January 2017 News Brief

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January 2017 - In This Issue:

CONGRATULATION AWARD WINNERS!

ONSITE CONFERENCE  REGISTRATION HOURS

ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

WINNER OF EARLY BIRD DRAWING

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S NOTE

NEED A ROOMMATE?

TRAVEL DISCOUNTS FOR #CHICAGO17

SCMS FIELDNOTES

CHICAGO 2017 AV POLICY

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS AND ADVERTISING

CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIPS DUE JANUARY 20

CINEMA JOURNAL 56.2 NOW AVAILABLE

CINEMA JOURNAL - CALL FOR ASSISTANT EDITORS

SCMS-U CALL FOR PROPOSALS

COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS

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IMPORTANT DATES

JANUARY 20

Conference Exhibitors and Advertisers Deadline

Conference Sponsorship Deadline

Travel Grant and Conference Waivers Winners Notified

JANUARY 31

Online Conference Registration Closes

Participants MUST have an active membership AND have registered for the conference

by this deadline.

FEBRUARY 1

2017 SCMS Election Form Opens

MARCH 22 - MARCH 26

Chicago 2017 Conference

Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park

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REMINDER: All conference presenters must be current SCMS members.

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP BY JANUARY 31

http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=Membership_Renew

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CONGRATULATIONS 2017 SCMS AWARD WINNERS

SCMS is pleased to announce the 2017 Award Winners and Honorees: 

http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=2017_awards

A formal announcement of the awards will be made at the Award Ceremony of the 2017

SCMS Conference in Chicago on Friday afternoon, March 24.  Please join us at this

year's Awards Ceremony to celebrate their outstanding achievements!

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ONSITE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION HOURS

Tuesday, March 21: 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Wednesday, March 22: 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Thursday, March 23: 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Friday, March 24: 8:00AM - 10:45AM*; 12:15PM - 4PM*

Saturday, March 25: 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sunday, March 26: 8:30AM - 12:00PM

*On Friday, March 24, the registration desk will be closed from 10:45AM to 12:15PM

for the Members' Business Meeting. Registration will re-open at 12:45PM that day

 and will close at 4:00PM for the Awards Ceremony and Reception. Conference attendees

will not be able to pick up their registration materials or register on site during

these times.

This year, sessions and events are held at both the Fairmont Chicago and the Aon

 Center, connected via pedway on lower levels of both venues. Name badges are required

to access the Aon Center due to security on site. Please keep your name badge with

you at all times. Replacement name badges will only be printed during onsite registration

hours above.

ON-SITE REGISTRATION RATE: $230.00

Student Rate:  $150.00

Please note: Students must show a valid student ID at the registration desk to receive

the student rate

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EARLY BIRD GIVEAWAY WINNER

Congratulations to Cameron Kunzelman who won the "early bird giveaway" - a gift

certificate for (up to) a 4 night stay at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park.  Certificate expires June 30, 2017.

Thanks for staying in the conference hotel and booking early, Cameron!

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ONLINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ENDS JANUARY 31, 2017

REGULAR ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION RATE: $220.00

Student Rate:  $140.00

Register online here:

http://www.cmstudies.org/event/chicago2017

REMINDER: Chicago Conference Presenters - Both payments (membership and registration)

must be received by Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 5:00PM CST or your name, affiliation

and paper title will not appear in the final printed conference program. This policy

will be strictly enforced. Thank you.

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ROOMMATES

If you're looking for a fellow attendee to share the cost of a hotel room, post a query to the Conference Roommate Forum: https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/forums/Topics.aspx?forum=101180

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TRAVEL DISCOUNTS

REMINDER: Travel discounts are still available for conference attendees!  Southwest

Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Amtrak, and Avis are

all offering discounted rates for travel to Chicago.  For more information, visit:

http://www.cmstudies.org/page/travel_info

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AV POLICY - CHICAGO 2017

The following equipment will be standard in all panel/workshop rooms at the conference:

* LCD projector (and audio)

* VGA Cable (if you have a Mac, please make sure you bring an adapter-mini display

port to VGA, thunderbolt to VGA, etc)

* Mini Audio Jack

* Power strip

* Wireless internet access (you will obtain the password at conference registration)

Because the cost of equipping rooms with computers is prohibitively expensive, we

must ask you to bring your own laptop if you plan to use projection.

