I recently came across Sudeep Dasgupta’s article ‘Policing the people: Television studies and the problem of “quality”’ and liked it a great deal. Thoughtfully-argued and well-theorised, the piece worries about a critical enterprise that would presume to defend ‘the people’ from an elitist discourse on ‘quality’ television. I agree with Dasgupta insofar as it seems […]
The preliminary conference program for NECS 2014 Milan is now available online. The pre-conference events will take place from 17-18 June 2014 and the conference proper will take place from 19-21 June 2014. The conference location is Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. NECSUS will organize the workshop On Journal Editors and Editing on 20 June […]
The call for submissions has been distributed for the international documentary studies conference Visible Evidence. The 21st edition of this meeting for documentary researchers will take place from 11-14 December 2014 in New Delhi. This is the first time the conference will be held in Asia. Visible Evidence 21 will be co-hosted by Jawaharlal Nehru […]
We are pleased to announce that the NECS Publication Committee will assume editorial duties for the NECSUS exhibition review section. The section editors will be Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg. De Rosa is the initiator of the Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts workgroup within NECS while Wahlberg serves on the NECS Steering Committee in […]
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) has posted their 2014 conference program online. The BAFTSS 2014 conference will take place from 24-26 April 2014 at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London. NECSUS editorial board member Dorota Ostrowska will introduce the conference as the representative of the hosting institution Birkbeck […]
The premiere issue of the Portuguese moving image journal Aniki is now available online and in open access. The issue features a themed dossier on cinephilia which includes an article by NECSUS editorial board member Malte Hagener. Aniki is a dual-language journal published by AIM – Association of Moving Image Researchers.
Barbara Flueckiger (University of Zurich) has posted clips from the new restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920), which will be screened at the Berlinale next month. Examples of tinted and toned frames from the film can be found on the project website Timeline of Historical Film Colors, which Flueckiger created and curates. […]
NECSUS editorial board member Annie van den Oever will present her inaugural lecture at the University of the Free State in South Africa on 5 February 2014. This event will be streamed on the UFS website at this link. For additional information contact Joan Nel, senior officer of communication and brand management at UFS at […]
The conference website for NECS 2014 Milan is now live online. Features include keynote speaker bios, practical information on travel and accommodation, details on the venue, and more. The call for submissions is still open until 31 January. Registered NECS members are able to sign up on the website for the special conference newsletter that […]
11th NECS Graduate Workshop. Contemporary Perspectives on the city: screen media and dwelling Milan, Italy, 17.-18. June 2014 The contemporary city represents a new context of experimentation in terms of languages of communication, aesthetics and media consumption. The most immediate result is a new sense of place, fed and inspired by a massive presence of […]
Forging: Authenticity in the Making Leiden, Netherlands, 14-15 March 2014 9th NECS Graduate Workshop Hosted by Leiden University and Leiden International Short Film Experience Call for Papers Forgery is the consciously deceiving replication of a product or a manner of production. Depending on its object, its counterpart could be authenticity, originality, integrity, and/or truthfulness. The […]
10th NECS Graduate Workshop, Media Archaeology and Digital Media Udine, Italy, 2-3 April 2014 Call for Papers As part of the bigger investigation undertaken by XXI Udine Conference around the subject of Media Archaeology as a pioneering media approach which reconsiders each medium’s identity as part of a network of media discourses, we would like […]
The online submission form for NECS 2014, Creative Energies/Creative Industries is now available. The deadline to receive all proposals is 31 January 2014. Please note that you must be a member of NECS with all fees paid in full before submitting proposals. Register online with NECS at the following link. NECS 2014 will be hosted […]
Intellect has announced that they are entering a partnership with Routledge for their journal portfolio. Beginning in 2014 Routledge will publish the following Intellect journals: Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Comedy Studies, Creative Industries Journal, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Transnational Cinemas, Journal of Chinese Cinema, Journal […]
The call for papers for the NECS 2014 conference in Milan is now online. The organising theme for the conference is Creative Energies-Creative Industries. The submission deadline is 31 January 2014, with notifications to be delivered a month later. NECS 2014 will be hosted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore from 19-21 June. The NECS Conference […]
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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