Robert Vas symposium, updated details
John Wyver writes: Some six weeks ago I posted a Call for Proposals for a one-day symposium about the films of the important documentary maker Robert Vas (above). My colleagues James Jordan and Eleni Liarou and I have received a number of really interesting proposals, but scheduling issues have meant that we have had to bring forward the date of the symposium, which will now be held on Friday 27 March.
Along with this change, we felt that it might be useful to extend the deadline for proposals to Monday 8 December, and we really hope that other scholars and filmmakers will be interested in putting forward ideas for papers.
We are keen to set Vas’ films in a broad range of contexts, and so we welcome thoughts about distinctive documentary engagements with the themes that drove his work: refugee experience, Jewish culture, the film archive, memory and history. Do click through to the revised CFP for more details.
We feel certain that the day will be a rich and stimulating mix of presentations and extracts from Vas’ work, and we look forward to sharing the full programme in the new year and to welcoming attendees to Birkbeck’s very fine cinema in London’s Gordon Square.
Incidentally, as I was working on this I found a blog post about access to the films of Robert Vas that I wrote back in June 2013 which remains as pertinent today as it was then.
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