From 28-29 July 2022, the University of Bonn, Germany, will be hosting the ‘Digital Ecologies 2022’ conference as a two-day hybrid event – with both in-person and online attendance possible.Organized around the theme “Digital Ecologies in Practice”, the conference encourages scholars and practitioners to explore digital technologies, approaches and methods to engage with the non-human […]
From 20-21 October 2022, the Université de Paris, France, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘CINEMATERIALISM: New Materialist Approaches to the Audiovisual (Cinema, Media, Digital Arts)’. With the aim to explore the reconfiguration of the notion of “materialism” in research on audiovisual cultures, the conference invites materialist analyses of films, theoretical approaches as well as […]
From 22-26 June 2022, the next NECS Conference will be hosted by the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. The theme ‘Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network’ invites a reflection on the capacity of audiovisual media to organize, create and challenge human knowledge. Keynotes will be delivered by Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études […]
From 20-22 April 2022, the University of St Andrews will be hosting the 10th annual BAFTSS conference. This year’s theme – ‘Collaboration and Cross-pollination” – encourages a shift from thinking about the individual to thinking about the community. Understanding collaboration, and the ecological metaphor of cross-pollination, as methodology, practice and theoretical approach simultaneously, the conference […]
From 8-10 June 2022, Ryerson University (Canada), The University of Texas at Dallas (USA), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Leeds Trinity University (UK), and University of Bayreuth (Germany) will be hosting the 4th Interactive Film & Media Conference – exclusively online. Organized around the theme ‘Interactive Epistemology, Listening and Ecomedia’, the conference aims to explore […]
Following a joint series of screenings and presentations, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, and St. Paul University in Ottawa will be hosting the 3-day conference ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini / Riprese Reprises Retakes’ from 17-19 March 2022 in Montréal and Ottawa. Playing on the richness of the linguistic heritage of Montreal and Ottawa, the […]
From 14-15 October 2021, the CERILAC and LARCA research institutes at the Université de Paris, will host ‘The Video Essay’, an online conference on the form and future of videographic criticism. Following an introduction by Diane Arnaud, Ariane Hudelet and our editorial board member Martine Beugnet, the conference features presentations by Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of […]
From 28-29 April 2022, Roskilde University will be hosting the conference ‘Media and Publics’. Consisting of a mix of keynote lectures, panels and thematic sessions, the conference aims to explore the shifting notion of ‘publics’ or ‘the public’ from a both theoretical and methodological perspective. Confirmed keynote speakers include Nancy Fraser( Newschool New York), Noortje […]
From 12-13 May 2022, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, and the Waseda University, Tokyo, will be co-hosting the Japanese-German conference ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction’. Understanding imaginations about the human and technologies as culturally specific, the conference invites a cross-cultural comparison to explore […]
From 20-21 September 2021, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona will be hosting the virtual conference ‘Visual Motifs and the Public Sphere’. As part of a larger research project on the production and circulation of images of power in Spain, the conference brings together empirical research and theoretical approaches from cinema and film studies, visual arts […]
From 5-7 August 2021, Ryerson University (Canada), the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the University of Texas at Dallas (USA) will co-host the virtual edition of the Interactive Film and Media conference. Dedicated to the theme ‘new narratives, racialization, global crises, and social engagement’, the conference brings together researchers […]
From 20-21 November 2021, the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of South Wales will host the interdisciplinary two-day online conference ‘The Politics of Casting in Media’. With an interest in the critical examination of casting both vocationally and textually as well as the role of the casting director within wider media production cultures, […]
As part of the Besides the Screen 10th Anniversary programme of events, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, King’s College, London and Queen’s University will be co-hosting the hybrid conference ‘Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen’ from 10-12 June 2021. With an interest in how space and place intersect with sites of production, circulation […]
From 16-17 September 2021, the Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, will be hosting the international conference ‘Postcolonial Italian Cinema’. Aimed towards a reconsideration of postcolonial Italian Cinema in film and history, the conference – organized by Damiano Garofalo (Sapienza, Rome) and Luca Peretti (Warwick, United Kingdom) – will synthesise multiple points of view into a […]
Taking place from 30 September – 1 October 2021 in a hybrid format, the conference ‘Television Histories in Development’ will explore the histories of television from a broad cultural and societal perspective. Coinciding with 70 years of television in the Netherlands, the event (organized by Prof. Huub Wijfjes, University of Groningen, and Dr. Josette Wolthuis, […]
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
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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