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NECS 2012 - Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory
31. January 2012
Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory
Proposal submission site:
sites.google.com/site/necs2012conference/
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
Please address all inquiries to conference@necs.org
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-initiative.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:
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-initiative.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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| 4th NECS Graduate Workshop: Identities in Motion – New Visual Media Strategies (CfP)
29. February 2012
Lisbon, 19th-20th June 2012
Submissions deadline: February 29, 2012
Hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra
Organised by the NECS Graduate Workshop Committee
The multifaceted relationship between individual and collective memory, the interactive globalised, hybrid and fluid mediascape and new communication strategies and/or dispositifs in screen media, affects contemporary dynamics of representation. Consequently, as our comprehension as well as our memories of History and historical events are changing the main concerns are about issues of representation and representability of the moving image, within such a fluid scenario.
At the same time the opposite process seems to take place as well: not only has the medial scenario triggered modification of ways of media participation in users and spectators, but new, unexpected and non-institutional formats create new opportunities to shape the media landscape.
From the point of view of content, such changes and double-directional influence set the trend for increasingly diverse forms of representation of the past, of memories, of identities and – in a more intimate sense – of the Self. Not only the meaning of identity and memory, but also memory and identity itself varies between different cultures and its medial parameters. What exactly is happening when life gets reduced to how limpid one is on the web? Is this permanent competition of images altering only the representation of the Self or also the self-representation of an imagined identity?
To sum up, the result is a renovated panorama, in which new visual media strategies play a central role and give birth to a number of innovative identities in motion. The workshop aims precisely to explore these strategies, focusing on their specificity, their developments and intersections.
New visual media strategies include, but are not limited to:
Representation strategies
Alternative ways of introflection/extroflection of memory, identity, Self (in films, FB, Youtube, etc.).
Aesthetic strategies and format issues
Experimental cinema, new audiovisual or traditional a/v production for an innovative use or distribution; intersections across the visual arts (examples of convergence, remediation etc. addressing the topic of memory).
Pragmatic strategies
Sociocultural everyday practices and processes, including new patterns of production or use/consumption of visual media (home movies inheritance and new forms of auto-production; grassroots practices; implementation of visual documentation with cell phone).
Political strategies
Interactive visual media influence democratic processes of communication and sharing medial governance policies, surveillance and video-control.
To what extent are the so called ‘participatory’ forms of media productions really democratic (interactive films, collective authorship, etc.)?
Technological strategies
Questions linked to dispositives: birth of new devices, alternative use of old devices and platforms.
Objects of exploration and analysis should be visual media and screen media which interpret the sense of motion of identities according to the afore-mentioned strategies. Consequently, the question is: how identities are being shaped throughout digitality and virtuality.
Doctoral candidates and junior researchers from cinema, visual and media studies, whether previously attached to NECS or new to the network, are invited to submit proposals for contributions.
Submissions deadline: February 29, 2012
Please address all inquiries to: graduates@necs.org
Notification will follow shortly thereafter (around March 20, 2012).
The conference language is English.
Participants will need to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. Travel information as well as a list of affordable hotels and other accommodation will be posted on the NECS website in the 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.
NECS Graduate Workshop Committee
Miriam De Rosa (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan), Jan Oehlman (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Mag. Alena Strohmaier (Universität Wien).
Local Organizer
Susana Viegas
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| Coming soon: NECSUS: The European Journal of Media Studies
NECSUS is an international, peer-reviewed journal of media studies, connected to NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies).
The journal is multidisciplinary and strives to bring together the best work in the field of media studies across the humanities and social sciences.
We aim to publish research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community.
Each volume will feature a special thematic section, an open section for diverse contributions, and a reviews section that will cover books, conferences, festivals, and exhibits.
NECSUS is targeted to a broad readership of researchers, lecturers, and students, and will be offered as a biannual open access, online journal in partnership with Amsterdam University Press.
Our inaugural volume will be published in spring 2012 with a special thematic focus on "crisis." A call for submissions for the winter 2012 volume will be circulated shortly.
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| | News Update: New NECS Steering Committee
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The NECS conference in London was a great success. Many thanks to Ginette Vincendeau and Dorota Ostrowska for their excellent organisation!
During the membership meeting in London a new steering committee was elected and we would like to introduce ourselves to the NECS community:
Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), Jaap Kooijman (University of Amsterdam), Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam), Trond Lundemo (University of Stockholm), Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), Malin Wahlberg (University of Stockholm), and Astrid Widding (University of Stockholm) will form the steering committee for the next two years.
Our mission is to ´take NECS to the next level´. Among the plans for the future that we presented at the meeting we´d like to mention: to facilitate the growth and sustainability of the NECS community, conference and (post)graduate intitiatives; to profile NECS both in respect to national media schools and non-European groups and funding institutes; to redesign the website; to start an online Open Access Journal, which was also accepted by the members during the London meeting.
The next two conferences will take place in Lisbon (June 21st-23rd 2012) and Prague (June 20th-22nd 2013). More news will follow after the summer. For now we want to wish you all an inspiring, productively relaxing summer and we look forward to meeting you (again), exchanging ideas and collaborating in the future.
Melis Behlil, Jaap Kooijman, Tarja Laine, Trond Lundemo, Patricia Pisters, Malin Wahlberg, Astrid Widding
Sophie Einwaechter (network coordinator)
The NECS 2011 Conference Programme can still be downloaded below.
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NECS is a platform for exchange between scholars, archivists and programmers. You are invited to register as a member and to help the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies become a reality.
Become a NECS member and register on this website today!
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