SSAAANZ

 Seen/Unseen: Screens and Screen Studies in the 21st Century 

Fifth Biennial Conference of The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) in association with Flinders University, Adelaide.

December 3rd-6th 2024

This year’s SSAAANZ Conference will be held in person.

The conference will be held at Flinders University’s City Campus at Festival Plaza, Adelaide from December 4-6 inclusive. The conference will be preceded by a half-day workshop for HDRs / ECRs offered Tuesday December 3rd (in the afternoon) at the University of Adelaide.

Conference keynote speakers:

Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Reader in Film Studies, King’s College, London

Professor Amanda Lotz, Transforming Media Industries program, QUT

Dr. Gemma King, Senior Lecturer, French and DECRA Fellow, ANU

All conference presenters must renew their membership to SSAAANZ before attending the Conference. Link to renew your SSAAANZ membership is here.

In the meantime, if you have any queries about the conference, please contact the conference committee at ssaaanz2024@flinders.edu.au

Seen/Unseen: Screens and Screen Studies in the 21st Century

Fifth Biennial Conference of The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) in association with Flinders University, Adelaide

December 3rd-6th 2024

In all aspects of Screen Studies there are elements of the seen and the unseen, the visible and the invisible, the recognised (canonised) and the forgotten and overlooked. Whether in the screen practices of producing images for the screen, in the industrial circumstances of funding, training, casting, and location scouting that occur behind the scenes, or as a consequence of regulation and censorship, the end result is a text that is made to be seen but which is an effect of invisible processes and events. Within screen texts there are narratives, visual and audio techniques, and conventions that toy with our perceptions of seen/unseen. Screen history itself has shed light on and elevated certain careers and texts and neglected others. These dynamics are core to Screen Studies research, where a key aim, underpinned by decolonising and feminist approaches, has been to bring ‘unseen’ histories, practices, and theories to the fore.

In these ways, Seen/Unseen can speak to formalism and framing, the textual and the extra-textual, policy and regulation, labour and economies, and screen histories. We invite proposals that address the theme of Seen/Unseen.

Conference Committee

Julia Erhart (Flinders University)

Nicholas Godfrey (Flinders University)

Claire Henry (Flinders University)

Claire Whitley (Flinders University)

Lauren Woolbright (Flinders University)

Peter Pugsley (University of Adelaide)

Jessica Ford (University of Adelaide)

Stuart Richards (University of South Australia)

Arezou Zalipour (Auckland University of Technology)