[ecrea] XIII Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School - The FILM HERITAGE Workshop

Approaching Deadline (Dec 31): "Voice/Speech/Word: Dubbing and 
Subtitling in Comparative Contexts"

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting, please find below the CFP for:

Università degli Studi di Udine – Italy
XIII Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School. Università degli 
Studi di Udine

The FILM HERITAGE Workshop - 20/25 March 2015 – Gorizia, Italy

Voice / Speech / Word: Dubbing and Subtitling in Comparative Contexts

In recent years, issues concerning dubbing and subtitling have reached a 
certain scholarly interest mainly as a consequence for the extraordinary 
changes that digital practices caused to film experience. While dubbing 
is sometimes considered a mutilating practice, a sign of the 
backwardness of media literacy processes in specific contexts, and it is 
thus highly disregarded by film buffs, archivists, students and 
scholars, subtitling seems to be, maybe not less naively, the only 
proper way to deal with cinema: it is evident that a similar rigidity 
needs to be made productive by integrating historical, social, political 
and industrial reasons. The interactions between all these factors have 
been quite overlooked throughout the last years of film studies 
research: more specifically, from a scholarly perspective, these issues 
have been seldom questioned by taking into consideration a broader 
spectrum than the national film histories, especially those of countries 
such as Germany, Italy and Russia in which the practice of dubbing (or 
overdubbing) is dominant. Our approach is as wide as possible and it 
includes not only historical issues concerning censorship, but also new 
theoretical topics connected to research fields such as translation 
studies and fandom studies. For this reason, we want to devote the XXI 
edition of the Film Heritage workshop of the MAGIS – Gorizia 
International Film Studies Spring School to the issues of dubbing and 
subtitling from a strongly transnational and comparative perspective. In 
particular, a specific focus is dedicated to the relationship between 
dubbing/subtitling practices and market strategies, institutional 
issues, technology, historiography and the new media landscape.
Starting from the above considerations, we warmly encourage paper 
proposals that may address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

- Economical reasons and market strategies
- Institutions and infrastructures
- Industrial and Technological assessments
- Dubbing/subtitling and the multicultural semiosphere
- Historiography and cultural perception (especially regarding 
non-western countries and cultures)
- New practices and the digital landscape
- Censorship and manipulation
- Expertise, technique and professional formation
- Dubbing/subtitling, literacy and media-literacy
- Film/media studies and translation studies
- Perceptual issues in dubbing/subtitling practices


Scholars interested in submitting a paper proposal are asked to provide 
a 200 word abstract and a 100 word bio at the email address 
(gospringschool /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(gospringschool /at/ gmail.com)> before 
December 31, 2014.
Notification will follow shortly thereafter.

The Film Heritage Workshop Committee