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NECS 2010 - Istanbul
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Thank you all for attending this year´s conference "Urban Mediations" in Istanbul and contributing to an inspiring and enriching event!
Thanks a lot to the organizing team, who did a great job in making all this possible!
You can still download the programme below:
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| NECS GRADUATE WORKSHOP EMPTY SPACES, (IN)VISIBLE STRUCTURES
23. June 2010
23 June 2010 – Istanbul
Due to the flourishing of the NECS network and the success of its conferences in Vienna (2007), Budapest (2008) and Lund (2009), the NECS graduate committee is now organising a one-day workshop for graduate students directly preceding the NECS Conference on “Urban Mediations” in Istanbul (2010). The topic of this one-day event, “Empty Spaces, (In)Visible Structures”, interlocks with this year’s conference theme. The objective of the graduate event is to intensify debate among young graduate students by focussing – in small discussion groups – on a particular yet expansive theme intersecting with media studies, geography, anthropology and spatial studies.
Our aim is to create a network that is sustainable after the NECS 2010 Istanbul Conference, allowing PhD-candidates at an early stage in their careers to connect with academic peers in fruitful debate. PhD-candidates participating in this workshop are of course kindly invited to stay throughout the NECS 2010 Istanbul Conference, which takes place from the 24 to the 27 June.
In recent years media theorists and media artists alike have tried to capture and conceptualize the city, no longer as an inert geographical place, but rather as dynamic flux of relations intersecting various channels of information (for instance, De Certeau, Vlusser, and Augé, among others). The suggested topic invites analysis of both urban empty spaces in traditional cinema (as conceptualized for example by Charlotte Brunsdon), as well as of the (in)visible structures of urban life (as captured in the works of media artists like David Rokeby, Rafael-Lozano Hemmer and Christian Mueller). Empty spaces and (in)visible structures can be analyzed in different media and on different screens, within multiple frameworks, drawing on textual analysis, philosophical examination and geographical investigation. These perspectives converge in reconsidering the intersection of medial and spatial practices as complex, negotiated and contested struggles over meaning and power.
Contact:
graduates@necs-initiative.org
(Pepita Hesselberth and Mariana Liz)
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| Statement in Support of the Film Studies Program, University of Iowa
Saturday 27th February, 2010
For more than three decades, the film studies program at the University of Iowa has been one of the most important training grounds for film scholars world wide. Looking at the list of alumni of the program, one realizes that this program is one of the birth places of film studies in North America. Living up to its reputation the program continues to excel in research and in educating film scholars of the very first rank who go on to make significant contributions to their field.
It is therefore with great dismay that we learn that the University of Iowa is considering closing their film studies program down for budgetary reason. As representatives of NECS, the European Network for Film and Media Scholars, a scholarly organiziation with more than 750 members from all European countries we attest to the enormous international reputation of the program, and we strongly urge the responsible bodies at the University of Iowa to refrain from cutting back on, let alone eliminating this prestigious program. The loss of this program would be a loss to the entire field of film studies.
Signed,
Francois Albéra
(Université de Lausanne)
Tim Bergfelder
(University of Southampton)
Hans-Michael Bock
(Cinegraph, Hamburg)
Christine Noll Brinckmann
(Universität Zürich)
Francesco Casetti
(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano)
Elisabeth Cowie
(University of Kent)
Richard Dyer
(King´s College, London)
Thomas Elsaesser
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Torben Grodal
(Københavns Universitet)
Andrzej Gwózdz
(Uniwersytetu Slaskiego Katowice)
Alexander Horwath
(Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien)
Frank Kessler
(Universiteit Utrecht)
Nico de Klerk
(Filmmuseum Amsterdam)
Gertrud Koch
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Martin Koerber
(Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin)
Annette Kuhn
(School of Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London)
Michèle Lagny
(Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)
Martin Loiperdinger
(Universität Trier)
Brigitte Mayr
(Synema, Wien)
Jan Olsson
(Stockholms universitet)
Leonardo Quaresima
(Università degli studi di Udine)
Rainer Rother
(Filmmuseum Berlin)
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
(Universitat de València)
Karl Sierek
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Murray Smith
(University of Kent)
Bjørn Sørenssen
(Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim)
Pierre Sorlin
(Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)
Margrit Tröhler
(Universität Zürich)
Yuri Tsivian
(University of Chicago)
Ginette Vincendeau
(King´s College, London)
Hans Jürgen Wulff
(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
