CfP: 15th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, May 09-10, 2019 @ Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway (IE). Deadline: Feb 22, 2019.

The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway is pleased to host the 15^th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, to be held on 9-10 May 2019.

The Irish Screen Studies Seminar provides a unique platform for the presentation of new work – research, practice, and research through practice – by scholars and filmmakers from third-level institutions in Ireland, as well as those working on Irish screen-related topics in other universities and colleges worldwide.

The seminar is aimed at academic researchers and practitioners in film and screen cultures in the broadest sense, touching on audio, film, television, digital media, transmedia, gaming and related interdisciplinary activity. The ISSS actively promotes the exchange of ideas and offers postgraduate and early career researchers and practitioners an ideal opportunity to present evolving screen-related research and practice in a constructive and encouraging forum.

The keynote speaker for the conference will be Professor Laura Mulvey.

We invite proposals in all areas of film and screen research and/or practice. To submit an abstract/proposal, please email 250 words and a short bio to ISS2019seminar@gmail.com by 22 February, 2019.