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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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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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CfP: Spring 2024_#Open – Call for papers

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edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee – Bregt Lameris, Miriam de Rosa, Jeroen Sondervan, Victoria Pastor-González and Tereza Czesany Dvořáková This special section guest edited by members of the NECS Open Scholarship Committee invites submissions that engage with questions of openness as an inherently broad notion. Such a concept underpins a variety of practices in […]

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CfP – Autumn 2023_#Cycles

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This special section invites submissions that engage with questions of cyclicality, circularity, and recursivity in relation to media. Film history is traversed by the serial logic of production (such as silent serials, B-movies, and ephemeral sub-genre cycles) as well as the embracing of tropes of circularity bound by the Deleuzian time-image. Well beyond this purview, […]

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CfP – Spring 2023_#Ports

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edited by Dr. Maria Vélez-Serna and Dr. Markus Stauff Connecting infrastructures and logistical mediation Ports – the harbours that allow and regulate circulation across land and sea and the interfaces that connect electric devices with peripherals – are places of especially intense mediation and thus of heightened socio-technological drama. The seaport is the condition for transport […]

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Conference – ‘Media Education, Diversity and Voice’

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On 31 March & 1 April 2021, the  School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice will be convening the (virtual) International Media Education Summit. Bringing together researchers, educators and practitioners, the conference aims to showcase interdisciplinary, self-reflexive and practice-based research on all aspects of […]

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Conference – ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’ (BAFTSS)

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From 7-9 April 2021, the University of Southampton Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) will be hosting the annual BAFTSS conference, which will take place entirely online. With the theme of ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’, the conference aims to bring attention to the construction of time and the body […]

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Conference – ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts’

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From 7-9 July 2021, Falmouth University will be hosting the (rescheduled) conference ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts’. Encouraging an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagement with the ways dark concerns and anxieties have been and are currently envisioned, the conference invites contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists and activists. Possible topics range from the climate emergency to […]

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Conference – ‘Journeys: Memory and Migration’

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From 10-11 June 2021, the Association of Adaptation Studies will be hosting the conference ‘Journeys: Memory and Migration’ at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Featuring keynotes by Dr. Dima Ayoub (Middlebury College), Dr. Golnar Nabizadeh (Dundee University) and theatre, television and film director Kenny Glenaan, the international conference is interested in various interpretations of these terms, […]

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Alternative Research Forum – ‘Desktop Cinemas’

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As part of ‘Alternative Film Video’, the international festival for new film and video work taking place from 9-13 December 2020 in Belgrade, NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir Jr and exhibition reviews editor Miriam de Rosa are organizing the ‘Alternative Research Forum’ on the topic of Desktop Cinema. Organised as a fully online event on […]

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Conference – ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’

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From 18-19 March 2021, PEriTiA will be hosting the conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. Featuring keynotes by Prof Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Prof Natali Helberger (Amsterdam), Prof Michael Latzer (Zurich) and Prof Christoph Neuberger (Berlin), the international conference is interested […]

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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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