At a moment when the Modern Greek department at Cambridge is threatened
with closure, this is a wonderful initiative!
Richard
On Mon, January 14, 2013 12:57, Tonia Kazakopoulou wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
>
> REMINDER:
> Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013: an interdisciplinary, international
> conference At the Hellenic Centre, London, 5-6 July 2013
>
>
> At a time when news surrounding Greece has almost exclusively been about
> the financial crisis, it is imperative to redress the balance by
> examining the productive forces of culture in the country, maintaining
> that Greece is something more than a country in debt.
>
> Greek filmmakers have accepted the challenge of the times and Greek
> Cinema has continued to flourish yet again within trying contexts.
> Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 is an international conference for
> the study of Contemporary Greek Film, co-organised by the Universities of
> Reading and Glasgow, and hosted by the Hellenic Centre in London
> (http://www.helleniccentre.org). This 2-day conference seeks to actively
> help expand the current scholarship in Greek Film Studies, and help
> promote a more concerted study and theorisation of Contemporary Greek
> Cinema, reflecting on the multi-faceted contexts of production,
> distribution and research of Greek Cinema, in Greece and abroad. These
> discussions and reflections may be placed within, and extend the scope
> of, current studies in European and World Cinemas. Moreover, key
> objectives of the conference will be to help create, or further establish
> already existing research networks and working groups within Greek Film
> scholarship, and enhance collaborations among researchers. The aim is for
> this conference to become an open, international and interdisciplinary
> forum for the study of Greek Film, with the potential for annual or
> bi-annual meetings maintained subsequently at different institutions
> internationally.
>
> Keynote speakers:
> Ms Angeliki Antoniou, filmmaker
> Ms Olga Malea, filmmaker
> Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John
> Moores University
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> We invite papers, posters, workshop proposals, practice-as-research
> contributions on the broad subject of contemporary Greek film culture/s.
> Topics may include, but are not exclusive to:
> Women and Cinema
> Popular Cinema
> Genre
> Representations of Otherness
> Politics in Greek Cinema/Contemporary political film
> The National and the Transnational
> Film Adaptations
> Audiences of Greek Cinema
> Representations of youth in contemporary Greek films
> Greece/Greek Film in European and World Cinema contexts
> History and Historiography
> Pre-Contemporary studies of Greek Cinema
> Production and Distribution cultures and contexts of Contemporary Greek
> Cinema
> Greek Film Studies/Studying Greek Cinema
> Education and filmmaking
>
>
> This is an opportunity for more established and early career and
> postgraduate researchers to share their work and experience. Attendance
> of non-presenting delegates to the conference is also warmly invited.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Monday 25th February 2013
>
>
> Please send a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper and a 50-word
> biographical note to Tonia Kazakopoulou, Mikela Fotiou and Philip Phillis
> at:
>
>
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> Proposals for practice-as-research presentations have to conform to the
> 20-minute format. Proposals for workshops have to clearly indicate aims,
> time span and technical requirements (as applicable). Please check our
> website and Facebook page for updates:
>
> http://contemporarygreekcinema2013.wordpress.com/
> https://www.facebook.com/ContemporaryGreekFilmCultures2013
>
>
> We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider
> promotion of this conference through your networks.
>
> Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 is supported by the Department of
> Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading; the Graduate School,
> College of Arts, University of Glasgow; the Centre for Hellenic Studies
> and Department of Classics, University of Reading; the Hellenic Centre in
> London; Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation; the Hellenic Film Academy; and
> the Greek Film Centre.
>
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