From 5-7 November 2020, the Birmingham City University and the Black Sands Educational Project will be hosting the 14th ‘International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions’, featuring online academic presentations as well as industry panels and a streamed film festival. The theme of this year, ‘Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics […]
From 10-11 December 2020, the Leuphana University Lüneberg will be hosting the international workshop ‘Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization’. Drawing on contemporary art, film, and literature, the workshop aims to investigate how spaces of circulation, flow and liquidity and their cultural representations are connected to the environmental era of capitalism. If we […]
The previously postponed film and television studies symposium ‘Genre/Nostalgia’ has announced a new date and deadline for submissions: The one-day symposium, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, will take place on 6 January 2021, and explore the relationship and interaction between film and television genres and nostalgia, memory and other manifestations of the past. Potential […]
The Association of the Indonesian Film Scholars KAFEIN is hosting the virtual conference “Women in Indonesian Film and Cinema” until the end of August. Organised around eight panels, the virtual conference explores the role of women in the Indonesian film history, in the transformation of film from other media as well as in different genres […]
On 30 October 2020, the London Metropolitan University will be hosting the virtual conference “Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to Fake News to Tweetstorms”. Considered one of the most media-driven and media-critiqued presidencies in American history, the virtual conference explores the influence of the media on the Trump presidency – and vice versa. […]
Where do we encounter (artificial) intelligence in our everyday media consumption? To accompany the launch of our Spring 2020_#Intelligence issue, we have asked our editorial team for their recommendations – from television to literature, from gaming to art. Westworld, Altered Carbon or Black Mirror: (artificial) intelligence has become an important element of highly praised television […]
On 24 September 2020, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University, Prague, will be hosting the conference “Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism”. From simple templates to automated content production, from algorithms to the detection of fake news: How does the rise of artificial intelligence change […]
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 […]
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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