A new open access issue of NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies is now available online. The NECSUS Spring 2020 issue offers a special article section on #Intelligence, while also containing feature articles, festival, exhibition, and book reviews, and audiovisual essays. Find the new journal issue here.
The Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University invites applications for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship in Cinema and Media Studies (CMS). In an effort to positively transform CMS by creating greater visibility and substantial equity for scholars of color, and address the long history of Black underrepresentation in our discipline, this opportunity is […]
How do things hold together? The highly complex, capitalistic world that we have built is held by supply chains and financial circuits, digital infrastructures and information streams. It is also held together by individuals and groups that share and support, that give and distribute in ways different from a purely market-oriented exchange of goods. Both […]
Responding to the current limitations on access to academic research materials, the Public Books Database has compiled a list featuring academic presses with freely accessible titles online. Currently featuring over fifty academic presses from the Columbia University Press to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the list will be updated continuously as additional materials are […]
The Eye Film Museum Amsterdam has announced the new date for the previously postponed solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman: ‘Chantal Akerman: Passages’, organized in collaboration with the Chantal Akerman Foundation & Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, London, New York, will be open from 1 June – 30 August 2020. The exhibition features eight of […]
Taking place from 29 May – 7 June 2020, the film festival ‘We are One’ has now announced the full program for the online screenings, available exclusively on YouTube. As the first-ever global online film festival, the program has been co-curated by the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the BFI […]
From 2-4 December 2020, Routledge, AMPS and PARADE will be hosting the virtual conference ‘Teaching-Learning-Research’ in collaboration with the Manchester School of Architecture. Connecting education professionals with educators in the fields of art, design and social science disciplines, the interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the connection between research and teaching. How are these two activities […]
From 18-29 May 2020, the ‘Open Publishing Fest’ will be highlighting creative, scholarly, technological and civic open publishing projects online. In the collaborative format, sessions are hosted by individuals and organizations as panel discussions, fireside chats, demonstrations as well as performances. Invited curators include John Chodacki (California Digital Library), Chris Hartgerink (Liberate Science), Christine Fruin […]
From 18-19 March 2021, PEriTiA will be hosting the conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. Featuring keynotes by Prof Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Prof Natali Helberger (Amsterdam), Prof Michael Latzer (Zurich) and Prof Christoph Neuberger (Berlin), the international conference is interested […]
Videographic criticism has gained momentum in the field of film and media studies over the past years. ‘The Video Essay Podcast’, hosted by audiovisual essayist, critic and journalist Will DiGravio, aims to document and archive this change through monthly interviews featuring leading scholars, critics and filmmakers. Previous episodes include interviews with Catherine Grant and Liz […]
On Monday 4 May 2020, the Italian HE Association gathering Film Studies researchers (CUC – Consulta Universitaria di Cinema) launches #MONTAG, a short format designed to bring the community together in this challenging times and discuss new publications in the area. Organised via Zoom and livestreamed via the CUC FB page, #MONTAG will pair an […]
The online media repository media/rep/ – which also provides PDF downloads of our issues – has made several lectures from the ‘Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory’, held at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, available online. The lecture series, named in honor of the Frankfurt-born philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), presents innovative […]
From 5-6 November 2020, the Queen Mary University of London will be hosting the conference ‘Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema’ in cooperation with the British Society of Aesthetics Synergy. The conference aims to highlight the contribution of experimental films and video art to contemporary culture. Overcoming negations – such as non-narrative, […]
The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) and the Deakin Science and Society Network (SSN) are co-hosting a virtual seminar series looking at different angles of the COVID-19 pandemic. Launching the series will be a talk by Prof. Priscilla Wald from Duke University on “Contagion: COVID-19, the Outbreak Narrative, and Why We Need […]
NECSUS accepts abstract submissions twice per year for a wide variety of articles on a number of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. These submissions will be considered for the Features section, which is part of every journal issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research […]
We would like to thank the following institutions for their support:
Online
The online version of NECSUS is published in Open Access and all issue contents are free and accessible to the public.
Download
The online repository media/rep/ provides PDF downloads to aid referencing. Please consider the environmental costs of printing versus reading online.
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