CFP: Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema, 20-21 March 20-21, St. Andrews, Scotland

[Meredith Clason]

Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema:
Interdisciplinary Studies, Methodology, Dissemination
AHRC-St. Andrews Postgraduate Conference
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
20-21 March 2009

Call for Papers
Closing date of abstract submission: 15 December 2008

This AHRC sponsored conference is organised jointly by the Centre for Film
Studies and the Centre for Russian, Soviet and Eastern European Studies at the
University of St. Andrews. It will bring together doctoral students from the
United Kingdom and Europe, whose work is focused on the visual culture and
cinema of the post-Communist period. The main objective is to launch a
productive dialogue on methodological and practical issues affecting all those
engaged in the study of the film and visual culture of the postcommunist
period.

We invite participants from across Social Sciences and Humanities: Language,
Literature, Culture, Law, International Relations, Politics, Media, Film and
Television Studies, Art History, Architecture, Design, Museum Studies, Russian,
German, East European languages and cultures, Law, Religious Studies,
Philosophy, Publishing, and other disciplines.

Opening on Friday afternoon (5 pm) and continuing throughout the day on
Saturday, the conference will feature thematic talks dedicated to the status of
the field and the profession. Postgraduate participants will be able to present
their work in the context of two sessions, at panels moderated by the featured
speakers. You are welcome to discuss aspects of your work, and talk of its
challenging and exciting moments.

We propose to structure the discussion in the context of the following
questions:

•	How are post-Cold War divisions reflected in cultural production in the former
communist world?
•	What are its specificities and what are the challenges for researching
cultural production?
•	How do the global and the local interplay in the region?
•	Can the umbrella of "postcommunism" be explored as shared experience?

Confirmed speakers/convenors include:

Prof. Ib Bondebjerg (Film and Media, University of Copenhagen)
Prof. Ewa Mazierska (Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire)
Prof. Brian McNair  (Media Sociology, University of Strathclyde)

Conference opening

Prof. Andrew Wachtel  (Slavic and Cultural Sociology, Graduate Dean,
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
Prof. Dina Iordanova (Film Studies, University of St. Andrews),


Please send an abstract of 150 words outlining the theme of your intended
presentation (about 15 min. length), together with your contact details and a
brief biographical note to Lars Kristensen at llfk at st-andrews.ac.uk

Ten bursaries of £50 will be awarded to selected participants (please indicate
you would like to be considered for a bursary at the time you send in your
abstract).

Further information will be available at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/

--
Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen
PhD Student, Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
99 North St, St Andrews, Fife
KY16 9AD

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