<videovortex> Fwd: [VisEv] CFP - VISIBLE EVIDENCE XVII ISTANBUL

[Andreas Treske]

Visible Evidence XVII                  Istanbul 9-12 August 2010

 

Call for Proposals                      Please Circulate Widely

 

Visible Evidence, the ambulatory international conference on documentary,

will hold its 17th edition at Boğazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9-12 
August 2010. Hosted by docIstanbul, a non-profit training, research, policy and networking center focusing on documentary film at Bogazici University, Visible 
Evidence XVII marks the first time that the preeminent documentary studies 
conference takes place in Turkey, or for that matter, anywhere in the ‘Middle East’.

 

This year’s conference will address all topics and current issues relating to documentary, with a specific regional emphasis on Turkey and its neighbors. 
Thus, although we welcome all proposals, we would like to encourage proposals 
with a focus on the following topics:
 
·      Documentary from Turkey, Iran, the “Middle East” more generally, the Balkan States and Greece

·      Turkic Documentary (from Turkic nations including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan; and 
communities such as Tatars)

·      Border-crossings in Documentary: Transnationalism, Border Trade, Migration, and Exile

·      Diasporic Documentary (especially, but not exclusively: German, Dutch, Belgian, British, North American, etc. –– Turkish/Kurdish documentary)

·      Fortress Europe (exclusion, policy and ideology)

·      Minoritarian Discourses within the Region (Kurdish, Armenian, Arab, Alevi, Assyrian, Jewish, queer, etc.)

·      Activist media from the region

 

Sessions will last for two hours and be limited to four papers of no more than 20 minutes each. All papers to be presented in English. For more information, check the Visible Evidence website, which will have the latest information: http://visibleevidence.org/

 

Please note there is a three-tiered Proposal process:

 

·      Panel Topic Proposals Deadline: 29 January 2010

·      Panel-specific Papers Deadline: 12 March 2010

·      Open Call for Papers not already included in panels Deadline: 
30 March 2010


1. CALL FOR PANEL TOPIC PROPOSALS DEADLINE: 29 JANUARY 
(submit electronically to Alisa Lebow: asl36 at earthlink.net)
300 word panel proposal. This is to be an open panel, not pre-constituted. Notification of acceptance will follow by 15 February.

 

2. CALL FOR PANEL-SPECIFIC PAPER PROPOSALS DEADLINE: 12 MARCH

Once the panels are approved, the accepted panels will be posted on the Visible Evidence website, and the selection committee will issue a further call for papers (250-300 words, one page) by 12 MARCH, directing respondents to the panel chairs who will have until 19 MARCH to confirm line-ups and notify the conference committee.

3. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 30 MARCH
(submit electronically to Alisa Lebow: asl36 at earthlink.net)
Open call for paper proposals (250-300 words, one page) should be submitted by MARCH 30. Final notification of acceptance will follow by 30 APRIL.


 

The conference selection committee is comprised of:

Alisa Lebow, Brunel University, Conference Chair

Zeynep Tül Akbal, Bahceşehir University

Can Candan, Boğazici University

Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent

Ahmet Gurata, Bilkent University

Louise Spence, Kadir Has University

 

 

Conference website: http://visibleevidence.org/