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(NECS - European Network of Cinema and Media Studies, advisory board)
The statement has been signed by the following members (9 April 2010):
Jasper Aalbers, Maastricht University
Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University
Jaimie Baron, UCLA
Tina Bastajian, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Melis Behlil, Kadir Has University
Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London
Chris Berry, Goldsmiths College
Mark Betz, King´s College London
Ivo Blom, V U University, Amsterdam
Annette Brauerhoch, Universität Paderborn
Dagmar Brunow, Hamburg University / Halmstad University
Suzanne Buchan, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham College
Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews
María Camí-Vela, University of North Carolina
Valeria Camporesi, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Mar Chicharro Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Victoria Chistyakova, Russian Institute for cultural research
Laura Cortés Selva, Universidad Católica San Antonio
Charles-Antoine Courcoux, University of Zurich
Efrén Cuevas, Universidad de Navarra
Nadine Dablé, Universität Lüneburg
Sarah-Mai Dang, Freie Universität Berlin
Tereza Cz Dvorakova, Charles University Prague
Phil Drake, University of Stirling
Jens Eder, Universität Mainz
Sophie Einwächter, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Peter Evans, Queen Mary, University of London
Giovanna Fossati, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Cathy Fowler, University of Otago, New Zealand
Anton Fuxjaeger, Universitaet Wien
Mark Gallagher, University of Nottingham
Luis M. Garcia-Mainar, Universidad de Zaragoza
Elisabetta Girelli, University of St Andrews
Marcy Goldberg, University of Zurich
Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway
Frances Guerin, University of Kent
Malte Hagener, Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg
Sabine Hake, The University of Texas at Austin
Petra Hanakova, Charles University Prague
Julian Hanich, Freie Universität Berlin
Vinzenz Hediger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Anke Henning, Freie Universität Berlin
Christoph Hesse, Freie Universität Berlin
Pepita Hesselberth, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Rainer Hillrichs, Universität Bonn
Katherine Hughes, University of Glasgow
Andreas Jahn-Sudmann, Göttingen University
Kevin Johnson, Charles University Prague
Christian Jungen, University of Zurich
Pietari Kääpä, University of Nottingham Ningbo
Katharina Klung, Universität Zürich
Simone Knox, University of Reading
Florian Krautkrämer, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig
Daniel Kulle, Universität Bonn
Tarja Laine, University of Amsterdam
Katharina Lichtblau, Vienna
Yosefa Loshitzky, University of East London
Kathleen Lotze, University of Antwerp
Trond Lundemo, Stockholm University
Ingeborg Majer-O´Sickey, State University of New York, Binghamton NY
David Martin-Jones, University of St Andrews
Mia Mask, Vassar College
Patricia McManus, University of Brighton
Isabelle McNeill, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
Richard Misek, University of Bristol
Florian Mundhenke, Universitaet Leipzig
Thomas Nachreiner, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Sarah Neely, University of Stirling
Beatriz Oria, University of Zaragoza
Dorota Ostrowska, Birkbeck, University of London
Özge Özyilmaz, İstanbul Bilgi University
Katre Pärn, University of Tartu
Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham
Agnes Petho, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania
Joana Pimenta, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Patricia Pisters, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Sylva Poláková, Charles University Prague
Klaus Rieser, University of Graz
Gabri Ródenas, University of Murcia
Seraina Rohrer, University of Zürich
Anna Sofia Rossholm, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Isabel Santaolalla, Roehampton University
Antonio Savorelli, Communikitchen - Media Research & Design
Cecilia Sayad, University of Kent
Philipp Schmerheim, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Alexandra Schneider, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Steffi Schültzke, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Marco Senaldi, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
Jaakko Seppälä, University of Helsinki
Sue Simkin, University of Oxford
Jennifer Steetskamp, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Sarah Street, University of Bristol
Katerina Svatonova, Charles University, Prague
Mirian Tavares, Algarve University
Asbjørn Tiller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Nadi Tofighian Stockholm University
Temenuga Trifonova, York University
Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
Jasmijn Van Gorp, Utrecht University
Alexey Vasilyev, The Russian Institute for Cultural Research
Susana Viegas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Teréz Vincze, Eötvös Loránd University
Patrick Vonderau, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Frederick Wasser, Brooklyn College
Michael Wedel, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf"
Daniela Wentz, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Aylish Wood, University of Kent
Gerald J Z Zielinski, New York University
Jana Zilova, Université Paris III
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