From: Can Candan (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 25 2010 - 05:05:50 PST
Call for Proposals
(Please Circulate Widely)
Visible Evidence XVII
9-12 August 2010, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Visible Evidence, the ambulatory international conference on documentary,
will hold its 17th edition at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, from
9-12 August 2010. Hosted by docIstanbul, a non-profit training, research,
policy and networking center focusing on documentary film, and Department of
Western Languages and Literatures¹ Film Studies Program at Bogaziçi
University, Visible Evidence XVII marks the first time that the preeminent
documentary studies conference takes place in Turkey, or for that matter,
anywhere in the ŒMiddle East¹.
This year¹s conference will address all topics and current issues relating
to documentary, with a specific regional emphasis on Turkey and its
neighbors. Thus, although we welcome all proposals, we would like to
encourage proposals with a focus on the following topics:
€ Documentary from Turkey, Iran, the ³Middle East² more generally, the
Balkan States and Greece
€ Turkic Documentary (from Turkic nations including Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan; and communities such
as Tatars)
€ Border-crossings in Documentary: Trans-nationalism, Border Trade,
Migration, and Exile
€ Diasporic Documentary (especially, but not exclusively: German, Dutch,
Belgian, British, North American, etc. Turkish/Kurdish documentary)
€ Fortress Europe (exclusion, policy and ideology)
€ Minority Discourses within the Region (Kurdish, Armenian, Arab, Alevi,
Assyrian, Jewish, queer, etc.)
€ Activist media from the region
Sessions will last for two hours and be limited to four papers of no more
than 20 minutes each. All papers to be presented in English.
Please note there is a three-tiered Proposal process:
€ Panel Topic Proposals Deadline: 29 January 2010
€ Panel-specific Papers Deadline: 12 March 2010
€ Open Call for Papers not already included in panels. Deadline: 30 March
2010
1. CALL FOR PANEL TOPIC PROPOSALS DEADLINE: 29 JANUARY
(submit electronically to Alisa Lebow: email suppressed)
300 word panel proposal. This is to be an open panel, not pre-constituted.
Notification of acceptance will follow by 15 February.
2. CALL FOR PANEL-SPECIFIC PAPER PROPOSALS DEADLINE: 12 MARCH
Once the panels are approved, the accepted panels will be posted on the
Visible Evidence website, and the selection committee will issue a further
call for papers (250-300 words, one page) by 12 MARCH, directing respondents
to the panel chairs who will have until 19 MARCH to confirm line-ups and
notify the conference committee.
3. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 30 MARCH
(submit electronically to Alisa Lebow: email suppressed)
Open call for paper proposals (250-300 words, one page) should be submitted
by MARCH 30. Final notification of acceptance will follow by 30 APRIL.
The conference selection committee is comprised of:
Alisa Lebow, Brunel University, Conference Chair
Zeynep Tül Akbal, Bahcesehir University
Can Candan, Bogaziçi University
Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent
Ahmet Gürata, Bilkent University
Louise Spence, Kadir Has University
Conference registration fee information will be available soon.
www.visibleevidence.org
www.docistanbul.org
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