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, […]
On 28 May 2021, Studies in Eastern European Cinema will be hosting an online conference on the topic of ‘Eastern European Film and Screen Media’ at the University of Central Lancashire. Organized by Ewa Mazierska, Eva Naripea and Laszlo Strausz, the conference is envisioned as a platform to discuss current research and exchange ideas in […]
From 15-18 December 2021, the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM) at Goethe University Frankfurt will be hosting the ‘Visible Evidence XXVII’ conference. Taking place in a hybrid format, the conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore how documentary responds to the current crisis of democracy. Special themes – under the […]
From 7-11 June 2021, the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era’. Organized by Kim Knowles, Marcy Saude and Christo Wallers, the conference explores how film operates alongside and in dialogue with technological and digital […]
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 […]
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 […]
From 25-28 March 2021, parallel to the RAI Film Festival 2021, an academic conference featuring research in visual anthropology, ethnographic film and adjacent disciplines will be taking place virtually. Within the broad theme ‘Creative Engagement with Crisis’, the conference invites reflections on the notion of crises and the creative engagements with crises: How might research […]
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 […]
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, […]
From 16-17 April 2021, the Department of Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University will be hosting the conference ‘Teaching Women’s Filmmaking’. Following previous conferences on ‘Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television’ and ‘Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy’, this year’s focus will blend scholarship with pedagogy. After a keynote by […]
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 […]
From 9-11 June 2021, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) will be hosting a conference on ‘Studies in Belonging’. Taking place in a hybrid form in Amsterdam, the conference will be organized around six topical threads: “Place-attachment and Mobility”, “Community and the Individual”, “Practices of Belonging”, “Borders and […]
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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