In addition to your own laptop, please be sure to bring your power cord and any

proprietary cords required for your computer. MAC users, please bring your own VGA

Adapter. Wireless internet access will be provided in the panel/workshop rooms and

conference space. We will not be offering computers, DVD players, overhead projectors,

slide projectors, CD players and/or additional audio components. If you have questions

about AV or the Society's audiovisual policy, please contact our Conference Manager.

Best Practices

Panels and workshops with multiple presentations using projection are encouraged

 to coordinate before their session time to have all presentations on a single computer

or flash drive. Designate one person's laptop for use during the session; load all

presentations onto the laptop before the session; and test the presentation to make

sure they will work with the software on the designated laptop. We cannot accommodate

changes or requests for AV equipment onsite. SCMS is not responsible for the safety

and security of attendee computers. Thank you for your cooperation.

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CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We have extended the deadline for sponsoring SCMS events at the 2017 conference.

 You now have until Friday, January 20 at 5 PM (CST) to partner with us on a number

of exciting social/mixer/networking opportunities. Not only will your sponsorship

enhance the amenities we offer at the annual meeting, it provides your organization/institution

with an excellent avenue for exposure and heightened awareness with an audience

of highly motivated members of the academy. Please consider becoming a sponsor today!

For more details and information about become a conference sponsor, please visit

 http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=sponsorship or email Jill Simpson at scms-director@ou.edu.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S NOTE

Best wishes for the New Year!

The SCMS Board and Home Office staff are in full preparation mode as we inch our way ever closer to the 2017 Chicago Conference.

In the January issue of News Brief, I would like to point you in the direction of

Episode 34 of Aca-Media. It contains an interview with Conference Manager, Leslie LeMond, where she discusses the many considerations that go into site selection, planning, and execution for our annual conference. I hope you will tune in to gain greater insight into the balance that must be struck in bringing together so many moving pieces for this monumental task. It is no easy feat to provide the amenities we have come to expect at a price point we can manage. Leslie manages to do this  year after year with amazing skill and good humor. In this issue, you will find helpful information on upcoming deadlines, along with a link to assist you in finding conference roommates, and information on travel  discounts. I also strongly urge you to take the time to read the 2017 Audio/Visual Policy as it includes some new changes being introduced this year. In the next week, notifications will go out from the Home Office to all SIGs in response to your 2016-17 funding requests. We were happy to be able to accommodate requests from 29 individual SIGs for the maximum budget line item of $15,500 for a variety of uses included conference events, scholarships, student travel grants, and prizes.

One of the best ways of showing your support of and investment in SCMS is by casting your vote in our annual election. On February 1, the 2017 SCMS elections get underway, concluding on February 28. This year's slate will include candidates for five upcoming board vacancies: President-Elect, Treasurer, two Executive Board members, and a Graduate Student Representative. In the next couple of weeks you will be begin receiving emails containing biographies and candidate statements for this year's slate. They will also be posted at cmstudies.org for the month of February. I urge you to please take a look, and then cast your vote in the month of February.

Until next month, best of luck with the spring semester!

Jill Simpson

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CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS AND ADVERTISING

We have extended the deadline for exhibitors and advertising for SCMS17.

Contract/s and payment deadline is now Friday, January 20, 2017.

More information can be found on the SCMS website:

Exhibitors: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=exhibitors

Advertisers: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=advertising

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SCMS FIELDNOTES

The SCMS Fieldnotes project is pleased to present a new interview with foundational

film and media studies scholar Dana Polan.

Dana Polan

interviewed by Haidee Wasson

Audio Interview Link: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/fieldnotes/Fieldnotes_Polan_Wasson.mp3

See all Fieldnotes interviews at: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=fieldnotes

Fieldnotes is an SCMS project to conduct, circulate and archive interviews with pioneers of film and media studies. In addition to recognizing the contributions of key scholars, the project also aims to foster knowledge of and interest in the diverse and dynamic developments that have shaped -- and continue to shape -- our expanding field.

