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Film-Philosophy Conference 2025 – Call for Papers

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Call For Papers FILM-PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE 2025 University of Malta, Valletta Campus June 23-25, 2025 https://journals.ed.ac.uk/f-p-submissions/film-philosophyconference2025 Sponsored by York University in Toronto and the University of Malta, the 2025 Film-Philosophy Conference will be held June 23-25 at the Valletta Campus of the University of Malta.  For more about Film-Philosophy and Malta, see below. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Sandra Laugier (Philosophy, Sorbonne) […]

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CfP: Autumn 2025_#Ageing – Call for Papers

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edited by Luis Freijo (King’s College London), Asja Makarević (Goethe University), and Belén Vidal (King’s College London)  This NECSUS Special Section invites submissions that engage with ageing in relation to the life cycles of human subjects. The section seeks bio-social, cultural, technological, philosophical and/or political reflections around questions of age and the ageing process through […]

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Animal Nature Future Film Festival and its transnational organisational structure

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Introduction Since the 2000s the number of environmental film festivals around the globe has increased significantly; we have witnessed a diversification within eco-themed film festivals, including events focusing on wildlife and environment protection, sustainable food cultivation, animal ethics, and human/animal relations. Among these is Animal Nature Future Film Festival (ANFFF), which was established in 2023 […]

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Films flying high: International Film Festival of the Heights in Jujuy, Argentina

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Argentina is usually known for two leading film festivals: BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival), known for its attraction to cinephiles, and Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the only A-list festival in Latin America. However, the country has a rich circuit of film events that are little known outside its boundaries, mainly due […]

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Archaeology of projection and economy of the real

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Two recent books find common ground in radically rethinking the projective function of media technologies. The first is Pasi Väliaho’s Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022), a detailed media archaeological investigation into the role of optical and projection devices in reorganising the concept of the world at […]

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Feminist Fandoms

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Briony Hannell’s Feminist Fandoms: Media Fandom, Digital Feminism, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) is an ethnographic exploration of the culture of feminist fandom found on the titular social media platform Tumblr. Hannell uses interviews with 342 participants to explore how the platform has developed a culture of feminist consciousness-raising which has, the book argues, helped […]

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NECSUS: Call for Book Reviewers – August 2024

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The purpose of the book review section is to inform NECSUS readers about new scholarship in media studies and to support critical engagement with published work. Please consult the Review Guidelines for further guidance. In the upcoming issues of NECSUS, we are particularly interested in featuring reviews of the following books: The Ethnographic Optic: Jean […]

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NECSUS – Call for Proposals: Features Spring 2025_#Features

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NECSUS is now inviting submissions for the upcoming Spring 2025 _#Features issue. Different to other NECSUS issue, the Spring 2025 issue will not include a thematic special section and instead focus on feature articles. Features are full-length research articles on a variety of topics related to media studies, broadly construed. We are seeking submissions with a critical perspective […]

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Call for Papers: Data Papers – 2024 and 2025

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In spring 2023, NECSUS has introduced a section with data papers in which a diverse array of papers has been published since (on film festivals, on Laterna Magica shows in the Netherlands, on annotations of films about the financial crisis, on depiction of the EU in television). With this call we want to renew our […]

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Survey on the Practices and Politics of Peer Review

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We are excited to launch a survey on peer reviewing. Peer review is a crucial process that shapes the quality and direction of any academic disciplines. Your participation is essential in helping us understand the current state of peer review in media studies – and think about its future! By sharing your insights and experiences, […]

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Call for audiovisual proposals: #Coronaseries

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edited by Ariane Hudelet (Université Paris Cité) We are now inviting proposals for audiovisual essays for our Autumn 2024_#Enough issue – exploring how TV series brought a specific type of attachment, comfort and knowledge to their audiences during the Covid pandemic. These serial narratives were considered as a way of “coping” with the crisis (Boursier […]

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NECSUS – Autumn 2024: Call for Features

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NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Autumn 2024 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 Autumn 2024 issue, we accept abstracts until 31 […]

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#Cycles Launch: Recording Online

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In a conversational format, Feng-Mei Heberer (New York University), Jernej Markelj and Daniël de Zeeuw (University of Amsterdam), Lydia Kallipoliti (The Cooper Union), Veronika Hanáková (Charles University Prague), Martin Tremčinský (Charles University Prague) and Jiří Anger (Queen Mary University of London), and Gert-Jan Harkema (University of Amsterdam) met online on January 25 to introduce their […]

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NECSUS: Call for Book Reviewers – 2024

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The purpose of the book review section is to inform NECSUS readers about new scholarship in media studies and to support critical engagement with published work. In the upcoming issues of NECSUS, we are particularly interested in featuring reviews of the following books: Feminist Fandom Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr by Briony Hannell Black […]

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CfP: Autumn 2024_#Enough – Call for Papers

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How much is enough? Who has enough and who is deprived of it? What is the use of limits – and of pushing past them? For this special section, we encourage more reflection about the notion and meaning of #enough and invite media scholars to problematize the notion from aesthetic, industrial, environmental, historical, economic and […]

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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot

Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade

Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki

Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht

Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam

Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling

Andrea Virginás 
Babeș-Bolyai University

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