2014 Graduate Student Symposium

Call For Papers

Border Crossings

In an age of media convergence, international co-productions, and social networking, the borders traditionally used to define the cinema are constantly being re-examined within evolving discourses on film and moving image studies. The fourth annual Carleton Film Studies Graduate Student Symposium seeks to tie these disparate discourses together, approaching the study of moving images through a lens that focuses primarily on the transgression of such boundaries. Paper topics may include but are not limited to national borders and transnational cinema, digital cinema, VOD and other digital platforms for the distribution of films, television, transmedia storytelling, generic hybridity, interdisciplinarity, and new approaches to moving image history. By hosting discussions as diverse as these, we hope to engender reflection on the wide scope of the topic itself.

In the spirit of border crossing, we encourage students from outside of film studies to submit their work to the symposium. Papers from such disciplines as art history, music, religious studies, sociology, history and English with a focus on visual culture and the moving image are welcome.

We invite submissions from graduate students (MA, MFA, and PhD). Please send abstracts (maximum of 300 words) along with a brief outline of your presentation (can be in point form) to ssacfilmsymposium@gmail.com. Be sure to include your name, the title of your paper, your academic affiliation, and your year of study within your email, but, for the purposes of blind review, please do not include personal information within your attached document. Abstracts should be in Word, Rich-Text, or PDF formats.

All abstracts must be submitted no later than 31 January 2014 (*Extended). Responses will be sent by email in early February.

The symposium will take place on 15 March 2014, with a reception and keynote address on 14 March 2014.