Ciao Milano! – Concordia goes to NECS 2014

The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) is holding its 2014 conference from June 19 to 21 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. This year’s edition, called Creative Energies, Creative Industries, welcomes over 500 participants from all over the world, including a delegation from Concordia University.

Indeed, a group of seven concordians will be representing us at this important gathering. You can find the list of presenters below, as well as a copy of the programme. If we’re lucky, we might even get a write-up of the conference from some of the presenters. Fingers crossed and good luck to all our presenters.

Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera — Creative Sinergies: Reiventing the Blockbuster as a Pedagogical Tool 

Antoine Damiens — Where’s the Audience? Understanding the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Experience

Daniel Leberg — The Cognitive Corporeality of Interpretation: Neurophenomenology and Film Acting 

Giampaolo Marzi — The Crowd and the Community: Festival Crowd-Funding and the Communal Modes of Engaging Film Audiences

Fulvia Massimi — ‘A Boy’s Best Friend is his Mother’: Quebec Matriarchy and Queer Nationalism in the Cinema of Xavier Dolan 

Rosanna Maule — Women’s Festival 2.0, Between Grassroots Globalization and Neoliberal Feminism: the Birdseyeview Festival 

Yuriy Zikratyy — ‘It’s Free to Come Here—but You Have to Pay Fifty Cents!’ : Money, Audience and Creative Energies in Jack Smith’s Artistic Practice

Conference programme.