(Proposals due November 2, 2007)

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the Alternative 
Visions: Trash/Cult/Experimental/Avant-Garde/Extreme Cinema and 
Television Conference, to be held at Plymouth State University 
(Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 11-12, 2008.  The members of the 
conference committee are seeking contributions that examine 
noteworthy non-, counter-, and/or anti-mainstream cinematic and 
televisual artifacts from the birth of film and television to the 
present, and from any area across the globe.  Participants are 
encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly and 
innovatively.  Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes 
in length.  We also invite innovative examples of such offerings for 
screening and discussion at this conference.

We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, students, and 
filmmakers/videographers at all levels, and from disciplines 
including anthropology, communication, cultural studies, film 
studies, history, journalism, LGBT studies, media studies, popular 
culture, sociology, and television studies.  We intend to publish 
selected papers (with author’s permission) in a special anthology 
pertaining to the conference theme.  As a bonus, please note that the 
conference dates allow presenters to take advantage of a much-needed 
weekend getaway before the end-of-semester “insanity” kicks in!

Persons submitting individual-paper or screening proposals are asked 
to submit a one-page abstract/description of project with complete 
contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail 
addresses, daytime telephone number).  Panel proposals (featuring 
three paper-presentations total) should include panel title, brief 
description of panel theme, name of the panel chair, one-page 
abstracts of each paper in the panel, and complete contact 
information for each presenter on the panel (name, institutional 
affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, daytime telephone number).   
In order to be considered, all proposals must be received no later 
than November 2, 2007.

Please mail or e-mail conference proposals to:  Alternative Visions 
Conference, Attn: Kylo-Patrick Hart, Department of Communication and 
Media Studies, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC 60, 
Plymouth, NH 03264; krhart@plymouth.edu