Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope: December 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

CFP: Visible Evidence 2010

Dear friends,

This year, Visible Evidence, the international conference on documentary film and media will be held in my home turf Istanbul and I am helping with the organization so I wanted to post the CFP here to encourage you colleagues/friends to submit an abstract. I would be happy to show anyone around while I am there so don't miss this opportunity to consider a summer trip to the good old Byzantine/Ottoman/Turkish city with your own personal guide, who also happens to tolerate crazy academic talk.

Best,
Selmin

Visible Evidence XVII Istanbul 9-12 August 2010

Call for Proposals

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@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@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