[ecrea] Gorizia's FilmForum MAGIS Spring School

FilmForum 2017 – XV MAGIS Spring School – March 29th-April 1st, Gorizia 
(Italy)

*Deadline extension! New deadline for paper (or panel) proposals: 
December 31st, 2016.*

*NO TURNING BACK RE-THINKING THE POSTMODERN*

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers:*

Peter Alilunas (University of Oregon)

Jan-Christopher Horak (Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive and 
Professor for Critical Studies)

Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Peter Alilunas (University of Oregon)

Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton)

...and we are still waiting for more confirmations

The MAGIS – International Film Studies Spring School will celebrate its 
15th edition by addressing the possible archaeologies and genealogies of 
the “postmodern”, whose framework, despite its hints about the End of 
History (from Lyotard’s “End of Great Narratives” [1979] to Fukuyama’s 
theories [1992]) seems to have today, most of all, a historical value.

In other words, in a moment when the notion of “postmodern” does not 
describe our present time anymore, we are compelled to ask ourselves 
whether the contemporary media landscape still has a name or not. More 
specifically, drawing on the speculations of many scholars and critics, 
such as Raoul Eshelman (2001), Alan Kirby (2006, 2009), and Nicholas 
Bourriaud (2009), who declared that postmodernism and postmodern culture 
have come to an end, we have to answer the following question: how can 
we define the post-postmodern era?

Our main goal, then, is to unravel the theoretical knots concerning the 
postmodern as a historical phenomenon and its aftermath within the 
epistemic frame of film and media studies. We will reflect in particular 
on the following topics: on the one hand, which film and media practices 
should be considered inherently postmodern; how film and media cultures 
developed during the postmodern era; how the political framework of the 
postmodern era (neoliberalism and post-fordism; LGBT movements; third 
wave feminism, etc.) influenced film and media production; and, more 
broadly, how we can imagine a media archaeology of the postmodern. On 
the other, referring to Supplanting the Postmodern (Rudrum and Stavris, 
2015), we will investigate the field of post-postmodernism (mainly 
through the notions of remodernism, performatism, hypermodernism, 
automodernism etc.), opening new ways for the analysis of the 
contemporary film and media landscape, its practical groundwork, and its 
theoretical framework.

Drawing on their own specific disciplinary interests and methodological 
perspectives, the five sections of the School – Cinema and Contemporary 
Arts, Film Heritage, Media Archaeology, Porn Studies, and Post-Cinema – 
will explore different aspects of postmodern (and post-postmodern) 
culture and theory:


1) Cinema and Contemporary Arts: *THE END OF (ART) HISTORY-TELLING? 
REPRESENTING THE HISTORICAL PAST AND HISTORICIZING THE PAST IN THE ARTS 
AFTER THE POST MODERN*


2) Film Heritage: *MIGRATION AND POST-MODERN TRANSNATIONAL FILM CULTURE*


3) Media Archaeology: *NETWORK*


4) Porn Studies: *VIDEO (R)EVOLUTIONS*


5) Post-Cinema: *VR AND AR: A POST-CINEMATIC MODERNITY*

For more information, please visit our website: 
http://www.filmforumfestival.it/

FilmForum/MAGIS Spring School is an international film and media studies 
conference (especially aimed at MA and PhD students and early career 
researchers) organized by the University of Udine (Italy) in 
collaboration with: Concordia University, Montreal; Fachhochschule 
Potsdam; Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main; Université de Lausanne; 
Université de Montréal; Université du Québec à Montréal; Université 
Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3; University of Malta.

Inaugurated in 2003, FilmForum has now become one of the most important 
events in the field of film and media studies, also being considered 
highly influential across several other disciplines. The School is in 
fact internationally renowned for its interdisciplinary flair, for the 
originality of its approaches, and for its cutting edge topics.

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------