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New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference Call

New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference will be held face-to-face for the first time after the pandemic! The 22nd of the conference series is titled “Cinema and Women”. The deadline for applications for TFAYY XXII, which will be hosted by Kadir Has University Department of Radio, Television and Cinema on May 11-13, 2023, is February 26, 2023!

Invitation Text:

We dream of a conference full of enthusiasm where we will talk about, scrutinize and rediscover the historiography of Turkish cinema, the culture of criticism, periods, stars, films made by women, films about women, production channels, labor force, past and present, perhaps for the first time in detail with a female voice.

In recent years, we have been following academically supported reports, news reports and social media reports in which the structure of the industry has been evaluated from a gender perspective, and the imbalances, diversities and violations in terms of representation, labor force, awards and support have been voiced with the efforts of women filmmakers in national and international contexts. Similar to the strengthening ties between academic literature and audiovisual production with the rise of feminist film theory and criticism in the seventies, we observe that women filmmakers and film researchers are speaking out together with the influence of new feminisms after queer film theory.

This mobilization points to the need for new studies on Turkish cinema, and to works, people, characters, professions and periods that have not been talked about or written about (or that have been studied incompletely or in a one-dimensional or one-dimensional framework), and raises questions: What would we see if we revisited the history of cinema from a feminist perspective? How can a history of cinema centered on women be written? How do we define women’s cinema in Turkey? Can feminist approaches transform the language of film? Who tells women’s stories; how does cinema define womanhood? For whom are movies made; who watches movies? What are the connections or ruptures between the past and the present? How do festival screenings, awards, funding and support mechanisms function according to gender?

We look forward to your participation in this year’s New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference with papers, panels or video-essays under the title “Cinema and Women” and around (but not limited to) the following themes:

Application and Evaluation:

Abstracts (350 words) should be accompanied by the applicant’s CV (150 words) and a bibliography of up to 3 sources.

Panel proposals with a maximum of four participants can be submitted by the panel organizer. The proposal should be preceded by a panel abstract (150 words), followed by an abstract for each paper to be presented (350 words), a panelist CV (150 words) and a bibliography of up to 3 sources. Please include all panelists in the e-mail message when submitting the application.

For video-essay submissions, the completed work of up to 10 minutes in length should be uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube and a supporting text of up to 350 words should be sent with the link.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to: tfayykonferans@gmail.com. Accepted applications will be announced in March 2023 after a blind review by the program board.

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Düzenleme Komitesi:

The interim results of the TUBITAK project “Women on Screen and Behind the Camera in Turkey: A Current (2017-2021) Snapshot of Representation and Labor Force” will be shared at a workshop to be organized during the TFAYY XXII conference. Further details will be announced separately.