The Second Annual
Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference
at the University of Notre Dame
April 11-12, 2008
The Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference offers undergraduate students the opportunity to present papers representing their best work in film and media studies. The conference will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana on April 11-12, 2008. Students will deliver papers on any aspect of film and media history, criticism, or theory, and the papers will be given in twenty minute slots.
Students who wish to participate in the conference must submit a title and abstract (maximum 200 words) describing their paper, as well as a brief biographical statement (maximum 50 words) stating their interest in film and media studies and their academic goals.
Proposals should also include technical needs (DVD, VCR, and PowerPoint will be available) and contact information. To provide this information, students must use appropriate the submission form, included below and also available online at http://www.nd.edu/~ftt/submission.doc.
Deadline for proposals: February 15th, 2008
A panel comprised of faculty from Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre will select papers from among the proposals received.
Note: This is not an undergraduate film festival but an academic conference. Do not send student films. Student films may, of course, form part of a paper presentation but they will not be screened outside the 20-minute time allocation.
At the First Annual conference, participants included students from Notre Dame, Iowa, Tennessee, the Art Institute of Chicago, Denison, Ohio State, Southern Illinois, Purdue, Columbia College, Illinois, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Calvin College. Selected paper titles included: "The Wire: Institutions and Anti-Romanticism," "Beneath Physical Reality: The Emergence of Death and Holocaust Trauma in Kracauer's Theory of Film," "Oldboy: South Korean Culture in the Context of the Masculine Western," "Spoiled by the Media: TV, the Internet, and the Teenage Consumer," "Madness in the Hills: Hollywood's New Wave of Slasher Killers," "Taking the 'Nation' Out of National Tragedy: Paul Greengrass's Transnational Documentary Style," and "Locating Violence: A Critical Analysis of the Western Image in A History of Violence and Last Days."
For more information on the conference, contact: Christine Becker, becker.34@nd.edu, 574-631-7592
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Second Annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference Submission Form
Your name:
Your email address:
Your college or university:
Your major:
Your paper title:
3-4 key words that would help categorize your paper (i.e. genre study, stardom, Hong Kong cinema, etc.):
Description of paper (in 200 words or less, please describe your paper's argument. Note: Do NOT send the full paper):
Biographical Information (50 words or less):
Equipment Needs (check all that apply):
DVD __
VCR __
Powerpoint __
Please specify: MAC __ PC __
Send completed form to Christine Becker via email
using subject heading "undergraduate conference"
Or mail to:
Undergraduate Film Conference
c/o Christine Becker
230 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556
Deadline for submission is February 15th, 2008