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CINEMA JOURNAL 56.2 NOW AVAILABLE

Cinema Journal's latest volume is now available!

Complete issues with full-text articles (from 1999 to present) are also available to members to read online at Project Muse.

Click here to read the latest volume of Cinema Journal online: https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/?cj_fulltext

Cinema Journal is published quarterly by the University of Texas Press, in cooperation

with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Members of the society receive the

journal as one of the benefits of membership.

http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=cinema_journal

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CINEMA JOURNAL: CALL FOR ASSISTANT EDITORS

The Editor of Cinema Journal seeks applications for two graduate students to join the Cinema Journal editorial team as Assistant Editors. The Assistant Editors will work with the Editor, Associate Editor, and Editorial Assistant on duties including 1) processing submissions to the journal, 2) corresponding with peer reviewers of submissions, 3) corresponding with authors as they prepare their manuscripts for publication, 4) preparing manuscripts for publication, 5) submitting finished articles to the press for publication, and 6) proofreading the journal before publication.

Assistant Editors also collate author contact information for the press to send with the files for each issue.

One Assistant Editor will also be asked to manage and grow Cinema Journal's social media outreach, while the other will work with the Editor to oversee the submission and cultivation of "In Focus" dossiers.

Each Assistant Editor will receive a $500 stipend to offset travel expenses for the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Other benefits of the position include editorial experience, professional networking opportunities, and internationally recognized service to the field.

Please send a statement of interest and CV to Caetlin Benson-Allott (cb529@georgetown.edu) by February 7, 2017. Any questions about the positions may also be conveyed to that address.

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SCMS-U 2017 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline Reminder: Friday, February 3rd, 2017

The fifth annual SCMS Undergraduate Conference invites undergraduate students to propose papers representing their best work in cinema and media studies.

The submission form can be found http://cla.umn.edu/mims/news-events/news/call-papers-society-cinema-and-media-studies-undergraduate-conference-2017.

Completed proposal forms with abstracts should be sent via email to (mims@umn.edu) with "SCMS-U 2017" in the subject line of the email.

For more information, please visit the SCMS Undergraduate Hub at https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/?page=undergraduate or contact Dr. Graeme Stout (stou0046@umn.edu) at the University of Minnesota.

Sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Press, the Walker Arts Center, and the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul. and the following departments and programs at the University of Minnesota: Moving Image Studies, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Communication Studies, Art History, and French and Italian.

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COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS

ACA-MEDIA

EPISODE 34: REDOUBLED MY DEVOTION TO TEACHING

In our last episode of 2016, we present Susan Ohmer discussing the experience of teaching a course on US presidential elections. We also feature SCMS Conference Manager Leslie LeMond on the work that goes into preparations for the annual SCMS conference, including the 2017 Chicago edition.

Listen here: http://www.aca-media.org

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Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program

Expanding the Reach of Doctoral Education in the Humanities

Deadline: March 22, 2017, 8:00PM EDT

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the seventh annual

competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. In 2017, ACLS will place

up to 22 recent humanities PhDs in two-year positions at diverse organizations in

government and the nonprofit sector. This career-building initiative aims to demonstrate

that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide

application, both within and beyond the academy. The fellowship carries a stipend

of $67,500, with health insurance for the fellow and up to $3,000 for professional

development activities.

In 2017, Public Fellows have the opportunity to join one of the following organizations:

* Association of American Colleges & Universities (Washington, DC) - Associate Director

for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success

* Association of College & Research Libraries (Chicago, IL) - Program Manager

* Boston Housing Authority (Boston, MA) - Program Analyst

* Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY) - Program Analyst, Education and Community

Engagement

* Community Partners (Los Angeles, CA) - Program Evaluator

* The Feminist Press (New York, NY) - Development Manager

* The Field Museum (Chicago, IL) - Public Engagement Manager

* Free Press (Washington, DC, or Florence, MA) - Campaign Organizer

* Humanities Action Lab (Newark, NJ) - Program Manager

* International Student Exchange Programs (Arlington, VA) - Student Success Officer

* Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN) - Content Analyst

* The Moth (New York, NY) - Marketing Manager

* National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO) - Legislative Policy Specialist

