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<div>CONFERENCE UPDATE</div>
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<div><b>1. Conference Program</b></div>
<div>The Conference program and a full set of abstracts and speaker
biographies is now available on the Conference website:</div>
<div>http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/program.html</div>
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<div>Presenters include:</div>
<div>Ian Aitken, Ian Christie, Pam Cook, Barbara Creed, Richard
Maltby, Adrian Martin, Janet Staiger, Stephen Teo, Keyan Tomaselli,
Janet Walker</div>
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<div><b>2. Film and History Association Research and Writing
Awards</b></div>
<div>Winners of the FHAANZ Research and Writing Awards will be
announced at the Conference Dinner. The shortlisted nominees
are:</div>
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<li><b>Best Essay/ Book Chapter/ Refereed Journal Article</b></ul>
<div>ADRIAN DANKS</div>
<div>'Arrested Developments or from The Heroes are Tired to The Tomb
of Ligeia: Some notes on the Place of the Melbourne University Film
Society in 1960s Film Culture' in Seamus O'Hanlon and Tanja Luckins
(eds), Go! Melbourne in the Sixties, Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing
Group, 2005, pp. 101-114</div>
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<div>JEANETTE HOORN</div>
<div>' ''Strong Women Became Weak Under Its Influence": The Uses
of Pituri in Charles Chauvel's film, Uncivilised (1936)' in
eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction,
Vol 2, No. 2, pp. 40-45, published online, University of West
Virginia, 2 May 2005</div>
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<div>JILL JULIUS MATTHEWS</div>
<div>'Modern nomads and national film history: the multi-continental
career of J D Williams' in Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (eds),
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, Canberra:
ANU</div>
<div>ePress, 2006, pp. 157-169</div>
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<li><b>Best Monograph</b></ul>
<div>JANE LANDMAN</div>
<div>The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism
and the Cinema, 1925-62 (Canberra: ANU, Pandanus Books, 2006)</div>
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<div>JILL JULIUS MATTHEWS</div>
<div>Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity
(Sydney: Currency Press, 2005)</div>
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<div>DEB VERHOEVEN</div>
<div>Sheep and the Australian Cinema (Melbourne: MUP, 2006)</div>
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<b>3. Special Events</b></div>
<div>Among the special events scheduled for the Conference is the
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) screening of Annie
Goldson's<b> Elgar's Enigma: biography of a concerto</b> (New
Zealand, 2006) and John Hughes'<b> The Archive Project</b>
(Australia, 2006), both introduced by the filmmakers. See details of
the event at:</div>
<div>http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/highlights.html<br>
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<div><b>4. Conference Papers in Senses of Cinema</b></div>
<div>A number of delegates have submitted versions of their papers for
pre-publication in issue 41 of Senses of Cinema. The issue is
due to appear in the next few days. See:</div>
<div>http://www.sensesofcinema.com/</div>
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kind regards,<br>
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<div>Deb Verhoeven</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>The XIIIth Biennial Conference of the
Film & History Association</b><br>
Melbourne, November 16-19, 2006<br>
www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/index.html<br>
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