SRN Newsletter No 5 July 2019 DRAFT 26 July 2019
We welcome contributions and feedback which can be sent to Christina Milligan, Auckland University of Technology: christina.milligan@aut.ac.nz
For suggestions on the layout please write to Margaret McVeigh: m.mcveigh@griffith.edu.au
Minutes SRN EC Meeting
Wednesday 29 May 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time
Attending: CSB, CT, CM,
Excused: JF, AZ
accepted
Discussion about the SRN Call for Conferences.
Arrived: Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, Perth (unofficial).
Unofficial interest from one member in the US and one in the UK. Discussion about places and dates. Agreement that two conferences in a row in the southern hemisphere would not be ideal.
Vienna 2021: accepted
Rio 2023: anonymously considered as a good proposal. Maybe also possible in 2022?
EC will contact organizers.
Those organizers who have to wait for the confirmation of their universities will be contacted by the EC. The results should be announced at the AGM
Schedule: we have to plan the agenda and content of the AGM
Prepare the elections.
CT will communicate with the organizers to explicitly put the awards into the program as part of the AGM. We will also need a room for the EC meeting before the conference (Wednesday Sept. 11th at 3 pm)
We now have enough nominations in both categories. The problem that jurors haven’t received their copies is now solved.
Next meeting: Wednesday 19 June 2019, 21.30 Vienna Time
Minutes SRN EC Meeting
Wednesday 24 April 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time
Attending: CSB (chair), JF, PR, CT (minutes), AZ
Excused: MMcV, CM
approved
Information about the SRN Call for Conferences. Timeline (CSB, CT)
One official bid by Brazil so far, three other ones are in the works. One will need until mid-May, one will need some months.
Thus we decided to extend the deadline. The new deadline is May 27th, it will be communicated via our mailing list.
Registration is now open
We should encourage people to register
JH will put a reminder on social media.
Do we have statistics of the users?
No access to web statistics so far. How many people are visiting our website?
AZ will get the information.
Discussion about stats and usefulness of specific social media (FB, Twitter, Instagram, youtube, etc.)
We have to find out if the Porto organizers have a person, who is responsible for communication and social media and maybe stream and/or film some keynotes/presentations even if it is only audio.
Steven Price: news about suggestions for the Article Award? (PR)
Steven will think about possible candidates. We might have to remind authors that self-nomination is allowed.
Next meeting: Wednesday 29 May 2019, 21.30 Vienna Time
End of meeting: 22:30
Minutes SRN EC Meeting
Wednesday 27 March 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time
Participants: CSB (chair), CT (minutes), AZ, JF, MMcV,
Excused: PR, CM
approved
Information about the SRN Call for Conferences (CSB)
CSB received three mails from international facilities (Singapur, UK, Ottawa), but these are commercial institutions. In her response she made clear that we are looking for non-commercial organizers, located in universities, film schools etc.
Registration is not open yet. The organizers need to communicate information when it actually opens.
March edition is ready, thanks to CM and MMcV.
The EC discussed the statistics of our newsletter and how we can get information about it. Instead of sending the whole newsletter out as attached pdf, we could just send a list of the topic with links to the whole newsletter on our website. This way we could get detailed statistics. The newsletter itself doesn’t need to be changed at all for this technical improvement.
We also have no numbers and stats of our website.
The first nomination for an article came in and was forwarded to the members of the jury.
JF reports from his very successful workshop about screenwriting research.
He will write a short report for our next newsletter. JF also created a SRN banner, which could be used at other occasions.
CT reports that a German language network for screenwriting research will be founded in November. A CfP for the first workshop will be published in our newsletter.
Next meeting: Wednesday 24 April 2019, 21.30 Vienna Time
End of meeting: 22:30 Vienna time
Dear members,
As decided at last year’s AGM in Milan, the network will award books and articles in the field of screenwriting research with an annual prize.
We have already received some interesting nominations, but there is still time to nominate books and articles. We would like to encourage more nominations for articles”. Self-nomination is allowed; the essay could be published in the Journal of Screenwriting or in any other scholarly journal
The article or book should be published between September 2018 and June 2019.
Deadline for nominations is
June 15th.
More information on the details can be found on our website:
https://screenwritingresearch.com/2018/10/24/srn-awards-2019/
Please encourage authors and publishers to contact us. Nominations should be send to
Looking forward to present the first awards at our annual conference at Porto in September
Kind regards
Claus Tieber
Secretary, SRN
Tuesday 19 February 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time
Participants: CSB (chair), CT (minutes), AZ, PR, JF (only at the very beginning, due to technical problems)
Excused: Christina
approved
Discussion about the text of the Call for next conference organisers – 2021-2023.
Draft accepted with few corrections. Deadline will be April 30th, decisions to be made in the June meeting. Official communication at the AGM in Porto. (to the organizers after the June meeting) Applications can be made for a specific year, or for all years. In the later case it’s up to the EC to choose the year.
The Call will be send via our list and put on our website. After that we will spread it similarly to the CfPs for our conferences and spread via our channels of communications. We will use the list of the Porto CfP to coordinate the distribution among us.
Response of the Porto organizers about our answer regarding their need for help with the election of abstracts (vid the Minutes of last meeting, AZ + CSB)
A lot of work was done in the selection processes and we thank the organizers for that.
We suggest to send the comments that were written during this process to the applicants in order to approve their presentations, but it is up to them if they want to do this.
The applicants will be informed by March 1st.
We accept the rejections, although we consider these decisions to be the responsibility of the organizers, not of the EC.
Lots of information for the newsletter was received. The next one will be send out in a couple of weeks.
We have a number of nominations for the book award, but not a single one for an article. We will remind members of this category in the next newsletter.
