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@Call for Papers and Sessions: THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION

November 8-12, 2006
www.filmandhistory.org

Area CFP: Ken Burns

For more than two decades, Ken Burns has increasingly drawn the
documentary into the limelight of American popular culture. In an era noted
for the de-massification of the media, Burns‚ documentaries have had a mass
appeal that has spanned age, education, and socio-economic status.
Documentaries such as JAZZ, Baseball, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the
Corps of Discovery, and Horatio‚s Drive have given the genre a facelift ˆ and
brought a new spark of popularity to the Public Broadcasting stations that
brought them into viewers‚ homes. As Burns tutors Americans in Americana,
we are called to analyze his impact on the genre, to examine his role in the
creation and maintenance of cultural identity, and to explore his historical
perspective. This call for papers seeks submissions of work from a wide range
of orientations, exploring interpretations and impacts of Burns‚
documentaries, from his early, Brooklyn Bridge (1981) through Unforgivable
Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004).

Possible topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

· * An in-depth critical analysis of a single Burns documentary,
examining
its contribution and representation of
American history.
· * The use of Burns‚ films in the classroom
· * „The Burns Effect‰
· * Burns‚ role in the rise of the epic documentary
· * Burns‚ historical perspective on the Civil War
· * Consuming Ken Burns
· * Nostalgia in Burns‚ documentaries
· * The book, the video, the CD ˆ synergy and the Burns documentary
· * Burns and American Biography

The Film & History League will be holding its biannual conference on "The
Documentary Tradition" during November 8-12, 2006, near Dallas, TX. Full
details on the location, featured speakers, registration procedures, and
additional area topics can be found on the web site at
www.filmandhistory.org. Proposals for either individual papers or complete
panels (3-4 papers) are welcomed, and submissions may be made in either
electronic (no attachments, please) or hard copy format. Please send panel
proposals and/or 300-word paper abstracts no later than July 30, 2006, to:

Chair for Ken Burns Area

Prof. Cynthia Miller
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
Emerson College
120 Boylston St., Rm. 515
Boston, MA 02116

email: cynthia_miller@... or cymiller@...


@ CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION: FILM AND MEDIA
CONFERENCE. SHIFTING LANDSCAPES: FILM AND MEDIA IN EUROPEAN
CONTEXT (ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY, TURKEY)

JUNE 16-18, 2006
ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY, TURKEY

Within the last decade and a half, European film and media have faced new
challenges due to the macro processes of international migration, political,
cultural and economic globalization, as well as the gradual rise of the
European Union as a new political-economic and cultural power bloc.
Although there is a vein of scholarship that situates these developments in the
more neutral realm of 'mixing of cultures', 'hybridization', 'experiences of
border-crossing', and 'new freedoms and deterritorialization', it should be
noted that a good portion of recent films and other works point to a series of
significant social, economic and cultural problems such as: racism, sexism,
unemployment, urban bias, etc. In the midst of these structural
transformations, and 70 years after Benjamin's seminal essay, "Work of Art
in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," another element, digitization, is now
a force majeur that is altering production, distribution and exhibition of
artwork
in an unprecedented way. Changes in both technology and the
sociopolitical and economic spheres are manifested not only in the domain of
artistic work itself in the form of content, aesthetics and form, but also in
the
physical sphere of social life. We now experience a constant flux of
simultaneous fragmentation and integration through the aggregating and
disaggregating forces of global, regional and local mobility both materially in
terms of individual/social reality, and virtually through film,
audiovisual media, CMC-and, more significantly, through the ongoing
convergence of these media. While broadcasting is losing ground to
narrowcasting, the movie theaters of the "arcades" have been replaced by the
multiplexes of shopping malls, turning spectatorship and movie-going into a
completely new sport and the cinematic encounter into a "viewing strip" where
the screen extends beyond the domain of the theater and into the realm of a
multitude of other spectacles from shop windows to LCD screens to cell
phones.

The aim of this conference is to address the complex and intertwined issues
in European film and audiovisual media arising from the transformations in
technology and social/urban landscapes, and in the macro forces of
economics and politics. These changes have significant implications for the
production, distribution and exhibition/consumption of European audiovisual
works, thus creating new micro-realities "within" and "across", and beyond the
bounds of nationality, geography, space, language, ethnicity, race, gender
and sexuality, age, socioeconomic status, etc. We invite
contributions from researchers and professionals from a broad cross-section
of related schools and disciplines.

Suggested areas of inquiry include (but are not limited to):
a.. Production/Distribution/Exhibition
b.. Film/Media and identity
c.. Gender
d.. Race/Ethnicity
e.. Political economy
f.. Urban topography/architecture and film/media
g.. Consumption/consumer society
h.. New media technologies
i.. Digitization
j.. Globalization/Regionalization
k.. Film/Media reception
l.. Questions of cultural imperialism
m.. Territorialization/De-territorialization/Re-territorialization
n.. Cultural Heritage/Preservation

Please submit a 250-word abstract by March 15, 2006, by e-mail to Serazer
Pekerman (conference@...)

Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position,
an
e-mail address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your
submission.


@ International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06) University of Tartu,
Estonia

**Submission deadline extended to: 27 February 2006**

28 June - 1 July 2006
University of Tartu, Estonia

http://www.catacconference.org

Conference theme:

Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification:
Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments

The biennial CATaC conference series continues to provide an international
forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse
cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together
scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in
terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and
discussions, and in terms of the
discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme.

