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- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
CFP: McGill Queer Research Colloquium
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) invites proposals for the third annual McGill Queer Research Colloquium (QRC). The QRC is a forum for the scholarly community at McGill and beyond to share research pertaining to LGBTQI2 studies. Past participants have included faculty, visiting and post-doctoral scholars, and graduate and honours students. If you are interested in sharing your work, please submit a short abstract (max 150 words) and biography (
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gemtechconcordia
- Sep 3, 2018
- 3 min
CFP: “From Spectacle to Entertainment” (Deadline Extended to September 16th, 2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS From Spectacle to Entertainment: Cinema, Media and Modes of Engagement from Modernity to the Present XXIV International Film Studies Conference Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts Rome, November 22-23, 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Thomas Elsaesser (The University of Amsterdam), Tom Gunning (The University of Chicago) EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 16, 2018 Over the course of the twentieth century, film style and
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gemtechconcordia
- Aug 23, 2016
- 4 min
Women, Film Culture, and Globalization: An International Conference @ Concordia, September 2-4
Concordia is proud to be hosting the third edition of the Global Women’s Network* Conference from September 2-4 in room VA 114. Featuring noteworthy international and local scholarship on feminist and queer studies, “Women, Film Culture, and Globalization” will address questions of geocultural mapping, gender theory and representation, transnational marketing, and festival promotion. Filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger will be welcomed as a special guest artist, and will be screening o
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gemtechconcordia
- Apr 27, 2015
- 1 min
Upcoming Conference “Porting Media: Asia” May 15-17 at Concordia
From May 15th-17th Concordia will host “Porting Media: Asia”, a conference investigating the circulation and infrastructure of portable media. This conference will feature a series of panels, presentations and workshops, including two exceptional keynote lectures: Laikwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) presenting “The Social, the Private, and the Political: The Use of Social Media in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement” & Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) presenting “E
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 30, 2015
- 2 min
Catherine Russell Presents “Walter Benjamin, Archiveology, and Critical Film Practice” – SCMS 15
No stranger to the works of Walter Benjamin, Catherine Russell continued her extensive research into the philosopher’s writings in her presentation “Walter Benjamin, Archiveology, and Critical Film Practice”. Through a close analysis of the structure and content of Morgan Fisher’s experimental film Parenthesis (), Russell theorized how some of Benjamin’s observations can lead to new insights on archival films and express them within the new language spoken in this experimenta
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 30, 2015
- 2 min
Meredith Slifkin Presents “A Method of Contradiction: Egyptian Melodrama of the Nasser Era” –
On Saturday afternoon, Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate, Meredith Slifkin chaired the panel titled “Global Melodrama: Theories, Histories, Methods.” She introduced the panel by explaining that the aim of the three papers were to explore the notion of melodrama as a global mode. The first panellist, Carlo Marcantonio (George Mason University), presented a paper titled “Biopolitics and Melodrama: The Body beyond National Identity.” Marcantonio’s paper aimed to rehistoricize melodra
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 30, 2015
- 2 min
Adam Rosadiuk Presents “The Anti-human and the Inhumane: Reading Lars Von Trier’s </>Mel
At the 11 AM panel on the very last day of SCMS, attendees settled in to the Fairmont’s Bersimis room, luggage in hand, ready to dash off to the airport after catching a final panel or two. At the “Ethics After Cinema” panel, Concordia’s Adam Rosadiuk presented on “The Anti-human and the Inhumane: Reading Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) through the Image Theory and Eco-ethics of Hans Jonas” alongside Rebecca Sheehan from California State University, Fullerton, and Harvard
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 30, 2015
- 3 min
Martin Lefebvre Presents “A New Look at Christian Metz: Semiology and Aesthetics” & Tess McCler
Before beginning his presentation this morning, Concordia’s Martin Lefebvre drolly thanked all in attendance for making it to the 9 AM panel on the 22nd day of SCMS. Indeed, it has been somewhat of a marathon of scholarly rigour by day and snazzy events by night. It speaks to the attractiveness of this morning’s “Revisiting Film Theory II” panel that so many of us postponed our brunching in order to catch it. A reconsideration of cinephilia united the four presentations, each
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 29, 2015
- 2 min
Philipp Dominik Keidl Presents “Media Archaeology in the Museum – Methods and Possibilities
On Friday afternoon, the Silent Cinema Cultures SIG sponsored a panel titled “Digital Film Historiography: Archives, Techniques, Epistemology,” chaired by Mel Hoppenheim PhD candidate Philipp Dominik Keidl and co-chaired by Christian Gosvig Olesen (University of Amsterdam). Though the panel was down to two presenters, and a respondent (Stokholm University’s Trond Lundemo), Olesen gave a thorough presentation of the work being done with the EYE Institute’s Jean Desmet Collecti
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 27, 2015
- 2 min
Rosanna Maule presents “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse”