* National Women's Law Center (Washington, DC) - Policy Analyst

* Natural Resources Defense Council (Washington, DC) - International Campaign Advocate

* New America (Washington, DC) - Editor

* NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (New York, NY) - Policy Advisor

* The Public Theater (New York, NY) - Strategic Communications Manager

* Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (Seattle, WA) - Impact and Assessment Manager

* Twin Cities PBS (St. Paul, MN) - Strategic Impact Analyst

* Vera Institute of Justice (New Orleans, LA) - Senior Program Associate

* Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) - Community Organizing Manager

Applicants must possess US citizenship or permanent resident status and have a PhD

in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2013,

and June 18, 2017. Applicants must have defended and deposited their dissertations

no later than April 6, 2017. The deadline for submitted applications is Wednesday,

March 22, 2017, 8 pm EDT.

Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS online application system (OFA).

Applicants should not contact any of the organizations directly. Please visit http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp for complete position descriptions, eligibility criteria, and application information.

This program is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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NEH Public Scholar Program

Application Deadline: February 1, 2017

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2017

round of the Public Scholar Program, which is intended to support well-researched

books in the humanities that have been conceived and written to reach a broad readership.

Books supported through the Public Scholar Program might present a narrative history,

tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a

synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest

thinking on a topic. Most importantly, they should present significant humanities

topics in a way that is accessible to general readers.

The Public Scholar Program is open to both independent scholars and individuals

affiliated with scholarly institutions. It offers a stipend of $4,200 per month for a period of six to twelve months. The maximum stipend is $50,400 for a twelve-month period. Applicants must have U.S. citizenship or residency in the U.S. for the three years prior to the application deadline. In addition, they must have previously published a book with a university or commercial press or at least three articles and essays in publications reaching a large national or international audience.

Application guidelines (including a full statement of the eligibility requirements)

and a list of F.A.Q.'s for the Public Scholar Program are available on the NEH's website at http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program.  The application

deadline for this cycle is February 1, 2017. Recipients may begin the term of the

grant as early as September 1, 2017 or as late as September 1, 2018.

In the last cycle of the competition, the Endowment received 318 applications and made 30 awards.

A list of previously funded projects and several samples of successful applications are available in the sidebar at the right of the webpage linked above. For additional information, please write to publicscholar@neh.gov.

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CLIR Invites Applications for Digitizing At-Risk Audio Materials

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications

from collecting institutions for the digital reformatting of magnetic audio materials,

as part of the pilot phase of the Recordings at Risk grant program. Generously funded

by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Recordings at Risk is focused on digitally reformatting

"at-risk" audio and audiovisual materials of high scholarly value.

In this pilot cycle, CLIR will award approximately $150,000 for the preservation

 reformatting of magnetic audio media through the Northeast Document Conservation

Center's (NEDCC's) newly established audio preservation service. Grants of between

$5,000 and $25,000 will be awarded for projects of up to 12 months, to fall between

May 2017 and April 2018.

The application deadline for the pilot project is March 3, 2017. Awards will be

announced April 30, 2017.

Prospective applicants must obtain confirmation from NEDCC that their proposed audio

reformatting project merits NEDCC's "high-touch, high-quality" technical approach.

NEDCC will then work with applicants on a detailed quote and a letter of support,

which must be submitted with the application package to CLIR. CLIR and NEDCC will

hold an informational webinar for prospective applicants on January 12 at 2:00 pm

Eastern time.

Information for applicants, including a link to the online application form, is

available on CLIR's website at: https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/

Subsequent calls will allow applicants to submit proposals nominating both audio

 and audiovisual materials for preservation reformatting, in addition to selecting

the qualified digitization service provider of their choice.

News and future developments with the Recordings at Risk program will be available

through the program website and Twitter.

The Council on Library and Information Resources is an independent, nonprofit organization

that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments

in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.

Founded in 1973, the nonprofit Northeast Document Conservation Center serves cultural

institutions and individuals nationwide, offering conservation treatment, digital

imaging, audio preservation, assessments and consultations, training programs, disaster

assistance, and free web resources.