submission deadline Dezember 15th,
The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference will be held at Stockholm University, Sweden, 11 – 13 June 2008.The conference will include archival screenings, as well as keynote addresses and scholarly panels, related to women and cinema during the first four decades of film history. The historical and theoretical issues include the roles of women as directors, screenwriters, producers and actors, but also as filmgoers.Women and the Silent Screen V invites its participants to scholarly exchange in the open and dynamic spirit that has characterised the four previous conferences in Utrecht, Santa Cruz, Montreal and Guadalajara. The Stockholm conference takes place at the Department of Cinema Studies, located in the Film House in the capital city of Sweden, with the excellent archival resources and screening facilities of The Swedish Film Institute.
Call for papers
Abstracts (200 – 300 words) together with a paper title and a two-line biographical statement should be submitted by December 15, 2007, to wss@mail.film.su.se
Organisers
Conference Director
Astrid Söderbergh Widding – Stockholm University
Coordinator
Sofia Bull – Stockholm University
Advisory Board
Jane Gaines – Columbia University
Tytti Soila – Stockholm University
Annette Kuhn – Queen Mary, University of London
Screenings Consultants
Jon Wengström – The Swedish Film Institute
Kajsa Hedström – The Swedish Film Institute