FINAL CFP - Postgraduate Paper Competition: New Directions in Russian and Soviet Cinema Studies

[Morley, Rachel]

Dear all,

UCL SSEES and the University of Cambridge are jointly organising a major international film symposium in honour of Professor Julian Graffy, who retired in December 2013 after more than 37 years at SSEES. The symposium will be held in Cambridge over the 18th, 19th and 20th of September 2014 and is funded by CEELBAS, UCL SSEES, Cambridge Slavonic Studies and Trinity College, Cambridge. The title of the event is 'New Directions in Russian and Soviet Cinema Studies' and it will feature screenings, presentations by invited speakers, a postgraduate panel and many opportunities for discussion. Speakers are coming from the UK, Europe, Russia and the US. Confirmed speakers at the time of writing include Petr Bagrov, Nikolai Izvolov, Naum Kleiman, Evgenii Margolit, Evgenii Tsymbal, Nancy Condee, Lilya Kaganovsky, Joan Neuberger, Masha Salazkina, Nariman Skakov, Birgit Beumers, Ian Christie, Seth Graham, Jeremy Hicks, Stephen Hutchings, Stephen Lovell, Vlad Strukov, Richard Taylor and Eugénie Zvonkine.

Once the programme is finalised we will circulate it widely to this and other lists.

This is a final CFP for the postgraduate panel. Papers will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. Professor Graffy will be the discussant for this panel. Postgraduate presenters will receive funding to cover the conference fee, accommodation and travel costs (within the UK only). They will also be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of their presentation for possible inclusion in a peer-reviewed publication of selected papers from the symposium.

Guidelines for submissions:  Papers should focus on the analysis of a single film clip, discussion of which will illuminate the current direction of the presenter's research. Presentations (including the film clip) may not exceed 13 minutes. These presentations are intended to be short 'snapshots' of presenters' research and to provide a springboard for extended discussion. We welcome submissions from postgraduates at any stage in their doctoral research, including those who will only embark on their PhD course in 2014/2015. The competition is not limited to students in the UK, but we are unable to fund travel costs for students coming from abroad. Submissions should include your name, affiliation and an abstract of no more than 200 words that specifies the film from which
your abstract will be drawn. Please include three or four keywords below the body of the abstract. The selection committee consists of the conference organisers:  Susan Larsen, Anna Toropova and Emma Widdis (Cambridge); Phil Cavendish and Rachel Morley (UCL).

Abstracts should be submitted by 16 June 2014 to rachel.morley at ucl.ac.uk with the subject field 'Paper abstract - [your name]'.

With best wishes,

Rachel

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Dr Rachel Morley
Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture?
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Gower St
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
rachel.morley at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:rachel.morley at ucl.ac.uk>
020 7679 872?

Co-convenor: UCL SSEES Russian Cinema Research Group www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/research-centres/russian-cinema-research-group<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/research-centres/russian-cinema-research-group>?

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