Dear all,
Please find below the call for the 2012 conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.
Please note: From now on NECS can reached via the shorter address www.necs.org. However, the old address is still working and will redirect you.
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Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory
The NECS 2012 Conference
Lisbon, 21st-23th June 2012
hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra
Submissions deadline: 31st January 2012
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Proposal submission site:
https://sites.google.com/site/necs2012conference/
Keynote speakers
Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
Andreas Fickers (Universiteit Maastricht)
Lúcia Nagib (University of Leeds)
Call for Papers
Our memories of the 20th and the 21st centuries are informed by the
images and sounds that have recorded and/or fictionalized events during
this period of time. And yet, images and sounds are elements that are
in, and not simply of, the world. They affect us and create new effects
simultaneously, shaping, inviting, and proposing new ways of seeing,
hearing and knowing.
From the first actualités through to contemporary 3D cinema and
television, our technological and media culture, so spectral in nature,
has begun to be disseminated so far and so wide, and has penetrated so
deeply into our culture, that it has changed our experience of time.
In part this is because of the globalized nature of electronic networks
and the transnational nature of information exchange, which allows for
an unparalleled flux of images and sounds. So widespread and fundamental
have these changes been that it is urgent to reflect on the aesthetic,
cultural, and political consequences of our media in general, not least
in terms of how they shape our understanding of time and history.
Given the new regimes of time and space that our screen-saturated and
media-dominated culture has encouraged, and perhaps even created, a
simple question is therefore raised: how have the diverse media
practices affected the temporality of our individual and collective lives?
The 2012 NECS conference “Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory” will
take place in Lisbon. It aims to address this general question, and to
tackle the different issues connected with time in relation to our
screen-dominated media culture. In this way, the conference will draw
upon and add to the rich and scholarly discussion of diverse media
practices and their connection with the concepts of memory, history, and
the temporalities of everyday life.
Topics may include, but will not be limited to, the following:
Screens and memory:
• Cultural and economic development
• National cinema/television
• Film festivals, industry and cultural identity
• Collective memory and history
• Arts and new media
• Genre theory
DIY, new media, and social networks:
• Internet and new media
• Internet and social networks
• Society and public sphere
• Popular uprising and new media
• Democracy and screen studies/new media
• Copyright
• Archive and the digital shift
Time, theory and philosophy:
• Philosophy and cinema/television/new media
• Politics and aesthetics
• Pedagogy and literacy of media
• Philosophers’ legacy: Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Bergson, Deleuze,
Cavell…
• Phenomenology and psychology of time and memory
Scholars from all areas of cinema and media studies (radio, television,
new media etc.), whether previously attached to NECS or new to the
network, are invited to submit proposals for contributions.
We especially encourage pre-constituted panels in order to strengthen
the thematic coherence of individual panels.
There are two ways of participating in the Lisbon conference:
(1) by individually organizing a pre-constituted panel within an already
existing network such as a NECS work group (see member section of the
NECS website - www.necs.org) or a research project. The members of the
NECS work groups are especially encouraged to put together a pre-
constituted panel;
(2) by proposing an open call paper outside a pre-constituted panel.
Please note that individuals may submit only one paper proposal, either
to the open call or as a part of a pre-constituted panel.
Panels may consist of 3 to 4 speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes
speaking time each. All presenters are obliged to provide us with a
title, an abstract of max 150 words, 3-5 key bibliographical references,
name, institutional affiliation and a short bio of the presenter.
Panel organizers are asked to submit panel proposals including a panel
title, a short description (up to 100 words) of the panel and
information on all the papers as listed above.
Please submit all proposals before January 31 2012 via the following
submission form:
https://sites.google.com/site/necs2012conference/
Notification will follow shortly thereafter (around February 29, 2012).
The conference language is English.
Participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation
expenses. Travel information as well as a list of affordable hotels and
other accommodations will be posted on the NECS website in Spring of 2012.
Conference attendance is free, but valid NECS-membership is required to
participate. Participants must register with NECS at www.necs.org and
pay their fee by April 1st.
For the terms of NECS membership, please also refer to our website.
Founded in February of 2006, NECS, the European Network for Cinema and
Media Studies, brings together scholars and researchers in the field of
cinema, film and media studies with archivists and film and media
professionals. A first NECS workshop was held in Berlin on the occasion
of the network’s founding in 2006, followed by large international
conferences in Vienna 2007, Budapest 2008, Lund 2009, Istanbul 2010, and
London 2011. Over the last five years, NECS has attracted close to 1.000
members worldwide.
The NECS Conference Committee
Melis Behlil, Sofia Bull, Aurore Fossard, Paulo Granja, Olof Hedling,
Petr Szczepanik
The NECS Steering Committee
Melis Behlil, Jaap Kooijman, Tarja Laine, Trond Lundemo, Patricia
Pisters, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Malin Wahlberg
The Local Organization
António Marques, Sérgio Dias Branco, Susana Viegas, Irene Aparício,
Patrícia Castello Branco, André Dias, Susana Nascimento Duarte, Paulo
Granja, Liliana Navarra, Barbara Vallera
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Sophie G. Einwächter, M.A., NECS Network Coordinator
www.necs-initiative.org -www.necs.org
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
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