Starting on 29 October 2020, the Centre for Research in Communications and Culture at Loughborough University will host a weekly interdisciplinary webinar series on ‘Cultures of Authenticity’. Understanding authenticity as a buzzword, a construction as well as a highly contested term, the webinar series provides a space for scholars to examine the meaning of authenticity […]
We have the great pleasure to welcome another new member to our Advisory Board: Melis Behlil is an Associate Professor and Chair of Radio, Television and Cinema Department at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and has published on media industries and contemporary Turkish cinema. In addition, she also writes film reviews for various publications, co-hosts […]
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has become a highly relevant source of information for a new generation of open access journals – and we are excited to announce that NECSUS is now one of the more than 15.000 journals indexed by the DOAJ. The community-curated online directory indexes and provides access to high […]
We are excited to welcome a new member to our Advisory Board: Petr Szczepanik (Charles University Prague) has written several books on Czech and East-Central European screen industries and published his research of the state-socialist production mode in Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Culture (co-edited with Patrick Vonderau, Palgrave, 2013). In 2015, he was […]
With the mission to open up media, film, and communication research to a broader audience, MediArXiv provides a non-profit platform for scholars to upload papers, pre-prints as well as accepted and published manuscripts. Currently in its second year of existence, the free and community-led digital archive has recently launched a membership circle funding programme for […]
From 11-12 September 2020, the University of Kansas and the Birkbeck University of London will be co-hosting the live online conference ‘Contours of Film Festivals Research and Methodologies’. Combining pre-recorded content and live panel discussions, the conference aims to both orient current methodologies and practices in film festival research as well as explore directions for […]
On 11 September 2020, the one-day symposium ‘Archives for Education: Opening up the Archives to Young Filmmakers’, hosted by the Kingston School of Art, will explore the creative and learning opportunities creative reuse can offer to young filmmakers. At the same time, the symposium functions as a reflection after the first year of the “Archives […]
From 9-15 September 2020, the tenth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival London will celebrate the art of non-fiction and provide a platform for both young and established filmmakers to challenge the idea of documentary in all its forms. Taking place online this year, the programme combines film screenings, industry events, audio documentaries as […]
From 7-9 September 2020, the Oxford Brookes University is organising the virtual conference ‘Film Audience Movements and Migrations: Across Borders and Screens’. As an interdisciplinary forum for new and topical scholarly and industry research, the programme features nine different panels – with topics ranging from transnational film flows to social mobilities and practices. The two […]
The Media City Film Festival, an international festival for film and video art, is moving online with a new exhibition space: In the “Dark Dark Gallery”, filmmakers, curators and artists explore the connections between concepts and themes and the history of experimental cinema and contemporary moving image art. The inaugural show ‘Radical Acts of Care’, […]
From 21-23 June 2021, the Link Campus University in Rome, Italy, will be hosting the international conference ‘Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film and Television’. As an open forum, the conference explores how crime narratives, as well as their production and reception, have contributed to the appearance of new transcultural representations. In […]
The ‘Cinepoetics Lectures’, a collaboration between the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Kino Arsenal (Institute for Film and Video Art), are open to the public and free of charge – and now also available online as audio recordings. Following the research center’s goal to explore the poetologies […]
The online media repository media/rep/ has made several lectures from the ‘bochumer kolloquium medienwissenschaft’, held at the Ruhr-University Bochum, available online. The lecture series (2007-2014), featuring contributions from the fields of media studies, philosophy, sociology and history, aimed to address the cultural uneasiness concerning the technical-medial sphere and explore the systematic place of media and […]
Mina, one of the longest running film festivals dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking, is now inviting submissions for the 10th edition of the International Mobile Innovation Screening. From 13-15 November 2021, #Mina2021 will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and via Urban Screen […]
From 5-7 November 2020, the Birmingham City University and the Black Sands Educational Project will be hosting the 14th ‘International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions’, featuring online academic presentations as well as industry panels and a streamed film festival. The theme of this year, ‘Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics […]