As many film festivals around the world are currently being cancelled or postponed, connecting digitally has become more important than ever. For Women’s History Month, the non-profit organization Women Make Movies has launched a virtual film festival to showcase selected films by women filmmakers from around the globe.
From 23 to 27 May 2020, the annual EYE International Conference hosts the biennial Orphan Film Symposium, in collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies and the Tisch School of the Arts. Taking place at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, the event is devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected audiovisual media. The theme of […]
The 30th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 26-28 June 2020, welcomes proposals for papers, panels and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Tim Bergfelder and Dimitris Eleftheriotis. The organisers particularly encourage contributions to a programming strand which will focus on the impact that recent calls […]
Alternativa Research Forum, Virtual Anthropology, 13 December 2019 organised by Meghanne Barker and Greg de Cuir Jr Call for submissions: ‘Virtual’ promises to bring us closer to an experience, but acknowledges that it cannot take us all the way there. Researchers and artists have long experimented with the moving image and its potential to bring […]
From 5-6 September 2019, the University of Genoa hosts an international conference on ‘The Literary Image and the Screen’, functioning as the opening event of a series co-organised by the University of Genoa and the University of Oxford. This conference aims to explore the connections and relationships between literature and the screen, from the pre-cinematic […]
From 5-7 June 2019, a conference on Italian actress, diva and icon Anna Magnani will be hosted at the University of Torino, organised by Giulia Carluccio, Federica Mazzocchi, and Mariapaola Pierini. Through a variety of perspectives, the conference aims at tackling Magnani’s iconic work, which has had a peculiar influence on the history of Italian […]
From 16-17 December 2019, the Centre for Life-Writing Research of King’s College London organises a conference to address the current boom in biographical novels and biopics about women’s lives, thereby encompassing a broad conception of ‘woman’ that includes queer and trans life narratives. The conference examines the contemporary repackaging of historical women’s lives in narrative […]
From 13-15 December 2018, Philipps-University Marburg hosts the international conference Histories of Film History: Materials and Methods. The conference is organised by Yvonne Zimmermann and NECSUS editorial board member Malte Hagener. Histories of Film History aims at providing insight into the fabrication of film history and discourses on its theories and methods in the past, […]
The 29th International Screen Studies Conference, taking place at the University of Glasgow on 28-30 June 2019, welcomes proposals for papers, panels, and audiovisual essays. The conference is organised by Screen editors Alison Butler and Alastair Phillips. Confirmed keynote speakers are David Campany (University of Westminster), Laura Marcus (University of Oxford), and Haidee Wasson (Concordia […]
The program of the 12th annual NECS Conference, which will take place from 27-29 June 2018 in Amsterdam, is now available online. Keynote speakers for the conference include Henry Jenkins (University of South California), Lisa Parks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Kiki Tianqi Yu (University of the West of Scotland). NECS Conference activities will take […]
Film-Philosophy 2018 will be held at University of Gothenburg (Sweden), from 3 to 5 July. The conference is associated with the journal Film-Philosophy. Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge), Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (University of California at Davis), Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London), and filmmakers Maja Borg (Sweden) […]
On Saturday the 30th of June from 14.30-17h Café Chercher will organise an afternoon of unfinished research projects for the Cinema and Contemporary Visual Art workgroup (CCVA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Doelenzaal at the University Library (Singel 425, Amsterdam). This is an hors-conference event following the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies 2018 Conference (NECS): Media Tactics and Engagement (27-29 June) which is hosted by […]
From 21-23 June 2018, the University of Sussex organises an interdisciplinary international conference to examine and expand debates on disco. From its origins as a New York City subculture and its transition into the mainstream to its subsequent lives across international scenes, disco poses pivotal questions about the entanglements of art, industry, identity, and community. […]
The 28th international Screen Studies Conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from 29 June until 1 July 2018. The conference is programmed by Screen editors Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street. The keynote speakers are Erica Carter (King’s College London), Amelie Hastie (Amherst College), and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State University). As there is […]
Conference INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Conference date: 19-20 October, 2018 Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2018 Connected to our new exploratory research project Rethinking Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of In-Betweenness funded by the UEFISCDI, and following up on the topics of our previous […]
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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