Concordia Professor Rosanna Maule presented yesterday on “Women’s Cinema on the Web: A New Platform for Feminist Discourse” in the panel “Theorizing Post-cinema: The Cinematic In and Out of the Theatre” where she proposed a step out of a solely theoretical approach and grasped more practical case studies. Rosanna’s presentation revolved around the importance of the Internet as a powerful tool and space operating in favor of women’s visibility within Film and Media realms. In
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gemtechconcordia
- Mar 25, 2015
- 2 min
Adam Szymanski presents “Composing Peace through the Ecosophic Aesthetic of Apichatpong Weerasethaku
One of the final panels of day one of SCMS, “The Care for Opacity in East Asian Cinema,” was comprised of a group of four Montreal-based scholars: Erik Bordeleau (Concordia University), Dr. Sivestra Mariniello (Université de Montreal), Suzanne Beth (Université de Montreal) and Adam Syzmanski (Concordia University). Both Syzmanski and Bordeleau work with Concordia University’s Sense Lab. Bordeleau, the chair of the panel, started by conducting a cosmopolitical reading of Tsai
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gemtechconcordia
- Feb 13, 2015
- 3 min
CFP: “Silence!” McGill Art History & Comms Studies Graduate Student Conference
Submission Deadline: March 1st McGill University, Montreal QC. April 24th. Details Below
______________________________________________________________ “Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers—is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to the
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gemtechconcordia
- Feb 13, 2015
- 2 min
CFP: “The Birth of an Answer: An Exploration of African-American Media Responses”
Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2015 Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia. September 18th. Details Below
___________________________________________________________________________________ Conference Call For Papers The Birth of an Answer: An Exploration of African-American Media Responses – September 18, 2015 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia 2015 marks a unique moment in American media history as the nation reflects upon D.W. Griffith’s release of Birth
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gemtechconcordia
- Jan 5, 2015
- 2 min
CFP: “Fandom in the Digital and Transmedia Age” Carleton Film Studies Graduate Student S
Submission Deadline: February 1st March 6-7, Carleton University Details Below:
______________________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers Carleton Film Symposium “Come One Come All!
The 5th Annual Carleton University Film Studies Graduate Student Symposium: March 6-7, 2015 (Submission Deadline: January 19, 2015) CALL FOR PAPERS – ACADEMICS ASSEMBLE! Keynote Presentation: Marc Steinberg, “Platforms for Fan Producers: Nico Nico Dou
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gemtechconcordia
- Nov 19, 2014
- 2 min
Conference CFP: “New Approaches to Stan Brakhage”
Submission deadline: December 21, 2014. Brakhage conference Birkbeck 2015 : New Approaches to Stan Brakhage Details Below: __________________________________________________________ New Approaches to Stan Brakhage
Saturday 7 March 2015, 9am-6pm
Event type: Conference
Venue: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London CALL FOR PAPERS This one day conference aims to explore new approaches to the work of experimental film-maker Stan Brakhage. His figure has been mainly assessed
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gemtechconcordia
- Nov 12, 2014
- 1 min
CFP: “Hope, Freedom and Responsibility” SAGSA Conference 2015
Submission Deadline January 12th 2015. Concordia University, March 19th-21st. Details Below:
_____________________________________________________ “There is an inherent tension between conceptions of freedom and responsibility; movement between the two requires careful mediation. Further complicating matters of progress is a sense of hope. Hope changes how the social landscapes of individuals and groups are imagined, and is central to encouraging development, pushing limits,
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gemtechconcordia
- Nov 5, 2014
- 2 min
CFP: “Ecomedia and Scale” FSAC Panel
Submission Deadline: November 20th, 2014 June 2-4 2015, University of Ottawa, FSAC Annual Conference Details Below:
__________________________________________________________ “As the sub-field of ecocinema studies continues to expand and wrestle with evolving issues of representation, industrial production and consumption, and ecophilosophy, in this panel we wish to consider how issues of scale come into play. While scholars continue to debate the appropriateness of the term
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gemtechconcordia
- Oct 22, 2014
- 4 min
CFP: “Meaning in Motion: Knowledge, Dialogue, and Discourse” AGIC 2015
Submission Deadline: December 5, 2014 Concordia University, March 5th 2015 Details Below:
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Download the PPF “Meaning in Motion:
Knowledge, Dialogue, and Discourse CALL FOR PAPERS
DUE DECEMBER 5th, 2014 Submissions are welcomed for the 21st Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
To be held March 5th, 2015, Concordia University
Faculty Lounge, Hall Building H-765, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West,
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gemtechconcordia
- Sep 4, 2014
- 3 min
CFP: “Screen Policies in the 21st Century” – CinEcoSA Conference
Deadline: September 10th Screen Policies in the 21st Century
5th CinEcoSA Conference
17-18 November 2014
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France Details Below:
____________________________________________________________________ Historically, film has been at the centre of cultural policies around the world. These public policies have striven to support a local film production, for both cultural and economic reasons. After dedicating the previous conference in 2013
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