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7th ANNUAL SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMAS CONFERENCE
Eight years since the first Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference which heralded the resurgence of cinematic new waves in the region, we turn our eyes to the state of film archiving and the relationship between cinema and the archives. Filipino film critic Alexis Tioseco’s 2009 open letter to the Film Development Council of the Philippines mentions current holdings stored in ‘deplorable conditions’. In his letter, Tioseco praises the National Film Archive of Thailand for its work in doing so much with so little. In Indonesia, the Sinematek Indonesia which was established in the early 1970s has also seen cuts that make the archive a shadow of its former glory. It is only in Singapore that a young Asian Film Archive (est. 2005) has taken root. The 7th Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (2012) emphasizes the politics, practices, and poetics of the archive. How does one define an *archive*? And who can be said to do archival work? Might DVD pirates, private collectors, cinephiles, film bloggers and film societies be considered film archivists of a sort when governments do not or no longer perceive the need to fund national film archives? If so, how does this change the public nature of an archive, and what implications does it have on the production of knowledge? What might film curators take into consideration when they select and preserve films for the archive? What are the social, political, aesthetic, and scholarly roles of the archive? How does the archive negotiate issues of power and accessibility? What is the role of the archive in the digital age of new media?
At the same time, in interrogating the relationship between film and the archive, might film itself as a socio-cultural text not be regarded as an archive and as a necessary site to re-think temporalities and the reasons for nostalgia? As Derrida reminds us, “The question of the archive is not a question of the past” but rather “a question of the future itself.” Where does the archive lie in creating, defining, and constructing cultural memory or cultural heritage? This conference then invites papers that comment not only on the nature of what an archive is and the role it plays in South East Asia, but also how films and film archives ask us to think about the timeliness of cultural work.
Each year, the conference has included film practitioners in recognition of the crucial role they have played in increasing film education and discourse in the region. We have previously provided space for independent filmmakers and screenings of their works, focused on curriculum development, and highlighting alternative cultures of cinema. This year, the conference seeks to include workshops that bring together film archivists from within the region.
We invite panels* *that address this theme, particularly questions concerning:
- Film Archival Materials as Intertexts - Comparative Studies of Archives or Case Studies of Specific Archives - Role of the Academic / Film Critic / Filmmaker in Relation to the Archive - Technology / New Media - Production of Temporalities and Spatialities - Politics of Taste - Preservation and Dissemination - Archival Research Methods - Intellectual Property - The Relationship between Southeast Asian Archives and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) - Historiography - Scholarly Accessibility - Subtitling and the Archive - Film Policy and the Archive - The State and the Archive - Short Films and the Archive
We also welcome submissions for the open call. Please check our website archives and conference programs for past paper topics as we are less likely to accept topics that have been covered before: http://seaconference.wordpress.com/conference-program/
Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) to: Sophia Siddique Harvey and Jasmine Nadua Trice
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10th ANNUAL ENGLISH LITERATURE GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Date: March 2-3, 2012 Apocalyptic prophecies and futurist narratives have always had a special place in culture, from Y2K fervor to the periodically updated Rapture to the upcoming end of the Mayan calendar in December of 2012. In addition to the “real” end-of-the-world predictions, and perhaps in response to them, our literature and pop culture has spawned innumerable fictions of a future unaccounted for. This unknown future folds back upon our past through historical representations of colonialism’s reconfiguration of territory, ownership, and identity. In the present, our cultural climate seems to speak to the end of the material world as we have come to understand it, as we transcend print-based media and move up into the digital media cloud. Furthermore, as social media continues to collapse the boundaries between public and private into one great field of liminality, we must refigure notions of how to negotiate the creation and maintenance of personal and intellectual property. These issues raise a number of questions, including: do texts end? How and what does that mean? How do we resolve tensions between prediction and actualization? What role has prophecy come to play in literature and culture at large? Can there be a terminal point for any construct, whether it be abstract notions or concrete teleologies? How does uncovering revelatory discursive practices relate to our shifting epistemology? Kalervo Sinervo
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5th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Date: May 1-2, 2012 The Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Association at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus invites you to attend our fifth annual graduate student conference. This conference invites papers from creative and critical perspectives that examine the role of borders and border crossings as they intersect with, uphold, or challenge ideologies, institutions, and social spaces. Although the focus is on interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, we encourage submissions from across graduate disciplines. Proposals for both academic papers and creative work will be considered, and all presentations will be 15 minutes in length. Proposals should be no longer than 300 words, bear no identifying information, and be accompanied by a covering letter that includes the applicant’s name and contact information. Please submit proposals to ubco.igsa@gmail.com as email attachments in .pdf, .rtf, .doc or .docx format by January 15, 2012. Graduate students are encouraged to apply to one of the following panels. These are not meant to restrict topics of presentation; rather, they are meant to inspire creative and critical thinking around the various borders we encounter. Please feel free to submit any proposals around the conference theme. Panel proposals are also welcome, and must be submitted by January 15, 2012. Please feel free to contact us with Suggested Panel Topics
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