Hito Steyerl, visual artist and Professor of Experimental Film and Video at University of the Arts in Berlin, has been awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The prize is accompanied by an exhibition and publication. Steyerl is honoured for her special interests in the media, technology, and the […]
The Radical Film Network is organising its first network meeting in Berlin, from 2-5 May 2019. The event focuses on artistic/creative and political/ethical positions within global radical film cultures. The RFNMB welcomes contributions from individuals and communities both inside and outside academia, from artists, activists, filmmakers, researchers, scientists, and others, looking for answer to the […]
From 16-17 December 2019, the Centre for Life-Writing Research of King’s College London organises a conference to address the current boom in biographical novels and biopics about women’s lives, thereby encompassing a broad conception of ‘woman’ that includes queer and trans life narratives. The conference examines the contemporary repackaging of historical women’s lives in narrative […]
The online platform Open Access in Media Studies has announced the launch of the new project MediArXiv. MediArXiv is the new open archive for media, film, and communication studies, and will be launched in early 2019 on the Open Science Framework platform. MediArXiv provides a non-profit platform for scholars to upload their working papers, pre-prints, […]
We are happy to announce that, in addition to the digital overview of past journal issues on the website, NECSUS now has a new online repository that provides open access to PDF downloads of previous journal volumes. All of the volumes published by the journal since 2012 are currently made available here, and it will continue […]
Private collection. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York and Matthew Stephenson, London. In childhood, and from Mexico until the end of his life, drawing was almost a daily practice for Eisenstein, and it served many functions. Some were what we would think of as production design, especially for Ivan the Terrible. But drawing also provided recreation […]
Call for submissions NECSUS Autumn 2019_#Gesture Guest editor: Miriam de Rosa (Coventry University) A visible action working as utterance, according to Giorgio Agamben gesture is ‘the exhibition of mediality’. It unveils a process and crystallises a meaning into a temporary form, making visible and yet relying upon a sense of deep tactility and materiality, especially […]
The Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen has vacancies for two Assistant Professors in Media Studies (60% teaching, 40% research). The full-time appointments will be for a period of four years, with the possibility of appointment for an indefinite period. The successful candidates are expected to teach in the English-taught BA programme Media […]
We are happy to announce that you can now follow NECSUS on Instagram. The journal can also be found on Twitter and Facebook. On Instagram we will share a wide variety of images that come from the journal articles, review sections, and audiovisual essays that have been published in our journal issues over the years. […]
From 13-15 December 2018, Philipps-University Marburg hosts the international conference Histories of Film History: Materials and Methods. The conference is organised by Yvonne Zimmermann and NECSUS editorial board member Malte Hagener. Histories of Film History aims at providing insight into the fabrication of film history and discourses on its theories and methods in the past, […]
The 29th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 28-30 June 2019, welcomes proposals for papers, panels, and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Alison Butler and Alastair Phillips. Confirmed keynote speakers are David Campany (University of Westminster), Laura Marcus (University of Oxford), and Haidee Wasson (Concordia […]
Lisa Parks, Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT, has been awarded a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship for her research into the global reach of information technology infrastructures and the cultural, political, and humanitarian implications of the flow of information. The MacArthur Foundation praises Parks for ‘extending the parameters of media studies and revealing the ways […]
From 19 September 2018 to 6 January 2019, the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels hosts an exhibition on the French filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), titled Memories of the Future. The exhibition is set up in collaboration with La Cinémathèque Française. Described by the director Alain Resnais as ‘the prototype of the twenty-first-century man’, […]
Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in the Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Critical Sexuality Studies in Film and Media to begin 1 August 2019. Film Studies at Concordia University is an internationally renowned leader in scholarship and curriculum devoted to the study of sexuality, gender, […]
For the upcoming Spring 2019 #Emotions issue, NECSUS is looking for two book reviewers. NECSUS intends to publish double reviews on the following two pairs of publications: Two volumes from the same editors addressing female authorship in contemporary documentary practices: Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers, eds. Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and Activism. […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London