Reminder: Persistence of Animation Conference Deadline for Proposals: January 9

The deadline for submitting proposals for SAS' Persistence of Animation Conference is Friday, January 9th. The conference, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, and hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, will be held on July 10-12. For full details, check out the conference blog at: http://blog.scad.edu/sasc, or contact hdenerof@scad.edu , or Charles daCosta at cdacosta@scad.edu .

Emru Townsend Award, and the Professional Development Grant

Announcement to S.A.S. Members: Emru Townsend Award, and the Professional Development Grant Society for Animation Studies members may now apply for grant awards in the assistance of research and travel for those intending to present at this year's annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia.  To apply for either grant, all applications should specifically include:   a short CV of the applicant a br...

Blending Media: Defining Film in the Modernist Period

An International Symposium of the Framing Media Research Group (Austrian Science Fund, Project 20349) Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria June 9-10, 2009 How do modern media define themselves? This is one of the central questions that our symposium tries to trace by focusing on what has become the largest, best-documented study of the recent past: the emergence ...