PR will get in contact with Steven Price, who as editor of the JoS should have a good overview about articles to be published during the timespan eligible for the award.
We discussed the option of an additional page on our website for Early Carrier Researchers. The EC prefers to focus on social media in this case instead of putting up a new page with not enough content.
CSB will represent SRN with the Yearbook of International Organizations, a publication of the Union of International Associations, http://www.uia.org/yearbook
Next meeting. Wednesday March 20 at 21:30 Vienna time.
The SRN March Newsletter is now available and can be accessed here
SRN Newsletter Mar No 1 2019 FINAL 21 March 2019
We welcome contributions and feedback which can be sent to Christina Milligan, Auckland University of Technology: christina.milligan@aut.ac.nz
For suggestions on the layout please write to Margaret McVeigh: m.mcveigh@griffith.edu.au
Screenwriting Research Network: Call for Conferences
The Screenwriting Research Network is looking for proposals to host its International Conferences in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The Screenwriting Research Network (www.screenwritingresearch.com) is an international research network of scholars, reflective practitioners and practice-based researchers, interested in the conceptualisation of film, TV and other media narratives; or Screenwriting Studies, as it has become known. Membership is currently drawn from 48 countries worldwide and still growing, with strong representation from the USA, Europe and Australasia, and recent members from several other countries, including Latin America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa.
The SRN began as a study group at the University of Leeds, UK, in 2006, and started its programme of international conferences in 2008, also at Leeds. Since then annual conferences have been held in Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Brussels (2011), Sydney (2012), Madison-Wisconsin (2013), Potsdam-Babelsberg (2014), London (2015), Leeds (2016), Otago-Dunedin in New Zealand (2017) and Milan (2018). A special international conference was also held in Santiago, Chile in May 2015. In 2019 we will meet at the Catholic University of Portugal in Porto, whereas the 2020 conference will be held in Oxford.
Over the years, the programme has attracted eminent scholars and Oscar-winning screenwriters amongst the keynote speakers, and includes: David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson, Torben Grodal, Adrian Martin, Brian Winston, Jonathan Powell, Milcho Manchevski, Larry Gross, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ronald Harwood, Hossein Amini and Neil Landau among many others. Key papers are often published in the Journal of Screenwriting (Intellect).
The SRN conferences usually take place in September/October each year. Recent conferences have attracted 150-175 participants and around 100 papers and presentations. We expect further growth. Our conferences are usually hosted by university departments or film schools, often as a partnership between such institutions; for example, our 2015 London conference was a collaboration between Royal Holloway University of London, University of Greenwich, University of East London and Bangor University, and the 2020 Oxford conference will be co-hosted by Oxford Brookes University and Canterbury Christchurch University. Collaborations with archives or festivals,
writers’ associations or guilds, and other public bodies are welcomed.
Each conference is financially self-supporting with actual costs borne or raised by the host institutions. Sources range from public bodies and institutions to sponsorship of some events, to conference fees from participants. The SRN supports each conference with advice and contacts, but not finance. This is not a profit-making enterprise, and commercial proposals are not accepted.
If you are interested in organizing an SRN annual international conference, please contact the SRN Chairman, Prof. Carmen Sofia Brenes (Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile) at the address below, for further information or for an informal chat. Formal proposals should be received by 30thApril 2019, via email. The proposal should be no longer than four pages, outlining the location and institution, facilities, ease of travel and communication, appropriate organising staff, and an indication of how institutional and financial commitment will be forthcoming. A simple budget should be appended.
For further information or an informal chat (preferably via Skype), contact Prof. Brenes at csbrenes@miuandes.cl.
The SRN Executive Council will consider all proposals through Spring/Summer 2019, and may require further information, before making decisions. We hope to complete the process by the end of June 2019 and announce the next Conference in Porto.
The SRN exists to encourage networking among screenwriting scholars and will support and disseminate information about appropriate events. Besides our annual conferences, therefore, there is also the possibility of regional conferences, one-day workshops and other forms of smaller events. If you are planning to organize such an event and want the help and support of the network, please contact us, and the SRN Executive Council will consider how we might help.
Screenwriting Research Network Executive Council
Minutes of the EC meeting 21:30 (Vienna time)
20.11.2018 via Skype
Attendees: Carmen Sofia Brenes (Chair), Claus Tieber (Minutes), John Finnigan, Paolo Russo, Anna Zaluczkowska
Excused: Christina Milligan, Margaret McVeigh
Agenda SRN EC Meeting
approved
2.1. Call for papers
2.2. Feedback from Guillhermina about our suggestions regarding schedule,
photos, places to have short meetings.
Organizers took comments into account. CfP will be send out via our list by Daniel Ribas or Giullhermina Castro.
CT has already communicated the CfP via diverse list, will send this list to PR, who will make a google doc so we can all help to spread the call as wide as possible.
Action: google doc with list of organisations, mailing lists etc. where we want to post the CfP for the Porto conference – PR
No feedback so far, which is not considered as a bad sign by the members of the EC.
4.1. New section in the webpage for ECR
4.2. FB and Twitter: movement?
4.3 SARP and Bibliography: how to proceed?
Space for ECR on our website is possible. We should all look for examples and best practices.
Action all
JF is not satisfied with the growth of our twitter account. (117 followers so far), on FB we have 1123 subscribers, but we started earlier. These things need time.
One of the problems is content. There is just not enough content.
SARP and Bibliography should be at the center of a little communication “campain” in January, focusing on social media.
Was sent out by John.
Nominations for the book category are already in. Information about the award was communicated via numerous channels. (additional ones are welcome)
Membership infos and access to jiscmail was handed over to PR by Ronald Geerts.
Meeting ended at ca. 22.30 Vienna time
Next meeting: Dec. 18that 21:30 Vienna time