Bill Douglas (copyright David Appleby)

Call for Papers: Bill Douglas Symposium

Friday 23 September 2011
The Bill Douglas Centre
University of Exeter

The Bill Douglas Centre is hosting a symposium on Friday 23 September 2011 on the work of Bill Douglas to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the great, innovative British filmmaker. Details on some of his films can be found via the BUFVC Find DVDs database.

The Centre is issuing a call for papers on any aspect of the filmmaker’s work – The Bill Douglas Trilogy, Comrades, his collection of artefacts that he assembled with Peter Jewell and his uncompleted film projects.

Dr Karen Lury from the University of Glasgow has kindly agreed to be the keynote speaker.

Please e-mail abstracts of up to 200 words to bdc@exeter.ac.uk by 1st June.

For further information, contact:

The Bill Douglas Centre
Academic Services, University of Exeter
The Old Library
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter
EX4 4SB
Tel: 01392 724321
www.exeter.ac.uk/bdc/