‘There is a point at which methods devour themselves.’ – Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks) One can observe, in recent years, an obsession with methods – both in humanities research and teaching. Discussions include apprehensions about the imminent obsolescence of established media studies methodologies, a more liberal (in all senses?) search for synergies with […]
Every collective, no matter if a family, an academic discipline, or a nation, is in need of a story that provides an origin as well as a destiny and purpose, but this story – being an aesthetic object in itself – also contains a surplus, something that reaches beyond the sheer functionality of providing an […]
In 1991, Thomas Elsaesser was appointed as the first full professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He established what is now the department of Media Studies, the largest department of the Faculty of Humanities. After his retirement in 2008 he remained active in academic life, continuing teaching at Columbia University […]
Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce the newly launched book series Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image. The series is edited by Kim Knowles (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) and Jonathan Walley (Denison University, Ohio, US). This is the first academic book series on experimental film and artists’ moving image and provides a home for cutting-edge […]
From 23 to 27 May 2020, the annual EYE International Conference hosts the biennial Orphan Film Symposium, in collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies and the Tisch School of the Arts. Taking place at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, the event is devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected audiovisual media. The theme of […]
The 30th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 26-28 June 2020, welcomes proposals for papers, panels and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Tim Bergfelder and Dimitris Eleftheriotis. The organisers particularly encourage contributions to a programming strand which will focus on the impact that recent calls […]
Alternativa Research Forum, Virtual Anthropology, 13 December 2019 organised by Meghanne Barker and Greg de Cuir Jr Call for submissions: ‘Virtual’ promises to bring us closer to an experience, but acknowledges that it cannot take us all the way there. Researchers and artists have long experimented with the moving image and its potential to bring […]
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf has a vacancy for a full-time professorship starting in October 2019 in the field of analysis and aesthetics of audiovisual media within the department of media science. Applicants should have a willingness and motivation to cooperate with the artistic departments of the Film University, to collaborate on interdisciplinary teaching and […]
The book The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image, written by Christian Keathley (Middlebury College), Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), and Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of London) has been made available in a revised and expanded edition by caboose books within its Kino-Agora book series. Developed from a workshop held at Middlebury College in 2015, […]
For the upcoming journal issues in 2020, NECSUS is looking for a book reviewer specialising in 1960s cinema. NECSUS intends to publish a review on the following pair of publications addressing the relationship of cinema to the events of 1968: Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, eds. 1968 and Global Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 2018. […]
From 5-6 September 2019, the University of Genoa hosts an international conference on ‘The Literary Image and the Screen’, functioning as the opening event of a series co-organised by the University of Genoa and the University of Oxford. This conference aims to explore the connections and relationships between literature and the screen, from the pre-cinematic […]
guest edited by Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam) and Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) The advent of new algorithms of machine learning and AI is producing a profound revolution in societies: indeed, the ‘algorithmic turn’ involves cultural, cognitive, emotional, and practical layers of everyday life; from this point of view, AI directly […]
On 16 May in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press will co-host a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption by NECSUS editorial board member Toni Pape. […]
As part of a significant investment and expanding programme in existing and emergent research areas and student numbers across its MA and BA curricula in digital culture, King’s College London is recruiting five (Senior) Lecturers in the Department of Digital Humanities, with expertise ranging from digital methods and global digital cultures, to games and virtual […]
From 5-7 June 2019, a conference on Italian actress, diva and icon Anna Magnani will be hosted at the University of Torino, organised by Giulia Carluccio, Federica Mazzocchi, and Mariapaola Pierini. Through a variety of perspectives, the conference aims at tackling Magnani’s iconic work, which has had a peculiar influence on the history of Italian […]
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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