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 […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our upcoming Spring 2021 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Spring 2021 issue, we accept abstracts until […]
From 9-11 June 2021, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) will be hosting a conference on ‘Studies in Belonging’. Taking place in a hybrid form in Amsterdam, the conference will be organized around six topical threads: “Place-attachment and Mobility”, “Community and the Individual”, “Practices of Belonging”, “Borders and […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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