[ecrea] Conference program - Turning the Page

NoRMMA, the University of Kent’s Network of Research: Movies, Magazines
and Audiences, and CIMS, the Ghent University’s Centre for Cinema and
Media Studies, are very happy to share the details with you of our
forthcoming conference, which will be held in Ghent from 12-14 November
2015 at the historic KASKcinema complex.

"Turning The Page: Digitalization, movie magazines and historical
audience studies" will bring together researchers whose work examines
movie and other media magazines and trade journals intended for many
different audiences, periods and locales. Our participants pose
questions about how to read these artifacts, how to interpret them, and
how to assess the impact of digitalization on periodical research.

Our keynotes will be Eric Hoyt, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, who will be presenting on "Variety’s Transformations:
Digitizing and Analyzing the First 35 Years of a Canonical Trade Paper",
and Geneviève Sellier, of the University of Bordeaux, Montaigne, who
will present on "Popular films and popular spectatorship in post-war
France".

There will be eight panels on: digital impacts; trade journals; stars:
fans; international fan magazines; methodologies; and active readers,
and also a roundtable in which colleagues from the Margaret Herrick
Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, the
British Film Institute in London, the Belgium Cinematek/Royal Film
Archive, Brussels, and the National Library of Sweden, discuss the
significance and ramifications of recent advances in collection
digitalization for users, archives, and artifacts. In addition to the
two full days of panels, and the Saturday morning, there will also be
evening events, including a screening of the Mary Pickford film
Pollyanna (Paul Powell, 1920) and a nocturnal visit to the exhibition
“Filmtheaters: Gent Cinemastad” which focuses on cinema culture both in
Ghent and in the US. The whole programme can be seen at the NoRMMA
website: http://www.normmanetwork.com/

We very much welcome the participation of all colleagues interested in
working with film, television and radio periodicals, both popular and
trade, their producers and readers, and issues around digitalization,
and invite you to join us in Ghent for this exciting event. Attendance
at the conference is free, but places must be booked in advance, by
contacting (normma.network /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(normma.network /at/ gmail.com)>

We look forward to seeing you soon in Ghent for two and half days of
papers, panels, events and discussions. This is the first in-depth
conference devoted to movie magazines and is set to be groundbreaking.

Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Lies Lanckman at Kent

Daniël Biltereyst, Lies Van de Vijver at Ghent

Prof.dr. Daniel Biltereyst

Ghent University || Korte Meer 7-11 || B-9000 Ghent || Belgium

http://www.cims.ugent.be/members/daniel-biltereyst

CIMS || Centre for Cinema and Media || www.cims.ugent.be
<http://www.cims.ugent.be>

DICIS || Digital Cinema Studies network || www.digitalcinemastudies.com
<http://www.digitalcinemastudies.com>



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