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SRN 2020 CONFERENCE, OXFORD – CALL FOR PAPERS

13th SCREENWRITING RESEARCH NETWORK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“PUSHING BOUNDARIES”

Oxford Brookes University (UK), September 9–12, 2020

 

*** NOTE – This is a SHORT version of the CfP containing essential information only.

Please read the FULL CfP here: SRN2020 – Call for Papers  ***

 

 The 13th annual International Conference of the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN 2020) will be hosted by Oxford Brookes University in the UK, on Wednesday 9th through Saturday 12th September 2020.

The Conference is organized by the Film Studies Research Unit with the support of the School of Arts of Oxford Brookes University through Quality-Related (QR) research funding. The main location of the Conference will be the John Henry Brookes Building at the Headington Campus. Oxford is well known for its history, culture and academic tradition.

In order to ensure timely notification of shortlisted delegates and subsequent travel planning, please note the deadline for the submission of all proposals/abstracts by 15 December 2019.

 

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

Calendar (summary of deadlines)

Submissions of abstracts by: 15 December 2019

Shortlisting/notification of acceptance by: End of January 2020

Early-bird registration: From early March until 31 May 2020

Regular registration by: 15 July 2020 

Late registration by: 25 August 2020

Conference: 9-12 September 2020

 

Keynotes speakers and special guests to be announced in early 2020.

 

Submission of abstracts/proposals

Proposals/Abstracts can be sent as either a Word or PDF document: please indicate “Yourname_PROPOSALTYPE” (i.e. PAPER, PANEL, ESSAY or POSTER; see details in Full CfP) clearly in the file title and in the subject heading of your submission email to info@srn2020.com

Deadline for submission of all proposals: 15 December 2019. 

Earlier submissions are much welcome.

All presentations, regardless of format, must be delivered in person (i.e. no pre-recorded presentations), in English, and be underpinned by original research work being conducted by the presenter (i.e. no recycling/repetitions from previous SRN or other conferences). Multiple presenters (max 2) for co-written papers are allowed. 

We aim to notify acceptance/rejection of proposals by the end of January 2020.

 

Website and registration

The SRN 2020 Website will go live within a few weeks from the posting of this CfP.

It will include a wealth of useful information (e.g. registration, travel arrangements, accommodation options), as well as all the updates and the programme leading up to the Conference. 

Registration will have the usual phased deadlines (early-bird, regular, late-premium, student concession); the early-bird fee is expected to be in the region of £100 (GBP).

 

Contacts

Please address any query regarding abstracts, registration, programme, etc. to info@srn2020.com

For any other informal query, do contact the Conference Director (Paolo Russo) directly at paolo.russo@brookes.ac.uk

 

 

SRN Executive Minutes – May 2019

Minutes SRN EC Meeting

Wednesday 29 May 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time

Attending: CSB, CT, CM,

Excused: JF, AZ

 

  1. Approval of the minutes 190425 (last meeting)

accepted

 

  1. Next Conferences:

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

 

  1. Porto Conference

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)

 

  1. Awards

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

SRN Executive minutes – April 2019

Minutes SRN EC Meeting

Wednesday 24 April 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time

Attending: CSB (chair), JF, PR, CT (minutes), AZ

Excused: MMcV, CM

  1. Approval of the minutes 190327 (last meeting)

approved

 

  1. Next Conferences:

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.

 

  1. Porto Conference

Registration is now open

We should encourage people to register

JH will put a reminder on social media.

 

  1. Web

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.

 

  1. Awards

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

SRN Executive Minutes – March 2019

Minutes SRN EC Meeting

Wednesday 27 March 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time

Participants: CSB (chair), CT (minutes), AZ, JF, MMcV,

Excused: PR, CM

 

  1. Approval of the minutes 190219 (last meeting)

approved

 

  1. Next Conferences:

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.

 

  1. Porto Conference

Registration is not open yet. The organizers need to communicate information when it actually opens.

 

  1. Newsletter

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.

 

  1. Awards

The first nomination for an article came in and was forwarded to the members of the jury.

 

  1. Other business

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

 

AWARDS – books and articles

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

claus.tieber@univie.ac.at

Looking forward to present the first awards at our annual conference at Porto in September

Kind regards

Claus Tieber

Secretary, SRN

 

Call for Conferences: Deadline extended

Dear Members,
We thank those of you who have already declared their interest in
organizing the annual SRN conferences from 2021 until 2023. We recognize
that some need a little bit more time to submit a proposal and/or get
the approval of their university. Thus we have extended the deadline for
this call until May 27th.
This might also give others who haven’t already a chance to make a bid.
We are looking forward to your submissions.
Kind regards
Claus Tieber
Secretary SRN

SRN Executive Minutes – February 2019

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

 

  1. Approval of the minutes 190122 (last meeting)

approved

 

  1. Next Conferences:

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.

 

  1. Porto Conference

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.

 

  1. Newsletter

Lots of information for the newsletter was received. The next one will be send out in a couple of weeks.

 

  1. Awards

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.

 

  1. Other business

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.