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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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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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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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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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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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University of Paris 7 Diderot

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University of Arts Belgrade

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University of Helsinki

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Universiteit Utrecht

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Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam

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University of Stirling

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Babeș-Bolyai University

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