Pittsburgh, 2015

WFHI Voting Meeting
17 September 2015
Minuted by Michele Leigh

Meeting convened @ 3:39

Agenda:

I. Welcome & Thanks

• Thanks to conference organizers, esp Mark Lynn Anderson

II. Election of new positions:

• call for nominations

• Jennifer Bean: talk about what it means to give service to profession; questioning title “executive secretary”; suggests co-executive officer; suggests official form to thank outgoing executive secretaries at end of term (to go in faculty files)

• Suggest president, president-elect (w/ set terms); membership coordinator

• Jennifer Bean – motion to change title of executive secretary to president; seconded by Jenny Horne; passed unanimously

• motion to add position of president-elect; Susan pointed out this would be an additional position that would require a change in by-laws, which would require action by steering committee & vote of general membership

• Jennifer Bean – motion to change membership secretary to membership coordinator, Diana Anselmo-Sequeira seconded, passed unanimously

• should voting by email be added as additional clause to by-laws? Would need to be proposed to steering committee who could call voting meeting at SCMS

Election:

• Sofia Bull, Aimee Dixon Anthony, Diana Anselmo-Sequeira nominated as co-president elect

• Kristen Anderson Wagner elected as membership coordinator

• MLA nominates current at-large members of steering committee (Hilary Hallett, Elif RongenKaynakci, Mary Simonson) for an additional term; no additional nominations; current at-large members re-elected; Yiman Wang will serve on steering committee as coordinator for next conference

• Steering committee: includes presidents & membership coordinator, preceding, current & following conference organizers, 3 members-at-large – must include members from no fewer than 3 different nations

• suggestion to add website/social media position/ media coordinator; Christine Gledhill suggests regular blog; this will need to be brought to the steering committee

III. next conference will be held at Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2017

STA established in 1945; film studies department will host conference
tentatively late June/July 2017
conference theme TBA
thanks to Yiman Wang

• EYE is interested in helping to host conference in 2019/2021; need help from University of Amsterdam

IV. Announcements of publications

• Doing Women's Film History, ed. Christine Gledhill

• Doing Women's Film History conference in UK; CFP will be sent to membership

• Women & the Silent Screen VII Publication; Screening the Past Issue 40; co-edited by Susan Potter & Victoria Duckett; available at www.screeningthepast.com

• Girls Will Be Boys by Laura Horak – book launch party will be held at SFSFF in late May

V. Other business

• Jennifer Horne – thanks to Mark Lynn Anderson, followed by wild applause

meeting adjourned @ 3:56 pm