[Reader-list] CFP - Visible Evidence XVII -- Istanbul 9-12 August]

[Nicole Wolf]

Dear all -
i wanted to spread this call for papers (or other forms of  
presentation),
amongst the readers of this list.
thanks for taking a look and please scroll down for further information
on the overall conference.

best wishes, Nicole




Thinking with Documentary in the Revolution (Panel within VISIBLE  
EVIDENCE conference)
This panel will investigate documentaries that make an intervention in  
situations of political precariousness, and are produced through  
filmmaking practices that have affinities with Third Cinema. It will  
invite papers that attempt to think with these documentary aesthetics  
and actions that emerged from specific locations and moments of  
liberation struggle and postcolonial conflict, as a means to expand  
critical thinking developed in the field of visual culture. The panel  
will seek to explore various questions: What does revolutionary  
documentary want to produce – an event, a critical space, a reversal  
of social roles, a transformation of subjectivity, new social  
relations? What might a revolutionary documentary look like now? What  
happens to documentary testimonies in situations of historical erasure  
and/or de-politicisation? What new concepts might be demanded in order  
to understand both the singularity and the possible connectedness of  
these films and the circumstances of their production?
The panel will seek to open a discussion on the extent to which these  
practices may form a constellation of alternative histories and  
geographies of political documentary. Thinking from these other  
histories of political filmmaking which were in alliance, directly or  
indirectly, with the textual and filmic manifestos of the late 1960s  
and 1970s, the panel will question whether similar networks and  
constellations can be identified in contemporary moments of  
precariousness and political conflict, which once again question and  
challenge the documentary image and its efficacy, but also bring to  
light other ways of returning to documentary as a mode of  
intervention. How do these materials enable new ways of thinking about  
the present? Can they make new critical interventions in different  
contexts of media production and circulation? What emergent forms and  
networks of engaged documentary might we begin to identify in the  
contemporary world?
Please send paper proposals to n.wolf at gold.ac.uk or r.gray at gold.ac.uk  
by 12 March.



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Subject: Visible Evidence XVII CFP -- Istanbul 9-12 August
From:    "Alisa Lebow" <asl36 at earthlink.net>
Date:    Mon, March 1, 2010 4:42 pm
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Apologies for cross-posting. Please Circulate Widely and beyond the
usual networks!

Proposals to Individual Panels Deadline: 12 March (send proposal to
panel chairs, see attached).

Open Call for Papers Deadline: 30 March.

Attached is a list of panels that have been accepted by the Visible
Evidence XVII Conference Committee (also available at www.visibleevidence.org 
).
If you are interested in participating in one of these panels,
send a paper proposal directly to the chair(s) of the panel by March
12th.

The panel chairs will make their decisions by March 19th.  Any
person whose paper proposal is not accepted by a panel chair is
welcome to apply to the Open Call for Papers, which has a deadline of
March 30th.  (Proposals for the open call should be sent to Alisa
Lebow: asl36 at earthlink.net).




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Alisa Lebow
www.alisalebow.co.uk



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Nicole Wolf
Lecturer
Department of Visual Cultures
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW

Direct Line: 0044 (0)20 7078 5116
Departmental: 0044 (0)20 7919 7490

e-mail: n.wolf at gold.ac.uk