CFP: Global Indigenous Media (9/15/03; SCMS, 3/4/04-3/7/04)

Dear friends,

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is putting together its program
of papers, workshops and screenings for the annual conference to be held
March 4-7, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia.

As some of you remember, this email list got started last year when we
held the first Indigenous Media panel/workshops at the SCMS conference.

There are several opportunities for people doing work on indigenous
media to be involved in this upcoming conference, which is a leading
academic conference for media scholars internationally. However, it is
not limited to academic folks. This is an excellent opportunity to bring
together scholars (from various fields and disciplines, especially our
friends in anthropology), educators, community activists, media
producers, and others interested in finding a forum in which to discuss
the important role of media in our communities. Media can be film,
electronic (including radio and internet), or print... whatever is
important to the indigenous communities.

Michelle Stewart and I would like to organize another all-day workshop
like last year's if there is sufficient interest from participants.
There are also opportunities for screening your work if you are a
producer, even if you cannot be present--please see the screening
information below.

According to the SCMS web site and call for papers (to be found at
http://www.cinemastudies.org/04conf/2004Call.htm), the theme of this
year's conference (though papers and panels are *not* limited to this
theme) is "Mediating Tomorrow's History: Live Coverage and Documentary
in the Digital Era." Questions circulating around this issue include:
What is the status of documentary in the digital age?  What forms can
documentary or live coverage take with digital technologies?  What are
the political and theoretical possibilities open to historians when
history is immediate and/or mediated through new technologies?  How are
events affected by the immediacy of live broadcasts?  How might digital
technologies open up documentary and other representational channels to
marginalized media makers?  What is the status of filmmaking in this
environment?

If you think you would be interested in participating in a panel
discussion on indigenous media, addressing these and other questions
that are important to you, please send us an email
(wilsonpam_at_mindspring.com and Michelle.Stewart_at_purchase.edu) and tell us
about yourself and your background and interests. We will need to have
the information needed to fill out a Workshop Participant Form on you to
include in our proposal (see
http://www.cinemastudies.org/04conf/2004saf.htm, the last one, to get
this form). We need to hear from you by September 1 so Michelle and I
can put the proposal together to be submitted by the Sept. 15 deadline.
SCMS is pretty firm about deadlines.

Audiovisual equipment will be available to show clips of any media work
that you would like to share as part of your panel presentation. Please
let me know the nature of that work and what kinds of technology you
need for projection so we can include that request in our proposal.

For screenings of full films and other media works, please contact Greg
Smith of Georgia State University, who is chair of the Screening
Committee for SCMS and who is currently soliciting
"interesting/distinctive/innovative programming" for the conference.
Screening rights will be needed. Greg's contact information is:
gsmith_at_gsu.edu; Office (404) 463-9428; Fax (404) 651-1409.

Also, if anyone else would like to organize a panel separate from ours,
please see the SCMS website (http://www.cinemastudies.org) for
guidelines. Deadline is September 15.

We do not currently have any funding sources to help pay for
participants to attend, but if anyone knows of possible sources, we will
work with you to try to get funding.

Michelle and I look forward to hearing from you, and hope that this will
become an annual gathering to focus on indigenous media issues.

All my best,

Pam

Pam Wilson
Associate Professor of Communication
Director of International Studies
Reinhardt College
7300 Reinhardt College Parkway
Waleska, GA 30183 USA
(770) 720-5578
fax: (770) 720-5602
email: wilsonpam_at_mindspring.com

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