The 2nd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum will take place on 12 December 2013 at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade. The forum is a gathering of critics, curators, theoreticians, and practitioners who are concerned with researching and writing on alternative forms of moving image culture. The organising theme for this edition of the forum is ‘fragmentation’. Presenters and […]
The Film-Philosophy Conference 2014 has issued a call for papers. In 2014 the conference is inviting proposals which engage with the theme ‘A World of Cinemas’. Keynote speakers include Professor Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Professor Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading, UK), NECSUS editorial board member Professor Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), […]
On the occasion of the centenary of the First World War, NECSUS is announcing a call for abstract submissions for a special section on ‘war’ to be published in autumn 2014. The First World War was called the ‘Great War’ and is often claimed to represent the birth of modern warfare. How can this modernity […]
A new workgroup titled Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts has been initiated within NECS. The workgroup is led by Miriam De Rosa (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) with the collaboration of Malin Wahlberg (Stockholms universitet). Areas of interest to be explored include exhibitions, museums, and the visual arts sphere as it intersects with cinema. […]
The recently-published volume Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) is an edited collection by Ryan Shand and Ian Craven which features case studies from Austria, Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the former Yugoslavia. Small-Gauge Storytelling pioneers new approaches to amateur film practice, the imaginative horizons of its […]
The presentation of the online platform Event as Process: Cities in an Οngoing State of Emergency and the Artist’s Stance, part of the theoretical program of the 4th Athens Biennial AGORA, will take place on Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 19h, at Sofokleous 8, Athens. The launch of the platform will be hosted by Eva Fotiadi […]
The year 2014 will be marked by the international commemoration of the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914. Numerous projects in research and education in Germany, Europe, and worldwide are dedicated to this event in different ways. The projects Europeana Collections 1914-1918, European Film Gateway 1914, and Europeana 1914-1918 have […]
In a communication sent from the steering committee this week, NECS has announced the dates of the 2014 conference. NECS 2014 will take place from 19-21 June in Milan. The host institutions are Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan and the University of Udine. For further updates please consult the NECS website at necs.org.
After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012, which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, we are now organizing the second edition of the forum at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013. This one-day event (12 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group […]
The NECSUS workshop ‘On the practice of peer reviewing’ at NECS 2013 Prague was well-attended. After presentations and discussions, in collaboration with the audience we were able to take away a list of best practices for peer reviewing in media studies. The key points are as follows: Do When writing peer reviews, maintain a fair […]
The upcoming Film-Philosophy Conference will be hosted by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, the Departments of Media Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. With this location, the annual Film-Philosophy Conference will take place for the first time outside of the UK.
The Spring 2014 issue of NECSUS will feature a special section dedicated to the broad concept of ‘Traces’. On a meta level the ‘trace’ can be related to the idea of the (photographic) image as an index of an independently existing reality. The digital seems to have changed this footprinting-idea of the relation between image […]
Prior to the NECS 2013 Prague conference there will be a roundtable titled Towards a Political Engagement with Open Access in Scholarly Publishing, hosted at the Municipal Library of Prague on 19 June 2013 at 16h. The roundtable is organised byNatascha Drubek (Universität Regensburg) and Michal Kosák (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR) and features […]
The final program for the NECS 2013 Prague conference ‘Media Politics ‒ Political Media’ is available online. The program can be downloaded via www.necs.org and of course via the conference page http://www.cefs.cz/necs/. The brochure contains everything you need to know when coming to the conference, from guidelines for panel chairs to information about public transport […]
Workshop: On the practice of peer reviewing NECS 2013 Prague 22 June 2013, 11h Peer reviewing is becoming increasingly important as more and more institutions require researchers to publish within reviewed journals or edited volumes. Reviewing is a skill and practice that must be learned and utilised. When and how has peer reviewing been implemented […]
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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