[Commlist] Dial S for Screen Studies Conference cfp

*Call for Papers: Sydney Screen Studies Network Presents: Dial S for 
Screen Studies 2020 *

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Sydney Screen Studies Network is currently seeking proposals for our 
2020 conference,*Dial S for Screen Studies*, held*18th to 19th November 
2020 *online via Zoom. This year, our conference will adopt a new 
online-friendly format: papers (and associated media) will be 
distributed digitally prior to the conference, and conference panel 
sessions will be moderated discussions of the relevant papers.

We invite scholars working across film, television, video and internet 
media to present their research on screen studies and screen culture 
from a variety of perspectives. In particular, we welcome research 
pertaining to the stream detailed below:

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*Revisioning the Screen *

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2020 has brought unprecedented challenges on a global scale. The 
COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate and substantial impact upon the 
way we work and socialise. In the midst of such a crisis, the renewal of 
the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA and its subsequent global 
expansion has further brought to the fore conversations around human 
rights, freedoms, and the call for increased diversity. These events 
have already had noticeable impact upon both screen industries and 
screen studies in multi-faceted ways. Notably, they have renewed 
discussions around both the value and precarity of the arts in times of 
crisis.

We invite scholars to submit proposals that consider the impact of these 
various global crises of 2020 on the film, television and media 
industries and screen studies. Some suggested perspectives for this 
stream include:

  * Representation of race, racial diversity and racial violence.
  * Disrupted and reimagined film and TV
    production/distribution/exhibition (in response to COVID-19).
  * Precarity of the film and TV industries.
  * Precarity of Screen Studies as a humanities discipline.
  * The value of the screen arts in responding to crisis.
While we encourage participants to consider the stream on contemporary 
events suggested above, we will also welcome submissions on topics such 
as the following:

  * Early cinemas, classic cinemas and/or contemporary cinemas
  * Television, traditional and new
  * Screen history
  * Spectatorship
  * Mass media and social media
  * Screen theory/screen philosophy
  * Intersections of academic research and screen practice
  * New media forms
  * Gender, sexuality, race and class in screen media
  * History/theory of performance on screen
Please send your proposals including a*title*, an*abstrac*t (200 words), 
and a*short biography*(todialsforscreenstudies /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(dialsforscreenstudies /at/ gmail.com)>by*Friday 25th of September 2020*.

We encourage collaborative works, pre-constituted panels, as well as 
postgraduate and early career researchers to apply to present at Dial S 
for Screen Studies.

*** Please note, this conference will be held online in the Australian 
Eastern Standard Time GMT +10 ** *


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