CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Space and Place in European Cinema

2015

European Cinema Research Forum

Annual Conference

 

Huston School of Film & Digital Media

National University of Ireland, Galway

7th – 8th July 2015

 

Confirmed Keynote: Professor Victor Burgin

 

The 15^th European Cinema Research Forum invites proposals exploring any aspect of space and place in European cinema. Contributions from the realm of practice-based research are particularly welcome.

 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the practice or representation of space and place in European cinema in relation to questions of:

 

·       Architecture and environment

·       Genders, sexualities and/or ethnicities

·       National/transnational cinemas

·       Film aesthetics and the production of place

·       Film production/technologies and/or media policy

·       Soundscapes

·       Changing spaces of reception/exhibition

 

Proposals may be in the form of an abstract for an individual paper or a panel suggestion (3x20 minute papers).

 

Please send abstracts (individual paper max. 200 words; panel max. 400 words) accompanied by a short bio-bibliography (max. 150 words per presenter) to Dr Conn Holohan [log in to unmask]

 

Abstract deadline:    February 20^th 2015.

 

Please note: selected conference proceedings will be published in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Studies in European Cinema (Taylor and Francis).