From February to June 2021, the theme group Arts, Medium and Moving Images at the University of Groningen will be hosting a monthly virtual research colloquium on different aspects of production, aesthetics and reception of audiovisual screen media. Taking place online via Zoom, lectures by both local and international scholars will explore social, technological and […]
The MIT Open Documentary Lab lecture series explores collaborative, interactive and immersive forms of storytelling in documentary, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. On February 23, Joe Brewster, Yasmin Elayat and Michèle Stephenson will discuss the challenges and opportunities in their quest to use virtual reality and storytelling as a tool for healing and […]
From 7-11 June 2021, the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era’. Organized by Kim Knowles, Marcy Saude and Christo Wallers, the conference explores how film operates alongside and in dialogue with technological and digital […]
From 23 to 25 June 2021, Lusófona University, Lisbon, will be hosting the 8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers, bringing together researchers and professionals to discuss the audiovisual sector from an interdisciplinary perspective. Under the larger theme of “Audiovisual and Creative Industries – Present and Future”, the conference is currently inviting proposals for the thematic […]
On 16 March 2021, the Artistic Research Group at Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway, will be hosting an online symposium dedicated to artistic research. Structured around the theme ‘Distorted Identities/New Dilemmas’, the symposium assesses how artistic expressions can reflect on the current debates surrounding the explorations of personal and societal identities. With the aim […]
NECS and the Centre for Research in the Arts at Oxford Brookes will be co-hosting a monthly online lecture series on ‘Media and Migration’. Through five different lectures with a specific focus on methodology, the series proposes a shift from media narratives and the politics of representation to the methodological and epistemic issues related to […]
by Marijke de Valck and Antoine Damiens As the year 2020 is slowly coming to an end, we are confronting an unprecedented crisis and witnessing what will likely be a major moment in the history of film festivals. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 provoked a pandemic of soaring proportions and the restrictive measures taken to contain […]
On 31 March & 1 April 2021, the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice will be convening the (virtual) International Media Education Summit. Bringing together researchers, educators and practitioners, the conference aims to showcase interdisciplinary, self-reflexive and practice-based research on all aspects of […]
From 7-9 April 2021, the University of Southampton Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) will be hosting the annual BAFTSS conference, which will take place entirely online. With the theme of ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’, the conference aims to bring attention to the construction of time and the body […]
From 25-28 March 2021, parallel to the RAI Film Festival 2021, an academic conference featuring research in visual anthropology, ethnographic film and adjacent disciplines will be taking place virtually. Within the broad theme ‘Creative Engagement with Crisis’, the conference invites reflections on the notion of crises and the creative engagements with crises: How might research […]
From 7-9 July 2021, Falmouth University will be hosting the (rescheduled) conference ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts’. Encouraging an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagement with the ways dark concerns and anxieties have been and are currently envisioned, the conference invites contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists and activists. Possible topics range from the climate emergency to […]
From 10-11 June 2021, the Association of Adaptation Studies will be hosting the conference ‘Journeys: Memory and Migration’ at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Featuring keynotes by Dr. Dima Ayoub (Middlebury College), Dr. Golnar Nabizadeh (Dundee University) and theatre, television and film director Kenny Glenaan, the international conference is interested in various interpretations of these terms, […]
From 16-17 April 2021, the Department of Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University will be hosting the conference ‘Teaching Women’s Filmmaking’. Following previous conferences on ‘Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television’ and ‘Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy’, this year’s focus will blend scholarship with pedagogy. After a keynote by […]
As part of ‘Alternative Film Video’, the international festival for new film and video work taking place from 9-13 December 2020 in Belgrade, NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir Jr and exhibition reviews editor Miriam de Rosa are organizing the ‘Alternative Research Forum’ on the topic of Desktop Cinema. Organised as a fully online event on […]
In addition to articles for our Features sections, NECSUS is also accepting proposals for festival, exhibition and book reviews for our upcoming Spring 2021 issue on a rolling basis. Review articles are generally 2,000-3,000 words and subject to internal review by the section editors. For the book review section, we invite critical writing on recent […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London