‘Current Thinking on the Western II’ is an international symposium that will take place on 23-24 March 2015 at the University of Leeds, UK.
Keynote speaker: Professor Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA). Author of ‘The Encyclopedia of B Westerns’ (forthcoming) and co-editor of ‘Undead in the West’ volumes I & II (Scarecrow Press, 2012; 2013) and ‘International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier’ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
Though relatively few Westerns are produced these days the genre in all of its multifarious forms continues to inspire new avenues of research.
This two-day event seeks to draw together international scholars of all levels (postgraduate research students, early career researchers & established researchers) and media practitioners whose work engages with the Western on film.
Proposals (around 250 words in length) are invited for 20 minute papers concerning any aspect of current research on Western genre films but the following areas are of particular interest:
– Cult Westerns
– Hybrid Westerns
– US Civil War related Westerns
– “Classic” Westerns
– Western parodies
– Revisionist Westerns
– Political Westerns
– Westerns made since 2000
– Western stars
– The Western on TV
– Fan productions
– The music of the Western
Papers can relate to American/Hollywood Westerns or those produced beyond the USA (Italian, German, etc).
Proposals – accompanied by a brief biography – should be sent to Dr Lee Broughton at L.Broughton@leeds.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: Monday 16th February 2014.
Dr Lee Broughton, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow.