[Commlist] CFP SSAAAANZ Conference 2024 - Seen/Unseen: Screens and Screen Studies in the 21st Century

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Seen/Unseen: Screens and Screen Studies in the 21st Century

Call for Proposals: Fifth Biennial Conference of The Screen Studies 
Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAAANZ), in 
association with Flinders University, Adelaide

December 3-6, 2024

The theme for the 2024 SSAAANZ Conference is Seen/Unseen. This year’s 
conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia at Flinders 
University with a pre-fix day for ECR and HDR members at The University 
of Adelaide.

This year’s SSAAANZ Conference will be held in person.

In all aspects of Screen Studies there are elements of the seen and the 
unseen, the visible and the invisible, the recognised (canonised) and 
the forgotten and overlooked. Whether in the screen practices of 
producing images for the screen, in the industrial circumstances of 
funding, training, casting, and location scouting that occur behind the 
scenes, or as a consequence of regulation and censorship, the end result 
is a text that is made to be seen but which is an effect of invisible 
processes and events. Within screen texts there are narratives, visual 
and audio techniques, and conventions that toy with our perceptions of 
seen/unseen. Screen history itself has shed light on and elevated 
certain careers and texts and neglected others. These dynamics are core 
to Screen Studies research, where a key aim, underpinned by decolonising 
and feminist approaches, has been to bring ‘unseen’ histories, 
practices, and theories to the fore.

In these ways, Seen/Unseen can speak to formalism and framing, the 
textual and the extra-textual, policy and regulation, labour and 
economies, and screen histories. We invite proposals that address the 
theme of Seen/Unseen.

Proposals may address, but are by no means limited to, the following themes:

•	Seen and unseen Labour in the screen industries: in front of the 
camera, as well as above and below the line;

•	Making things un/seen: screen policy, regulation and censorship;

•	Feminist Screen Studies in the age of popular feminism;

•	Archives, restorations and preservation;

•	Unmade projects, ‘lost films’, and alternate versions;

•	Representations and the ‘unseen’ onscreen (including un/seen diversities);

•	First Nations perspectives and screen storytelling;

•	Games, galleries, new screen media;

•	Exhibition, audiences, festivals, reception;

•	Stardom, celebrity, and promotion;

•	Seeing regionally and transnationally

We invite proposals in the form of individual papers (20 minutes in 
length, in written or video essay form), pre-constituted panels, 
seminars, and workshops. Proposals will be accepted via the new SSAAANZ 
website (launching soon). Further details about the website will be 
communicated in the coming weeks.

We aim to program a Creative Practice / Practice-led Research Strand for 
proposals on the intersection of practice and research within the 
disciplinary areas of SSAAANZ. This strand seeks to explore and expand 
the dialogue on the methodologies, challenges, and innovations found at 
the nexus of artistic creation and scholarly enquiry in film, 
television, digital media, and beyond. We especially welcome proposals 
that engage with the conference theme Seen/Unseen, encompassing a broad 
spectrum of enquiries. While not exhaustive, areas of interest include 
case studies of creative projects, explorations of collaborative 
practices between artists and researchers, and critical analyses of the 
ways in which practices can function as a form of research.

A pre-conference event will be held for current postgraduate students 
(HDRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs), along with any other 
interested scholars, on 3rd December at the University of Adelaide, 
North Terrace Campus. This will conclude with a social / networking 
event in the evening. A limited number of bursaries will be available 
for HDRs / ECRs by application.

Submission deadline: please submit proposals of 250 words (for 
individual papers) and 300 words (for pre-constituted panels, seminars, 
or workshops), with bios of 50 words, to the SSAAANZ website by June 15.

SSAAANZ membership: all conference attendees will be asked to become 
members of SSAAANZ (or renew an existing membership) after July 1 2024, 
to ensure their membership is current prior to attending the Conference.

Contact for enquiries: (SSAAANZ2024 /at/ flinders.edu.au)

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