Visible Evidence XV
International
Documentary Studies Conference
University of Lincoln
Monday 4 - Friday 8 August 2008
FINAL CALL FOR PANEL PAPERS,
VISIBLE EVIDENCE XV, Lincoln UK 4-8 August 2008
Planning for Visible Evidence XV is entering its final phase and this call for papers is being made to constitute panels on the following topics:
• LGBT Documentaries
• Documentary and the Limits of the Figurative: Coping and Compensating
for a lack of material
• Miscarriage of Justice/Social Activism Documentary
• History Documentaries
• Iraq and the Representation of Islam in Documentary
• Documentary ‘Up’: Longitudinal Documentary
Paper proposals to should be sent to Brian Winston
bwinston@lincoln.ac.uk
by Friday, 25 April 2008
Visible Evidence XV
Visible Evidence XV brings together scholars, artists, producers, makers and curators who engage in debates on contemporary documentary practices in all media.
Hosted by the Lincoln Chair of Communications with the support of the Grierson Trust, bfi and Wallflower, VISIBLE EVIDENCE XV will take place in one of the UK’s newest universities sited in one of its most ancient cities. As usual, the conference will address all current issues in documentary studies including documentary and history, and fact-based theatre. Screenings will include films from the British National Film and Television Archive specially digitised for the conference as well as recent Grierson prize-winners.
We invite panel and paper proposals on all topics and current issues relating to documentary. As in previous years, the conference program will include pre-constituted panels as well as a number of panels reserved for open call papers
Sessions will last for two hours and be limited to four papers.
STOP PRESS
DRAMA & THE DOCUMENTARY
On Wednesday, 6 August 2007, Visible Evidence will expand the agenda of Documentary Studies to embrace fact-based theatre and the extremes of docudrama such as the documusical. Sessions are being arranged by the 'Acting with Facts' project at the University of Reading and the Departments of Film and Theatre at the University of Warwick.
(Please note the Warwick seminar of documentary theatre is postponed to 2009.)
Further Details:
J.Reinelt@warwick.ac.uk
or S.Bruzzi@warwick.ac.uk
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- The Lincoln Hotel
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- Lincolnshire Tourism - www.lincolnshiretourism.com
- Insideout guide to Lincoln
- Lincoln Today
- Lincolnshire County Council
- Lincoln City Council
- Lincolnshire - www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk
- BBC Lincolnshire
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Travel Information
Road
Road access is via the A1 with intersections at Newark (A46) from the South
and near Retford (A57) from the North. The city is 40 miles east of Nottingham
on the A46 and 40 miles south of the Humber Bridge on the A15.
Please note: there is limited parking on campus. Further instructions
with regard to car parking will be sent with Conference joining instructions.
Rail
Lincoln station is a few minutes walk from the campus.
London Kings Cross is less than two hours away.
Air
Humberside Airport is 40 minutes away with domestic, European flights and
international links available. If you fly into one of the London airports then
you will need to transfer to Kings Cross Station to catch the train to Lincoln.
If you are arriving at East Midlands airport you will need to take the Skylink
from East Midlands to Nottingham Train station, and then a train from Nottingham
to Lincoln Central.
- East Midlands Airport links
Skylink - www.skylink.co.uk/nottingham