SSSN Symposium 2017: Intersections in Film and Media Studies

Registrations are now open for our End-of-Year Symposium that will cap off our 2017 program: Intersections in Film and Media Studies. This symposium will explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement of scholarship, theory, and ideas across its boundaries.

The Symposium will take place on Friday 8th December 2017 at UNSW in The Pioneer Theatre, AGSM.

Registration is essential. To register, please visit: https://sssn-symposium-2017-tickets.eventbrite.com.au Registration for the event is $25 and covers catering and a post-symposium social event. Registration closes on Monday 4th December 2017.

You can find the Facebook events for the Symposium here and the Roundtable here.

PROGRAM

A PDF version of the program is available here

9.00am	Registration opens – Foyer of AGSM, UNSW Kensington
9.30am	Acknowledgement of country & Welcome
9.40am	Session 1: Spectatorship Dr Fiona Andreallo (USyd) Viewing as visual conversationJulia Featherstone (Macq) Interactive Multiscreen Video Art Dr Karina Aveyard (USyd) Phenomenology, Apparatus Theory and Film Viewing Chair: Sharon Mee (UNSW)
11.00am	Morning Tea & SSAAANZ AGM (Webster G17)
11.30am	Session 2: Medium Specificity Dr Adam Daniel (WSU) ‘The Stars Turn And A Time Presents Itself”: Twin Peaks: The Return and Temporal TransmutationTara Lomax (Melb) On Being Cinematic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Considering Medium Specificity in the Era of Transmedia Storytelling and Media Franchising Kim Yen Howells Ng (Melb) The Underscore as Secondary Narrator: Predicting Who Will Win Game of Thrones Chair: Prof. George Kouvaros (UNSW)
12.50pm	Lunch
1.30	Session 3: Roundtable – Convergence or Divergence: Which way forward? Panelists: Dr Susan Potter (USyd) Charu Maithani (UNSW) Rebecca Lelli (Macquarie) Meena Saverumuttu (Macquarie) Kai Soh (UoW) Moderator: Melanie Robson
2.45pm	Session 4: Feminist Approaches Dr Jessica Ford (UNSW) Female Authorship/Auteurism on American “Cinematic” Television Dr Janice Loreck (Curtin) “Critical of the Media You Love”: Film, Fandom and the Convergence Era Chair: Dr Jodi Brooks (UNSW)
3.45pm	Afternoon Tea
4.10pm	Session 5: Questions of Representation Louise Fanning (WSU) “How Do I Look?” Technology, myth and unconscious bias in the visualization of Artificial Intelligence in film Dr Kiu-Wai Chu (WSU) From Airpocalypse Under the Dome to The Double Life of Plastic China: Intersecting Film and Media in Chinese Eco-documentaries Danica Jenkins (USyd) Post-Yugoslav Cinema as a ‘Trojan Horse’: Themes of ‘Coming to Terms with the Past’ in Srđan Dragojević’s Parada Chair: Dr Ari Mattes (Notre Dame)
5.30pm	Closing address and drinks – The Doncaster Hotel – 268 Anzac Parade, Kensington