The 1990s' hopes for an "electronic global village" have largely been shunted
aside by the Internet's explosive diffusion. This diffusion was well described
by Marx - all that is solid melts into air - and was predicted by
postmodernists.
The diffusion of CMC technologies quickly led to many and diverse internets.
A single "Internet", whose identity and characteristics might be examined as a
single unity, has not materialised. An initially culturally and gender
homogenous Internet
came more and more to resemble an urban metropolis. Along the way, in the
commercialization of the Internet and the Web, "cultural diversity" gets
watered down and exchanges strong diversity for a homogenous
interchangeability. Such diversity thereby becomes commodified and serves
a global capitalism that tends to foster cultural homogenization.

CATaC'06 continues our focus on the intersections of culture, technology, and
communication, beginning with an emphasis on continued critique of the
assumptions, categories, methodologies, and theories frequently used to
analyse these. At the same time, CATaC'06 takes up
our characteristic focus on ethics and justice in the design and deployment of
CMC technologies. We particularly focus on developing countries facilitated
by "on the ground" approaches in the work of NGOs,
governmental agencies, etc., in ways that preserve and foster cultural identity
and diversity. By simultaneously critiquing and perhaps complexifying our
theories and assumptions, on the one hand, and featuring "best practices"
approaches to CMC in development work, on the other hand, CATaC'06 aims
towards a middle ground between a putative "global village" and
homogenizing commodification. Such middle ground fosters cultural diversity,
economic and social development, and more
successful cross-cultural communication online.

Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks
with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.: 10-20 pages) and
short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary
results: 3-5 pages) are invited.

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
- Culture isn't 'culture' anymore
- The Internet isn't the 'Internet' anymore
- Gender, culture, empowerment and CMC
- CMC and cultural diversity
- Ethics and justice
- Free/Open technology and communication
- Internet research ethics
- Cultural diversity and e-learning

SUBMISSIONS
All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars
and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or
published elsewhere. At least one author of each
accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference.

Full papers (10-20 formatted pages) - 27 February 2006
Short papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 27 February 2006

Notification of acceptance - mid March 2006

Final formatted papers - 29 March 2006

There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2006 conference to
appear in special issues of journals. Papers in previous conferences have
appeared in journals (Journal of Computer Mediated Communication,
Electronic Journal of Communication/La RevueElectronique de
Communication, AI and Society, Javnost- The Public, and New Media and
Society) and a book (Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an
Intercultural Global Village, 2001, edited by Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks,
SUNY Press, New York). You may purchase the conference proceedings from
the 2002 and 2004 conference from
www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac@...

Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac@...

PROGRAM CHAIR
Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria,
catac_submit@...

CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS
Pille Runnel, Tartu University, Estonia
Pille Vengerfeldt, Tartu University, Estonia

@ IV Congreso Nacional y II Internacional de Investigación Educativa.
"Sociedad, cultura y educación". Organizado por la Facultad de Ciencias de
la Educación de la Universidad Nacional del Comahue.

Fecha de inicio: 26 de octubre de 2006.
Fecha de cierre: 28 de octubre de 2006.
Lugar: Universidad Nacional del Comahue.

Objetivos:
-Socializar y contrastar las producciones científicas, en tanto prácticas
colectivas de construcción de conocimientos, para contribuir al
fortalecimiento académico de la investigación educativa.
-Generar un espacio que aliente el análisis y el debate a fin de compartir los
diferentes discursos, las distintas perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas de la
investigación educativa que se llevan adelante en nuestro país, América
Latina y sus relaciones con los desarrollos de nivel internacional.
-Discutir el papel del investigador en Ciencias Sociales en el contexto
sociopolítico actual para poder consensuar principios éticos y compromisos
de acción con la educación pública.

Eje temático:
Este congreso centrará su mirada en torno a los enfoques teóricos,
epistemológicos, metodológicos y discursivos de la investigación educativa
que aborden aspectos de la compleja trama de relaciones e interrelaciones
existentes entre: sociedad, cultura y educación.

Areas de trabajo:
-Pedagogía, teoría social y cultura.
-Psicología y educación.
-Didácticas, currículum y práctica de la enseñanza.
-Formación docente.
-Historia y sociedad.
-Instituciones, política y legislación.
-Filosofía, epistemología, metodología y análisis del discurso.
-Educación a distancia, nuevas tecnologías.

Formas de participación:
-Foros de presentación y discusión.
-Mesa de especialistas.
-Conferencias.
-Presentación de ponencias.

Más información:
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
URL: http://www.uncoma.edu.ar

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FOLKLORE, FILM AND TELEVISION: CONVERGENCES IN TRADITIONAL
CULTURES AND POPULAR MEDIA
The Folklore Society Conference and AGM
To be held at the Warburg Institute
March 31/April 1 2006
http://users.aber.ac.uk/mik

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ANNUAL ONLINE JOURNALISM CONFERENCE
University of Texas at Austin
April 7-8, 2006
onlinesymp@...


THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CULTURAL STUDIES
ASSOCIATION (U.S.) WASHINGTON. D.C. (GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY,
ARLINGTON CAMPUS)
April 19-22,
http://www.commstudies.neu.edu


THE FILM SCENE: CINEMA, THE ARTS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and
the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong,
April 21-22, 2006
Gina Marchetti, marchett@...


MISUSE AND ABUSE OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. CHI 2006
WORKSHOP
Saturday, April 22 (Full day)
Montreal, Canada,
http://www.chi2006.org/
Workshop Web-site: www.agentabuse.org

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THE INFINITE GENEALOGY: INTERCULTURAL APPROACHES TO NEW
MEDIA ART SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Vancouver,
May 2006
lmarks@...