of the 
Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 
(SSAAANZ) provides an opportunity to focus on future research, 
practice-based and teaching agendas, both individual and collective, 
from diverse standpoints and critical orientations. Can we consider the 
state of the field in terms of how it might reflect, mediate, negotiate 
and anticipate the state of the world? What can screen arts and media, 
and screen studies, contribute to transformations in cultures that might 
guarantee viable or, even better, flourishing futures?

SSAAANZ invites proposals from researchers, archivists, educators, 
policymakers, and practitioners that address this broad theme and its 
possible topics, including _but not limited to_:

  * Activist screen media in the attention economy
  * Archives for future historians
  * Cinema experience in the twenty-first century
  * Cyber-feminist methodologies for screen media
  * Decolonising screen media
  * Documentary’s anticipatory ethics
  * Dystopian and utopian screen media
  * The ecological politics of screen media
  * The future of film and television in the absence of the state
  * The (negative) futures of queer screen media
  * Hypertopic screen media
  * Histories and philosophies of screen media time and time-consciousness
  * Indigenous screen media
  * Mediating migration
  * Memory and screen media
  * New keywords for screen studies
  * Petromodernity, hydrocarbon imaginaries and histories of screen media
  * Post-cinema’s extinction imaginary
  * Post-war film movements and/as regenerative film culture
  * Screen media and scientific research
  * Time-based versus time-critical screen media
  * Trauma, affect and screen media.

*Submission format guidelines*

*Individual paper*: standard scholarly paper; 20 minutes.

*Pre-formed panels*: three or four papers focused on a single project or 
a shared research theme or topic; option (1) four speakers; or option 
(2) three speakers with a respondent; 80 minutes total excluding Q&A.

*Show-and-tell*: a short presentation of a screen art/media case study, 
followed by audience discussion; 20 minutes. The time available should 
be split evenly between screening plus commentary (10 minutes), and 
audience discussion (10 minutes). The category of screen media is open 
and may include short creative work or excerpts from longer work, 
work-in-progress, video essays, fragments or orphans, or archival screen 
media.

*Please send an abstract of 200-250 words and a short bio of 50 words to 
(ssaaanz2020.conference /at/ sydney.edu.au) 
<mailto:(ssaaanz2020.conference /at/ sydney.edu.au)>no later than 1 May, 
23:59pm AEST. Please state clearly the _proposed format_ of your 
presentation. _Pre-formed panel proposals_ should include an additional 
abstract on the project or research theme, and nominate option (1) or (2).*

*For general conference inquiries, please email the Chair of the 
Conference Steering Committee, Dr Susan Potter 
<mailto:(susan.potter /at/ sydney.edu.au)>.*

/Conference Steering Committee/: Bruce Isaacs, Susan Potter (Chair), 
Richard Smith (Film Studies Program, The University of Sydney); Anna 
Broinowski, Stefan Popescu (Sydney College of the Arts, The University 
of Sydney). /Early Career Researcher Event Subcommittee/: Max Bledstein 
(University of New South Wales), Ivan Čerečina (University of Sydney), 
Janice Loreck (Curtin University), Missy Molloy (Victoria University of 
Wellington), Kirsten Stevens (University of Melbourne).

Note that the conference will run from the afternoon of Tuesday 24 
November through to the afternoon of Friday 27 November. All confirmed 
presenters will be required to be financial members of SSAAANZ in order 
to register for the conference.

/The Film Studies Program acknowledges and pays respect to the 
traditional owners of the lands on which the University of Sydney 
Camperdown Campus is built, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We 
pay respect to the knowledge embedded forever within Aboriginal 
Custodianship of Country, and acknowledge that the lands of the Gadigal 
people were never ceded./

We are committed to organising a conference with a minimal carbon footprint.

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